An Open Letter to Sonics Fans

By TokenCanadian, Section NBA
Posted on Tue Aug 05 2008 at 10:56 AM EST
More on: Seattle, Sonics, Supersonics, Winnipeg, Jets, basketball, hockey, Gary Bettman, David Stern, Canada (all tags)

By Scott Gilmour

Dear Seattle;

First off, we would like to officially welcome you to our hell. You see, our city is a charter member of that small fraternity of places that know what it's like to lose their team. Actually, let us rephrase that: have their team ripped away from them under the watchful eye of a short, New York-living commissioner with a law degree. More than that, we felt that we should pull you aside for a man-to-man, city-to-city talk. The kind of talk that almost certainly has to take place in an old bar over a tall pint of beer.

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Something Sinister in Seattle

By DoNoUhOh, Section NBA
Posted on Tue Nov 13 2007 at 12:52 PM EST
More on: seattle, sonics, clay bennett, david stern (all tags)

     David Stern recently said if Seattle lost the Sonics they would not get a new team in the foreseeable future.  This is an attempt to increase the pressure on Seattle and the state of Washington to do whatever necessary to keep their team.  In the mind of David Stern whatever necessary means the building o a new state of the art arena using tax payer money.  The use of public funds for a new arena can be classified as nothing but a rip off.  It is the creation of massively expensive infrastructure for the super rich to use to become more super rich.  There are times when the surrounding neighborhood may become revitalized but there is no guarantee and before the bonds are paid off most stadiums are considered obsolete, hurting their investment value.  

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