07-03-2008, 07:14 PM | #21 |
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Great. We have that in common, unless you can find a link where a Sonics fan on this board has said it's "not fair." Or was that lost in your response.
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Perhaps I misread. Maybe this board is simply teeming with Sonics fans who are now sad that the team is moving but have no problem with the transaction. Is that what you are saying? that the move is completely fair, on the up and up, and from a free market perspective, you actually support this new owner's right to move his newly-purchased asset? if so, then you are right...we are on the same page.
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07-03-2008, 08:13 PM | #23 |
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He did go to Portland initially. He had a radio show with Jason Scucanek (however the hell you spell his name). He left for Seattle about two years ago.
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No thinking person thought the Sonics were going to stay after they were sold to non-local ownership. No one cares about arguments over owner's rights to sell assets. Of course, they can do what they want - as long as it's ratified by the league and other owners (except in the NFL case of Al Davis, who had to sue to move his team). On the city being screwed, it depends on what you mean by city. If by city, you mean the municipality of Seattle, who cares? They've been made whole via the settlement. If by city, you mean the fans of a 40-year-old franchise (that won a NBA title), then yes, they've been screwed over. By who? That's open for debate. On the free market side, I don't see US sports leagues operating in free markets (see antitrust exemptions). I think The Premiership in England is better model of a free market in a sports league. You can build a team in any city you want (I think there are five in London). If a team wins, they stay in the League, if not...they're relegated. If the NBA worked this way, the Clippers and teams like them, would have been kicked-out of the league years ago by more competitive teams. I digress.
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I'm supposed to get upset that someone sold the team to an Okie and the Okie is moving the team to Okie-ville?
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I'll make you a prediction. Clay Bennett will never pay that $35 million because we're not going to renovate the Key and we don't want an NBA team. We have values.
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But the way you keep glorifying this as an example of capitalism at work is really horse shit. Today I thought, we're subsidizing Kobe Bryant's $30 million salaray with taxpayer money, and paying peanuts to kids we send to Iraq and Afghanistan to get ripped apart. A crazy connection I know, but both professions are paid out of the public purse. This makes me want to have nothing to do with professional sports. The U.S.A. has become a freak show. Worse than Augustan Rome by far.
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