Bye Bye Sonics

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Good riddance

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[/ QUOTE ]I don't understand how you can say this.

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Very simple. I just hit the 'quote' button and left that part in.

I have no sympathy for pro sports teams that try to put upgrade/expansion costs on the taxpayers. I'm not for government subsidizing private business.(unless the taxpayers vote for it)

See the Seattle Mariners for a prime example. Maybe the sonics can take them with? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Go Huskies!

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I tend to agree with you here. The Mariners stadium went to a vote and lost by ~1000 votes and we got the stadium rammed down our throats anyway. If the Sonic thing had gone to a vote with the stipulation that Wally Walker be hung in public, I think it would have passed by a 75% margin at least. I won't shed a tear for any organization as low class as the Sonics. Come on! At least pretend to be a contender before you demand $200,000,000 from taxpayers (who are already shellshocked by sound transit and the monorail fiasco, not to mention that little disaster waiting to happen on Alaskan Way). How in the hell did Starbucks make it big with that moron at the helm? It is a bit sad that an organization that has been in Seattle since 1967 is going to be gone soon, I guess. [censored] 'em. The spoiled rich kids were willing to put up $18 million and the City of Seattle rightly told them that the offer was a joke and to get serious or take a hike. I'm bummed that it came to this, but the city was right to tell Schultz and company to eat [censored]. We should be buying infrastucture, not toys for multi-millionaire's.