Myself and thousands like me have been saying the same thing since July of 2006: Clay Bennett is a lying sack of ####! Now, that the emails detailing the plans by three members of the ownership group, Clay included, to move MY Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma and then blatantly lie to David Stern's face about have come out, the rest of you know it as well.
But Stern is still standing pat as he sinks into the pile of #### that he has backed himself into by supporting the outright theft of the franchise. Even with the evidence mounting that he's been led on, along with mostly everyone else outside of the Pacific Northwest, he still states that the move is a good idea.
Now, a slight beam of hope in the perpetual grey skys over Seattle...Howard Schultz, the inept owner who sold them in the first place, is calling ####, and it's about damn time someone did.
Schultz is suing Clay's group for your basic breach of contract because he didn't live up to the one year good faith clause that was there. Clay and Stern have got no legal leg to stand on. The news has gotten out, the support that they said didn't exist has been broadcasted load and clear, and there's even desention within the ranks with Mark Cuban and Larry Miller, owners of the Mavricks and Jazz respectively, coming out and saying that the move from Seattle is a dumb idea.
Clay tried to just take the team and then he resorted to bribing us with just taking the people but not the Sonics, leaving us the name, history, and colors. That won't fly. The Sonics are our team, we have a loyalty to them. Something you and your cronies, David Stern included, haven't got the slightest idea about.
Now, I wish there was a way to get people out there to aid our cause, but it may be to late with the Board of Goveners meeting coming this week. But, with Schultz stepping up the way he has and the continued media coverage, I hope this will be enough to finally show the NBA that while our team may suck and ownership has done everything imaginable to make fans stop caring, we are still here. Sonics Nation is alive and strong. Save Our Sonics!
Bob: Keep your eyes on the Times Forum, because there are going to be some petitions to the owners to sign, encouraging them to vote no later this week.
A campaign is underway for Oklahoma City to collect our money to buy Seattle 10,000 boxes of tissues due to your loss.
If you are the #13 media market in the country, act like it. You could have stepped up and "saved" the Sonics a long time ago. Had you cared back then, Clay Bennett would have eventually grew frustrated with his purchase and sold it back to a Seattle-based group.
Owning a professional sports franchise is not a right. Moving a team you own to wherever you so choose is. Nobody in the World would pay $500 million out of their own pocket to build an arena. That makes no financial sense.
Why not come to Oklahoma City, who will give you a better arena at a cheaper cost? It's Clay right to make money, he and his group own the team.
Stop crying over split milk. Name the NHL team the Sonics and move even closer to being Canadian, aye.
Scott, while you make good points, you totally blow your credibility with NHL crack. And it's people like you who beleive that all of us up here are water logged elitests who don't give a damn that really irritate me. Look at the facts, Clay wanted an entirely privatly funded arena knowing that it would never happen because taxpayers are still paying for three stadiums (Safco Field, Qwest Field, and the old Kingdome). Plus, he was offered a cheaper alternative to the OKC stadium here by the Mukelshoot Tribe, which he promptly let lapse. We tried. Now shut up.
Why would Clay Bennett hire people to design this facility if he had no intentions on building anything? That also doesn't make financial sense. People act like 100 million is pocket change. If you are still paying for the Kingdome, shouldn't that prove what kind of sports town Seattle is? I understand the need for new stadiums and Seattle sort of got screwed into building something for the Mariners and Seahawks. I don't understand why they didn't build Key Arena correctly in the first place.
I have more credibility in my left pinky toe than you will ever have my friend. I wrote something earlier about this two weeks ago. I kept hearing from Seattle fans that they would "rather have the NHL anyway." The NHL stinks.
Well, I live here, so I'd like to think that I've got a better feel for the city, but thanks for trying and giving me a bit of a bump. Oh, and enjoy the team that your boy stole. I can see it now...the Oklahoma City Bombers! A little distastful yes, but so is waht Clay did. Enjoy the finacal squaler that they will be in because of the location. Have fun.
Bennett signed an agreement to negotiate a way to keep the Sonics in Seattle as a condition of the purchase.
Using your car analogy, if that was something the new owner of the car agreed to in writing, by all means it would constitute breach of contract if there was proof to the contrary as there is in this case.
Scottstradamus,
You are wrong. Since Bennett put it in writing that he would act in good faith to keep the team in Seattle and there is proof that he didn't, how can you support him?
Despite your protestations that you're unbiased, it doesn't hold water...
I'm a Seattle sports fan with nothing better to do then to complain about sports. Be it the Mariners, Sonics, Seahawks, the UW Huskies, or anything else that trips my trigger, I'll always write how I feel about any given topic. I love college and pro football, but all sports are on display here.
