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01-18-2008, 02:41 AM
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Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
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January 18, 2008 - 4:15 am
Seattle Times -
If the Sonics leave Seattle, the city's economy won't suffer and most people won't care.
That's not the tirade of some anti-arena activist; it's the Sonics' latest legal argument to try to get out of its KeyArena lease.
And it's exactly the opposite of what the Sonics have claimed when asking for taxpayer help to build a new arena.
The team made the argument in papers filed in U.S. District Court this week, seeking mediation or a speedy trial to allow the team to abandon city-owned KeyArena before 2010. In the documents, Sonics' attorneys dispute the city's contention that the team's departure would have a broad and hard-to-quantify impact.
"The financial issue is simple, and the city's analysts agree, there will be no net economic loss if the Sonics leave Seattle. Entertainment dollars not spent on the Sonics will be spent on Seattle's many other sports and entertainment options. Seattleites will not reduce their entertainment budget simply because the Sonics leave," the Sonics said in the court brief.
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01-18-2008, 04:47 AM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
Bennett is ridiculous.
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01-18-2008, 05:51 AM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
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Bennett is ridiculous.
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I agree.
I think it's pretty much certain the Sonics are moving now, probably just working out the details.
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01-18-2008, 09:40 AM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
The only thing that could stop a move at this point is stern
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01-18-2008, 10:18 AM
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The only thing that could stop a move at this point is stern
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Certainly looks like it, but unfortunately he doesn't seem to intervene at all.
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01-18-2008, 12:11 PM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
Our last hope and last line of defense is logic. If he did what made sense, he wouldn't move. Uprooting a 40+ year franchise with at least one Hall of Famer and one Championship banner is ridiculous in modern times.
Bennett has all the power in the world to be the savior or the douche.
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01-18-2008, 04:34 PM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
Maybe Hornets will move to Seattle...
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01-18-2008, 04:39 PM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
Thats a load of crap alot of people care if there team leaves. If the sixers left philadelphia i would be pissed.
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01-18-2008, 06:00 PM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
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Our last hope and last line of defense is logic. If he did what made sense, he wouldn't move. Uprooting a 40+ year franchise with at least one Hall of Famer and one Championship banner is ridiculous in modern times.
Bennett has all the power in the world to be the savior or the douche.
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All signs point toward him being a douche though
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01-18-2008, 06:16 PM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
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Maybe Hornets will move to Seattle...
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If we could trade all baskeball related personnel with the Hornets, that would be great. I don't want the Seattle Hornets though, that's just stupid.
Yeah, Bennett certainly has all the symptoms of douchocity.
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01-18-2008, 06:42 PM
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Re: Sonics: City Wouldn't Miss Us
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