Today, Sonics owner Clay Bennett announced he's filing with the NBA to relocate the team to Oklahoma City.
Do you think Washington should fight to keep the Sonics in Seattle?
13 Comments
erv said:
let em go, im fed up with the NBA and the NFL. it dont seem to have anything to do anymore about the best of the best but it over and over again drugs rapes and scandals. let em go we would be better off without them. put the money into our schools rather than another arena.
Astra said:
Goodbye and good riddance! While they are at it, I wouldn't care if they took the Seahawks and Mariners with them. I don't believe that professional sports have any business trying to use tax money to line their own pockets. The Seahawks stadium was forced down the taxpayers throats even after they had voted NOT to build it. Let the overpaid players and owners build their own stadiums. I can't get the state to give me billions of dollars to put up a building for a business--why should professional sports teams be any different. Let them pay for their own arena out of their own pockets!
hal page said:
The Sonics to Oklahoma City, ehhhh, who gives a damn?
By a native of Spokane and a graduate of Oklahoma City University in June of 1948.
jake said:
Heck ya they should fight to keep them, they're a part of seattle, and the only team to win a championship. Durant and the others will be fun to watch. Dont let Bennet take the SEATTLE SUPERSONICS to Oklahoma Sh***y
YES!If we don't fight for the Sonics,then maybe we should tell Mr.Bennett that he juat as well take the Space Needle with him.Just like the Sonics the Space Needle only has over forty years of history.I think the Sonics like the Space Needle are a Seattle land mark.I mean the Sonics and Storm are the only Pro sports teams to bring world championship to Seattle,Come on guys,people,and city official,and of corse Mr. D Stren please we have local groups that want to buy and keep the Soncis in Seattle.Let Mr.Bennett Start his own team and build his own history. With a new expanion team. And leave our Sonics with it history in tact.PLEASE PLEASE SAVE OUR SONICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeff said:
Absolutely we should fight to keep the Sonics in Seattle. Buying a team just to tear it out of the city is a real shifty move to start with. Bennett should sell the sonics to the interested local investor and petition the league for an expansion team. All the complaining about a new venue will obviously take more time because of all the fine points that need issuing. Instead of a brand new venue, we should just renovate KeyArena. Completely overhaul what we have already and then add on to it. It will cost a lot less that way, and we could still get a better venue. Keeping the team here will also help pump money into the local economy becasue people go to local restaurants to watch the game. In the end I would much rather put my tax dollars to keep the Sonics in Seattle then help pay the $30,000 a year it takes to imprison people like the Tacoma Mall shooter Dominick Maldonado.
lgtaylor said:
No! Let them go. I don't want any possibility of paying extra taxes to keep overpaid athletes in town.
Susan said:
Who cares? Seattle tax payers have made it clear they don't want to fund any more arenas and to hold people "hostage" with a sports team threatening to leave, that's just wrong. That said, I doubt they will get out of their contract...I think whatz going to happen is that Mr. Bennett will end up selling to the local consortium that wants the team. After a lengthy debate/fight which will drive the cost up of course.
Shoetravel said:
Go Sonics, as in go ahead and leave. NBA lost me years ago. We have have great college basketball happening in Washington now. Why do we need this mockery of the game the NBA has become? Bye-bye.
Kathy said:
I love watching the Sonics and Storm games, and would be very sad to see them leave Seattle. I hope a local group can buy them back before it is too late.
dab said:
When professional basketball became a bunch of pampered punks dogging it up and down the court dragging their overstuffed wallets in their back pockets, they lost me. Right now I am hard pressed to name even one player on any professional basketball team, including the Sonics. I can't say that about pro baseball or football. I used to go to Sonic games, but I cannot tell you when, or how many years it has been since I have attended a game.
This said, it makes me even more upset when these high rollers come into town, buy up a professional sports team, without making their true intensions known. "When will Seattle learn?" How many times have they been down this road? Just as the Seattle sent the slum lord from Los Angeles packing, when he wanted to move the Seahawks, lets send this "Okie From Muskogee" packing and make him aware that proud Americans are willing to fight for what is right, and the what is decent should prevail. As best as I can remember from my history, the age of carpet baggers ended over 100 years ago.
Ted said:
Definately yes!! We can't allow Bennett and his cronies to move the team to OK City. The Sonics have been an "institution" in Seattle for over 40 years. The Sonics provide an entertainment outlet for thousands - if not millions - of people in the city and the state - not to mention the jobs and revenue they create for the entire area. Even if you are not a basketball fan, they - like the plays, the operas, the films, etc. -- are part of the "fiber" of the city and give Seattle its own unique personality. We need those with the political and financial power to step up and keep the Sonics in Seattle!!
Shaggy said:
I agree with dab on one thing. The Sonics are the fiber in Seattle's diet. We all know what fiber does. Natures little brooms.
As a former Seattle resident, I got very tired of paying tax dollars to build venues for overpaid and pampered businesses and atheletes.
let em go, im fed up with the NBA and the NFL. it dont seem to have anything to do anymore about the best of the best but it over and over again drugs rapes and scandals. let em go we would be better off without them. put the money into our schools rather than another arena.
Goodbye and good riddance! While they are at it, I wouldn't care if they took the Seahawks and Mariners with them. I don't believe that professional sports have any business trying to use tax money to line their own pockets. The Seahawks stadium was forced down the taxpayers throats even after they had voted NOT to build it. Let the overpaid players and owners build their own stadiums. I can't get the state to give me billions of dollars to put up a building for a business--why should professional sports teams be any different. Let them pay for their own arena out of their own pockets!
The Sonics to Oklahoma City, ehhhh, who gives a damn?
By a native of Spokane and a graduate of Oklahoma City University in June of 1948.
Heck ya they should fight to keep them, they're a part of seattle, and the only team to win a championship. Durant and the others will be fun to watch. Dont let Bennet take the SEATTLE SUPERSONICS to Oklahoma Sh***y
YES!If we don't fight for the Sonics,then maybe we should tell Mr.Bennett that he juat as well take the Space Needle with him.Just like the Sonics the Space Needle only has over forty years of history.I think the Sonics like the Space Needle are a Seattle land mark.I mean the Sonics and Storm are the only Pro sports teams to bring world championship to Seattle,Come on guys,people,and city official,and of corse Mr. D Stren please we have local groups that want to buy and keep the Soncis in Seattle.Let Mr.Bennett Start his own team and build his own history. With a new expanion team. And leave our Sonics with it history in tact.PLEASE PLEASE SAVE OUR SONICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely we should fight to keep the Sonics in Seattle. Buying a team just to tear it out of the city is a real shifty move to start with. Bennett should sell the sonics to the interested local investor and petition the league for an expansion team. All the complaining about a new venue will obviously take more time because of all the fine points that need issuing. Instead of a brand new venue, we should just renovate KeyArena. Completely overhaul what we have already and then add on to it. It will cost a lot less that way, and we could still get a better venue. Keeping the team here will also help pump money into the local economy becasue people go to local restaurants to watch the game. In the end I would much rather put my tax dollars to keep the Sonics in Seattle then help pay the $30,000 a year it takes to imprison people like the Tacoma Mall shooter Dominick Maldonado.
No! Let them go. I don't want any possibility of paying extra taxes to keep overpaid athletes in town.
Who cares? Seattle tax payers have made it clear they don't want to fund any more arenas and to hold people "hostage" with a sports team threatening to leave, that's just wrong. That said, I doubt they will get out of their contract...I think whatz going to happen is that Mr. Bennett will end up selling to the local consortium that wants the team. After a lengthy debate/fight which will drive the cost up of course.
Go Sonics, as in go ahead and leave. NBA lost me years ago. We have have great college basketball happening in Washington now. Why do we need this mockery of the game the NBA has become? Bye-bye.
I love watching the Sonics and Storm games, and would be very sad to see them leave Seattle. I hope a local group can buy them back before it is too late.
When professional basketball became a bunch of pampered punks dogging it up and down the court dragging their overstuffed wallets in their back pockets, they lost me. Right now I am hard pressed to name even one player on any professional basketball team, including the Sonics. I can't say that about pro baseball or football. I used to go to Sonic games, but I cannot tell you when, or how many years it has been since I have attended a game.
This said, it makes me even more upset when these high rollers come into town, buy up a professional sports team, without making their true intensions known. "When will Seattle learn?" How many times have they been down this road? Just as the Seattle sent the slum lord from Los Angeles packing, when he wanted to move the Seahawks, lets send this "Okie From Muskogee" packing and make him aware that proud Americans are willing to fight for what is right, and the what is decent should prevail. As best as I can remember from my history, the age of carpet baggers ended over 100 years ago.
Definately yes!! We can't allow Bennett and his cronies to move the team to OK City. The Sonics have been an "institution" in Seattle for over 40 years. The Sonics provide an entertainment outlet for thousands - if not millions - of people in the city and the state - not to mention the jobs and revenue they create for the entire area. Even if you are not a basketball fan, they - like the plays, the operas, the films, etc. -- are part of the "fiber" of the city and give Seattle its own unique personality. We need those with the political and financial power to step up and keep the Sonics in Seattle!!
I agree with dab on one thing. The Sonics are the fiber in Seattle's diet. We all know what fiber does. Natures little brooms.
As a former Seattle resident, I got very tired of paying tax dollars to build venues for overpaid and pampered businesses and atheletes.
Let em go.