Eh, whichever. Bus, plane; Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. Either way, Seattle had a baseball team when they left camp, and didn't hours later.
[NBA] Sacramento Kings sold to Seattle investment group
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The 'e' in Brewers was left over from the "Seattle" on the road unis.
Well, so much for that franchise. NBA votes down Sacramento Kings' move to Seattle. Seattle has got to stop trying to buy teams named the Kings.
That was just a committee vote, the entire board still has to vote on it in May. But yeah, not looking too good for Seattle now. Although if the owners DO vote against the move, I'm sure there will be lawsuits by the Maloofs and the Seattle investment group, so this is probably far from over.
Hey wait, Sacramento might win this. Where's my victory sound?
See, I still maintain that Seattle would have kept their last team if more than 2k people went to the games on average in the last year or so that they were here; so all of the whining by "fans" that OKC stole the team, and that Howard Schultz is a horrible person for selling the team, and that Howard Stern is a hypocrite for allowing the moving of the Sonics but not the moving of the Kings is - while not surprising - incredibly amusing to me.
This is not a city that has die-hard fan bases that keep supporting teams while they slump. Hell, the Mariners just got done beating the Orioles in a 6 - 2 game that should have been a lot of fun to be at (lead off homer by Saunders in his first game back from the DL, complete game performance by the Mariners' pitcher, two or three double plays turned by our infielders, some good hits with runners in scoring position, including a triple by our 3rd baseman), and because the team's been struggling, the stadium was nearly empty. The Seahawks have a lot of fans at games now, but they've been making the playoffs for the past several seasons - they never had this kind of home-game support when they were putting up losing seasons; and the Sonics fans were the same way. Key Arena was packed to the rafters when the Sonics were winning, but they had trouble keeping it from looking completely empty in lean years, and it only holds 17k people. I wouldn't be at all surprised if most of the fans who actually attended games during the last couple years before the sale were fans of the visiting teams.
I seriously doubt that Seattle is going to get the Kings, and even with all of the hype surrounding the deal and all of the political talk of how important having an NBA team would be for the city, I'm not really all that certain that the city deserves to get one back right now.
This is not a city that has die-hard fan bases that keep supporting teams while they slump. Hell, the Mariners just got done beating the Orioles in a 6 - 2 game that should have been a lot of fun to be at (lead off homer by Saunders in his first game back from the DL, complete game performance by the Mariners' pitcher, two or three double plays turned by our infielders, some good hits with runners in scoring position, including a triple by our 3rd baseman), and because the team's been struggling, the stadium was nearly empty. The Seahawks have a lot of fans at games now, but they've been making the playoffs for the past several seasons - they never had this kind of home-game support when they were putting up losing seasons; and the Sonics fans were the same way. Key Arena was packed to the rafters when the Sonics were winning, but they had trouble keeping it from looking completely empty in lean years, and it only holds 17k people. I wouldn't be at all surprised if most of the fans who actually attended games during the last couple years before the sale were fans of the visiting teams.
I seriously doubt that Seattle is going to get the Kings, and even with all of the hype surrounding the deal and all of the political talk of how important having an NBA team would be for the city, I'm not really all that certain that the city deserves to get one back right now.
I almost feel a little bit bad for the investment group, after they bought up all of the land in the SoDo district for their new arena, managed to rush it through the city and county councils, got approval (without having to go through environmental reviews), shut down the port's lawsuits over said missing environmental reviews, and shelled out tens of millions of dollars as a deposit on the team; but only almost. They really should have known what they were getting into before laying down that kind of cash and using up all of that political capital.
The Oilers suck, but the attendance does not. You won't find many NHL teams who can fill an arena like Edmonton.
I wish I lived near Dallas. I love the stars!
I wish this would all just end already, I just want to know what's going to happen -_-
The Maloof's are so ridiculously against selling to Sacramento, I can't understand it
The Maloof's are so ridiculously against selling to Sacramento, I can't understand it
And the vote is in. 22 votes against, 8 votes for. The Sacramento Kings will not be moving to Seattle. Commissioner Stern will be having a talk with the Maloofs in the coming week to... convince them... that they're happy to accept the (smaller) offer from the city of Sacramento and their ownership group, instead of the larger offer from Seattle, as he says that today's vote has clearly indicated that the Seattle ownership group is not allowed to purchase the Sacramento Kings.
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