Seattle Mayor fires back at Stern

you baffoons know nothing!!

you've had the sonics for 40-odd years, but you "are hoping for the Hornets!" what kind of fan are you? the sonics are STILL THERE and you're thinking of OTHER teams? my god. i hope a REAL sonics fan hears you say that in person. as a sports fan in general, I'M offended by that crap. if that's how it is, i will say again, people like you don't deserve a team. sorry.

i would have to agree with joey on his last post. lately, though, ive strayed away from the mouthing off, UNTIL JUNE!! that is when the whole state of oklahoma will realize the whole picture. as far as attendance phillip, okc subsidized 30% of all Hornet tics. that means alot of golden corral employess could afford to go. with GM gone, you guys wont sell out after the first month. even with a stripped down club that is on its way out of town, we here in seattle, are still averaging over 13,000. could you imagine if they were winning!! the team will leave seattle, no problem for us, because they suck, but, we will get another team, and, we are hoping for the Hornets! the ownership group has made the sonics the laughinstock of professional sports, and, we still support the team after getting beat by 40. i attended a AAA baseball game in okc once, they had about 1000 there, and, when the team got down 4 runs, the attendance dropped to around 400, and, you guys think you will fill an NBA arena night after night. see ya in june D.M.!!! its looking like a long 2 years for the okies!!! love, mike u.

nobody in the state of oklahoma has the right to say whether or not we deserve a team! it makes no differrence where your at. if the club loses, attendance will dwindle. and considering the circustances i think were doing pretty well! and when you have a team for forty years then lecture me on how to support a franchise. the bottom line is this, if you do get a franchise you will certainly lose it within ten years. okc does not have the money,size, or the resources to support a team, for any length of time. you will need a brand new arena within 5 years. good luck with that. and can you support them when the initial fervor dies down? or if the club is struggling? like i said before, you wont have them long!

wow, i'm so glad that the dialogue between OKC and seattle consists of intellegent references to 'in-breeding' and 'weed is effecting their ability to think.' as an oklahoman who loves basketball, i'd love to have a team. i wish we could get one in a way that makes everyone happy, but if seattle fans don't go to games and name-call on the internet, they don't desereve a team either. supporting your team will do more for the sonics than (trying) to be clever and insulting. and okies, chill out. we're probably going to get them, so why call them names because they're upset and don't know how to handle it. (other than name-calling.) i'm sorry seattle, i wish you could keep the sonics and OKC would get the hornets or grizzlies. but what's done is done. was it messed up of bennett to buy your team and then want to move them? yes. but, was your team for sale? yes. an owner can do what he wants. was it annoying to ask for more money to keep the team? yes. but you showed him! you voted no. that's your right, just as it's his right to kick rocks out of seattle. principles vs. emotion. you chose your principles towards the money and owner over the emotion of keeping the team you love(d). would it be a pain to pay another sales tax for the NBA? yes, but you'd have your team. do i want to pay more taxes here? no, but i will if i'm going to get a team. seattle made it's decision. no taxes/no NBA. i hope you realize it's not oklahoma city's fault. is it clay bennett's fault? partly, but it's partly your own.

apparently, your unfamiliar with your own posts.

Everything you've written up to this point has been stupid, joey and with your last post, that streak continues. The Sonics play in the smallest arena with the worst lease in the NBA, They have lost money every year for a decade. No great loss for the NBA.

if you think moving to okc is a wise move, that leads me to believe that your the product of in-breeding.

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