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November 8, 2006

C@L Says We Don't Need No Stinking Sonics!

Well that didn't take very long

In addition to re-electing Maria Cantwell to the U.S. Senate and restoring the legal status of lapdances in the city of C@L, C@L voters approved Initiative 91, which pretty much means that a mere week into the NBA season, it's pretty clear the Sonics won't be playing in Key Arena.

Initiative 91 requires that the city get a "fair profit" from any money that it sinks into an arena for a sports team. Voters essentially said that they weren't interested in funding another sports arena. And now the mayor has to all but admit that the city won't be able to get anything done for the Okie-Owners.

And here we thought that the will-they-stay-or-will-they-go thing might last all season! Whew! That sure is going to save us all a lot of stress -- and sell tons of tickets!

What's all the more charming about it is the you-had-your-chance stance taken by the ownership group; we said we'd give you a little tiny shot at this thing, you can't say we didn't! The quote from the paper:

"There is nothing really left to negotiate with Seattle," said Jim Kneeland, a Seattle-based spokesman for Clayton Bennett and the Oklahoma-based ownership group. "We have done what we committed to Seattle to do. We looked at Seattle Center as an option in our real-estate search. It made the cut, but what happened with the vote last night puts another factor to bear. That additional factor is political climate. The vote clearly moved a Seattle Center solution further down the list."

I guess there's always Bellevue.

Posted by thatkid at November 8, 2006 10:56 PM under Sonics

November 8, 2006

C@L Says We Don't Need No Stinking Sonics!

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