21 September 2010
Quote of the Day: Vern
Interesting article, foul language, annoying white words-on-black background text:
"The Oklahomans weren’t bluffing, they packed up the Sonics and left town. It’s like that TV movie 'I Know My First Name Is Steven,' they’re now hiding out with a creepy new dad, calling themselves the Oklahoma City Thunder. Those who weren’t in the 75% who voted for I-91, or who live outside of the city but were hoping we’d pay for the stadium for them, said we fucked up. People started to panic. Alot [sic] of the restaurants in the neighborhood that counted on Sonics fans for business did have to close. It was rough going for a little bit.
But here’s the beauty of it, the reason why I’m boring you with all this local history. We were confronted with a scam that many cities have faced, being blackmailed by a corporation, bullied into bailing out their broken business model. And the conventional wisdom is that you have to give them what they want because if you don’t you’re fucked. We didn’t do that, we chose our own integrity over the NBA. We said yeah, we like basketball, but fuck you man, are you kidding me? No. No way. Get the fuck out of here.
And then as they were leaving we said 'But you don’t really need that women’s team though, do you?' and they said, 'What women’s team? We own a women’s team?' And we said 'Yeah, I think so, why don’t you look around for it and if you find it we’ll take it off your hands.' Four local business women who were Storm season ticket holders banded together and bought them from the Oklahomans so they could keep them in Seattle."
"The Oklahomans weren’t bluffing, they packed up the Sonics and left town. It’s like that TV movie 'I Know My First Name Is Steven,' they’re now hiding out with a creepy new dad, calling themselves the Oklahoma City Thunder. Those who weren’t in the 75% who voted for I-91, or who live outside of the city but were hoping we’d pay for the stadium for them, said we fucked up. People started to panic. Alot [sic] of the restaurants in the neighborhood that counted on Sonics fans for business did have to close. It was rough going for a little bit.
But here’s the beauty of it, the reason why I’m boring you with all this local history. We were confronted with a scam that many cities have faced, being blackmailed by a corporation, bullied into bailing out their broken business model. And the conventional wisdom is that you have to give them what they want because if you don’t you’re fucked. We didn’t do that, we chose our own integrity over the NBA. We said yeah, we like basketball, but fuck you man, are you kidding me? No. No way. Get the fuck out of here.
And then as they were leaving we said 'But you don’t really need that women’s team though, do you?' and they said, 'What women’s team? We own a women’s team?' And we said 'Yeah, I think so, why don’t you look around for it and if you find it we’ll take it off your hands.' Four local business women who were Storm season ticket holders banded together and bought them from the Oklahomans so they could keep them in Seattle."
Labels: Seattle Storm
# posted by mamurd @ 7:11 PM 
