MrRant

Comcast is in the ATL. Apply there.

Shultz gets A LOT of blame around here. There is a good chance his lawsuit is just to lessen that a bit but there is a lot of anger that he sold to someone outside like Clay. We all knew where it was going and since day one we've known that there will be an issue with a new arena and using all public funds to build it. Half the issue is that Clay/Stern are completely against even just remodeling the Key and instead demand a completely new arena. Built with mostly public money.

Since the Sonics are at least well known in other cities (unlike the apathy towards the Seahawks), I was curious how the forum felt about Clay Bennet and Stern's unrelenting drive to remove a team with a 41 year history from it's home to a market in Oklahoma that is... quite small. So far the NBA Owners have approved the move (minus Mark Cuban and Paul Allen). Clay is being sued by both the city to stay in the lease. He is also being sued by Howard Shultz to get the team returned to him for breach of a "Good Faith" provision to try and keep the team in Seattle but how enforceable this would be is iffy due to how they would determine what "good faith" would be. He has hired a lawyer that has dealt with the Seattle Pilots move as well as when the Seahawks were trying to leave. Chances are the lawsuit by the City has a good chance to force them to stay in their lease which could cause issues for both Clay and Stern (not to mention that it goes to trial in June right when the Finals are happening) as you'd have a team there for 2 more years that is essentially a lame duck. IF the City were to win there has been talk that perhaps of a buyout and a promise to keep the team history, colors etc and then get a team relocated from one of the markets that can't support their team (New Orleans/Memphis). There have also been suggestions of a franchise swap (Memphis for example goes to Clay and he takes them to OKC, Sonics go to Memphis owner and stays here), and of course that Clay just sells the team to the local ownership group around here (Steve Ballmer) and then gets one of the struggling teams. Beyond that it seems that David Stern has a vendetta against Seattle since he has been taking the position of if Seattle doesn't let the Sonics out of their lease, then there will be no NBA in Seattle again ever. How do other NBA fans feel? Espeically considering the fact that the team has 41 years of time in one city? Do you feel secure that your team is safe from any moves if the city dares defy David Stern if he comes out and requests a new arena?

I think if you truly wanted some adult discussion you would ban the whole death threat/rape threat is ok BS. There is a certain point to letting things go but to have people go willy nilly too much just leads to wanting to post at another place that isn't populated by retards, jackoffs and a certain Canuck who wants to fight everyone. And the Pit has quite a few of those too...

Have you considered taking it to an Apple store?

Denver's D must drive George Karl nuts. I miss George Karl, I remember meeting him and talking to him a few times when I did the Sonics Hoops camp for two summers.

Too busy reading about Milky taking two cocks up the ass?

TTIUWOP.

I'm pretty sure that people should be able to parse that Marney was not asking to be banned but rather suggesting that VX doesn't have the balls to do it. The whole "someone asked to be banned so I banned them" without taking context into play is fairly... stupid.

Portland has turned VX into a pussy. And then his mod powers~! turned him into a douche. VX is now Pussy Douche. Mod Almighty.

I demand a Babality where you turn Batman back into a child and then shoot his parents infront of him.

$15 seems a bit steep for a Judas Priest album at about 8 songs or so. I understand some extra cost involved with the work that goes into taking the tracks and making them playable but still.

Uh. Wow.

Nigga got overruled.

I sure as hell hope they at least ban the scary super fans.

I'll be picking it up. Though I have a backlog as well plus MGS4 coming out in May/June (can't remember the month).

So far in one day we have managed to *accidentally* delete quite a few members plus having to call in adminbot to reset the member table back to the beginning of the year as well as the inane idea to change the board login schema within a weeks time without really all that advance notice and for a very (IMO) weak upgrade in security. All this was done in hilarious fashion with no notice apparently to the Trifecta of Board Ownership (besides the login stuff). So, what is next on the trials and tribulations of the new ownership? 909 accidently deletes the Sports folder? VX attempts to prune any posts with no replies and we end up missing 2005?

The airbag has deployed.

When they wear the tuxes.

One of the boards I post on has 5 times as many yet only have like... 5 mods.

3.41 or so.

Which would be hilarious.