Comments on Seattlest Seth is a Bona Fide Nerd

I like Margarita personally.

But she's wrong.

Speaking of Seth, did everyone read his fucking fantastic piece in the P-I this morning? I'd link to it, but apparently it's print only.

Goddammit, my secret is out.

Besides being not too cool for sports, I'm also not too cool for blatant self-promotion. Here's the link to that piece #2 liked (thanks, #2!)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/othersports/327621_kolloen15.html

For some reason the P-I doesn't have links to all their daily sports stories on their online sports home. It's online, it's just impossible to find unless you know it's in there. No idea why.

I played various spectator sports in high school, love watching football and basketball games, and still don't think that any taxpayer money should go towards stadiums and arenas. These are simply handouts to private business interests that divert income from non-sports businesses.

I have to say this. I just...I have to say this.

The Seattle Sonics are a horrible team. They suck so many asses. Good God do they blow. A pack of 6th graders could beat them 3678373 to 2. (While eating their fruit-by-the-foot no less.)

"(While eating their fruit-by-the-foot no less.)" (@5) haha

The fun goes on and on!

Seth is right, but his response about the two stadiums is only part of the picture. We also have about 65 public playfields, most of which can host more than one sport. They're well used, so this says to me that Seattleites not only like watching professional and college sports, we like playing sports too.

If Seattle has an “elitist attitude” against sports and is “too cool for sports” and the sports team(s) are leaving... then what's the problem? If the Seattle community doesn't care enough about sports, why should we preserve them? Just 'cuz? Tradition?

I'm a bona fide nerd. I care more about sci-fi than sports. Can we get the taxpayers to pony up several hundred million dollars to build a working Death Star and an Enterprise ship? Paul Allen's already got the uniforms.

Why should your interest supersede mine? Why should I finance your hobby? Buy me a god damn light saber.

That wasn't very nerdy at all.

We hate sports so much in seattle that everyone and their mother was wearing a seahawks jersey or hat to work when they were in the playoffs.

There's a lot of dimensions to this whole Sonics/arena issue.

1) Yes, there may just be stadium-financing-fatigue after the two SODO stadiums.

2) While any sentient person realized the Kingdome was dreary, soul-sucking misery chamber... there is not the same antipathy to Key Arena.

3) Key Arena may be a good place to watch a game, but by current-day NBA standards it really is behind the curve, as far as capacity, suites, revenue opportunities, etc.

4) About 1/3 of NBA arenas have managed to get built without big public money (the Pepsi Center in Denver being one example).

5) I think people have sensed all along that Clay Bennett is a weasel and wants the team moved no matter what.

6) Bennett peddled the $500M Renton arena idea as a true multi-purpose facility, perfect for conventions, etc... which it was, but I don't hear a great clamoring about a shortage of convention space here. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

7) I think both baseball and (especially) football are better TV sports, and people are more willing to foot the bill even if they're not personally going to go to a game.

8) You can't blow into town (as an out of towner, no less!) and cut a stadium deal in 12 months. Things don't move that fast. I think it took the Arizona Cardinals 8 or 9 years to get their stadium deal done.

on and on..

on point #3

in terms of capacity, the sonics deserve a smaller stadium because the amount of people that go to see their shitty play is not that great.

Which part of No! Heck No! didn't the Okie Sonics GET?

Margarita Prentice, La Puta Grande for Clay Bennett and MoneyTree payday loans. She's a contemptible bitch who makes much of being a woman and hispanic while sucking off the rich, white and powerful as well as any Republican could. I can only hope that she'll die of a really painful cancer soon so I can take a wet, runny shit on her grave.

Sen. Prentice is being interviewed on 950 KJR. The lowlights:

- She waved her hands when presented with the comments by the comments by Aubrey McClendon regarding his desire to move to Oklahoma.

- She insisted that she had the votes to pass the Renton arena measure in the House & Senate if only the evil Speaker Chopp hadn't blocked it from coming up in the House.

- Perhaps worst of all, she continues to run interference for Clay Bennett; she was asked, yes/no, if she thought Bennett wanted to keep the team here, and firmly said "Yes".

The interview is ongoing, there'll be an mp3 up on KJR's website when it ends, if it ever does.

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