Comments on Bennett's Lawyers Taunt City's Expert Witness

Fuck. Now it's all up to Alexie.

To: Clay Bennet lawyers
From: Seattle voters
Re: your lawsuit

Pleasee put into evidence the fact that 78% of Seattle voters said no way to any subsidies unless the team guarantees a commercal rate of return. In other words, there is a law on the books in Seattle that basically rejects the whole premise of the City's case that there is value, intangible or not, in having a team here.

You can find the power of the people like in article one of the city charter, too. It's right there.

We the people of Seattle, already said there's no "goodwill value" from this team. End of court case.

Signed,

Can we please keep the Storm? Sue Bird is yummy!

Andrew Zimbalist is one of my heroes. It sucks that's lousy on the stand. Too bad none of the principals in this case can read.

@3, the Storm have already been sold to a local group and will be staying.

I would have no problem paying for a new stadium if the public were to have equity in the team. IIRC, the Sonics were bought for about $300 Million, and it sounds like they want about another $100 Million in stadium to stay. Fine, give the city 30% interest in the profits and appreciation of the team.

PC,

I'd like to apologize for all those rubber red playground balls that smacked your uncoordinated body when your were in school. You clearly don't understand sports or sports fans.

The happiness that the city of Boston is experiencing tonight and these past few months cannot be easily measured, but it changes lives (mostly in positive ways). I can't explain it to you and it saddens me.

I think it will be kind of awesome to have a WNBA team but not an NBA team.

PC- Seattle voters didn't say the Sonics had no value. They just said they're sick of giving welfare to billionaire sports franchise owners. Sonics definitely have value, albeit not to everyone. But if 100% unanimity is required for something to have value, we'd have nothing.

I think the judge basically tossed out the expert's testimony once she confirmed that he had previously assigned a value to the 'intangibles' - especially for the low low price of $7.5M. Also starring as a piss-poor Seattle witness was Mayor McCheese Nickels, when he finally agreed the lease was a bad deal for the Sonics, and then brilliantly added something to the effect of "but it's not good for Seattle either."