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The current Sounders are being pretty awesome right now, though. Just knocked a decent MLS team out of the cup...

Posted by Abby | July 2, 2008 2:37 PM
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Why do I have a feeling I'm not going to like the settlement?

And, why should we even be vulnerable to a bad deal? If this whole "poisoned well" theory trumps the notion that NOBODY believes that Bennett et al had any intention, whatsoever, of keeping the Sonics in Seattle, then this whole trial was a complete farce.

All I want is to be able to say that we broke up with the Sonics, and not the reverse. And, Mayor Nickels and Mr. Ceis seem to have squandered that line.

Posted by Timothy | July 2, 2008 2:47 PM
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Was your "secret unnamed source" the front page of the Seattle Times' website?

Posted by Just Sayin' | July 2, 2008 2:52 PM
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Seattle Times
2:48
Sonics, city settle lawsuit

your source is lacking.

Posted by chet | July 2, 2008 2:53 PM
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@1 -- They mentioned the Sounders!!! This is the best news of all -- footie's on the radar now! WOOT!!!

Just for that, I'm gonna go to Green Lake this evening and do some keepy-uppy (like I need an excuse...)

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | July 2, 2008 2:53 PM
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You don't have to like them, but the Seattle papers were way ahead of you on this, "Nuclear off-the-record" aside, smug NYT comparisons aside.

Posted by Exactly | July 2, 2008 2:56 PM
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Don't the Seattle Storm make the cut? They're world class, too. Sheesh.

Posted by Uncle Vinny | July 2, 2008 3:01 PM
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SeaHawks ...

Posted by superyeadon | July 2, 2008 3:04 PM
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The fact that they're settling can mean only one thing:

We could really have gotten the Storm for free.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | July 2, 2008 3:07 PM
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So the city realized that it was very unlikely to get a specific performance ruling and decided it could probably get more money out of a settlement than out of the judge. Reason prevails!

Here's hoping the city didn't get too much, so that cities learn that it's in their best interest to stay away from pro sports. Pro sports are for the places where the rubes live.

I am going to enjoy the lamentations of the sports fans! Here's hoping Sherman Alexie and the other big fans follow their team to rubeville.

Posted by David Wright | July 2, 2008 3:13 PM
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Any settlement that doesn't get the city its $45 million back and publicly call out Bennett and Stern as lying jackasses is unacceptable.

Posted by Greg | July 2, 2008 3:15 PM
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Abby @1 FTW!

Sounders Rule - Storm Rocks - but Sonics ... sucks!

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 2, 2008 3:20 PM
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Nickels/Ceis/Carr really needed a win badly to look good coming out of this debacle.

*Any* settlement is going to look like a loss for the City. Their loss.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | July 2, 2008 3:21 PM
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@3 and 4, I missed the part where the Times reported that the settlement sets the team free.

Posted by Eric F | July 2, 2008 3:23 PM
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"Pro sports are for the places where the rubes live."

Yeah and theatre is only for fags, rock music is only for devil worshipers and only blacks commit crime. I work 40 plus a week you cunt and I like watching sports to take my mind off of the day to day bullshit and assholes like you that surround me. Has nothing to do with a new stadium and taxpayers dollars, just with peace of mind and a little civic pride.

Posted by Mike Schank | July 2, 2008 3:24 PM
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Greg @ 11: Prepare to be disappointed. I guess ~$30M. Probably payable in installments over a few years, so that the city can have a big headline number, but the NPV is actually smaller.

A settlement anywhere close to this would indicate that the city basically folded, because the Sonics offered them $25M before the city took them to court.

Posted by David Wright | July 2, 2008 3:24 PM
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Oh please oh please oh please just finish this and let the fuckers go and stop writing about it already. Pro sports does not a 'World Class City' make, regardless of what the NBA, NFL, and MLB want you to believe. Let them go. Now.

Posted by NaFun | July 2, 2008 3:39 PM
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i just hope part of the agreement was getting a fucking carl's jr in seattle.

am i right, people?

Posted by dusty | July 2, 2008 3:40 PM
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@18

no. Fuck off.

Posted by NaFun | July 2, 2008 3:48 PM
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what does this all mean? are the sonics staying or no?

Posted by jessica | July 2, 2008 4:02 PM
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No, the sonics are taking their carls jr franchise to OK Go and we get the winning teams instead.

But look for Ceis to screw it up ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 2, 2008 4:06 PM
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@18: Screw Carl's Jr. right in the ear.

I would be happy with a White Castle or Tim Horton's, however.

Posted by Scalpel | July 2, 2008 4:13 PM
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it means we get to pay full attention to preparing for the snowboarding season, then snowboarding during the season, and then reminescing over the epic snowboarding.

Posted by max solomon | July 2, 2008 4:35 PM
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Fuck off, David Wright. Just because YOU don't like pro sports doesn't make it useless. And if it's so unimportant to you, go do whatever else you want to do with yourself and stop commenting on something you know nothing about.

To reiterate: eat shit, you're a jackass

Posted by James | July 2, 2008 4:40 PM
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good point, Scapel.

what Seattle needs is a good Tim Hortons for a curling expansion team.

Plus the footy team.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 2, 2008 5:06 PM

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