Sports Hernia
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Yes, it's much better than the craptastic NBA.Cyrus12":avacbvx7 said:you guys really want NHL hockey in your city? The NHL is garbage now...
Yes, it's much better than the craptastic NBA.Cyrus12":avacbvx7 said:you guys really want NHL hockey in your city? The NHL is garbage now...
Then don't go to any games. I for one will be in line for season tickets.Cyrus12":2xvizcp3 said:you guys really want NHL hockey in your city? The NHL is garbage now...
Cyrus12":3bw4ai7x said:you guys really want NHL hockey in your city? The NHL is garbage now...
Yep, he really wanted a Seattle area bid to come in. It's his fault for raising the expansion fee to 500 million, he severely over played his hand in that regard.ShyCheetah":3iatpajp said:The Commissioner doth protest too much, methinks.
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Sports Hernia":2tetu0rg said:Yep, he really wanted a Seattle area bid to come in. It's his fault for raising the expansion fee to 500 million, he severely over played his hand in that regard.ShyCheetah":2tetu0rg said:The Commissioner doth protest too much, methinks.
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Sports Hernia":12f1qbqh said:Yep, he really wanted a Seattle area bid to come in. It's his fault for raising the expansion fee to 500 million, he severely over played his hand in that regard.ShyCheetah":12f1qbqh said:The Commissioner doth protest too much, methinks.
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I cannot argue with anything you wrote there. Seattle politics suck.Sgt. Largent":2hbd453b said:Sports Hernia":2hbd453b said:Yep, he really wanted a Seattle area bid to come in. It's his fault for raising the expansion fee to 500 million, he severely over played his hand in that regard.ShyCheetah":2hbd453b said:The Commissioner doth protest too much, methinks.
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Was the 500 million the sticking point?
Seems to me we had 2-3 serious groups interested in NHL franchises in Seattle AND Tukwila............then all of a sudden when it came time to pony up, they all ran for the hills.
To me this is all becoming one sick joke that our terrible city and county councils can't get their crap together long enough to approve Hansen's site. Delay after delay, roadblock after roadblock.
It's a microcosm for how dysfunctional and horrible our state and local government is when it comes to working together. Everyone has to carve out their piece of the pie, just like the national level. If I was Hansen I'd tell em all to go jump in a lake, I'm done. It's years beyond the point of ridiculous.
Sports Hernia":3n08tm0g said:I cannot argue with anything you wrote there. Seattle politics suck.Sgt. Largent":3n08tm0g said:Sports Hernia":3n08tm0g said:Yep, he really wanted a Seattle area bid to come in. It's his fault for raising the expansion fee to 500 million, he severely over played his hand in that regard.ShyCheetah":3n08tm0g said:The Commissioner doth protest too much, methinks.
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Shy
Was the 500 million the sticking point?
Seems to me we had 2-3 serious groups interested in NHL franchises in Seattle AND Tukwila............then all of a sudden when it came time to pony up, they all ran for the hills.
To me this is all becoming one sick joke that our terrible city and county councils can't get their crap together long enough to approve Hansen's site. Delay after delay, roadblock after roadblock.
It's a microcosm for how dysfunctional and horrible our state and local government is when it comes to working together. Everyone has to carve out their piece of the pie, just like the national level. If I was Hansen I'd tell em all to go jump in a lake, I'm done. It's years beyond the point of ridiculous.
Sgt. Largent":f4kpvb7l said:City and County: "Give us teams and we'll consider building"
NHL and NBA: "No, you build the arena and we'll consider giving you a team"
City and County: "No U"
NHL and NBA: "No U"
Subzero717":2kfhm6mu said:Where is Quebec getting $500 mill?
m0ng0":2awny2hw said:Jeezus. until you build an arena this is just stupidity, it's a pretty simple game except seattle is behind the eight ball, no one is going to come without an arena and no arena is built until someone is coming, they call that a catch 22... Unless somebody says screw it I am building regardless it ain't going to happen.