So you’re the creepy guy at the mall checking out the pre-teens. I don’t know about all this Mr. “pretend” Seattle guy. Malls may be a big deal back in OKC, but not so much in the pacific northwest. There are much better things to do than hang out at the mall, unless that’s the only place your mom will drop you off on a saturday afternoon.

You have a mean hateful heart towards Seattle and obviously towards Oklahoma citizens whom you refer to as “Okies”. It’s one thing to disagree with a public financed arena, it is another thing to misrepresent our city. We are a tolerant city with a rich culture. I am sure there are a lot of transplanted Oklahoma natives out here. I am ashamed to listen to the hateful spew that drips from your mouth.

You really need to look into your attitude. My uncle is a therapist in the Seattle area, I could refer you to him to get help. Obviously, by your own comments, you are an unhappy person with a dark heart. There are things that can be done for you, but you need to seek it before we get into the long rainy dark suicidal winter. So seek help my friend.

how many NBA franchises are going to sell out a 60,000 person venue?? that statement is rediculous

you oviously do not remember the times when the sonics were playing in the kingdome and WON the NBA TITLE in there, or when the seahawks used to sell the kingdome out EVERY year. from 1983-1988 when the seahawks were 2nd or better in their division and actually made it to lose to the LA Raiders in the AFC Championship….
im also pretty sure you do not remember the seahawks selling that same stadium out every year, but when it was Ken Griffey Jr. poster night my mother just dropping me and my best friend off at the kingdome while she parked and said to get tickets where we always sit…not where we have to sit because it is a sellout, but because there was no one there and you could “PICK” where you wanted to sit…
my dad was a usher at the kingdome, i was at the AFC championship in the LA, i had season tickets to the seahawks, i watched about 30 mariners games a year as a kid…..
dont try to set a blog straight with some bogus lines about something you obviously spent zero time thinking about….
each team has had success at different times, you cant just pick and choose to make your arguement better…
ive seen ALL seattle teams be very successful and very bad all in my 29 years of being in seattle…

“Out here many people believe that Bennett and OKC are a bunch of scam artists trying to “steal” the Sonics from their home of 40 years…..OKC is bigger than that and deserves more than someone else’s memories. OKC deserves their own franchise and their own memories. JMHO.”

if you do not understand that clay bennett IS a scam artist then you do not have a pulse…he is basically taking advantage of the system and he is pretty much doing it and will probably get away with it…if that idiot minority owner would have shut his mouth, OKC would have gotten the sonics and there probably wasnt much to do about it. if he would not have said those words, bennett would not look like he is waltzing up and just stealing the sonics from under us. before bennett could just say there was no interest or viable option and we probably would have believed him and let them go, but when your partners say that the whole idea is to move the team, how can we expect to believe you when you say that your first intentions were to keep the team in seattle?
let local ownership have the team and keep them in seattle and award OKC with expansion…
at this point there are options out there and MR. STERN could help this situation out….he “says” he wants to keep the franchise in seattle and we have a group of owners willing to buy the team…so unless MR. STERN is just like clay, the option should be to tell clay to sell the team and we will give him a new franchise that he can grow, develop and can have its own history in OKC….

I dont care what you say about my opinion, Im not going to jump on the bandwagon just because Im from Seattle and some Okie reporter placates his hosts by saying the sonics should stay here. DM can look up my IP address (it begins with 76), there are others here who agree with me (actually we are the majority, remember I-91 – I voted YES).

And as for trolling, I dont troll. But I also dont buy into the lies that people in this area like to pretend to be. Look at downtown Seattle, all of those stores are EMPTY, all of the time. And when people are there, they browse. We have those stores just SO we can pretend to have a retail district, when in reality Bellevue Square, alderwood, Southcenter and other malls are where it’s at.

Im sure DM saw all of that downtown stuff and was wowed by it, because I am sure OKC doesn’t have it. But the fact of the matter it is just pretention so we can Look like a big city – we can’t even build a replacement arena and we arent going to as long as there are people like me who think the NBA is yesterday’s news.

As for back in history, excuse me I was living here and in the Kingdome – never sold out, unless michael jordan was in town.
Excuse me, but the Seahawks have never been good until now. Ive been to numerous games in the kingdome and there was almost NEVER a win unless the mariners were playing.

Back then, it WAS the Sonics and Mariners. The Seahawks were the afterthought. Now the roles are reversed.
We’ve always been a two sport town.

Just like we have posters on the SeaTimes forum (parallelforest) who speaks the truth about OKC, I speak the truth about Seattle. Our so called wealth aint gonna save the sonics, too late – they should ahve done something before Bennett bought the team. Plain and simple. You loser Sonics fans need to realize that, Bennett aint going to sell (I wouldn’t if I were in his shoes).

We are a ‘has been’ city, when it comes to the NBA. Face it, admit it. How come the national media still doesn’t care about the Sonics:?? How come there are no front page stories about the Sonics except here on newsok and the seattle media. Id say, the Sonics fans (and the few Okie idiots here) are the ones with their heads in the clouds. There should be no person in OKC who is against the Sonics moving there.

Get real, stop pretending. Seattle is yesterday’s news, it took me to set your blog straight DM. The Sonics will relocate to Oklahoma City!! And Im sure the NBA wont ever come back here, I say – who gives a fouoholkhjnklhlkjk. !!!!

Now let’s move on.

This is completely ignorant. In the 80s, the Seahawks had a huge waiting list for season tickets and the Mariners couldn’t draw 15k a night.

Perhaps “Back in History” means 1995-96 when the Sonics were in the NBA Finals and the Mariners were in the playoffs as well. Any city will be crazy for teams that are at the top of their respective league.

DM,

Nice article and pretty much right on. I think the best solution to this problem is for the city of Seattle to work a deal out for a new arena, a sale to a local group and a new franchise for OKC.

This situation in my opinion is a big game to get the new arena built. Seattle tends to wait until things get desperate to act. Both the Mariners and the Seahawks got to that stage. Now the Sonics are there also. I truly hope that Stern,Seattle and Bennett can work out a deal to keep the Supes in Seattle with a nice shiny new franchise for OKC to create their own tradition.

It would be helpful for more media members in OKC to do just what you did with this article….demand a new tradition for OKC and not someone else’s tradition. Out here many people believe that Bennett and OKC are a bunch of scam artists trying to “steal” the Sonics from their home of 40 years…..OKC is bigger than that and deserves more than someone else’s memories. OKC deserves their own franchise and their own memories. JMHO.

-DM-