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paulg_68  Posts: 2,469
Registered: 2009-7-27 18:45:54
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Seattle Sonics Left Because the City Refused to Build them a New Stadium |
Fat_wong posted:
tax money shouldn;t be used to build stadiums for billionaires.
The billionaires keep their teams even after they move to another city. It's the citizens of Seattle that lost their team.
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__Bonk__  Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
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There is no professional hockey team here either!
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Fat_wong  Posts: 293
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Seattle Sonics Left Because the City Refused to Build them a New Stadium |
paulg_68 posted:
Fat_wong posted:
tax money shouldn;t be used to build stadiums for billionaires.
The billionaires keep their teams even after they move to another city. It's the citizens of Seattle that lost their team.
it was never their team.
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Modeeb Title: A Ghost In The Machine
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Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
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Seattle Sonics Left Because the City Refused to Build them a New Stadium |
Cities should own teams. look at Green Bay-why not?
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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If you don't think fans have teams then you've never been a fan.
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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Seattle Sonics Left Because the City Refused to Build them a New Stadium |
Modeeb posted:
Cities should own teams. look at Green Bay-why not?
I'm not opposed to that. The major sports leagues are planned monopolies. Free market principles don't apply in a monopoly so most of the benefits of the free market simply aren't there. We could probably cut the ticket cost by 50% just by cutting player and executive salaries.
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Tych2 Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Modeeb posted:
Cities should own teams. look at Green Bay-why not?
I like the idea of that but it would kill small market teams. So ultimately I'd have to be against it.
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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Seattle Sonics Left Because the City Refused to Build them a New Stadium |
Tych2 posted:
Modeeb posted:
Cities should own teams. look at Green Bay-why not?
I like the idea of that but it would kill small market teams. So ultimately I'd have to be against it.
I'm curious why you think the economics of small market teams would change if the ownership switched from private to public?
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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Seattle Sonics Left Because the City Refused to Build them a New Stadium |
If it wasn't in the cities best interest to have a sports team then none of them would pay for stadiums, but it is so they do. I see nothing wrong with sports teams extorting cities in to doing what they are clearly willing to do but don't want to if they can get away with it.
The Seattle government was short sighted and now they realize their mistake; the fact that they are so quickly willing to build a stadium for a hypothetical team proves the value of having as many sports teams as you can get in your town.
Half the teams in the NFL have a stadium predicated on the threat of moving the team to Las Angeles. Part of the reason LA doesn't have a football team is the lucrative stadium building capital it gives the owners.
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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Seattle Sonics Left Because the City Refused to Build them a New Stadium |
In my mind it's like paying for museums and parks and public art work and public landscaping. They make a city more enjoyable to live in.
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