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There's one person left in Seattle who thinks Sonics owner Clay Bennett is on the up-and-up, and that's state legislator Margarita Prentice. It wasn't the fact that Bennett's ultimate goal was to take the Sonics to OKC that kept the team from getting an arena. No, it was "Seattle's elitist attitude."
I just think it's part of Seattle's elitist attitude that somehow or another we're too cool for sports.Yes, if we weren't such anti-sports snobs we'd have three 60,000-seat football stadiums within five miles of each other instead of just the two.
Prentice was Bennett's main legislative shill for a proposal to build a Sonics arena in Renton--which, completely coincidentally, happens to be the city that Prentice represents.
The Renton "proposal" was, in our view, merely a bluff, with Prentice as the clueless supporter of a plan to try to scare Seattle into capitulating. You notice that Bennett's last appeal was to Nickels, not to the legislature.
Regardless, Prentice couldn't even get the proposal to a vote. It was a stunning failure for a long-time legislator who's chair of the powerful Ways & Means committee, which decides where money gets spent.
Sounds like Prentice is blaming society for her incompetence.
Is there elitism about sports in Seattle? Sure there is, from that cadre of progressives who've gotten such great results with their crusades against freeways, the Blue Angels, and Toby Keith. There's nothing elitist about recognizing when someone is bullshitting you.
Even your freeway-driving Blue Angels-lovers recognize that Clay Bennett needs a boot in the ass (it's the American Way). Why can't Prentice?
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I'm new to Seattle, can someone please point me to the 3rd 60,000 seat football stadium with in 5 miles? If we are refering to Safeco they play baseball there and it holds just over 47 thousand. A second question, how much did the owners of the Mariners have to pay for Safeco?
God when are you King County voters going to elect some real progressives instead of some pro-corporate welfare sellouts like Geoff Simpson (Pork for NASCAR) and Margarita Prentice (Pork for Sonics)
Now would be a good time for you to encourage Margarita Prentice to retire.
Jake of 8bitjoystick.com
We call that verb tense, as exemplified by "there would be", the subjunctive here in Seattle. Some people refer such statements as "if-then". There are TWO stadiums. TWO.
"guest" who is new to seattle,
please reread the article and you'll see that the writer is indicating we currently have 2 football stadiums (the joke being the fact we're elitist is the reason we don't have 3....which would be completely unnecessary. hence...the joke). welcome to seattle!
Now go back where you came from, you carpetbagger.