Quote Originally Posted by metro View Post
betts, I'm with you on this one. It's not very classy to rub it in their faces, it may come back to haunt us. On the other hand, seattle fans DID HAVE SOMETHING to do with it, not nothing like you mentioned. If more of the fans truly wanted the team, they could have petitioned their lawmakers more, voted for an arena, helped push better attendance even when the team was doing poorly, etc. There is plenty the common folk of Seattle could do and still can do to save the team. It's just obvious the majority of them don't really care. If they did, the lawmakers would support a new arena. The lawmakers aren't going to risk their political necks for something that isn't popular with the citizens (i.e. "fans").
I read easy180's post and thread and it didn't strike me at all that easy180 was "rubbing it in their faces." Easy180's "tenor" was not argumentative, I don't think. While it may be predictable that ANY okie's comments in that place will not be well received, it was, I think, fair enough for easy180 to pass along what he did, even it it might be pointless to do so.

Another way to assess might be that, if the roles were reversed, would I be interested in what's going on in the "suitor" city? I think that I would be.