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chrisoldsFiled under: NBA, Opinions | Tags: Kevin Durant, Seattle, Betrayed, Sonics, Clay Bennett, Bud Adams, Houston Oilers, Tennessee Titans, hair dye, bad toupee, Xavier McDaniel, Oklahoma City, Slick Watts, Nate McMillan, Gary Payton, liar, backstabber, scoundrel, worm, mega rich, backwoods
The four-decade era of NBA hoops in Seattle came to a terrible end today when the owners of the team reached a deal with the city of Seattle that let them skip out of town to Oklahoma City.
Part of the hijack deal states that the team name and colors stay with Seattle. Big deal.
All of the Supersonic history: Sikma, the Glove, Gus Williams, Slick Watts, Bill Russell (coaching), Fred Brown, Chambers, Dennis Johnson, Kemp, Bob Blackburn, the X-man, Dale Ellis, Lenny Wilkens, Spencer Haywood, Schrempf, McMillan, the I-5 rivalry with Portland…gone.
Even though Kevin Durant will be much closer to home, personally I find this betrayal disgusting.
“Did we make mistakes? Certainly. Did we do everything we knew how to do? Did we work as hard as we could? … Yes. And I believed from the bottom of my heart we would succeed. And I am personally disappointed that we did not,” lied said Clay Bennett, majority scam artist owner of the team.
I feel for you Seattle, there is nothing worse in the sports world than having some fat cat [multiple expletives deleted] rip your guts out so they can pad their bank account. I am not just saying that to Seattle fans to be nice.
It happened to me, so I know the pain. Nearly a quarter century of Colombia blue in my life torn away by a guy with worse hair than Jerry Jones. I still have nightmares where I finally find Bud Adams in a dark alley…and he’s standing in the middle of a group of policemen and district attorneys.
A 2007 email from Bennett, that was revealed in the some of the court proceedings surrounding the move, shows just how he feels about it. In that email, he reacts to some Seattle players’ complaining about the possible move to Oklahoma City with, “boo hoo.”
How about just a big, loud, “BOOOOOOOO!” for you, sir?
Wes Matthews 1987 = Sonic fans 2008
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Wow, just when I thought “Organ-ease” was as cheesy a post title as I could possibly make…
This latest screenshot shows a feature of the new Beckett.com that will be a giant hit, graphical population reports. No more staring at black and white numeric charts, that is just “soooooo 2007.”
Thankfully I really don’t have much to try explain on this one. This shows the population (number) of cards graded and the grades they got. As you can see, there are choices of graphs as well, and you can get as specific as you want, or just get a general overview like the one shown here.
This top of this screenshot also shows the tabs that are at the bottom of every player’s page….wait!
Have I mentioned that every player has their own page? Every team? Every product? Every…everything.
There will be much more on that in one of the next posts, but for now here is a sneak-peak-in-a-sneak-peak of Tom Brady’s player page.
Ok, back to where I was going in the first place, the tabs. On every-”things” page, (“thing” being player, team, product, ect.) those tabs will allow you to easily choose what you want to do there.
Want to see grading stats? Want to read the latest news on some “thing?” Want to trade for it? Want to see who has it to sell? Want pricing? In the case of Tom Brady, this screenshot shows discussions (think message boards) about him. I am not sure why someone hates you Tom (or whoever that ‘you’ actually refers to), but people are free to say what they like there, within reason, of course.
Whatever kind of page you are on (player, team, product, individual card) those tabs will relate accordingly.
This started off as just a quick “show off” post while I worked on long-winded explanations of other features…but I am learning as soon as I explain something, it brings up a dozen related things to talk about. Everything fits together on the new site, so if I don’t talk in depth about something, rest assured I will get to it!
Still, don’t be afraid to ask about stuff that I just gloss over quickly!
