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Imagine How They Feel
by Paul on 07/15/08 at 09:14 PM ET
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from Stephen Brunt of the Globe and Mail,
Imagine how the good people of Nashville must be feeling about hockey this morning.
The diehards heartbroken because they have once again been played for suckers.
The politicians relieved that, thanks to Del Biaggio’s financial implosion, they may have just dodged an extremely expensive bullet.
The local investors wondering where they can possibly find the money to operate without losing their shirts in a league in which — thanks to rising revenues elsewhere, especially in Canada, but certainly not in Nashville — spending even to the salary floor becomes ever harder to justify.
Everyone else, wildly cynical about the whole enterprise, and amazed that a “major league” sport could ever do business like this.
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Or the Seattle Sonics bailing for Oklahoma City because the city isn’t willing to buy a new arena because it figures the one they have still works just fine.
But the Baltimore Colts loading up the moving vans in the dead of night has to rank right up there. Years later the Mayflower movers would get calls late at night from (drunk) fans upset they moved the Colts away.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/15/08 at 10:14 PM ET
What I don’t understand is what makes KC so much better of a better hockey market than Nashville. Is there a hidden Toronto-like hockey fan base in KC that the rest of the hockey universe doesn’t know about? Or is the investment plan of these so-called minority investors a four year plan whereby they cash out on the appreciation of the team to some poor rich sucker who then has to deal with the same financial situation that the team had in Nashville.
Posted by UMFan from Colorado on 07/16/08 at 03:01 AM ET
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I guess the esteemed writer has never heard of the fiasco surrounding the moves of the Baltimore Colts, crazy Oakland LA Oakland Raiders and the fiasco that was the Montreal Expos ownership groups from 95 to 04.
Posted by sjtigers from Canada on 07/15/08 at 09:57 PM ET