This is awful. Actually, I should specify: Sacramento’s NBA franchise moving to
Seattle after a rather public courtship is awful for the fans. It’ll work out
just fine for the owners, and probably even better for the league. New stadiums
flaunt, new merchandise to sell, and hey even though they won’t be able to the
threat of moving to Seattle as leverage for franchises anymore, they’ll be able
to do the same thing with Sacramento in a couple of years.
There has
been plenty of study/discussion of team relocation and how best to handle it.
You could just keep on playing and hoping or you could dance on a grave or practically anything in between. After seeing my hometown Twins forced to
sit under the damocletian sword of contraction in the aftermath of the 2001 World Series, I got to watch
helplessly again as the Viking were batted around as a likely candidate for
LA's new NFL franchise* during the second half of 2012. That is at least until the
state built them a new stadium. Funny how that sort of thing works out.
