Downtown wrote:You have to relax and buy into that saying that you can't worry about the things you can't control. If your head is hurting you are far too invested in all of this.
I have more or less sat on the sidelines until today because there was no use getting caught up in the hype until now since we have more information, and even as we post we really don't know exactly what the league is thinking.
The big boys are going to be the players, not us trying to will their thoughts to vote for Seattle. Just relax and take it well regardless of the outcome. If Seattle wins good for them to have obviously put up an awful lot of money. If Sacramento keeps their team good for them for rallying at the 11th hour and pulling it together.
I am not literally stressed out about this. Obviously life will go on regardless of what happens next week. But, I am ready for a conclusion. This is like a book where the author tried too hard to add plot holes and twist and turns and in the end is going to conclude the story with a fairly simple outcome. I am just ready for the book to end.
I have read way to much info and spent entirely too much time listen to our sports radio as well as theirs to see the different views of this thing. As of today my thought is that if this goes down like 99.9% of deals go down then the team is coming here. Which means, if this deal is based on the bottom line and not sentimentality, then its over after next week.
The Sac deal isn't close. Their own people admit that they have massive issues with their arena deal and funding. They have so many issues to over come on the arena that there is no way the BOG can feel confident that an arena in Sacramento is on the near horizon. The BOG is going to turn down a sure thing in Seattle on a gamble in Sacramento? Based on what? That KJ used to play in the NBA? Give me a break.
On top of that, to me, the Burkle loss is going to be a lot bigger deal than people have been making it out to be. Go through Forbes and check out the Whale's money situation. To buy match this offer and pay for their half of the arena including all the taxes involved in those types of transactions (could be more, could be less, again... crappy arena deal to date in Sac) and pay for the renovations for the two years at sleep train arena, plus pay for the cost of the team in the next few years while probably taking a loss/breaking even with revenue sharing... they don't have the cash. It would take the entire net worth's of both Mastrov and Vivek to get close to covering that tab. And, those guys aren't that liquid. Kaplan on with Furness said it himself today. Most of those guys money is tied up in their current businesses.
It would be like if one of us decided to liquidate all of our assets and buy a sport fishing boat. Sell our house, car, stocks, all our investments, and used that money to throw down on a recreational hobby that might make money back some day? Yeah right. I just don't see it.
With Burkle? OK, to be honest that had me scared. He had the financial ability to pull this off with those other guys. Without? Hard to replace a Billionaire with a local Sacramento developer. If we had just lost Ballmer and replace him with a guy like Kemper Freeman... we would all be scared to death because logic would tell us that we wouldn't have the cash to pull it off.
I don't know. I could be way off. But the same logic that told me that there was no way in hell the Maloofs were going to be able to move to Virgina Beach or to Anaheim or that they weren't going to have to sell the team is telling me that the Sac group doesn't have the cash ability to pull it off. There is a reason KJ and co have avoided the money question at all costs... and its not like they have been avoiding the useless press conferences...
