Speaking of SB Nation, I'm an advocate of leaving Kings' fans alone. I'm never engaged them on their own turf or Twitter; other than telling a couple obvious trolls not to troll over here I have no beef with them. I place as much blame on them as I placed on Sonics fans when we were in a similar situation. That said, things like this make it difficult to empathize with them in the slightest, and I think my empathy is exhausted:
This fight is almost at its conclusion. And because of that, the gloves are off. Much talk has been happening on either side of the internet lately, much of it positive interaction between fanbases. As much as I love to see that, I do not think this should be a priority in any way. We need to discredit Seattle. We need to discredit their fans. We need to discredit their arena plan. We need to discredit their efforts.
http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2013/4/5/4187230/eight-is-enough-a-reminder-from-carmichael-daveThat sort of flame fanning rhetoric doesn't do a damn bit of good to advance their cause. Discredit the fans? What in the almighty **** does that do for anybody? David Stern will keep the Kings in Sacramento because some Sacramento fan told him that Brian Robinson stole a piece of candy when he was five years old? *
It's an naked appeal to unmitigated emotion. Between Carmichael Dave's bi-polar pitches and swoons and Aaron Bruski's Fox News-like drum beating of sticking to poorly informed talking points, I can certainly say I'm glad we have the steady hand(s) of Hansen/Ballmer/Constantine/McGinn in charge because too many players on the Sacramento side seem on the brink of becoming unhinged at any given moment.
*This is purely hypothetical. I have no evidence proving or disproving the idea that Brian Robinson took a piece of candy without the permission of the candy's rightful owner.