Please someone help me to not sound like the same broken record that Breton sounds like, and Sactown sounds like, with my anti-Kings, anti-downtown-publicly-financed arena stance. I don't want to just have my regular kneejerk reaction. I'm sick of it. Despite the fact that it was sad to see Jerry and Grant cry, I was happy to see the Kings leave, even though it was starting to be clear that the arena boosters would just switch tactics. I am just so sick of this.
Here's a developing story, from one of the organizers of the MoFo
While a new ordinance has yet to be drafted, and tonight will not be any sort of vote (as far as I know), Rob Fong tells us that there will be a discussion of reforming the current regulations on mobile vendors at tonight's city council meeting at 6 pm.
If you feel like going and suggesting any features/items you think should be incorporated into the new regulations, please do stop by and speak during the open mic portion.
even David Watts Barton today. It makes me want to tear my hair out:
ReplyDeleteFour: A new arena remains the key to this whole thing. Those who say we don't need one basically don't know what they're talking about. An arena also remains a key to downtown Sacramento's future. Without an arena, Kings or no, we are less than a second-tier city, and it will come back to haunt us in many different ways.
Less than a second tier city? What is this bullshit? I have not been to Arco (excuse me, Power Balance) in like 7 years and I love Sacramento right now. It's great right now. It's how I want it to be right now.
You basically don't know what you're talking about.
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Why can't these d-bags just move to Las Vegas or Phoenix or something ? Sacramento RULEZ!
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My hope is that the Maloofs apply next year to move to Anaheim, but the owners vote against ratifying the move, and they sell in frustration to this Berkel fellow, and he gets an arena done without public money, or only a sensible amount.
ReplyDeleteI've rooted for this team since they moved here when I was 12, but it's hard to keep rooting for a team with these guys as owners. How do they expect the public to vote to support financing an arena when they've never once given this community an inkling about how much of their own money they'll pony up. They just want everything for free, which Anaheim is willing to give.
I don't think the Maloofs will survive another year. They'll have to/be forced to sell.
ReplyDeleteBuild more music venues, not an arena.
NM
I second that NM, also I refuse to recognize this so called "Power Balance Pavilion" and will continue to call it ARCO. I feel like naming our one big arena after a scam health bracelet is worse than losing a sports team. Just saying....
ReplyDeleteI would bet the farm that there is a petition management outfit down in Anaheim right now with a misleadingly-worded petition designed to get Anaheim voters to reject the Kings' moving there. Just as the government wasn't likely to shut down, the Kings are unlikely to move. Not that I care at all what they do.
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I don't think such an outfit would be as successful in Anaheim as in most cities. Anaheim has such an incredible amount of tourists flowing in that when the city wants to fund a big project, they can just tax hotels and rental cars and amusement admissions and get all the money they need. No sweat for Anaheim citizens.
ReplyDeletePlus, Anaheim so wishes they could have their own identity as a community that is not tied to their proximity to Los Angeles, there's likely a fair amount of non-sports-fans who wouldn't mind enjoying those "psychological benefits" that those Bee-quoted psycologists said we'd lose if the Kings moved.
FYI the SactoMoFo city council stuff is NEXT Tuesday, May 10.
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DWB writes: "Without an arena, Kings or no, we are less than a second-tier city, and it will come back to haunt us in many different ways."
ReplyDeleteOn close reading, I've concluded that DWB's use of the word "haunt" in the final clause of the sentence above is deeply psychological, as in, "One day, you'll wake up in the middle of the night and realize that you've wasted your life in a second-tier city. 'Why, for God's sake,' you'll weep to yourself, 'didn't I vote for to build that arena?'"
Why, indeed.
knowcebo
Becks -
ReplyDeleteMore Armond White insanity:
http://www.nypress.com/article-22391-brotherhood-of-the-traveling-cars.html
It's borderline Onion material. Too much great stuff to go into specifics (although you have to appreciate the Ralph Ellison reference, as well as his associating the words "logic", "complexity", and "clarity" with movies like "Fast Five", "Takers", and "Crank 2: High Voltage"), but I especially love jpw he ascribes a satirical, multi-level significance to a single line of dialogue in his opening paragraph, yet forgets that Diesel wasn't even in that particular scene. I bow before the master.
-DB
Spoken like a true middle class critic, DB. You just don't get it.
ReplyDeleteI think the people that go to the games should pay the taxes to keep the kings and all the businesses in Natoma that whine about all the revenue they will lose if the kings move should be taxed to pay for the kings and a new arena. Another words only tax the people that attend the games and the businesses that benefit the kings being there only tax those places the Maloofs pound sand
ReplyDeleteA few weeks ago I went to a playoff game in Portland at the Rose Garden, which is close to downtown and the NE, and it was awesome. The arena itself was whatevs, but the fact that it walkable and that people were so psyched was really rad. I love going to Giant's games at Pac Bell Park (which was privately financed). I think it could be cool for Sac to do something similar. BUT I don't think that the tax payers should have to pay for it just because the Maloofs are underwater financially and won't just sell the Kings to someone who could put together the financing for an arena. Breton's last comment is unfair and I don't think it's true. It's not like Sacramentans are opposed to the Kings, and many aren't even opposed to a new arena. But it's understandable that people would be opposed to being ripped off! Why should we have to pay because they can't pay their bills?
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