Comments on: Sacramento mayor on Kings: “more likely they’re going to be in Anaheim”

By: goforthanddie

goforthanddie — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:07:36 +0000

Why would they want to move to a building that’s effectively outdated? 20 years old is pretty geezerly as far as arenas/stadiums go, they’ll be looking to upgrade in 15 years.
As for can the area handle 3 teams…Yeah, if all 3 teams offer quality.

By: mytthor

mytthor — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:55:56 +0000

San Diego is Lakers country also. San Diego and Santa Barbara have even less motivation to become Kings fans; if it’s not your hometown team, why are you going to pick a crappy team (with really unlikeable stars, even if they have potential) over a great one you’ve followed for years that has a storied history? Because they’re an hour closer to you? No way.

By: purdueman

purdueman — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:58:51 +0000

As I seem to recall from my reading about baseball’s history, the New York City market did pretty good with three MLB teams in the ’40′s and ’50′s, and we’re not talking about filling up baseball stadiums that are twice the size of basketball arenas with twice the number of home games per season either. What’s being missed in these posts is that Anaheim also draws from the nearby, very accessible San Diego market of 2.5M people as well. That’s almost 17M people between Santa Barbara and San Diego; supporting three NBA teams isn’t even an issue.