A couple side notes the disparity in Seattles market and Sacramentos market it pretty vast!! What many people who haven’t been to Seattle and to these other cities is the surrounding area isn’t included in Seattles market like it should be. Yess the city population isn’t a crazy amount of people but your ” IN THE CITY ” continuously for nearly an hr any direction from the downtown on I5. That surrounding area is rarely ever acknowledged and makes it seem like a smaller market.

I’ve traveled all over the country and many of you can attest to this mother their are literally cities in the south and Midwest and sac where your in the downtown city area then ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in a matter of 15 on the freeway. That is not possible on seattle.

Sac can’t compare there are a couple industrial towns within an hr and nothing else close. Even Portland is about as close as getting to SF from Sac.

Also the arena is Not deficient for hockey or concerts or anything else. SAC nor seattle needed a new arena for that. That’s just the nba pressuring for it. It won’t affect that much at all.

It’s too little too late, if they had done this before the sale maybe the force the maloofs hand but this isn’t going to stop it. Sorry that we stole another cities team.

Sucks because we watch out on tv with an future hall of famer who was drafted here on seattle and Westbrook who was here but for a week, win games and contend for championships. Sorry sac town your B*tches are bad though. Lol

“Mastrov will try to buy the team. Burkle will use his experience as co-owner of the National Hockey League Pittsburgh Penguins to work on the arena side.”

http://www.capradio.org/articles/2013/03/01/mayor-johnson-gives-details-on-kings-bid-and-how-group-was-formed

Lew Wolff, right? I mean, everyone from national papers to local beat writers refer to Wolff as the owner of the A’s.

Except that, it isn’t true.

Lew Wolff only owns 10% of the team:
http://www.sfgate.com/sports/shea/article/A-s-NEW-ERA-LEWIS-WOLFF-A-fan-since-childhood-2689051.php

Gap heir John Fisher owns approximately 80% of the team. He’s also considered the 4th richest owner in MLB.

But you never really hear about him, do you?

The Kings deal is no different. Mastrov is the public face of the deal for two reasons:

1. Burkle is almost phobically publicity-shy
2. Burkle pissed off the Maloofs in 2011 with his interest in buying the club, and putting Mastrov in front of this group allows the Maloofs to save faced once they’re essentially forced to sell to the Sacramento group by the league.

And even if they do end up in Seattle…good luck with that. You’re getting an immature team with some unbelievably bad chemistry issues in the locker room and no hope of winning anytime soon.

Sacramento fans have supported hopeless teams for most of the club’s 28 year run in Sacto. How long will Seattle support a horrible team?

It’s not quite the best scenario but what if you have a car that your supposed to drive your brother and sister around in. They give you gas money here and there and maybe replace a tire. Since they put those things into the car, as the owner, do you have the right to sell your car even though it benefits the people your driving around and if they replaced a tire or busted headlight here and there? Kinda weird, but its kind of the way this is. The Maloofs have the car and the minority owners and/or city have the spare tires. Despite what they’ve done for the car, do they have say on rather it should be sold or not?

I think the part that sticks out the most is, no owner is going to want to be told they can’t sell a team to a buyer and worry about other owners vetoing the deal. It’s like going against yourself. I’m not going to tell someone that I can’t do what I may have to do someday.

Should the Maloofs sell to someone who plans to stay in Sacramento? Yes. Should they have to? No. Should they be allowed to sell to whoever they please? Yes.

Let my family tell me I can’t sell my grandma’s home and we got a problem.

ps if you want to do some research look up the net worths of Mr. Balmer and Mr. Hansen… They poop turds bigger then burkle and mastrov!!! Kind of like how Seattle compares to Sacremento!!

Personally, i’d like the league to expand more! have a team in seattle, columbus ohio, st. louis, louisville, baltimore, fargo, bismarck, walla walla…okay…i’m kidding now.

http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2013/3/1/4043158/ron-burkle-will-also-own-a-share-of-kings-under-mark-mastrov-bid