Tim Keown's take on the Kings situation

An interesting read over lunch from one of my favorite columnists.

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Nice read

kinda sad though

They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.

by Dub_TC on Apr 13, 2009 11:57 AM PDT reply actions

Was he referring to Kozimor in the article?

by sactown on Apr 13, 2009 12:20 PM PDT reply actions

That was my guess

by otis29 on Apr 13, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Ha

Well done if so, it perfectly relates Koz’s smarmy, annoying-as-all-hell presence. Can you tell I can’t stand the guy? Oh and this just in, Kings T-Shirts are 25% at the Kings Store!

by sactown on Apr 13, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions

analogy made between Kings season tickets and a mortgage is one of the most sophisticated things I’ve read in a sports article in a long time. Particularly because it’s so Sacramento centric a comparison.

While it’s certainly not uplifting there is something mildly therepeutic about something so good being written about us as a fanbase.

by rbiegler on Apr 13, 2009 12:42 PM PDT reply actions

I think Keown went looking for a local pulse

And he got one, so he used it.

Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....

by pookeyguru on Apr 13, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Ouch

I hate to say it, but the article is fairly well written. Another articel on Page2, linked here, talks about a Blazers season ticket hold that has to make the tough choice whether to renew season tickets or not. Really, both articles talk about the exact same thing, only 1 team is really good, and the other is really bad. They are pretty good reads side-by-side.

Lets hope we all get through this together, and the Kings are still in town when we do.

Wait....Why is everybody clapping? Everyone around me is clapping.... I guess I should be clapping too... GO LAKERS!!! I hate living in So Cal

by 27freethrows on Apr 13, 2009 1:11 PM PDT reply actions

Good read

But I think sometimes the media likes to make things a bigger deal than they really are. Yes, the Kings suck this year. Yes, attendance is down. Yes, we eventually need a new arena. But please stop making it sound like the Maloofs are already on the way out the door, and this is the first franchise to go from a high to a low. Larry H. Miller was known to stand outside the arena giving away free tickets. The Bulls went from MJ, Pippen, and Rodman to nobody, and they are just starting to get legitimacy again. The Knicks have sucked for years despite having every advantage there is.

It is very hard to stay the best in the NBA. The way the draft works, the best players almost never go to the best teams. There are a few exceptions like the Lakers where the amount of media revenue makes it easier to get quality players. But most teams go up and down.

You read this article, and you expect the Joads to come pulling up any minute. This isn’t the dust bowl. There are still tons of great fans here. The Kings will get better, the economy will pick up, and the house will be rocking again. And before too long it will be a new house, and it won’t be in Ana-freaking-heim, or even Las Vegas.

Stop trying to write RIP above the Sacramento Kings!

"Shut up and Coach!"
Vfettke

by SavageBeast on Apr 13, 2009 1:28 PM PDT reply actions

Republicans

You guys are so hard headed!

Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....

by pookeyguru on Apr 13, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions

What?

You don’t think there any Dems in Utah?

"Shut up and Coach!"
Vfettke

by SavageBeast on Apr 13, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions

At the risk of sounding ignorant

Are there many Dems in the LDS Church?

by furious.d on Apr 13, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions

About half.

Coming to you live from the land of interim coaches.

by LeaguePassAddict on Apr 13, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions

I assume that you mean one person who is on the fence...

But seriously, I’ll be here all week…

by furious.d on Apr 13, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions

No, he meant one person who is no longer very symmetrical. They don’t take kindly to Dem’s.

by sactown on Apr 13, 2009 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm LDS

and I like to think I’m a “core” democrat.

Also, I think it’s about 20ish% of the LDS church that are democrats, though most values tend to coincide with republican values.

"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer." - Julian Casablancas

by submison on Apr 13, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions

That percentage is

purely based on my observations, by the way.

"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer." - Julian Casablancas

by submison on Apr 13, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions

No of course not

Why would there be?

Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....

by pookeyguru on Apr 14, 2009 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions

Totally with you on this

Keown’s article is well written and not inaccurate but it’s point of view is so dark, negative and dismal that if I didn’t know better I’d think the sky is falling.

"We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good." - Charles Barkley

by Bluejohn on Apr 13, 2009 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions

sorry, meant to link with SavageBeast

"We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good." - Charles Barkley

by Bluejohn on Apr 13, 2009 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions

you did reply to SavageBeast

the ] up button will take you up to the post that you replied to. There would be no [up button if you hadn’t replied.

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by Kfan in Korea on Apr 13, 2009 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions