Sacramento targets big-league baseball with NBA's Kings on way out
SACAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson has given up trying to keep an NBA team and is instead aiming to lure a Major League Baseball franchise to his city.
Johnson and his Think Big Sacramento task force announced a plan Monday to market California's capital city as a possible landing spot for a major-league team. A plan for a new arena for the Sacramento Kings collapsed earlier this year when team owners Joe, Gavin and George Maloof backed out, saying it didn't make financial sense for the franchise.
2.7 million and they can't support a basketball team with 41 home games seating 16,000. How in the f**k does KJ expect to support a baseball team with 81 home games needing 45,000?
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The arena deal fell flat, it's true. But the Kings aren't gone yet. The only place they've really looked at (to the best of my knowledge) would be STUPID because they'd be third banana in the media market (Anaheim). I'm not so sure the NBA would be all that thrilled with a move to the Maloofs' business base (Lost Wages), either. Some have broached the idea of Seattle, but I don't think that will fly.
Yes, Kevin Johnson is starting to look at MLB. That just might be a ploy to keep his name in the news and get re-elected. I haven't heard of any teams looking to move save Oakland, and right now they're looking to stay pretty close to Oakland. That would also beg the question of what would happen to the (West) Sacramento Rivercats, the A's AAA team in the PCL. The A's may also have territorial rights issues with the Giants if they pursue a move to Sac.
For the time being, the Kings are still in Sac. They're not going anywhere because there's no place for them to go. And there aren't all that many other options out there for Sac save a return to the Arena League.
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Not with the Maloofs owning the team. If they thought Sacramento was bad...
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DSU. Get yourself a sig. I was just joshin' ya. You should have told me to go fuck a poodle.
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DSU. Get yourself a sig. I was just joshin' ya. You should have told me to go **** a poodle.
Lol all in good fun...besides I haven't had a chance to get to a computer the last few days...can't change it on the phone app.
So on that note...go **** a cockroach
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OH. I didn't know you didn't have access to a computer.
I will have Vidav, or one of the other fine moderators here at CS, change it for ya. I know you will trust me that it will be humorous, top notch, and above all CLASSY.
"What I'm saying is: You might have taken care of your wolf problem, but everyone around town is going to think of you as the crazy son of a bitch who bought land mines to get rid of wolves."
AZGrizFan wrote:2.7 million and they can't support a basketball team with 41 home games seating 16,000. How in the f**k does KJ expect to support a baseball team with 81 home games needing 45,000?
There just isn't enough corporate money to support a pro team in Sac. Head 80 miles west and there is boat loads of corporate money floating around. Hell, there is nothing but private money going into the Warriors new digs.
Also the viable baseball home would be to expand the existing Raley field. The problem for KJ is that field is in West Sac and wouldn't do his city any good.
