While browsing SacTown Royalty, we were struck by the title of this post:
No, not because of the startling proficiency with which TZ combined English and Math, but by the words themselves.
The linkage goes through to an article in the Sacramento Bee about the city’s push for a new arena for the Kings. Short version – it’s up for ballot in Nov, it’s some kind of tax, the Maloofs (who own the Kings) aren’t really behind it, and the city looks like they’re not going to pass it.
Thing is – it hasn’t been voted on yet. There’s still hope.
“This has never been about just basketball and the Maloofs,” [person with funny last name] Mahood said Thursday after the press event. “We hope the Kings will come along. But we believe that once people hear and understand the economic impact of this, they will vote for it.”
“This is pitched to us as a way to keep the Kings in town, but the Kings can’t even agree that it’s what they want,” [other funny last name person] Magavern said. “It’s a classic David-and-Goliath struggle. Their side has millions of dollars in developer money. Our side has the truth: This is a bad deal that only benefits billionaire businessmen.”
So what if it is?
Don’t you want your basketball team to stick around? Wouldn’t you pay an extra half cent every time you buy a loaf of bread to keep the Kings in Sacramento? Hell, we’re a Cleveland fan living in Los Angeles, and we’d pay the half cent bread tax to keep the team in Northern California.
Maybe that’s the key – just get people from other cities to pay the tax on their bread, and maybe extend it to bagels and muffins, too. You’d have to exclude places like Starbucks, because their muffins cost too much anyway. (Beside the fact they’re not that good for you.)
So it’s settled then – everyone in America except people in Sacramento will pay an extra half cent for bread for ten days, and then the Kings get a new arena. See how easy it is when you put us in charge?
Collect the money on the eleventh day, and then days 12-24 are spent building the arena. On the 25th day all the concession stand people get ready, then give the team a week to practice inside.
The whole thing can be ready for THIS SEASON.
UPDATE: Joe and Gavin Maloof explain themselves for all the daily readers of the Kings website. No mention of additional Vegas whores being imported, but we’re hopeful. (Thanks to TrueHoop.)
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Hell I’d be willing to pay a dime tax on bread if they trade Brad Miller
Arenas are built on the backs of men like you, son.
I’m no immigrant!
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