"The main thing is that we want to keep the Seattle Sonics (and Sounders) here," says a spokesman for the Oklahoma group that now owns the Seattle Sonics and the Sounders.

But it's obvious that the "main thing they want" is public funding of their new world-class facility to be located in Renton or Bellevue. And city managers from those two cities are looking like two-bit whores as they doll themselves (and their towns) up in a bid to get the Sonics to bed there. At the same time, we have those Nascar idiots in South Kitsap screaming for public funding of their monstrous redneck race facility near Belfair. And Mayor Fat-Ass Nickels in Seattle with his crazy "Gimme my legacy" tunnel idea - that's a whole 'nother post, one I'll work up over the weekend.

Let's keep public funding where it should be, road maintenance, infrastructure, etc. Let those overpaid sports crybabies pay their own way and stay off the public teat. Or go build far away from here and take your rabid fan base with you so we can get on with our productive, happy lives.