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The Internets are alive: Goodbye, sweet Sonics
sports.yahoo.com - 7/4/2008
The Internets are alive: Goodbye, sweet Sonics
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The city of Seattle will be paid $45 million in exchange for letting the Sonics move to Oklahoma City . (Ugh. This is not the news you want to hear after returning from a trip out West.) Here's what they're saying out in the ether about the last-minute deal ... The Wages of Wins Journal : "This entire scenario seemed to play out like the movie "Major League." The Sonics ...

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Greif Notes 7/3
SeaTown Sports — The day after. Fan Eulogies [Dime] [Yahoo! Sports] [Enjoy the Enjoyment] [FanHouse] [SOS] Deal with it +This is what pisses me off the most, replica banners and trophies...WTF!?!??! ARE YOU SERIOUS [ESPN] +What happens now? [Save Our Sonics] +Let's do it the right way. Not the NBA way. [Supersonicsoul] +I prefer the name OKC Bandits. [Seattle PI] +The real way to address those stupid Oklahoma City fans [SportingNews] Stuff no one ...

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