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Midwest Bias - by Manny $tiles

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by user Manny Stiles

Yippee, Now New Orleans/OKC Hornets can move to Oklahoma $ity and say "O.K.C. 'ya later" to 'Nawlins - "where the weird go to get weird"

Holy crap! George $hinn REALLY IS the Grinch that stole basketballs from Charlotte!!! By freak coincidence a freak town adopted a freak team until a freak disaster forced the Grinch to go visit OKC... Well OKC smiles like Cindy Lu-Who (I bet there's a LOT of Cindy Lu's in OKC) and Grinch $hinn's heart (and wallet shaped pecker) grows 3 times larger! 120 million he's gonna pay...WTF happened here??? Dr $ue$$'s art coming to life... I gotta buy me a thneed before it gets too late!!!

Can we finally call the Jazz something more appropriate and rename the Bobcats 'the Hornets' and give OKC it's own nickname? New orleans will have lost two, count 'em TWO professional basketball teams. Let's just accept that NBA ballers and the Crescent City don't mix to well in this camera phone and DVD in the dash society. Let's erase/admit our mistakes and move on. Show baseball how to make sense and make things logical so future basketball fans won't be completely inept (I wanted to say 'retarded', but it just doesn't quite fit right).

David $tern said the NBA is firmly standing behind New Orleans, but was it just political spin??? Look, New Orleans is a fine enough town. Where else can gangs of transvestites bully shop owners? http://www.wtmfnews.blogspot.com/ but there's better things to do there than support a basketball team with an owner that clearly wants to make/not lose as much money as he can...

Oklahoma City is BEGGING for something pro basketball flavored to shower with love! But they deserve better than to have Charlotte's and New Orleans's $loppy $econds and thirds. New Orleans didn't deserve Charlotte's to begin with, but what town was better for a sloppy seconds B-ball team than a sloppy second B-ball town? Charlotte can and should have 'Hornets' back in a 1993 teal kind of way, it seems right.. so all those kids that got their older brother's hand-me-downs can be cool again...or are they 'throwback cool' now???

So there's the assignment...what should the Oklahoma City Professional Basketball Team be called? I tried thinking about it for about 40 seconds and couldn't come up with anything good!!! The OKC Outlaws is all I could think of - damned USFL!!!

Oklahoma City "The 'other' O.C., bitch!"??? The $hinnflints? How about since the land there was once Indian lands, then taken away by the white man later- The Indiangivers?

seriously, I got nothing here for a good team name and God knows we need less stupid franchise names...granted, I've only been to OKC once.. maybe it's better than my impression led me to believe...I mean, it IS better than Amarillo or Tulsa... But since computers won't get to Oklahoma City for a few more years, I doubt anyone will be able to give us a good, inside perspective... The Dustbowls? The Rodeos?

The Grizzlies moved to Memphis, the Hornets paved the $120 million road to the promised fan...What's next? Are we gonna have a Midwest Bias?? The Orlando Magic move to Iowa??? the Des Moines Magic??? How about Kansas City Kings or the St Louis Hawks... Oh, wait?!?

What should the OKC team be called once they finally move there for good?


Source

  • www.WTMFnews.blogspot.com


Date

Mon 07/03/06, 9:40 pm EST


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CoreyisarealboyMajor Leaguer
1261 days ago
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The Hurricanes?
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1261 days ago
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If I wasn't so drunk right now, that would have hurt when I fell off my chair... it did happen kinda slow motion though - Corey, you are becoming one of my faves!!! Have a happy and safe 4th!!!!
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1261 days ago
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I'll take witty over politically correct anyday - I know it's not funny when people die and lives get destroyed - that was pretty funny to me and I'm gonna laugh every time I think of the Stanley Cup now...
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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer
1261 days ago
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"If I wasn't so drunk right now" - I wondered after reading this... but I didn't want to ask. Thanks for volunteering the info. :-)
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1260 days ago
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Can't you just see a reloaded Hornets team not panning out on hardwood like it seems it should on paper... Then Byron Scott will get blamed for it, huh?
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FornelliTee-Baller
1260 days ago
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How about the Oklahoma City Bombings?
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1260 days ago
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New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hurricanes/Bombers of Anaheim it is!!!
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CoreyisarealboyMajor Leaguer
1260 days ago
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Might not be any worse than the Gettysburg College Bullets...
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1260 days ago
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wow! I think that's exactly what I was trying to dance around. I did have "the Disasters" but then I realized that was already the name of New York's current NBA squad...
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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
1260 days ago
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Oklahoma Tornados, a constant reminder of the team's New Orleans rootes. Scratch the "City".
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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer
1260 days ago
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They could just call them the Royals, that would get the point across.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1260 days ago
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We could call the Kings the Royal Flushes when they move to Vegas... as a tribute to their days in Cincinnati
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