Circa_1985_Fan
All-Star
You're not seeing this the way it REALLY is. It's a cold hard fact that an arena cant be built with any voice that doesnt have money...hence my reasoning. If no one else sees it the way I see it, then they are denying the reality of the situation. This isnt a debate by the fans...its the voice of businessmen, which is fine in this situation, with as stupid as our city officials are being in this situation. Our mayor sucks, the team president John Thomas sucks, and alot of fans are becoming very delusional. After you look do what you say you're going to do this weekend, you will hopefully see it from the same vantagepoint that I am, and thats the bitter truth. Angelo this, or Maloof that...ah geez, I've heard enough! There is no action in debating! Whats there to be debated about, that does absolutely nothing. The only solution is making this a HUGE and DESPERATE priority and actually bringing this to the forefront that needs to be dealt with NOW by our city leaders and not in the future. And I just dont see this happening with the current pieces in this chess game.Bricklayer said:Actually, I don't think that is really true. And indeed, the fans feelings of ineffectualness here is part of the problem. I will be busy tommorow, but over the weekend I intend to take a closer look at the situation and maybe make some calls on Monday for additional info. This is a problem, like any other, and problems almost always have solutions.
Now in the short term, what can any single fan do? Write the decisionmakers in power to let them know that the fans are out there and concerned. At the current moment that wouold be thew Maloofs/Thomas over at Arco, the Bee, the Sacto City Council, possibly the El Dorado people, and Angelo. In the long term, if its not already too late, perhaps what is needed is for the individual fans need a collective voice, an organization that turns thousands of individual voices into one large one capable of swinging the terms of the debate. In the absence of leadership, perhaps the fans can fill the void if given a voice.
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