Shinn gets out-mooked

So our buddy, New Orleans Hornets owner George Shinn, got out-mooked.

He was trying to sell a minority interest (as in, you get 49% of the team, I still control everything, but I get to keep more money for hookers and tithing) in the Hornets to a group from Oklahoma City. This, after pissing off every basketball fan in New Orleans.

But guess what? The group trying to buy an interest in the Hornets got tired of Shinn and his tactics (just like the people in Charlotte, just like the people in NOLA, just like...), so they bought the Seattle Super Sonics outright. Lock, stock, and two smoking barrels.

So now, the staunchly loyal fans in Seattle are worried they're going to get screwed, the vulture-like fans in OKC are now 1) screwed and/or being lied to by the new Seattle ownership, 2) not going to give a flying bleep about the Hornets this year, since they're getting the Sonics next year.

As for the fans in New Orleans...well, we're going to wait to see what Shinn has next in his endless list of ways to piss us off.

Oh, and I can play better D than Peja.

Comments

[Ray]

"Hookers and Tithing". That's the title of my next book. Fiction, mostly. Mostly.

[mchebert]

Hopefully this means the Hornets are around for awhile. I have been to a couple of games, and it is great fun.

I was also hoping I could interest you in an online project I am working on.

I am trying to organize an online project to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. My plan, which I call the Katrina Blog Project, involves getting bloggers together who were personally affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Beginning August 26, each blogger in the project will post a daily personal recounting of the events as they experienced them one year before. (I chose August 26 because it was the last "normal" workday for most people before Katrina hit.)

It is my hope that, if I can get a significant number of people to join me in this, that we can create a large-scale online re-enactment of the events of Katrina week in the words of people who lived through it. I do not think a major historic has ever been retold in this fashion, so we would be creating something entirely new.

I hope you will consider participating. The more people who join, the more important this project will be.

For more information, you can check out my guidelines here:
http://www.drhebert.squarespace.com/the-katrina-blog-project/

Thanks for considering my proposal.

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