Maybe a small one, but it’s a start. 

Sonics and Storm owner Clay Bennett says he’s “out of ideas” for landing an arena deal in Seattle and plans to file this November with the NBA for permission to move the teams after next season.

It will be a shame that two of the area’s major sports teams are leaving. Even so, it’s about time that multi-million-dollar professional sports organizations had their bluff called when they try to blackmail the public out of massive amounts of funding with threats to leave.

Let’s just hope the state legislature doesn’t decide that it’s an emergency and give them a half billion dollars just to spite the people, like they’ve done with other sports teams. If professional sports can’t stand on their own then maybe we don’t need them all that much after all.