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@95V8TBird

Why does anyone really care if the pens go? I think people just need shit to bitch about, and its not baseball season, and if there is no hockey, then we cant bitch about something during the winter monthes. For the past 14 years everyone has done nothing but complain about how crappy the pens are, no one cared when there wasn’t a hockey season here for a year, but now that they are probably packing up and moving, everyone is up in arms about it…i say screw’em, let another city bitch about how crappy they are. Its not like they are anything to brag about…same as I could care less if the Pirates would go anywhere. This city would be over it in a month if they left.

STFU

@Bravada 442

Yeah, but see, the Pens have made more progress in the past 3 years than the Pirates have in the past 15. Name the last championship between the two? Or how about, the last winning season?

No matter how you spin it, there is a large and faithful fan base behind the Penguins here, in Pittsburgh. Larger than the Pirates. If there was a team to be moved based on least fan base behind the team, it would EASILY be the Pirates.

truth

@Turboblue

Just a guess but I’m sure demographics plays a huge role here. Hockey has a smaller, mostly white fan base. Football and basketball appeals to both white and black. If the city wanted to make more money, they would drop the pens and get an NBA franchise. It would produce a much wider fan base, more merchandise sales, not just the same dwindling fan base year after year.
More kids have access to basketball courts than hockey rinks to practice and emulate their favorite team or player. Basketball would also be a much cheaper sport to play adding to the larger fan base.
An NBA franchise, with the larger base, could easily afford its own arena.
Like I said …just a guess.

how do you figure? basketball is gay