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Chris Hansen takes high road as Mariners raise red flags over proposed arena

21.05.12

Just win, baby? For the Mariners, the chant has become, "Just whine, baby."

The Mariners' orchestrated objections to the anticipated traffic issues that would come with the construction of a new arena in the Sodo District are contentious and obstructionist.

And despite their protestations to the contrary, the Mariners are worried about the competition that a new arena will bring to the area, not the congestion. They're more afraid of hoops and hockey than ingress and egress. Trust me.

In a two-day media onslaught designed to get ahead of the optimistic findings of the Arena Review Panel, the Mariners' message Tuesday and Wednesday was simple: "Not in our backyard."

You would have thought investor Chris Hansen was planning to build a penitentiary, not an arena, in Sodo.

At lunch Thursday, Hansen refused to get into a public slugfest with the Mariners. He told me he was "taking the high road" in this debate.

"I've always been open to having a discussion," said Hansen, who has had one introductory breakfast meeting with Mariners president Chuck Armstrong and CEO Howard Lincoln. "Any time, we'd love to have a discussion about traffic. We'd love to sit down and talk about it. That's always been the case. We want to be friends."

Source: The Seattle Times