Atlanta Spirit Pretends To Care About Your Thoughts In New
Survey  Written by Laura Astorian on .  Doomed from the start.
These "fan pulse studies" were sent out to Thrashers fans and
season ticket holders, so it's no surprise that fans of the
Atlanta Hawks got them. What is surprising, as pointed out by my
good bud Everett Duke, is that they asked about the relocation
of the Thrashers. This is impressive. Like Jeff Schultz noticed,
they changed their employee's e-mail domains from to just They
want to re-brand themselves completely. No, not just by image,
but by name - so the first thing you think of isn't the most
dishonest owners in sports. They actually want you to think of
them as leigitmate sports owners. As competent individuals.
After exhibiting their asses in the bungled sale and eventual
re-location of the Thrashers, and after a terrible tenure of
ownership of that team that really demonstrated that they had no
clue what the hell that they were doing, well, now they want to
be cuddly.  The approxi