Arizona leader warns Diamondbacks could be poached by Utah
State of play: Arizona Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Danny Seiden appeared on the "The Mike Broomhead Show" this week to discuss legislative negotiations over a bill that would take sales tax money generated by the Arizona Diamondbacks and use it for ballpark renovations.
What he said: "If we are not careful, we are going to see the Arizona Diamondbacks become the Utah Pika or whatever awful animal they will change it to," said Seiden, who supports the legislation.
"They took our Coyotes and turned it into the Mastodon, Elephant or something. It is something terrible, I don't even want to say it. It hurts my heart. Some Utah nonsense," he said of Arizona's former NHL team, now called the Utah Mammoth. "We can't allow that to happen to the D-backs."
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