I'm already expecting the Right to say that the city was teeming with rioters and looters (which they define as several Black people on the street at the same time). It was not. All happy sports fans in every major city leave some detritus behind after a victory celebration, but the celebrations were 99% joyous and peaceful.
MAGA hates that, because their only source of joy is domination, and the celebration of the Knicks' victory was not just multicultural, it was egalitarian. EVERYBODY could watch. I believe you had to pay to see Trump's assortment of musclebound halfwits vomit in public.
Of course you had to pay, ON PARAMOUNT PLUS! And I'll take a wild guess that anyone who did had to sign up for a subscription they didn't want and can't get out of, also technical difficulties so anyone who paid didn't get to see it, too bad no refunds losers. Because, even when robbing their idiot fanbase blind, they gotta be sure to fuck EVERYTHING up (see Phones, Trump)
LOL, here's a CBS "News" report that reads like a press release from Larry Ellison: "The event will not only take place at arguably the most unique venue to ever host a major sporting event, but features a card loaded with big names and exciting fights."
And yeah, you hadda sign up for Paramount Plus ("Plans start as low as $8.99/month or $89.99/year!") and then you get to watch Tubby's event FREE. But only $8.99 a month, why you can't get two gallons of gas for that much!
A shame they couldn't do it in 4, because I really liked the earlier version with "My Christian Dior." You know that had to really enrage the bible-thumpers to have their religion represented by a FASHION DESIGNER.
Pretty sure this works similarly to obits of famous people. That is, the basics are written in advance, with details to be filled in* when the time comes.
*And in this kind of example, details are sure to be selected and exaggerated out of proportion to the big picture.
"dirt bikes zipping through the air like hillbilly Blue Angels"
That's just wonderful, Roy!
It's was air show weekend here in the Heartland. The Blue Angels had to cancel because of rain.
I lived at Ground Zero of the Dogs and Cats for breakfast Bruhaha. I was amazed that a lower opinion of my Hillbilly Halfwit Brothers and Sisters was available than the ones I had carefully nurtured all my life.
I never gave a rat's ass about sports, but when I lived adjacent to Wrigley Field I was certainly buoyed by the Cubs' unusually good season back in the early aughts (and not by the crowds on Addison Street who were sending body surfers along at a faster pace than anyone could walk in that crowd). There's nothing like the jubilance of a sports victory, especially for a team like the Cubs. And it was a team comprised largely of Hispanic immigrants, btw. It was such a wild time that the neighborhood taverns weren't even carding. I had a houseful of underaged college students and they all got served.
As a fellow ex-NYer, I am so jealous. It looks like so much fun. I have begged my friends to send videos of their own experiences at street watch parties, every one a delight. I especially loved the guy who brought his grandmother's sewing machine out to the street and embroidered the date and other commemorative information on peoples' t-shirts and hats on the spot.
"whose greatest athletes and whose culture is black" -- and, increasingly, foreign-born. Immigrants making America great!
None of this could happen in a city like San Antonio. You have to have density. You have to be able to walk right out your door to the party awaiting you. New York 4eva!
I’ll lose whatever Philly cred I have, but I’m happy for the Knicks fans. And I miss Joe’s Bar! I saw Mike Tyson take a bite outta Evander Holyfield’s ear at Joe’s.
Bear in mind that the scumbags in this fascist regime have openly declared their desire to deport 100 million people to create their white paradise. (Nice to read -- not for the first time -- their plans to suspend habeas and invoke the Insurrection Act on today's NYT front page.) They'd love all those scenes of New Yorkers celebrating the Knicks win to be a nothing more than skeleton crowd of Joe Rogans.
NYC is so diverse we don't even call it diversity. We call it American.
I love how the Mayor stepped up to make Trump and Dolan look stupid wherever he could. His "suspending bedtime" edict because the games started late was a massive success. I'm happy for him but I hate the Knicks. They only won in 73 because Hondo got hurt.
First, congratulations, and now the healing can begin.
As a Cubs fan I feel partly responsible for what's happened since 2016. They won the World Series, and the very next week Trumpov was elected, giving me both the best and worst days of my life within the span of a week.
I'm not in any sense a Knicks fan but a multicultural team in a multicultural city that is united in its hatred of Trumpov helps restore balance to the universe.
And James Dolan, being an asshole, is I guarantee going to raise ticket prices. He'll learn, as temporary leaseholders of sports teams do, that the longtime loyal fans are what makes his property valuable (see from Ricketts family as above) and that they'll be glad the Knicks won and still hate his ass.
Is there a major league sports owner who isn't an asshole? Seems to be a requirement. There was a time Tubby was (allegedly) going to buy the Buffalo Bills (probably with someone else's money). {shudder]
I grew up in KY, went to UK, and love basketball. I have been a big fan of the Spurs for decades. I liked their style of play and Gregg Popovivh is a real mensch. And I do believe that if Wemby stays healthy (and develops a version of the "Sky Hook"), they will be the team to beat for years to come. That said...
I had to root for the Knicks, although I hoped the series would go 7 games, simply because it was so much nerve-racking fun to watch. Also, Jalen Brunson looks kinda like a regular guy, which makes him very relatable in a league full of extrordinary physical specimens, and he has enough focus and composure to carry an entire team. So, good on him and the Knicks. And NYC.
Not to yuck anyone's yum, I am wondering about reports of Knick's fans savaging Spur's fans. I'm too old a bunny not to take such stuff as anti-Big Apple bullshit overemphasized to harsh my mellow for xenophobic anti-cosmo reasons. Say it ain't so.
Here's to the City! If I had ten million dollars, I would move there, well, in a New York minute. Make that six. Which rhymes with Knicks. Of times and teams, best and worst, of the town we sing!
San Francisco has a robust Brazilian community and Carnival is deliriously great sometimes. Thousands of people crammed together running in place and calling it samba...so cute!
I watched the edited clips of the last few minutes of the Knicks’ wins, which were amazing, ‘cause I don’t have the patience to sit thru a whole game. I’m doing the same with the Brewers, which makes baseball approach exciting. Plus some soccer. In my days as a myopic dork, basketball was fouling, baseball was standing in right field, and soccer was flopping. Looks like that still holds these days. Anyway, here’s Steve Earle about New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRthP-A_ds
If I ever get the opportunity to chat with any of the Bald Guys with Mounds o' Muscle (BGMoM) I will thank them sincerely for providing the absolute undeniable proof of Trump's physical and moral degeneracy and his sabotage of the nation's civility and culture. Thanks Guys!
It was a perfect season.
The Knicks basketball right: Playing as a team, not a group.
And Brunson is a fucking treasure; see that interview after game 4.
And yet again: They threw game 3 so as to give Fake Tubby the joy of seeing them win.
New York or nowhere, baby.
I'm already expecting the Right to say that the city was teeming with rioters and looters (which they define as several Black people on the street at the same time). It was not. All happy sports fans in every major city leave some detritus behind after a victory celebration, but the celebrations were 99% joyous and peaceful.
MAGA hates that, because their only source of joy is domination, and the celebration of the Knicks' victory was not just multicultural, it was egalitarian. EVERYBODY could watch. I believe you had to pay to see Trump's assortment of musclebound halfwits vomit in public.
Of course you had to pay, ON PARAMOUNT PLUS! And I'll take a wild guess that anyone who did had to sign up for a subscription they didn't want and can't get out of, also technical difficulties so anyone who paid didn't get to see it, too bad no refunds losers. Because, even when robbing their idiot fanbase blind, they gotta be sure to fuck EVERYTHING up (see Phones, Trump)
LOL, here's a CBS "News" report that reads like a press release from Larry Ellison: "The event will not only take place at arguably the most unique venue to ever host a major sporting event, but features a card loaded with big names and exciting fights."
And yeah, you hadda sign up for Paramount Plus ("Plans start as low as $8.99/month or $89.99/year!") and then you get to watch Tubby's event FREE. But only $8.99 a month, why you can't get two gallons of gas for that much!
https://www.cbssports.com/ufc/news/where-to-watch-ufc-white-house-start-time-fight-card-paramount-ufc-freedom-250-event/
These motherfuckers desecrated the Lincoln Memorial! Jail for 1000 years!
Meanwhile, in NYC:
My mayor is Muslim
My bagel is Jewish
The Pope's on our side
Knicks in 5
A shame they couldn't do it in 4, because I really liked the earlier version with "My Christian Dior." You know that had to really enrage the bible-thumpers to have their religion represented by a FASHION DESIGNER.
So glad "Knicks in 4, yer mother's a HOOR" didn't catch on. Maybe a sign that NYC is entering a kinder and gentler phase of its history.
OF course, if you're only willing to kick down $8.99/month, you get the "with ads" version, ya cheap bastid.
The news seems to be obsessed with what violence and looting did happen. At least that's what I'm seeing on MSN.com.
Pretty sure this works similarly to obits of famous people. That is, the basics are written in advance, with details to be filled in* when the time comes.
*And in this kind of example, details are sure to be selected and exaggerated out of proportion to the big picture.
MSN.com, you know, the LIBERAL network.
"dirt bikes zipping through the air like hillbilly Blue Angels"
That's just wonderful, Roy!
It's was air show weekend here in the Heartland. The Blue Angels had to cancel because of rain.
I lived at Ground Zero of the Dogs and Cats for breakfast Bruhaha. I was amazed that a lower opinion of my Hillbilly Halfwit Brothers and Sisters was available than the ones I had carefully nurtured all my life.
Ugh! You gonna write about it?
Best I stick with cute critters, beautiful flowers and poetry. I'm afraid once I unleash the invective I won't be able to re-leash.
Though, I am thinking about sending some hate mail to our Substack brother Andrew Tate.
"Get fucked" would be an appropriate response to Tate. . .
How low can we go? I'll keep you posted, but I don't see bottom coming anytime soon.
That's because we're WAY past the bottom already. Plunging through it happened so long ago you can be forgiven for forgetting.
Been down so long it looks like up to me
I never gave a rat's ass about sports, but when I lived adjacent to Wrigley Field I was certainly buoyed by the Cubs' unusually good season back in the early aughts (and not by the crowds on Addison Street who were sending body surfers along at a faster pace than anyone could walk in that crowd). There's nothing like the jubilance of a sports victory, especially for a team like the Cubs. And it was a team comprised largely of Hispanic immigrants, btw. It was such a wild time that the neighborhood taverns weren't even carding. I had a houseful of underaged college students and they all got served.
As a fellow ex-NYer, I am so jealous. It looks like so much fun. I have begged my friends to send videos of their own experiences at street watch parties, every one a delight. I especially loved the guy who brought his grandmother's sewing machine out to the street and embroidered the date and other commemorative information on peoples' t-shirts and hats on the spot.
"whose greatest athletes and whose culture is black" -- and, increasingly, foreign-born. Immigrants making America great!
None of this could happen in a city like San Antonio. You have to have density. You have to be able to walk right out your door to the party awaiting you. New York 4eva!
4eva in our hearts
I’ll lose whatever Philly cred I have, but I’m happy for the Knicks fans. And I miss Joe’s Bar! I saw Mike Tyson take a bite outta Evander Holyfield’s ear at Joe’s.
Good place for it
Bear in mind that the scumbags in this fascist regime have openly declared their desire to deport 100 million people to create their white paradise. (Nice to read -- not for the first time -- their plans to suspend habeas and invoke the Insurrection Act on today's NYT front page.) They'd love all those scenes of New Yorkers celebrating the Knicks win to be a nothing more than skeleton crowd of Joe Rogans.
NYC is so diverse we don't even call it diversity. We call it American.
I love how the Mayor stepped up to make Trump and Dolan look stupid wherever he could. His "suspending bedtime" edict because the games started late was a massive success. I'm happy for him but I hate the Knicks. They only won in 73 because Hondo got hurt.
And we love diversity so much we can even embrace people who hate the Knicks.
First, congratulations, and now the healing can begin.
As a Cubs fan I feel partly responsible for what's happened since 2016. They won the World Series, and the very next week Trumpov was elected, giving me both the best and worst days of my life within the span of a week.
I'm not in any sense a Knicks fan but a multicultural team in a multicultural city that is united in its hatred of Trumpov helps restore balance to the universe.
And James Dolan, being an asshole, is I guarantee going to raise ticket prices. He'll learn, as temporary leaseholders of sports teams do, that the longtime loyal fans are what makes his property valuable (see from Ricketts family as above) and that they'll be glad the Knicks won and still hate his ass.
Is there a major league sports owner who isn't an asshole? Seems to be a requirement. There was a time Tubby was (allegedly) going to buy the Buffalo Bills (probably with someone else's money). {shudder]
I remember when Mark Cuban was supposed to be the Good Sports Owner and then immediately began showing his ass.
Mark Cuban has always been Libertarian so "asshole" was built in. He then proceeded to sell the Mavs to the Las Vegas Adelsons.
I'd watch a team called The Las Vegas Adelsons. I hear Miriam really goes hard in the paint.
2 marks 'cause inside the circle.
Circle the wagons!
On the ownership application, they already had the "asshole" box checked.
I grew up in KY, went to UK, and love basketball. I have been a big fan of the Spurs for decades. I liked their style of play and Gregg Popovivh is a real mensch. And I do believe that if Wemby stays healthy (and develops a version of the "Sky Hook"), they will be the team to beat for years to come. That said...
I had to root for the Knicks, although I hoped the series would go 7 games, simply because it was so much nerve-racking fun to watch. Also, Jalen Brunson looks kinda like a regular guy, which makes him very relatable in a league full of extrordinary physical specimens, and he has enough focus and composure to carry an entire team. So, good on him and the Knicks. And NYC.
Yay to the sportsball team! They, um... sportsed well.
In Russia, sportsball you!
This comment perfectly encapsulates my affinity for and knowledge of sports, balls or no.
At moments like this I'm likely to channel my Inner Southern Lady: "Well, bless their hearts."
Not to yuck anyone's yum, I am wondering about reports of Knick's fans savaging Spur's fans. I'm too old a bunny not to take such stuff as anti-Big Apple bullshit overemphasized to harsh my mellow for xenophobic anti-cosmo reasons. Say it ain't so.
Here's to the City! If I had ten million dollars, I would move there, well, in a New York minute. Make that six. Which rhymes with Knicks. Of times and teams, best and worst, of the town we sing!
Watching Fogo Azul perform, I thought, I should feel sorry for people who cannot enjoy that, but I don't.
San Francisco has a robust Brazilian community and Carnival is deliriously great sometimes. Thousands of people crammed together running in place and calling it samba...so cute!
But it's all about the drums, yeah.
I watched the edited clips of the last few minutes of the Knicks’ wins, which were amazing, ‘cause I don’t have the patience to sit thru a whole game. I’m doing the same with the Brewers, which makes baseball approach exciting. Plus some soccer. In my days as a myopic dork, basketball was fouling, baseball was standing in right field, and soccer was flopping. Looks like that still holds these days. Anyway, here’s Steve Earle about New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRthP-A_ds
My take on the Rage in the Cage:
If I ever get the opportunity to chat with any of the Bald Guys with Mounds o' Muscle (BGMoM) I will thank them sincerely for providing the absolute undeniable proof of Trump's physical and moral degeneracy and his sabotage of the nation's civility and culture. Thanks Guys!
Hey Roy, give NYC a couple marks next time you're in town.