If only he liked baseball too....

Insert joke about Russian gangsters making the Wilpons an offer they can't refuse.

As a Nets fan, I'm very excited about this, but as a Mets fan, I sigh that the Mets ownership will still be a bunch of incompetents.

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There are other Nets fans besides myself?

SBNation led me to believe that is not so.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Sep 24, 2009 11:08 AM EDT reply actions

yeah, I wish there was a Nets SBNation blog

Unfortunately, I’ve got to make my Nets post tangentially related to the Mets so I can post them here.

Somehow, a chain of events unfolded that put Steve Phillips in a professional broadcast booth Sunday night so he could rip Carlos Beltran. Try to explain that in any other terms.

by Greenpoint Ian on Sep 24, 2009 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, there's a few of us.

Someday, one of us will finally start a Nets SB blog. Also, someday, we may finally get back to the playoffs.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Sep 24, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions

I am a nominal Knicks fan. I grew up liking the Ewing-Oakley-Starks Knicks, but I really haven’t gotten into the NBA and certainly not the Knicks in a number of years. Is it wrong to switch allegiances to the Nets? I’m a Brooklynite, so I’d feel a pull to root for the team if they move to Brooklyn and I think it would make me pay attention to the NBA again.

So am I wrong to jump over to the Nets, or has the Isiah Thomas era cleared me of any possible wrongdoing.

by dtro on Sep 24, 2009 3:07 PM EDT reply actions

it's your call

I’m guessing if you’re questioning it, you weren’t that big a fan to begin with.

I mean, the Mets are a mess and all, but I’d rather disembowel myself with a butter knife that root for the Yankees. And while I don’t hate the Knicks or Jets, my loyalty to the Nets and Giants is set in stone (true, it helps that the Giants have historically been better than the Jets, and the Nets better than the Knicks over the last decade, although I became a fan of the Nets when they were a joke and the Knicks had those Ewing-Oakley-Starks teams).

Somehow, a chain of events unfolded that put Steve Phillips in a professional broadcast booth Sunday night so he could rip Carlos Beltran. Try to explain that in any other terms.

by Greenpoint Ian on Sep 24, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions

To be fair

when a team moves to your hometown, I think all bets are off.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Sep 24, 2009 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions

Here's my take:

You can’t switch allegiances, except for the following circumstances: 1) Your team moves away; 2) Your ownership is so incompetent/utterly antagonistic toward the fanbase that they drive you away. There might be another, but I can’t think of it right now. And the Nets might be moving, but Secaucus to Brooklyn isn’t the same thing as Atlanta to Milwaukee. It’s a local move which doesn’t dramatically change things. It sounds like you’re not a big Knicks fan, but you should at least be glad you’ve got more to look forward now that Isiah’s gone.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Sep 24, 2009 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions