Daily Archives: February 9, 2004

Did you see Aaron Gleeman’s post about hoopskaball today? It’s good stuff. Hey if anybody knows of any good basketball blogs, send me the links, because I love reading about basketball too.

You know, the first time I ever contacted Aaron was when he wrote something about hating Stephon Marbury last winter. Mostly, Aaron would not forgive Marbury for forcing a trade to the Nets. I couldn’t hardly blame Gleeman for being bitter. Built like a hockey puck, Marbury is powerful, has hops for days, and has a keen basketball mind. As much as I understood Marbury’s reasoning for wanting to play closer to home at the time, I knew he would have to live with the consequences of leaving an absoluetly great situation in Minnie. After all, part of why he left was because his ego couldn’t stand being the number two guy to Garnett.

A short while ago, Marbury was traded to New York, and he has made the Knicks worth watching again. The Brooklyn native is one of top three or four point guards in the NBA, and is the best guard the Knicks have had since Clyde Frazier. I’ve followed Marbury since he was a senior at Lincoln High and am a big fan, as well as one of his toughtest critics. I loved it when he was paired with Garnett on the Timberwolves, and was even happier when I could watch most of his games after he came to New Jersey. Like the man he replaced on the Nets, Sam Cassell

What will happen to the Yankee organization when George Steinbrenner passes away? That’s the $64,000 question for the Bombers, not “When will Joe Torre Leave (or be asked to leave).” This was something I thought about a lot last season, well before Steinbrenner’s fainting spell at Otto Graham’s funeral. I’ve been waiting for the local media to take up the issue, and yesterday T.J. Quinn did just that in The Daily News:

Throughout the organization, sources say they have begun to see signs of age from the Boss, like the now-famous story of how he fired an employee one day and then demanded to know why that person was not at work the next. Some friends say he can veer off into strange tangents during conversations, although they note that his was always a volatile personality.

Personally, I started getting suspicious when George burst out crying after the Yankees beat the Red Sox last summer.

George King has a piece on the progress of Steve Karsay, the right-handed relief pitcher who had shoulder surgery last May. If the 31-year old Queens native can return to his old form this year, the Yankees may just have a very good bullpen.

It’s a wrong situation. It’s getting so a businessman can’t expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can’t trust a fix, you can you trust? For a good return you gotta go bettin’ on chance, and then you’re back with anarchy. Right back inna jungle. On account of the breadown of ethics. that’s why ethics is important. It’s the grease mkaes us get along, what separates us from the animals, beasts a burden, beasts a prey. Ethics. Wheras Bernie Bernbaum is a horse of a different color ethics-wise. As in, he ain’t got any.

Johnny Casper “Miller’s Crossing”

The SoSH-Curt Schilling “Off-the-Record” affair got even hotter this weekend, as Jay Jaffe did his best Howard Beale-meets- the-Tonga Kid impression and body-slammed his way into the debate. Jaffe had three seperate posts: Buzzing the Tower, It Takes a Jihad of Sox Fans, and Final Thoughts on Beating a Hornet’s Nest with a Baseball Bat. Larry Mahnken weighed in on the topic too over at his Replacement Level Yankees Blog.

At the very least, these articles inspired some good conversation. Yeah, there was some mud-slinging and name-calling