Carmelo wants to come, but I’m not sure how likely it’ll be. I’m hearing Denver will practically sell him straight up for cash (@$65 mil) which I’m not sure is allowed, but if it were then he’d be destined for NY as long as they can dump Curry. But as I said before, Carmelo alone’s not the answer, they need a legit center to anchor the post and allow Melo, Amar’e and company to do their thing. Shaq is OPP, Yao may never play again, Ilgaukus OPP, Camby OPP, Kwame Brown’s a stiff, etc. etc. I don’t consider anyone under 7ft a legit NBA center unless they’re monsters like Zo was, and a lot of the 7-footers in the game now don’t dominate in the post anymore (or never have).

Then there’s the fact that Mike D’Antoni’s the wrong guy to lead a team that was already soft on defense before he got there. If they had chosen Mark Jackson, they might still have lost a lot of games, but I’ll bet a lot more heads would have been flown. Plus he might have been able to pull in some of the crew from his heyday and bring some of that old jail ball flavor back.

It all comes down to the owner being a real scumbag douche to the point you’d believe Al Davis could run the Knicks better than he can, and who wants to play for a douche like him (unless you hand over a cool $100 mil, far more than your worth, but hey he’s a douche and doesn’t know or care about that)? If LeBron did one thing right during that whole fiasco, it was to back away from the Knicks.

Melo still an option..please, tell me he’s coming to MSG???

I can’t stand it; half the team is coasting by permission of the manager and the other half is “disturbed” by it, but not riled up enough apparently to kick some ass. I want to give up and watch my Jets, but they’ve become complete assholes (when the owner becomes the good guy on the team, there is a real problem that no one wants to admit), then the Knicks have the opposite problem with a better team and an asshole owner.

How do I relieve my pent-up aggression and competitiveness here, draw the f@#$ out of some art?

One perhaps disconcerting note is the net that extends down both sides of the foul line that keeps balls and bats from flying into the stands. It is better to sit higher so as not to have to watch the game through a net.

One final note – I liked the tribute displays to Ichiro and H. Matsui in the gift shop area.

I like the way the japanese play the game and present the game to the fans. Go if you can. BTW, there is no booing – wouldn’t be polite.

Battlefield Baseball?

Tigers fans are wildest in Japan, very rowdy. I hear they like brawling with the Hiroshima Carp fans (who are known to be gangster-related..)

[167] I went to a Baystars – Tigers game earlier this year (@ Yokohama), I had a great time. Tigers fans are really into it.

Thanks the link. I had been checking JapanBaseball.com, but their player pages have been down for awhile now.