Tom Brennan - COLD STOVE
When Dr J, the great Julius Erving, joined the NBA with the then-NJ Nets, I remained a Nets fan in a Knicks town.
Rarely over the ensuing 40 (mostly suffering) years have the Nets gotten equal press time in the New York Post to the Knicks, who get many times the coverage, because the Post knows that this remains a New York Knickerbockers town.
Similarly, if you read the Post, the same can be said about the Mets - when you read the Post most years, the favored-son Yankees just get more square footage in the NY Post sports section.
I bring this up for 2 reasons. First, I looked at the on line Post this morning...since December 1, 18 stories are included on the Yankees, just 1 on the Mets.
Granted, with Aaron Boone's managerial selection and the Otani possibilities (now diminished) of going with the Yanks, they should get the bulk of the attention....but 18 to 1??
Secondly, many metro New Yorkers read the Post Sports section. Their having a preponderance of Yankee articles does 2 things:
Reinforces the Yanks as #1 team in a 2 horse town.
Effectively provides the Yanks with oodles and tons of free and highly valuable PR.
The only answer for the Mets?
Win back this town, somehow. Heat up the stove.
As some of our readers say all too well, much of that is up to "the geniuses that run and own this team."
The Yanks' stove always seems HOT...the Mets' stove?
Almost always kind of COLD, by comparison. The Wilpons have decreed that logs are expensive, after all.
Hey, dumpster fires are hot, too... :)
ReplyDeleteWell, the Skanks got jilted by Ohtani too, we we are even in that regard.
ReplyDeleteThomas, it's a little early to be hitting the sauce!
ReplyDeleteJulius Irving never played for the NJ Nets. He played for the NY Nets in the ABA (not ABA). The Knicks demanded some $MM's from the Nets to enter the NBA and the Nets offered them Julius. They turned it down (jeez!) and the Nets sold the Dr to Philly to pay off the Knicks.
Your fixation on those other guys is equally delusional. Why can't the Mets be the Yankees? Don't care--I want the Mets to be successful, but I definitely don't want them to b Yankees. I want my children to be successful, but I don't want them to become DJ trump.
Hobie, thou art correct - but not about hitting the sauce. I had a memory lapse on them staying in NY for a while before their exile to NJ. Roy Boe changes the arc of Nets basketball forever when he sold off the Doctor for I believe around $3 million - a bargain for the acquirer
ReplyDeleteGive me a little stove top stuffing and I will be happy.
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