Clutter

If I may talk about my Knicks for a second...

Bill Simmons returned to form last week with his mock transcript from The Atrocious GM Summit. Seeing that my living room is in the process of a rearrangement and I am currently in possession of two giant TVs, a oversized ottoman that doesn't really fit and at least one big comfy chair too many, I could relate to this...

Layden: ...For example, let's say you spent $3,000 on a living room sofa two years ago that you didn't really like. To make the sofa stand out a little less, you bought a leather chair for $2,200 that doesn't match --.

Simmons: Marbury is the sofa and Jamal Crawford is the chair in this case?

Layden: Precisely. And the room still looks bad. So now, you're on Craigslist and you see that someone is selling another $3,000 sofa for $900 that's almost exactly like the sofa you have. And there's no way you would ever want two big, ugly sofas in the same room. It would just look ridiculous. But your mind-set is, "Hey, how can I turn down a $3,000 sofa for $900?" So you buy the sofa and stick it in the room, which is now cluttered with stuff since you also spent another $10,000 on some crummy art, a coffee table with support problems, two giant bookcases that have to be turned sideways, some wobbly end tables and a smashed sculpture that was patched back together with duct tape. But since it's too late to go back, you spend another $5,000 on an interior decorator to make the room work. Well, you know what would happen? He wouldn't be able to make it work. You bought too much crap.

Just a perfect analogy. Almost as good as the Global Conflict, here we coooooooooome piece from the Yale Daily earlier this month. It's just so painful that this is reality of my team. When he wrote "that they won't be under the cap until 2009", my first thought was "Wow...2009's not so far away." Of course I'll be pushing 30 by then and if the payroll against the cap drops by a nickel in that time, I'll be beyond shocked. Also by 2009, Brooklyn will have the Nets. I've had some unbelievable memories of the Knicks throughout my youth, but if nothing seems closer to getting fixed by then, I'll have to give them some serious thought. Not. Giving. Up. Hope. Yet, tho.

Comments

[Dan]

It could be worse Jeff, you could be stuck being a Jets fan such as myself. The Jets are a cursed franchise; the Knicks will regain form eventually.

[J]

They stopped being My Knicks the day they traded Charles Oakley.

It's kind of nice not having to watch 82 games/year, anymore.