djsunyc wrote:btw, martin said he went down to meet the reporters during halftime and a bunch of them had ultimateknicks up on their monitors.UK - where knicks fans influence the news!!!
forgot about that, let me provide the details (i was definitely still a bit lit at the time from doing shots at Stout, so things were a blur): I go down to introduce myself to the beat staff, they were about 20 rows in front of us and off to the right. Chatting with Berman and the convo meanders back to the site and he mentions that they all go to it, turns and points to a laptop right next to him and it showed ultimateknicks.com front page. After further review, I do believe it was Brian Mahoney's of AP fame. Most of the guys were busy writing their story or a blog article or whatever during the half time show. I did have my camera in pocket but was too caught up to think about taking a pic of that crystallizing moment. sigh.
Met most of the guys whose names you are all familiar with - mostly just wave, handeshake and a how-do. Could have been my alcohol level, could have been the crush of halftime reporting that they were trying to squeeze in, could have been cause I'm a dork, but they are an odd bunch. And the more I think about, if you could imagine a physical caricature of their online personalities, their actions mirrored my own snapshot impression (and I do have to note that my snapshot is indeed and obviously influenced by the papers each of them work for, so that adds a grain of the salt to the bigger picture): Isola in a sleek black on black outfit, blocking out the crowd atmosphere, intensely pecking away at his next day deadline; Hahn, young buck of the crew who is tweeting, blogging, writing, smiling, P90X pushup or 20, tweeting again, all the while cursing that no one can read more than 140 characters of his stuff; Beck felt like an old-school reporter to me, don't know why and can't even qualify it to myself, but there it is; Berman, earring, stubble, largess, ready at a moments notice to spy a Marbury story, kind enough to spend 5 minutes with a buzzed out stranger and introduce him around (thanks man); Brian Mahoney, ... AP guy if I ever saw one; and I do believe Steve Adamek was the last, but I really can't remember. Oh, and TommyDee did stop over to Stout and meet and greet with all of uk'ers; great guy who def loves to talk Knicks.
One of these days I'll make it up to a training camp and meet those guys for real.
12/8/2009 12:18 AM
