Still get shivers thinking about this tragic moment in what's supposed to be a celebration of human achievement.

Allanfan20 wrote:The story of how the 8 year old boy lost his life AND his sister lost her legs (or so I heard that about his sister) sickens me.

With that said, this definitely looks home grown.

I agree. The Boston marathon isn't a world famous event- I doubt anyone outside America (apart from runners) has heard of it. It would be a strange target for an international terrorist group to pick. Also odd how no group has claimed responsibility yet- usually Al Qaeda do it quickly. Also, now it's looking like there were no unexploded bombs found (contrary to earlier reports), so it's looking like 2 nail bombs, which suggests one person behind it.

ActionJackson wrote:I know this is borderline inappropriate but this a Knick fan page so i'm just gonna ask it...Is anyone else afraid of the Celtics getting a huge emotional lift from what will be a very charged up home environment with i'm sure them dedicating the game to the victims?

A little bit. Not so much in the first 2 games, but when the series shifts to Boston, I'm straight terrified about thinking of the emotional lift the city of Boston and it's fans will bring.

It's a good thing though, the Celts will give it their all, and possibly steal a game or 2.

Fortunately, this isn't the 2008 Celtics, and Ray Allen or Rajon Rondo aren't walking out that tunnel.

Dagger wrote:

ActionJackson wrote:I know this is borderline inappropriate but this a Knick fan page so i'm just gonna ask it...Is anyone else afraid of the Celtics getting a huge emotional lift from what will be a very charged up home environment with i'm sure them dedicating the game to the victims?

Don't sweat it, I was thinking the same thing. What happened in boston is a tragedy and peoples' lives are a lot more important than a game of basketball. That said, I am concerned about how the league officiates this series, particularly the games in Boston. We've been deprived as a fan base for so long that the thought that this could influence us now that we've finally fought for a good position in the playoffs is troubling. Personally, I do not think it should affect the games at all, it is not Stern's responsibility to throw games to heal the city of Boston. He should donate money and start a few nba cares initiatives, but this travesty should not extend onto the basketball court. I hope Sandy didn't help us in that win against the Heat and I hope this doesn't help the Celtics.

As for the Celtics players' newfound motivation, there's nothing we can do to stop that but match it with our own intensity and desire.

This absolutely does not belong in this thread.

Andrew wrote:

Dagger wrote:

ActionJackson wrote:I know this is borderline inappropriate but this a Knick fan page so i'm just gonna ask it...Is anyone else afraid of the Celtics getting a huge emotional lift from what will be a very charged up home environment with i'm sure them dedicating the game to the victims?

Don't sweat it, I was thinking the same thing. What happened in boston is a tragedy and peoples' lives are a lot more important than a game of basketball. That said, I am concerned about how the league officiates this series, particularly the games in Boston. We've been deprived as a fan base for so long that the thought that this could influence us now that we've finally fought for a good position in the playoffs is troubling. Personally, I do not think it should affect the games at all, it is not Stern's responsibility to throw games to heal the city of Boston. He should donate money and start a few nba cares initiatives, but this travesty should not extend onto the basketball court. I hope Sandy didn't help us in that win against the Heat and I hope this doesn't help the Celtics.

As for the Celtics players' newfound motivation, there's nothing we can do to stop that but match it with our own intensity and desire.

This absolutely does not belong in this thread.

Sorry, I wasn't thinking about the topic of the thread when I posted. But doesn't this entire thread belong in the off-topic forum?

ActionJackson wrote:

Andrew wrote:

Dagger wrote:

ActionJackson wrote:I know this is borderline inappropriate but this a Knick fan page so i'm just gonna ask it...Is anyone else afraid of the Celtics getting a huge emotional lift from what will be a very charged up home environment with i'm sure them dedicating the game to the victims?

Don't sweat it, I was thinking the same thing. What happened in boston is a tragedy and peoples' lives are a lot more important than a game of basketball. That said, I am concerned about how the league officiates this series, particularly the games in Boston. We've been deprived as a fan base for so long that the thought that this could influence us now that we've finally fought for a good position in the playoffs is troubling. Personally, I do not think it should affect the games at all, it is not Stern's responsibility to throw games to heal the city of Boston. He should donate money and start a few nba cares initiatives, but this travesty should not extend onto the basketball court. I hope Sandy didn't help us in that win against the Heat and I hope this doesn't help the Celtics.

As for the Celtics players' newfound motivation, there's nothing we can do to stop that but match it with our own intensity and desire.

This absolutely does not belong in this thread.

wasnt trying to be disrespectful at all but that's why i prefaced it the way i did but regardless My bad & feel free to delete it from this thread.

Don't worry, YOu did start with it being "borderline Inappropriate" and its a knick site. I think we can discuss it but lets do it in another thread.

There are three avenues to take:

Pessimist, Deflect blame (includes manipulative conspiracy opportunists) and the optimist.

We are an open society and transparency is part of the beauty. Maybe some of you agree with Thomas Friedman here:

April 16, 2013
Bring on the Next Marathon
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Looking at scenes of the Boston sidewalk a few hours after Monday’s bombing — torn clothing, bloodstains, shards of glass — I found my mind going back to a similar sidewalk in Tel Aviv in September 2003. A Hamas suicide bomber had blown himself up at a bus stop outside the Tsrifin army base, and by coincidence I was nearby and got there to witness the immediate aftermath. As I wrote then, parts of the bomber were still on the street, including his hairy leg. His shoe had been blown off, but his brown sock was still daintily on his foot. Israeli rescue workers calmly carried away the dead on stretchers, with an odd mix of horror and routine. But what I remember most was something the police spokesman said to me: “We will have this whole area cleaned up in two hours. By morning, the bus stop will be repaired. You will never know this happened.”

We still do not know who set off the Boston Marathon bombs or why. But we do know now, after 9/11, after all the terrorism the world has seen in the last decade, what the right reaction is: wash the sidewalk, wipe away the blood, and let whoever did it know that while they have sickeningly maimed and killed some of our brothers and sisters, they have left no trace on our society or way of life. Terrorists are not strong enough to do that — only we can do that to ourselves — and we must never accommodate them.

So let’s repair the sidewalk immediately, fix the windows, fill the holes and leave no trace — no shrines, no flowers, no statues, no plaques — and return life to normal there as fast as possible. Let’s defy the terrorists, by not allowing them to leave even the smallest scar on our streets, and honor the dead by sanctifying our values, by affirming life and all those things that make us stronger and bring us closer together as a country.

Let’s name a playground or a school after that 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard, who was standing by the finish line, and who ran out and hugged his father, Bill, after he completed the race, and then trustingly walked back to the sidewalk to be with his mother and sister when the bomb tore through them all. Let’s donate to the favorite life-giving charities of the other victims. Let’s pitch in to help the injured recover. But on lovely Boylston Street in Boston, a place normally so full of life, let there be no reminder whatsoever of what President Obama called this “heinous and cowardly act” of terror.

And while we are at it, let’s schedule another Boston Marathon as soon as possible. Cave dwelling is for terrorists. Americans? We run in the open on our streets — men and women, young and old, new immigrants and foreigners, in shorts not armor, with abandon and never fear, eyes always on the prize, never on all those “suspicious” bundles on the curb. In today’s world, sometimes we pay for that quintessentially American naïveté, but the benefits — living in an open society — always outweigh the costs.

Terrorists know that, of course, and feed on it. The explosives were reportedly packed into six-liter pressure cookers, tucked into black duffel bags and then left on the ground. That is the signature of modern terrorism: to turn routine items from our lives into bombs: the shoe, the backpack, the car, the airplane, the cellphone, the laptop, the garage door opener, fertilizer, the printer, the pressure cooker — so that everything and everyone becomes a source of suspicion.

This can pose a much greater threat to our open society than the Soviet Red Army ever did — if we let it — because this kind of terrorism attacks the essential thing that keeps an open society open: trust. Trust is built into every aspect, every building, every interaction and every marathon in our open society. Terrorists can steal it for a moment or even a while, but we dare not let them fundamentally erode it, and I don’t think we will. When you watch the video of the bombing aftermath, notice how many people you see running toward the blast within seconds to help, even though more bombs easily could have been set to explode there.

Fortunately, we don’t frighten easily anymore. You could feel it in the country on Tuesday morning. We’ve been through 9/11. We probably overreacted then, but never again. We tracked down Osama bin Laden with police and intelligence work, and we’ll do the same in this case. But meanwhile, even in this age of terrorism, let’s keep heeding the advice of an advertisement that you could see hanging in a Boylston Street window in a picture taken after the blast. The picture showed a marathoner sifting through unclaimed runners’ bags left behind after the explosion. Behind him, in the window, the ad poster says: “Your home should be a place to rest easy.”

Only we can take that away from ourselves — not some terrorist with one despicable spasm of madness. So hug your kids tonight, but also encourage them to start training for the next marathon tomorrow. Now that I think of it, maybe we should make this one longer — from Boston to the site of the World Trade Center to the Pentagon — to remind ourselves and anyone else who needs reminding: This is our house. We intend to relax here. And we are not afraid.

ChuckBuck wrote:Bombing suspect ID'ed and arrested by Law enforcement.

Crazy how fast they can catch the suspect based on the security videos from a Lord and Taylor camera. Saw dude drop the bag on the ground, then remote detonate it later.

Can't wait for this phucker and his accomplices to fry

Might have been premature. NBC says no arrest made.

Few other news sources are saying the same thing.

Stay tuned........

smackeddog wrote:

Nalod wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:Bombing suspect ID'ed and arrested by Law enforcement.

Crazy how fast they can catch the suspect based on the security videos from a Lord and Taylor camera. Saw dude drop the bag on the ground, then remote detonate it later.

Can't wait for this phucker and his accomplices to fry

Might have been premature. NBC says no arrest made.

Few other news sources are saying the same thing.

Stay tuned........

Dangerous for the law enforcement to leak that they have identified the suspect BEFORE arresting him- I'm as eager to know who did it, but I wish the media would be more responsible.

My guess is some how its calculated for some reason. At least thats how they do in the movies!

Maybe the "perps" get nervous and start moving and make a mistake. Maybe a guess, but the window must be pretty small to catch these guys.

Even if the do, maybe its best to watch them and track who and what they are about.