TRU wrote:I remember a study coming out last year comparing rates of alcoholism in Mets fans and Yankee fans. Those that followed the Mets were significantly more likely to suffer from a variety of ailments.Roving reporter for AM 1010 WINS New York John Montone went to a few sports bars to find out what fans thought of the study.
One Yankee fan said, "Alcoholism? All we drink is champagne." Another said, "If you follow a loser you become a loser."
So this year, after more than 25 years of following the Mets intensely (betting on them in junior high, idolizing Doc and Straw and Gary and Keith and Piazza and whoever) I gave them up. Just stopped watching. Just stopped caring.
When people ask about my baseball preferences, I tell them I'm a Yankee fan. If I was going to buy a baseball cap, it would be a Yankee cap.
It's getting to that point for me with the Knicks. I remember Derrick Harper and Doc Rivers in our back court. I've watched almost every game for decades. If this year doesn't work out I'm going to take the time I spend watching and hoping and checking articles and reading box scores and clicking on highlights and put it into something more productive. Perhaps I'll just find a more interesting hobby.
This is the last season that the losers at MSG and Cablevision get to suck me dry. I'm not going to become the shriveled malcontent of a basketball fan my father is.
Interesting......
I live in North Carolina for 25 years now.
Before league pass I was dependent on national games to be televised and basically followed them on the internet.
If not for those two avenues I'd have dropped them.
I would usually go see them play in charlotte as well. Knicks also play an game every year Christmas week in Orlando which I was usually down there visiting family.
I think the question of watching every game is kind of interesting and I have this year.
What I do is DVR the games and start watching about 9:30pm. Blow thru commercials, pregame and halftime content. Takes about 90 minutes or less.
Against Memphis I found myself disinterested and fast forwarded the game. Its not that I only want to watch them win, but the philly game was horseShit, and this one was unwatchable. Marv and Reggie on TNT were brutal but honest. They called it like they say it.
Tonite, I might DVR it, but not sure I'll watch. I don't like Iso ball.
My goal was never to watch ALL the games. My wife can't imagine why I follow this loser franchise.
Many times I have said if the Nets build it right and the can capture the momentum of Brooklyn, which I think will be very big BTW, the knicks will lose many fans. NY basketball is up for grabs. Its been too many years of unfulfilled expectations and starphuching. If Nets capture a championship a whole new generation of fans will be captured.
I know the "Melo and Amare" show will take time to gel, and I am a patient man but I can't I am not frustrated over many years from this teams lack of commitment to building a quality product properly.
Me, I'll root for a quality Nets team as my history with them goes back to the Long Island days and many fond memories of DR J, John the hammer Williamson, Mr. K, Billy Paultz, BT Express, etc who won two ABA championships in 1974 and 76'. It was not the same as Knicks basketball of course. DR J. was better than any Knick but we all know why we loved those Knick teams!
Knicks will always be first, but I prefer Dolan and MSG don't test my loyalty with ignorance.
Im not giving up, but Im not buying into the starphuch that many seem get hyped up about.
What I hope and what I see are two different things.
1/14/2012 9:25 AM
