Wednesday, March 24, 2010

LOST in New York


Tonight’s “recently on Lost” segment at the beginning of the show had some interesting parallels to a potential scenario for Knicks fans this summer. Here was the conversation between Jack and Richard:

Jack: Why do you want to die?

Richard: I devoted my life, longer than you can possibly imagine, in service of a man who told me that everything was happening for a reason, that he had a plan. A plan that I was a part of, and now that man’s gone. So, why do I want to die? Because I just found out my entire life had no purpose!

During the episode (which was pretty fucking awesome) you basically saw how Richard was brought to the island by Jacob, and was granted immortality. In exchange for this, he had to place himself in Jacob’s service, which he did for over 200 years. Once Jacob died, he had a crisis of faith and blurted out the above comments to Jack. Couldn’t you see an eerily similar conversation between two Knicks fans later this year?

John: Why are you so miserable?

Harry: I’ve been a Knicks fan my whole life. I’ve stuck by them the last 6 years while we’ve been a laughing stock. Things we’re looking up once we hired Donnie Walsh, got rid of Isiah, and hired Mike D’Antoni. I believed that they tried to put a decent team out there, but their primary goal was to have enough cap space for this summer to bring in some quality free agents to pair with the front office talent. I thought we were going to have LeBron, or Wade, or possibly BOTH! I renewed my season tickets, even upgraded my seats because of the promise of a championship quality team. There was a finally a clear plan in place!

So, why am I so miserable? Because LeBron stayed in Cleveland after winning a championship, the Bulls stole Wade out from under us at the last minute, Hell, even Chris Bosh got snapped up by the Zombie Sonics! Our big free agent payday (or should I say theirs) was Manu Ginobli and Shaun Freaking Livingston! On top of that, we drafted Scottie Reynolds and Sherron Collins and then grossly overpaid David Lee. I just blew a thousand bucks on season tickets for the New York Pistons!

1 comment:

  1. Okay Simmonslite, the Knicks fan conversation will go nothing like this. Most likely it will go something along the lines of "I can't believe we spent this much on Amare Stoudemiere, didn't package David Lee with Eddy Curry in a sign and trade and I hope we get Melo/CP3/Lebron after his 1 year deal with the Cavs is over after he attempts once more to win a championship in his home state after failing to last season in the 2011 Free Agency." Also unless David Stern changed the rules for the draft the Knicks won't be selecting two players with their 2nd round pick. Excuse me I have some black tar heroine to hide in Eddy Curry's trunk

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