Breaking information:
Citing the latest success of Maxwell Good facial recognition expertise in banning a lawyer/Woman Scout chief on the entrance to his Radio Metropolis Music Corridor previous to the Christmas present, Backyard boss Jim Dolan will quickly ban opposing NBA and NHL groups from enjoying in Madison Sq. Backyard.
In accordance with Dolan’s workplace, opposing groups “symbolize an organized, regular menace to defeat and get rid of from the postseason MSG groups, afflicting our profitability.”
Thus Dolan’s Backyard will not host any celebration that hopes to defeat Backyard enterprises. Facial recognition comes up as Sidney Crosby? Out he goes! “You’re all with the Minnesota Timberwolves? Again on the bus!”
OK, so I made all of it up. Works for Colin Cowherd and Stephen A. Smith!
However I’m satisfied of this: Dolan’s main drawback is his consistency. He’ll at all times hit the fallacious button. And cash’s no object!
From seating himself conspicuously within the entrance row, the final place a number to these paying a fortune for seats would select to be seen, to ignoring MSG’s all-time voice Marv Albert throughout his final journey to the Backyard to name a Knicks sport, he’s predictably cussed, vengeful and tyrannical.
He doesn’t know the best way to disarm the general public by selecting to do probably the most gracious factor together with nothing in any respect. He at all times chooses to be seen as vindictive, small and petty.
I do know him sufficient to know that he needs higher for his picture and that he smarts at his historical past as the last word authority in choices that yearly create mediocre-to-worse groups.
I don’t assume he’s the unhealthy man he chooses to be. In reality, when he’s not firing these he introduced in for his or her experience after rejecting their experience, he has quietly carried out magnanimous deeds, particularly the funding to treatment pancreatic most cancers. And I’ve even loved his firm.
Nonetheless, the paranoia he has fueled all through MSG’s networks has turned reliably welcomed, cherished TV into fear-frozen intimidated nerve facilities, even discarding vital Backyard historical past as a result of it could not replicate effectively on Dolan’s reign.
Take into account that Jeremy Lin — “Linsanity” — was written out of the Knicks’ twenty first Century show-and-tell MSG retrospective, that Albert was erased from Backyard historical past, and that on the night time John Andariese, fading from dementia, retired because the Knicks’ beloved analyst, Dolan by no means moved from his seat to greet Andariese and his household earlier than, throughout or after the farewell ceremony.
Bob Gutkowski, fan-friendly, media-accessible, work-the-house president of the Backyard when the Rangers, in 1994, lastly gained the Stanley Cup and the Knicks had been one win wanting the NBA championship — Gutkowski would quickly be out as Dolan entered — was purposefully not invited when the Backyard celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of profitable the Cup below Gutkowski.
In 2007, a Blues-Rangers sport returned longtime Ranger goalie and TV analyst John Davidson to the Backyard as president of the Blues. His return included a proper salute for his MSG service.
Nevertheless, new members of the Blues’ administration group, ex-Backyard workers comparable to president Dave Checketts and MSG Community boss Mike McCarthy, had been denied entry.
Such nugatory, counterproductive consistency has grow to be Dolan’s boilerplate. Nobody expects him to do what’s proper, what displays effectively on him. That’s his plan and he’s sticking with it, or not less than caught with it.
This yr he has banned members of a legislation agency that’s suing MSG Leisure on behalf of 24 Knicks and Rangers season-ticket holders tossed for reselling their tickets, typically the one solution to afford tickets.
The agency’s 60 legal professionals have been excluded from getting into any venue owned by MSG Leisure, together with the Backyard, Radio Metropolis, the Hulu Theater, the Beacon Theater and the Chicago Theater, in, yep, Chicago.
How does that profit Dolan? It doesn’t. As a authorized deposition entry it'd harm his protection as excessively petty and vindictive.
Had the legal professionals for the plaintiffs nonetheless been welcomed to attend Backyard occasions, particularly after buying tickets previous to the night-of facial recognition foyer rejection, he’d have already gained factors based mostly on nothing-personal, good-faith conduct.
However Dolan continues to depend on his vengeful instincts, no foresight utilized, good recommendation rejected or unheard. He needs to be generally known as higher, he simply doesn’t know the way. He stays satisfied of his inherited superior standing and ill-considered convictions.
And he nonetheless appears unaware that the worst place to complete in any high-stakes poker sport — and the courtroom of public opinion — is second.
Booze: the right treatment for inane announcers
To treatment TV’s persistent, aggravating excesses, the answer might lie with an answer: FacePlant Vodka. A couple of belts earlier than kickoff and it’ll all make sense. And FPV makes a wonderful stocking-stuffer!
Sunday, late within the Jets’ dwelling loss to the Lions, CBS’s Ian Eagle famous that it will be a “brief week for the Jets” as they performed at dwelling vs. the Jags, Thursday.
To that, Eagle’s boothmate Charles Davis, one other who suffers from TTM — talks an excessive amount of — piped, “And that one goes to be so large!”
Large! A lot in order that tickets on the secondary market had been going for as much as 15 bucks, a fraction of their face worth.
Earlier, Sunday, within the World Cup last, Argentina went up, 3-2, in additional time, on a shot that simply handed the aim line earlier than it was performed out by a tad-too-late defender.
On Fox, analyst Stu Holden, one other who talked till he conditioned us to stop listening, described it over a replay, counting on a one-goal-fits-all cliché that's too typically plainly inaccurate to have grow to be a cliché:
“That ball is totally at the back of the web!”
But it surely completely wasn’t. That it was nowhere even near the again of the web — perhaps only a yard over the aim line — was ignored, as if we couldn’t see higher.
Then there was Cowboys-Jags on Fox, swallowed virtually entire by TTM analyst Greg Olsen, who enlightened us with such relevant observations as, “Somebody on Dallas must make a play.”
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Xmas get pleasure from studying who Santa actually is
Greatest Christmas line of the weekend got here from NBC’s Dan Hicks, internet hosting the family-pairs golf that included white-haired, hillbilly-bearded John Daly, whom Hicks mentioned is “headed to a chimney close to you.”
Reader Dan Karson reveals that historic scrolls have been translated to seek out that DraftPharoh’s Over-Below for the Chanukah menorah oil to final was two days, a “entice line,” because it lasted eight. Second Century, BC. tout Blowhardus Francesia I, gave the Below as his “Lock Of Ages.”
Ex-Pats star LB Willie McGinest has been suspended from his NFL Community gig after video caught him main a brutal group assault towards a patron seated in a nightclub. McGinest appeared unaware of the method: First, you’re arrested, then you definately land a TV gig.
Longtime Submit horse racing columnist, colleague and inveterate gentleman Ray Kerrison died this week at 92. That man may write. Didn’t matter if he’d coated knitting, he’d have been a must-read.
After which it ended: With the top of the World Cup on Fox, got here the top of that promo that ended with what clearly seemed like the primary notes of Phil Spector’s enduring 1963 hit “Then He Kissed Me,” sung by The Crystals. After three weeks, I’ve lastly stopped singing it.
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