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Sam's-a-fan
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You can't give yourself a nickname. That's the rule. You can be great at something, you can excel and be the best anyone has ever been at something thereby forcing someone else to come up with a fantastically cool nickname for you, but you cannot give yourself a nickname anymore than a person can name themselves at birth. Otherwise we'd have a planet full of aaaaaahhhhhhhhaahahwwhahahashwhas and other similar sounding names that would be almost impossible to fill out on the scantron sheet for standardized tests.
Stephon Marbury doesn't understand that concept. You can't give yourself a nickname, but Stephon Marbury went ahead and some years back, when no one else would, dubbed himself "Starbury." That's not how it is supposed to work.
Look at George Costanza. George always wanted to be cool, but never could quite make it. He thought up a really cool nickname, T-Bone, and tried to get everyone down at Kruger Industrial Smoothing to call him T-Bone. We all know how that story ended, with George being saddled with the nickname of some sign-language speaking chimp Coco. Poor George.
George couldn't get rid of the moniker Coco, and the Knicks can't get rid of Starbury. They can't get rid of him because no one wants him, and because there is another fact of life to go along with the one about not giving yourself a nickname, and that is you can't simply eat $21 million dollars in your own mistakes and hope that Big Daddy Cablevision doesn't notice.
The Knicks are supposedly trying to reinvent themselves and G-d knows if anyone ever needed to do just that it's the Knicks. They shipped Isiah off to Siberia and that was a good start. They put cyanide in James Dolan's Cosmopolitans (or did I just dream that?) and it was good. They brought in a decent GM and a decent coach, that could help? But they still have Starbury. You know what else I've noticed they've done to help try and erase the memories of yesteryear? To try and make people forget about the biggest bunch of overpaid underachievers run out on the garden floor year after year after year? You know what they've done? They invited Alan Houston to training camp. Now I know what you're thinking, "Aren't we still paying him A-Rod money not to play for us? And the answer is no we finally got out from under that contract just last year. But Alan Houston is a born again Christian, and James Dolan, the smartest man on the planet, has put two and two together and come up with "Orange?" and therefore he thinks with Alan Houston the Knicks will be reborn.
I think that the men's team that plays in the world's most famous arena shall from this point on be known as Coco. |
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jgclancy
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Sam--it's midnight here in MN and I'm hammered. Helped my neighbor all day clear his land..drinking beer and white russians/black russians-we ran outta cream!
His wife cooked us steak..we watched the Dodgers blow it and the Rec Wings lose (woohoo). I even spent 2 hours on another forum explaining why felt paper under any roof shingles at any pitch is irrelevant. Physics and common sense apply. I then came here and read your ranting and raving post. I have to admit that it has no flaws and I agree 100%----wow! What can I say---rambling,here and there but true--if only all your fridays could be so on the mark...sincerely--James Gerard Clancy |
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Sam's-a-fan
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| You really are drunk Clancy, but as Sarah Palin would say "Bless your heart!" |
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Cookie
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Wow... Sam's post came before midnight.. and Clancy's response after midnight and drunk? Good stuff.. and if things continue this way... the first poster will be the late, drunk bird instead of the early bird. Fine by me.. and likely more entertaining.!
Frickin' Derek Lowe. Leave it to an ex SUX to muck it up. He's a loser. As evidenced by his lame pickup line to me in a Chicago bar. That thing stunk and sunk worse than his sinker last night.
WCC... Tell your fellow Los Angelinos to start traveling to Chavez Ravine now so they're not late for the first game in LA LA land. |
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david
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sam how right ur. marbury gives himself a knick (ironic) name and no one ever uses it except derisively. I thought forsure he was a goner but i guess too hard to dump.
aw - i want my own chapter - hockey a niche sport and other ramblings. |
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PhillyPhanatic
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Sam-The Knicks? Come on. The Giants are the best team in the NFL right now. At least talk about them.
As I predicted in April, there would be no October baseball in either NY dump this year. I didn't think that would ever lead to a Knicks conversation.
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