Comments on: Shut up and play ball http://knicks.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/29/shut-up-and-play-ball/ The unauthorized Knicks blog from Journal News beat writer Mike Dougherty Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:50:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: fridayjones http://knicks.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/29/shut-up-and-play-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-9275 fridayjones Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:34:15 +0000 http://knicks.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/29/shut-up-and-play-ball/#comment-9275 Let's stop blaming the media for the ills of the Knicks. Should McDonalds carry the blame for obesity in this country? The Knicks have been a train wreck, and when a train wreck occurs in your back yard, you stop to look and then call all your friends. It's not the media. What we, as Knick fans, want more than anything else to watch the team develop on the floor. We'd all love it if we never heard a word about anything these guys do off the floor. Personally, I don't care. I don't know any of these guys, they're not my friends or my family. But if they step outside the law, or make their workplace untenable for members of the opposite sex, that is news, and should be duly reported by the media. It is the media's resposnibility to hold them accountable. Let’s stop blaming the media for the ills of the Knicks. Should McDonalds carry the blame for obesity in this country? The Knicks have been a train wreck, and when a train wreck occurs in your back yard, you stop to look and then call all your friends. It’s not the media.

What we, as Knick fans, want more than anything else to watch the team develop on the floor. We’d all love it if we never heard a word about anything these guys do off the floor. Personally, I don’t care. I don’t know any of these guys, they’re not my friends or my family. But if they step outside the law, or make their workplace untenable for members of the opposite sex, that is news, and should be duly reported by the media. It is the media’s resposnibility to hold them accountable.

]]> By: KH http://knicks.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/29/shut-up-and-play-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-9274 KH Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:27:08 +0000 http://knicks.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/29/shut-up-and-play-ball/#comment-9274 JC's statement "shut up and play" only details half the equation. Perhaps it is time that the NY media shuts up and lets the Knicks play... too many writers all trying to fill too many pages with drama, you guys create issues with the Knicks in order to sell papers. Let them play before you tear them apart. So the Knicks players might shut up and play. but the Knicks media needs to shut up and watch. Bring on 2008/2009 JC’s statement “shut up and play” only details half the equation. Perhaps it is time that the NY media shuts up and lets the Knicks play… too many writers all trying to fill too many pages with drama, you guys create issues with the Knicks in order to sell papers. Let them play before you tear them apart.

So the Knicks players might shut up and play.
but the Knicks media needs to shut up and watch.

Bring on 2008/2009

]]> By: Brandon Hoffman http://knicks.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/29/shut-up-and-play-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-9273 Brandon Hoffman Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:22:10 +0000 http://knicks.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/29/shut-up-and-play-ball/#comment-9273 Jamal Crawford may be NY's best player. I think he could have a breakout season under D'Antoni. Jamal Crawford may be NY’s best player. I think he could have a breakout season under D’Antoni.

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