The Yule Blog 2008
I'd like to pause here for Christmas and share with you our annual Yule Blog. I hope you enjoy it. All the best this holiday season to everyone in Fixer Nation, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or, like, Festivus.
For a newsy topic, see my story in today's Newsday. Note we do not publish on Christmas Day. We will be back for Friday's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Enjoy. God Bless.
Yule Blog 2008
Twas the night before Knicksmas
Our third year on the beat
Fixer Nation gathers together
For our annual holiday treat;
A season again filled
With intrigue and wonder
And some major concerns
With them five games under;
Donnie’s cutting cap space,
Mike’s got the mirrors and smoke,
At least you can say
The team’s no longer a joke.
And in 18 months, there’ll be such a buzz
As we wait with baited breath
To see what LeBron does.
Away to the laptop to get your daily Fix
This has been the place since 2006.
The Starbury buyout will come in due time
Then no longer I’ll need to
Include him in rhyme.
And what do your wondering eyes wait to see?
How to stay under the cap
Without trading D-Lee.
Stick to the plan, handle difficult choices,
And it’s best not to succumb
to those dissenting voices.
And when all else fails,
just do the opposite of Zeke
(I know it’s egregious,
but I had to give him a tweak).
In the meantime compete
with the best that you got.
Stay in close enough range
to that final eighth spot.
(Most Fixers disagree, but I think it’s fine,
To get another lottery on draft day ’09).
But more rapid this offense will keep them in games
D’Antoni, finger up, will call out their names:
Now, Quentin! Now, Wilson! Now, David and Chris!
On, Jared! On, Harrington! Now who did I miss?
Right, the kid they call Gallo;
His back’s got a crick.
Got the franchise worried that they wasted a pick.
-----break-----
Danilo with your silky-sweet J
When the hell you finally gonna play?
-----return----
With these troubled Knicks,
tabloids never short on supply,
Of Starberman’s campaign;
And Isiah’s OD alibi.
Eddy show up out of shape
And then came up lame
Allan Houston tried it one more time
But couldn’t get in a game.
For a while there we wondered
What Donnie Walsh was doing:
How do you keep Jerome
And cut the Younger Ewing?
Big trades then shook the roster
And took less contract back,
Jamal still owes us one more blog,
And we’ll miss those laughs with Zach.
And take a brief moment to think
of Cuttino and his son;
Can’t imagine what might have been,
if that trade never got done.
I hate to mention him again,
but I can’t help but deride;
Please explain to me once more
Why Steph was sitting courtside?
So odd he would sit there, alone and perplexed
He spent $2,500 to make calls and to text.
He’s a good “businessmen”
I read this someplace,
How can anyone type this
And keep a straight face?
Enough of this issue, the blog war is done
(We all know the site that was voted No. 1)
So to Willis and david, Sec11 and Trane,
And to so many others that have slipped from my brain,
Fixer Nation sets records, the growth doesn’t cease,
(We even have tolerance for your antagonism, Peace)
With all of your varying points of view,
You each are related by orange and blue.
So thanks for the clicks,
For the boos and the cheers;
Merry Christmas, dear Fixers,
And have a Happy New Years.
Some Christmas memories....
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Hi Fixers and Alan,
If you want to supplement your Knicks Fix, come check out our new fan blog at www.knicksfan.net. Its by fans for fans. And we WILL try to have something on x-mas. Hahn rules!
-Dan L
Watching the video clip reminded me of why I loved those Knicks. Toughest, easiest to root for group of guys I can remember in Blue and Orange.
Happy Holidays to All Fixers and Men of Learned Disputations
Can we get video of Patrick's (was it his rookie year) demolition of the Celtics on Christmas Day? Best gift ever. The youngman destroyed the Celtics and served notiec there was a new Beast in teh East.
Happy Holidays to All Fixers and Men of Learned Disputations
Can we get video of Patrick's (was it his rookie year) demolition of the Celtics on Christmas Day? Best gift ever. The youngman destroyed the Celtics and served noticec there was a new Beast in the East.
Happy Holidays to All Fixers and Men of Learned Disputations
Can we get video of Patrick's (was it his rookie year) demolition of the Celtics on Christmas Day? Best gift ever. The youngman destroyed the Celtics and served noticec there was a new Beast in the East.
Whoa, sorry for the multiple posts, I'm at Grandma's house and can't figure her internet
thanks for the yule b-log alan, it warmed my toes and it was a pleasure to read.
i'm starting to believe that we have all received a quiet (but not so) little gift this holiday: a security and posting system that works!
i'm gonna miss that blogger who went by the unforgettable moniker "comment submission error".
MY HOLIDAY KNICK GIFT LIST
buy out you know who
trade you know who
sign you know who
get to see you know who finally play
trade for you know what
happy holidays to fixer nation. wishing all of you heath, happiness and general good fortune.
peace out.
Man...you are all right...those 90s Knicks...loved them...Bulls/Knicks games stopped everything...
Happy Holidays everyone!
Man...you are all right...those 90s Knicks...loved them...Bulls/Knicks games stopped everything...
Happy Holidays everyone!
Man...you are all right...those 90s Knicks...loved them...Bulls/Knicks games stopped everything...
Happy Holidays everyone!
You forgot nate!
obviously there is going to be a security posting learning curve for us fixers. we are so used to resubmitting our posts multiple time, that we can't stop our fingers from automatically hitting the resend button.
well done Alan.. Merry to all
All want 4 Xmas is Le2010 and some good role players.
Oh. OK I'll take Mark Teixeira in pin stripes.
Merry Xmas
AR
Amazing!! You are obsessed with Berman. Do you always read his work before you write? Happy Holidays.
Happy Holidays to our bloghost and his family.
And to your Fixer family.
Thanks Alan.
ALAN
That was the BEST BLOG EVER
You're a real NERDERBOCKER.
Thanks for the cool Poem
Merry Christmas Guys
@ Cosmo - re Attila the Han - "You are obsessed with Berman. Do you always read his work before you write?"
Yeah, man. He's a stalker. For Real.
Happy Holidays to all the fixers as well as the blog host.
Be safe my peepz.
Can't wait to find out if we get the 4.5 milli from Cats contract.
I think Delfino would be a good fit with us.
That would make it Duhon, Delfino, Chandler, Harrington and I
guess Curry as the starting 5. I'm really interested to see how
Curry looks in this system. Hopefully he can prove everybody
wrong and come out with the same type of intensity he had before
we got Zach. Sad to see Zach get injured the other day. He may
be out a while.
On another note, I'm not really thrilled about the idea of trading
Curry and Lee for Diaw and Bell. If we get Delfino that move makes
no sense. I would rather trade Lee to Denver for Kleiza and a
first round pick. Denver will probably sweeten the pot as we get
closer to the deadline. Stay patient Donnie, your doing a great job.
One last thing I want to bring up. Why do people keep saying
Lebron is not going to come to the Knicks if we are not
competetive? Don't you think with the addition of Lebron and say
Bosh or Amare along with Nash will automatically make us
championship contenders? Boston added only KG and Allen and
look what it did. Yes Pierce is nice but if I'm not mistaken the
Celtics won less games than we did during our 23 win season.
Nash, James and Bosh or Amare is more than enough to come
out the East. The only team we would have to worry about would
be the Celtics.
So please stop saying Lebron wouldn't want to play for us
because we don't have enough talent. If we were to get those
players, we would be a better team than the Cavs are currently.
Some people just don't look at the big picture.
Thanks for fixing the security.
Now if you could just remove the people here that do nothing
but try to degrade people I may call this the best blog ever.
Who am I kidding, it's not like Alan reads these comments anyway.
HA!!!!
Merry X-Mas
And what do your wondering eyes wait to see?
How to stay under the cap
Without trading D-Lee.
Stick to the plan, handle difficult choices,
And it’s best not to succumb
to those dissenting voices.
----
Exactly. Do not trade David Lee. Ba hum bug to the dissenting voices.
Happy Holidays from Italy to everyone here at the Fixer Nation!!!
Happy Holidays.
"antagonism" to start the post X-mass Year.
The hand full of Knicks have nothing to fear.
Curry's Present was perhaps the most smart.
His round trip to OZ, was to return with a heart.
Gallo they say, will no longer get cut slack.
Lets hope old dear Santa has brought him a Back.
The Present of Presents had Lee and Nate Jump.
At the promise forfulled to remove a big Hump.
What's left of the team stayed up all night long.
As they read Dolan's gift card, saying Stephon was gone.
The Card also contained Words that caused "Pains"
The last line stated " Forget Lebron James"
LGK
New York Knicks
Incoming Players
Chris Andersen
Salary: $797,581 Years Remaining: 1
PTS: 5.7 REB: 5.2 AST: 0.5 PER: 18.25
Steven Hunter
Salary: $3,862,600 Years Remaining: 2
J.R. Smith
Salary: $4,985,001 Years Remaining: 3
PTS: 13.2 REB: 4.1 AST: 2.3 PER: 15.50
Linas Kleiza
Salary: $1,824,493 Years Remaining: 1
PTS: 10.0 REB: 3.9 AST: 0.7 PER: 13.96
Outgoing Players: Eddy Curry, Wilson ChandlerDenver Nuggets
Incoming Players
Eddy Curry
Salary: $9,723,983 Years Remaining: 2
Wilson Chandler
Salary: $1,173,480 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 13.7 REB: 5.7 AST: 2.1 PER: 12.18
Outgoing Players: Chris Andersen, Steven Hunter, J.R. Smith, Linas Kleiza
Happy Holidaze! Lay off the egg nog!
The other day MSG ran a great "Best Of" type things with a bunch of Oakley, Ewing, Starks, Harper, etc. highlights.
I was getting chills and longing for a NEW YEAR of some great, competitive NYK b-ball!!
Kleiza had a bunch of highlights on SportsCenter the other night...looks like a nice all around player, but I agree we need a pick if we are giving up Lee.
knick wish list
trade curr rose roberson to memphis for darko millic &marko jaric
sign ewing jr .Nyk gets defensive ctr and sg plus ewings energy.
Hold marbury till march 2 .
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