Being a big NY sports fan and not having easy access to the NY sports on TV – unless I pay for the Directv Sports package and season passes for baseball, basketball, and football – I spend a lot of time reading the NY papers online. Lately, I’ve been spending time each morning reading Alan Hahn’s Knicks blog on Newsday. The last few days I’ve noticed something interesting going on over there, outside of having a boat load of comments since before the NBA draft, apparently the site had over 40,000 hits in a single day last week. For comparison, the most hits this site has ever received in a single day is a measly 49. Anyway, I digress. There are apparently 2 people that comment using the handles “K” and “Joker36” on the Knicks blog. Now, I’ve posted a few times on the blog, but not recently, I just like to read the comments on the site since there’s a limited number of haters there. And it’s not so farfetched that there’s someone else out there using that handle considering a lot of names start with the letter K. But, as far as I know, Joker36 – from this blog – isn’t much of a basketball fan. At least not enough to add comments to the Knicks Fix on Newsday. Am I missing something, is there some sort of background to the Joker36 reference that I’m missing? How is it that 2 people that may or may not know each other – or be the same person – post using the same off the wall handle. Joker, where you at, enlighten me!
That is funny. While I consider myself a sports fan, basketball is not one which I ever took an interest in watching. I always got mixed up the shhoting guards and the right guards….
On thing you might find interesting though K, is my thoughts on a rule in basketball that I hold the same opinion on as in a rule in baseball (the balk rule – and you know how I feel about that).
The rule is the 'illegal defense'. What the heck is that? So I can devise a defense to stop you, but it could be considered against the rules? Isn't the goal of defense to stop the offense? How could there be any such way of playing defense that could be against the rules? Seems as inane to me as the balk rule.
Agreed. From what I understand, the original concept was to prevent teams from placing a big man – say Shaq – in the paint where he is never required to move. That type of defense slows the game down and makes it less pleasing to watch. Then again, if the other team has a problem with it, I have this spectacular idea, get players that can actually shoot the ball from beyond 10 feet! And why is it college basketball has no \”illegal defense\” rule and the NBA does? I'm still curious to find out how you came up with the handle Joker36. I'm sure it's no brain teaser, but find it interesting that there are 2 people out there that use it.
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Ouch, the hate. If your name wasn't philly phans rule I might have thought of a clever retort, but you're obviously little deranged.
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