Why take your kids to Knicks, Nets and Jets games if they're giving you nothing?

The Knicks are having a terrible season.  But be honest, with their talent level, who actually thought they were going to have a good season?  But this isn't going to be one of my regular diatribes about how the Knicks had two NBA All Stars, David Lee, Zach Randolph, a 6th man of the year, Jamal Crawford and quality bench players or starters like Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari and their general manager Donnie Walsh got rid of all of those guys for basically nothing, no not this time, we will trash Walsh another time for sure.

This past weekend, I took my son Zachary to the Knicks game.  At the start of the game, realizing how empty the building was, I decided to see how far I could work my way down toward the floor. After all, as a lifetime season ticket owner and loyal fan, I imagined, I deserved some time close to the players I was so loyal to, if not for myself, for my son--the next generation.

I managed to get almost to the court where an usher, not Usher the rapper, but one of the Garden's finest security personnel asked me for a ticket and said I couldn't be there.  My response to him was "really there's no one here, the team is in last place with probably the worst record they've ever had in their history and you're saying I can't sit here?"

I recall going to an event years ago as a seat holder.  It seems to me the Knicks, Nets and Jets should be doing more to attract fans and if that means letting people move to better seats, giving away seats  or giving away free food, do it.  You want to make your stadium look crowded and using those methods can accomplish this. After all even The Golden Globes has seat fillers.

But my son was more interested in playing with his matchbox cars than watching the game and I should have played with the cars also.  The Knicks lost the game by 30.  Apparently children are good judges of entertainment levels of events and Zacky gave the Knicks two thumbs down.

If your stadium is completely empty and your losing money every game, doesn't it make sense to let people move to better seats, give away seats  or give away free food?  If you give free tickets those people will still buy food and souvenirs and the stadium would make money on that.  If I can go to a game and move down, wouldn't that be more of an incentive to go to another game?  If the stadium is  giving you free food, wouldn't you be more apt to buy tickets, especially when the food can cost $20  or more?  Just a little food for thought.

Was Isiah Thomas that bad as Knicks GM?

People will hate for for saying this, but if Larry Brown did his job as coach of the Knicks, the Knicks would still have Lee, Zach, Jamal, Gallo and Chandler (and Maybe Tyson Chandler too). Not defending what Thomas did to that woman who worked for him. People have gotten fired for harassing a female co worker like that, HP fired their CEO for sexual harassment, but getting David Lee, Zach Randolph, Jamal Crawford, and drafting Trevor Ariza, Wilson Chandler and Nate Robinson was pretty good.

Drill for oil more and bring the price down

Both Carl Icahn and Fed's Kocherlakota think a drop in oil prices good for U.S. economy. So why does CNBC keep saying its a bad thing?  I've been saying for years that the real price of oil is $35 a barrel.  The only reason that oil trades higher is because OPEC usually holds back on supply when oil is falling due to over supply.  If American was to build this pipeline, oil would fall so much that drilling  wouldn't even be profitable.  In fact drilling would be a money losing endeavor.  If we want to put Americans to work, the republicans should approve an infrastructure program that would repair bridges, tunnels, roads etc.  That would really put people to work.

The Cleveland Knicks

First Iman Shumpert and Jr Smith now Cleveland traded two first round picks for Timofey Mozgov. Does Cleveland want to be the knicks?  Two first round picks for Mozgov?  Are they totally insane? Hey Cleveland I'm sure for a 1 first round pick the Knicks would also  given you  Pablo Prigioni, Amare Stoudemire and  Andrea Bargnani.  Heck, you can have all of them for a second round pick.  Think of it, Cleveland, you could be the Knicks.

I'm applying to your ad for a ny knicks reporter at the NY Times.com.

 How could Phil Jackson be blamed for the Knicks inept GM Donnie Walsh getting rid of Zach Randolph, David Lee, Jamal Crawford, Gallinari and Wilson Chandler for this inept team? Phil Jackson is trying to rid the Knicks of contact money that prevented the Knicks from competing. Now thanks to Phil Jackson the Knicks have the money to sign two or three top free agents. And if they can get rid of the ball hog, Carmelo Anothony, who was also brought here by the inept Donnie Walsh. Isiah Thomas was even better than the inept Walsh. Walsh got rid of three NBA all stars. Isiah Thomas got David Lee, Zach Randolph, Jamal Crawford, Gallinari and Wilson Chandler and Walsh got rid of everyone and gave us this. Walsh, you're fired.

No one would give anything for Jr Smith and with his $7 million contract, the Knicks were lucky to dump him. Now they have $7 million more to spend this off season. Regarding Iman Shumpert, he's a free agent at the end of the season so they might have lost him anyway and can always try and sign him as a free agent.