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Fensday

This isn’t a fen, but it is an antenna growing in the wild.

Digressing we shall go

I find myself in Boston, home of Fenway Park, in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood, half-named after The Fenway, now a parkway that runs along the Back Bay Fens, which is a jewel in the Emerald Necklace of Boston parks. I arrived at this digression while thinking of a title for today’s bloglings while housed for the moment in a subterranean studio apartment in Boston’s North End. I can’t yet find a direct connection in all these writings, but I presume the Fens of Boston were somehow given that label by a person recalling the fens of England, which are a form of “transitional” wetland. (They transist into peat bogs, agricultural land, landfills, suburbs, or shopping centers.) Anyway, this all has me reading interesting shit rather than working on interesting shit. I shall now transist into working shit.

Inflation

Patrick Mahomes just made a deal for more than half a billion dollars. To play a game.

Holy Wholly Fucking Shit!

Look at this:

The Knicks, down 29, came back to win by one: The biggest comeback/choke job in playoff history. What an exciting game. They were getting creamed. Hugely creamed. They were buried, deeply buried, from the end of the first quarter to the start of the fourth. But they cannot be buried. Simple as that. They are all but unkillable. And now they lead the finals 3-1. Was there a hero? Yes: the team. The winning basket was an amazing from-nowhere put-back by OG Anonoby, the third, fourth, or fifth-best player on the team. And that was on a miss by their best player, Jalen Brunson. And the goat on San Antonio was their GOAT-in-the-making: Victor Wembanyama, missing two free throws that would have saved the game. But the unkillable Knicks came back.

The next game is in San Antonio. If the Knicks don’t win there, they will win Game 6 in New York. Count on it.

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  1. Dave Winer Avatar
    Dave Winer

    The indestructible NY Knicks.

    I think the moment when the Force re-established itself was when Mitchell Robinson kicked over Wemby as he was chanting something about being in (Robinson’s) head. Great, just what you want to do — motivate a machine of destruction. That was when San Antonio’s fate was sealed. There still is another game and another chance for the San Antonio’s to make their peace with the Lord of Basketball.

    Another possible explanation was there was some left over rotten smell of the TACO president in the arena, and it took three periods to suck it up and spit it out. The Taco Man farted in every corner of the building it seems. Not surprising that it took a while to incarcerate all the evil gases he spread through out the Garden. I was concerned we’d have to tear it down, as we did with Shea Stadium when the dreaded Yankees beat the Mets in the 2000 World Series.

    I think we should tear down the Garden anyway. When all the assholes call it the “World’s Most Famous Arena” you’re almost required to demolish it so they can’t say that any longer.

    People seem to miss that sports is religion and God is always listening, and has a Plan for all of us, but more than anything — He has a Plan for the New York Fucking Knicks.

    Send my love to Boss-tone. 🙂

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    1. Doc Searls Avatar
      Doc Searls

      When I saw Wemby do his “I’m in your head” thing, two thoughts came to me.

      One was that Wemby hasn’t learned how to talk trash yet. He didn’t get that trash is best talked sotto voce, where and how the refs can’t hear it, and the audience can’t see it.

      The other was that you don’t poke the bear that has already whupped your ass twice—especially when you’re sure to be out of energy later in a long game. Play and learn.

      I still believe the Knicks will win. But the Spurs haven’t been out of any of the games the two teams have played so far. As Mitch Johnson has said, the results in all four games could have gone the other way. Let’s hope the Spurs haven’t learned enough, and are still too green.

      My bet is that the Knicks will take the series, probably in six, with the final game at The Garden. And that the Spurs will dominate the league as long as they have Wemby, Castle, and Harper. But we’ll see. The Knicks are an all-time great team, and teams win. Not players alone.

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