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November 26, 2006
Greatest hits . . . and misses
NY Daily News
We’ll give Bruce Ratner this much credit: The Nets’ owner can’t be completely clueless when it comes to music. When Jets president Jay Cross stopped by the Daily News a few years ago to drum up support for the West Side Stadium, he told The Score that the facility wouldn’t just host eight Gang Green home games a year: The stadium would also be used for "Snoopy Dog" concerts, Cross told us.We’re still laughing in our gin and juice over that one.
We presume the Nets owner knows the difference between rapper Snoop Dogg and Charlie Brown’s pet beagle since Ratner’s partners include one of the biggest names in hip-hop, Jay-Z, who has vowed to use his street cred to recruit free agents and turn the New Jersey Nets into New York’s team. "People grew up on the Knicks," the Brooklyn-born Shawn Carter told the Daily News last year. "The Nets have always been the cousins. I hope to change that."
So why isn’t he wearing a Nets’ cap on the cover of his new album, "Kingdom Come"? (If you don’t know, he’s wearing a Yankees’ cap).
Posted by amy at November 26, 2006 11:39 AM