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February 6, 2007
Who knew there were Nets fans in NJ? Eddie Trunk did
MetroNY
By David Sandora
Bruce Ratner's pick-up line falls flat on a fan:
In the music world, Eddie Trunk is known as the guy who brings hard rock and heavy metal to the radio. But in the sports world, he’s known as Mike Piazza’s buddy and a fanatic for his hometown teams. Trunk, who can be heard on Q104.3 FM, XM and VH1 Classic, talked music and sports with Metro.
Why do you feel so strongly against the Nets moving to Brooklyn?
It just really, really kills me now that all of a sudden, you put all this time into the love of your local team, and you have this guy come in who doesn’t really care about basketball — he’s a real estate developer — and he buys the team and wants to move them to Brooklyn as the centerpiece for his whole renaissance for this real estate deal that they want to do.
I confronted Bruce Ratner, the owner of the Nets. I saw him at a game, I went right up to him and told him how I felt. They’re going to tell you all the right things about, “Well we want to include you guys” — but how? It’s $14 in bridge tolls alone to go from New Jersey to Brooklyn.
[Image from www.eddietrunk.com.]
Posted by lumi at February 6, 2007 7:35 AM