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November 15, 2009
EB and RU Roll Along
Uncle Mike's Musings
This blog, which is "mostly about sports", the author expresses (using some strong language) the travesty of trying to move the Nets from New Jersey to Brooklyn when there's already a new arena available in Newark.
Why do I even bother to pay attention? They're going to be playing their home games in Brooklyn in 3 years. Or maybe 4.
Or maybe not at all. There's a report on the Star-Ledger's website in which Mikhail Prokorov, the prospective new Russian owner, may move them from the Meadowlands to the Prudential Center if Bruce Ratner, trying to sell the team even as he tries to build the Atlantic Yards project (which appears to have been all he cared about all along, the dirty cunt), can't get that deal done.
Newark is a great basketball city. The Nets had two exhibition games at The Rock that had attendance comparable to the Devils' regular-season games against non-rivals. It's so easy to figure out, a Caveman could do it! Why can't Ratner? Couldn't he make just as much money with the Nets in Newark -- and with all the questionable construction contracts floating around in New Jersey -- as he could with his Frankenstein baby in Brooklyn? Does he have to take the team I loved from 1977 to 2006 when he announced he was taking them away? Did I mention he was dirty cunt?
Posted by steve at November 15, 2009 6:18 AM