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In November, we told you about the pure bliss that went into being a beat reporter following the New York Knicks. (Note: We are employing The Sarcasm there.) But covering the Knicks doesn't just involve hating yourself and your choice of career; it can actively mean being beaten up by security.
Some New York Giants players were interviewed by media at halftime of the Knicks-Celtics game yesterday, but when reporters tried to talk to a fan who was being ejected — you'd be amazed how often this is happening at Knicks games right now — matters went dangerously awry.
I would estimate that a dozen ushers surrounded the three reporters, including myself, physically blocking our path and berating us for not listening to their orders, not "respecting" them and not letting them do their jobs. I explained that, in truth, it was the other way around. The security staff was keeping us from doing our jobs. One reporter was physically restrained and had his credential torn off his neck.
I've gotten to know a few ushers and security people at the Garden over the past couple of years, and like them. But I don't envy their jobs. I don't envy anyone who has to work in this place, under these conditions. It's sad, really, is the best way I can put it.
Honestly, this might be one of the most depressing sentences we've ever read in sports journalism: "I don't envy anyone who has to work in this place, under these conditions." Sigh. For months, we've encouraged the Knicks to hang onto 2007 SHOTY winner Isiah Thomas for raw entertainment value. But we dunno; he's turning that place into a toxic swamp. Maybe we should get him out of there before the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers arrive.
Newspaper Reporters Vs. Garden Security [Newsday]
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"I will swear on a bible or the Koran that I have never witnessed those security guards bite anyone." --LADYVICTORYUSA
If only the New York media had the gumption to rise up and take a strong opinion on issues pertaining to local sports teams and perhaps speak those opinions in a passionate manner on a daily basis...
CHUD>Cloverfield Monster
Or, "How to make the Rose Garden look like a rose garden".
I don't envy any of those little children who work in sweatshops, under those conditions.
You think things are bad now? Just wait 'til Isiah hires Ron Artest and makes him the head of security at MSG.
My god, that reporter makes MSG sond worse than a Vietnamese POW camp.
People still go to Knicks games? Why?
So I have been on vacation for a week. Anything happen in the wide world of sports?
/also emploring obvious sarcasm
IN SOVIET RUSSIA SARCASM EMPLOYS YOU
I don't envy anyone who has to work in this place, under these conditions.
"..."
-Daniel Pearl
If only the Knicks had Mike Milbury as their GM. He knows what to do with unruly Garden fans.
By Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller you mean Stephen A Smith right?
@Brazil Thrill: If he hires Dennis Rodman, it would be like putting the script for "Mannequin II" in a blender.
Which they probably should have done *before* filming, but here we are.
"Sad MSG" is also the tag line used for many local chinese restaurants here in NYC
If they were true Knicks employees, the three reporters would still have been able to run a backdoor screen against them.
SHOTY totally went to Isiah's head.
I'm glad to see the Diallo cops landed on their feet.
If I give Spud a +1, the terrorists win.
Or alternatively:
"Wow. They tore off your credentials"?
- Daniel Pearl's Ghost
Those security guards are just puppets in the Winkles regime
I am confused. I thought Usher was part owner of the Cavaliers, yet you are saying he works for Nicks security.
@MDT: +41
"Sure, anything will look bad if you just remember the pimps and the CHUDs."
Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the C.H.U.D.s.
John Goodman's Brief Appearance as Devoured Cop In CHUD > John Goodman as King Ralph.
@StupidAngelos: Curse you StupidAngelos.
@Gourmet Spud: Wow. I was going to go with a Barbaro message board operators joke, but - wow.
@Canadian Impostor: FWIW, you actually got the quote right, I think.
@Sandy Magic Jackson: +1 for the avatar.
@Gourmet Spud: I'll never go all "how DARE you make jokes about that" since this is Deadspin, but as a guy who worked at Dow Jones w/Danny Pearl ... I do have to echo the "wow".
@The Gentleman Masher: I respectfully disagree.
"It's sad, really, is the best way I can put it."
All those years of journalism school gone to waste.
@UkraineNotWeak: I think he had sue TSN to stop them from showing that clip again and again.
@MDT: I was thinking more Abner Louima. The man can't even look at a clogged toilet anymore. And thats the type of security guard you get at MSG. @UkraineNotWeak: You beat one guy with a shoe, and you're tainted for life.
@Carmen McFanzone: Seconded...
is a CHUD anything like a SUNT?
"I don't envy anyone who has to work in this place, under these conditions.
Former Auschwitz resident, speaking about the MSG story.
@The Teufel Shuffle: Well, they have recently activated the whirlwind that is Jerome James.
So, you know, there's something.
Could someone remind the security staff as MSG that "beat reporter" is not a directive?
@crazyjoedavola: I just assumed that the Abner cops were attending the truck party.
I would also like to congratualate all fellow DS'ers for not making one Martin Lawrence reference in the half hour+ this post has been up.
Keep up the good work, guys.
Should've been you, Lupica!!
What's next? Are they going to release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
@BruschisBrewsky: I never really understood the rant against ML references. Admittedly, I never read DUAN!, but before Rob's post about it, I had never noticed it.
I can probably think of 8-10 references of the top of my head that have been beaten into the ground worse than that.
@MadmanMundt: I think John McCain would disagree
they were a little excitable. they had just caught an advance screening of 'In Bruges'
@Dead Wrestlers Society: Kige has no idea what you are talking about.
@MadmanMundt: POW's in 'Nam didn't have to watch the Knicks play! I'll take bamboo under the nails over watching Eddy Curry stick up the joint.
Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal
/ Yes, I've seen the movie...
As a Chicago guy, Isiah has always been nostalgic about the '68 Democratic Convention. The Mayor knew how to handle an unruly press corps.
@HugsFromHarold: Oh come on the Knicks aren't that bad. They have Jared Jeffries, Jerome James, Mardy Collins, um Jamal Crawford I think, and Starbu...... Oh crap. You are right, that shit is horrible.
Was Jim Gray one of the reporters?
What the heck would you do in a situation like that?
Some day soon I hope to be kicked out of MSG.
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