Owen:
Robert – Fracking is actually something I know a fair amount about. While I have reservations about fracking in heavily populated areas, I think the concerns about it, while having merit in some cases,overall are highly exaggerated.

If it were a choice between fracking and not fracking I might agree with you. But it’s not. It’s a choice between getting base load power from coal or from natural. gas.And that is a very very very easy choice from an economic, environmental, and public health perspective.

2FOR18: It’s become a politicized so I won’t discuss it here either.Side A has their scientists saying one thing and side B has their scientists, and if you disagree with side A/side B then you’re a knuckledragging mouthbreather.

Robert Silverman:
I LOATHE Oklahoma City. I don’t know how they’ve escaped backlash for one, screwing Seattle, and two, being owned by Natural Gas Barons that are destroying the country’s water supply

Thomas B.: … you hear “Kevin Durant is on fire.” It either means he is shooting the ball well, or he just took a sip of West Virginia tap water.

2FOR18: Too bad we can’t burn bricks for fuel

It takes a irrefutable EPIC FAIL of a loss- and I mean EPIC as in feeling like you got hit with every Street Fighter character’s special move ALL AT ONCE + Goku’s Kamehameha Wave + Ichigo’s Getsoga Tencho – for you guys to come up with your best writeups and material of the year. Talk about laughing off your pain.

I think this season is a wrap. I hope I’m wrong.

Go Knicks.

Brian Cronin: Brian Cronin
April 29, 2012 at 4:24 am
So anyway. Do we have any chance of keeping any of Lin/Novak/Smith next season? We might as well talk about their chances in 2013.

I’d say roughly a 30% chance.

There’s a 100% chance Lin will be back (maybe 99%).
I’d give Smith a 60% chance.
And Novak a 55% chance.

All together that comes out to roughly a 30% chance.

I’m probably too high on Smith and Novak, though. I just get a good feeling about both (and “feeling” is all we have to go on, since logic dictates they both leave).

I hope that you are correct, but there is nothing but hope behind your analysis. If the Knicks use the MLE on Lin (as they must), then they would only have the Bi-annual Exception ($2 million/year) for Novak and to hope that JR Smith exercises his $2.5 million option for next year. Novak would have to walk away from the mini-MLE (at least), which would be $3 million/year. Smith should expect a full MLE offer ($5 million/year). Most importantly, they would have to take the hit for at least two years before the Knicks could gain full Bird rights (and be able to bid above the MLE).

Thomas B.: If you hear “Kevin Durant is on fire.” It either means he is shooting the ball well, or he just took a sip of West Virginia tap water.

Dude, I just laughed so hard it made my dog cower in the corner.

ruruland:
Harden gets an unbelievable whistle. I don’t understand how these things work sometimes.

you do realize that Carmelo averages 7 fta per 36 and Harden averages 6.8?

stop the whistle whining, for god’s sake, it makes no sense at all.

nice recap Robert… as for the game, well, nothing out of the ordinary.

I can’t believe we are having a conversation that makes Dolan look good.

He is still the antichrist people, get a grip….

And go Knicks!!!

Robert Silverman: It’s not an alternative. When methane escapes from fracking operations unburned, that CH4 is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 – and the early science indicates that lots and lots of methane escapes from fracking operations, enough to make them worse than coal mines over time.