maybe you’ll be graced with him writing you back and calling you an alcoholic…

man is that dude out of control, and, sadly to date no one has been able to slow his roll…hell, if anything he’s just getting worse…

hopefully though there’s enough people with the will to show up and help keep it messy and uncomfortable for dolan…until eventually silver needs to do – something…

Security doesn’t have any right to detain you either, make you wait for anything, meet up with their supervisor, meet with Dolan — any of that. They have no right over you at all other than peacefully asking you to leave the facility. They don’t have any right to use force against you to get you out, either, absent you doing something that reasonably makes them believe they have to in order to get you out. You’ve broken no law by yelling “sell the team,” you’ve broken no law by telling the security guards to stick it where the sun don’t shine if they demand that you do anything but leave the premises. They’re private nobodies, the equivalent of bouncers at a bar. MSG is a public place, so you can’t go about disturbing the peace in any way (and yelling “sell the team” isn’t even close to that), but otherwise, you’re basically in a private bar when you’re there. The bar owner can ask you to leave his bar, but nothing beyond that.

The owner of this team sics platoons of security guards on peaceful 15 year olds. Outrageous.

I think we have found common ground…..

“(Prior to that), we started chanting ‘sell the team’ and we were immediately confronted by a security guard who said we could potentially be arrested if we don’t stop.

This threat by the security guard could be entirely empty, but it’s really troubling that the NYPD is apparently possibly enforcing Jim Dolan’s whims as if they are actually the law. This should be clear: there’s no law against yelling “sell the team” in Madison Square Garden. Jim Dolan (unfortunately) does have the authority as a private facility operator to revoke your ticket license peacefully for yelling “sell the team,” but that’s an entirely different matter from arrest. If the police are getting involved with these evictions, it should only be as a means of keeping the peace between the potentially arguing parties and they should be entirely even-handed — i.e., MSG security has no right to start putting its hands on people or grabbing people or threatening violence or anything of the sort and if they do, the police should be arresting them, not the fans. MSG can ask the fan to leave and the fan has to leave or they’re trespassing and that is a violation of the law — a teeny, tiny one, but yes. But if security comes over and says you have to leave and you leave, the police have no place to do anything and you’ve obviously done nothing illegal.

Like most Knick fans, I find it utterly outrageous that Jim Dolan is operating the Garden in this way where peaceful paying patrons are getting aggressively confronted by security and police for innocuous, unthreatening statements and it’s kind of troubling that Adam Silver and the NBA are just letting the outrages continue over and over and over again.

What could be a better community experience than this whole board going to a game and chanting sell the team full throated for 48 minutes?

Then we go to DRed’s house for pizza.