Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2025.09.18)

By: Director NYC

Director NYC — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:37:33 +0000

That actually made me laugh, Hubert. Great post.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:43:58 +0000

According to Google AI, Steve Ballmer didn’t date any girls in high school and I am apt to agree with it.

By: geo

geo — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:14:04 +0000

the universe’s way of telling you not to give a shit…

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:05:42 +0000

The new structure for how sports are televised is driving me crazy and, honestly, making we sympathize with Dolan in one regard. I’ve sometimes tried to watch Yankee games lately, and it’s very difficult to find out where they are being broadcast. It could be Yes, Fox, MLB channel, Apple TV and probably more. ESPN used to list what was on TV but no more so you have to do web searches and may or may not find it. At the moment, I am watching on the Fox sports app, but only the Spanish language broadcast is available. ( (I think they don’t have rights to the English version for their app). The whole system has moved from catering to fans of a particular team to just thinking any game is good (like Monday night football). If you follow a team, instead of, say, just watch sports, it’s difficult. There is no way to subscribe to watch all that team’s games. It’s the same for the NBA. This brings me to Dolan. He is at war with the league and I think it’s over the way they have made local broadcasting rights less and less valuable. They have sold many more NBA games to national TV than they used to so local broadcasting has fewer games to show than they used to. So MSG has fewer games to show than they used to. This affects the big market teams the worst because their local rights are the most valuable. Dolan is rightfully upset. The system is being skewed towards showing a game, any game, (probably hopefully one bettors will bet on) instead of catering to long time fans of teams. I don’t know the Yankees as well, but it coukd be the same for them.

By: hubert

hubert — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:25:51 +0000

You ever get the feeling Steve Ballmer and Director dated the same girl in high school?

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:25:44 +0000

Aha, thanks.

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Correct TC, the 3 division leaders are the top 3 seeds regardless if any Wild Card teams have better records.

Yankees currently have the 2nd best record in the AL yet are the 4th seed cause they’re 2nd in the AL East behind Toronto.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:39:56 +0000

FROM SHAMS:

Guard Dennis Smith Jr. has agreed to a one-year deal to return to the Dallas Mavericks, agent Daniel Hazan of Hazan Sports Management tells ESPN. Smith reunites with the franchise that drafted him No. 9 overall in 2017 and now he’ll compete in training camp in Dallas.

By: ThisChicanery

ThisChicanery — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:27:11 +0000

This is all very different from when I last followed baseball, but my understanding is that the #4 record Dodgers (my team, woohoo!), would play the #5 record Padres, and the #3 record Cubs would play the #6 record Mets if the season ended today. Is that not right?

I don’t think that’s right. Assuming the Dodgers win the division I believe they play the last wild card team, the Mets, and the other two wild cards play each other.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:52:52 +0000

the Mets and Dodgers are most likely gonna face each other in a Wild Card series.

This is all very different from when I last followed baseball, but my understanding is that the #4 record Dodgers (my team, woohoo!), would play the #5 record Padres, and the #3 record Cubs would play the #6 record Mets if the season ended today. Is that not right?