Todd Terwilliger » knicks http://www.toddterwilliger.com Web designer and developer, technical writer, and general man about town. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:17:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Curse You, Ming! http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2009/01/27/curse-you-ming/ http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2009/01/27/curse-you-ming/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:02:29 +0000 Todd http://www.toddterwilliger.com/?p=732 “The best laid plans of mice and men…” I think Shakespeare said that, maybe somebody else, the ellipsis hiding the fact that I don’t remember the rest of it and am too lazy to look it up. Well, whoever said it, they must have known that, a thousand years beyond them, I would be sitting in Madison Square Garden watching the Houston Rockets choke away a game to the New York Knickerbockers.

This was not what I had signed up for, back when I had signed up for the game under the auspices of the Brooklyn Kickball group-ticket buy-in. I wanted to see a nice, comfortable victory, through which I could radiate a smug sense of superiority and eat a corn dog, maybe some Cracker Jacks. Instead, I got no Yao Ming and a team that folded on the doorstep of victory like a cheap deck chair.

Ming the Merciless

The Rockets Could Have Used Ming’s Interior Presence.

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]]> “The best laid plans of mice and men…” I think Shakespeare said that, maybe somebody else, the ellipsis hiding the fact that I don’t remember the rest of it and am too lazy to look it up. Well, whoever said it, they must have known that, a thousand years beyond them, I would be sitting in Madison Square Garden watching the Houston Rockets choke away a game to the New York Knickerbockers.

This was not what I had signed up for, back when I had signed up for the game under the auspices of the Brooklyn Kickball group-ticket buy-in. I wanted to see a nice, comfortable victory, through which I could radiate a smug sense of superiority and eat a corn dog, maybe some Cracker Jacks. Instead, I got no Yao Ming and a team that folded on the doorstep of victory like a cheap deck chair.

Ming the Merciless

The Rockets Could Have Used Ming’s Interior Presence.

Read the rest...

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