May 8, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
As if one night in Boston wasn't enough, then came
to two Knights in Boston, too, glorious, two glorious Knights
in Boston. When we made the Garden Eden, we made
(00:32):
the Boston Garden Eden. The New York Knicks in twenty
twenty five made the Boston Garden Eden. I don't know
what the name of that arena is. I honestly could care.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Less what that The name of that new Boston Garden
place where they play basketball is called, what is it?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The Cisco the Cisco Building. It's got no history, it's
got no soul. All the history from Boston Celtic basketball
is gone in the debris from the Boston Garden. I thought, okay, well,
(01:17):
we came from twenty points down the other night. Let's
just get back to New York and keep playing, keep fighting,
and lo and behold, it happened again, Boston. It happened again, Boston.
It happened again Boston. When I repeat things in threes,
(01:39):
does it remind you of Halachack stole the ball. Halachack
stole the ball, Halachack stole the ball? Does it remind
you of that? When Johnny Most said, Halacheck stole the
ball over and over and over. Well, the new Halicheck
stole the ball is Bridges stole the ball again. Bridges
(02:05):
stole the ball again. Bridges stole the ball again. You
fuck you. Now we think about going to the hardware store.
Now we have to consider going to the hardware store
(02:25):
to get out the brooms. Okay, now we're talking about brooms,
and I suggest New York Nick fans in New York
Tri state area, don't go to Target, don't go to
Home Depot, don't go to Rite Aid, Dwayne Reid or CVS.
(02:47):
When you go get your brooms, go to your local
old school hardware store where they got the old thick,
thick handle with the goodwood. Get the goodwood broom from
your local hardware store. Now, I'm not saying we're gonna sweep,
but it's on the table. I ain't saying the Knicks
(03:09):
are going to sweep the Celtics, but it's on the table.
I know something about brooms. Oh yeah, I brought a
broom to the Cleveland Cavaliers versus the Golden State Warriors
Game three. I'm saying, different set of circumstances they had
Durant Klay Thompson in his prime, Steph Curry, Steph Curry.
(03:32):
Last name rhymes with Flurry and so forth and so on.
But if you're really about that Knicks life, and I'm
not saying I am, if you're really thinking about sweeping up,
bring that broom to the garden for Game three. If
(03:56):
the Knicks beat the miserable Boston Celtics Saturday, in Game
three Sunday morning, every single broom from every local hardware
store in New York City should be sold out. You
should not be able to have a broom. And like
I said, get the thick wood, the heavy wood, not
(04:18):
the plastic. Oh it's light. Get the kind of a wood.
The broom handle an old school that used to play
stickball with with the bristles that you could clean in
the house and you could also clean the street with.
I woke up this morning, I'm not thinking so much
about the Knicks Celtics history. Let's be honest, there isn't
(04:39):
much to think about Knicks Celtics. There is no rivalry.
When the Knicks went up two games to nothing in
the second round of this series, after coming back not
once from twenty points down twice two fucking times, I
start thinking about nineteen seventy nine Madison Square Garden. I
(05:02):
start thinking about the Boston Bruins in the world's most
famous arena playing the Rangers third period. I'm not even
a I'm not even a hockey fan. Nine years old.
Young Michael Rapport, nine years old, December nineteen seventy nine.
It was like a violent act had taken place in
(05:23):
New York City. Those goons, Terry O'Reilly and that other
ape Lalande Lalandi from the Boston Bruins. When they they
couldn't just leave well enough alone. They couldn't just leave
the world's most famous arena. If somebody said something, somebody
(05:44):
did something, somebody took a stick. Who cares. The apes
from the Boston Bruins they went into They went into
the stands at Madison Square Garden and started beating up
New Yorkers. Boston Bruins. Terry O'Reilly and the rest of
those goons went into the stands and start beating up
New York Ranger fans. Terry O'Reilly or one of those
(06:05):
animals started beating up a New York Ranger fan with
his own shoe. When I think about the Knicks being
up two games to nothing, two games to nothing after
being down twenty points, not once, twice, two times. I
think about that. I think about Bucky Dent, Bucky Dent,
(06:30):
fucking Bucky Dent with that little that little dink on
that glorious day in September or October. I think about that.
I think about Bucky Dent with his beautiful hair. Bucky
Deed was handsome. He looks like Scott Bayle in his prime,
looked like Ralph Machio in his prime, Eric Estrada in
(06:53):
his prime. I think about that. It's not just about
the Celtics and the Nick You've gotten the better of
us year after there's no comparison. We haven't won a
championship since nineteen seventy three, which I documented fabulously, award
winning thirty for thirty, When the Garden was eating, and
(07:14):
we made the Boston Garden eating last night twice, two times,
two nights in Boston. That sounds like a porno. That
sounds like a poor no film. That sounds like a
no no. Two nights in Boston. I don't just think
about Larry Joe Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, Danny Ainge,
(07:38):
Jerry Seasting, the late great Dennis Johnson, Bill Fitch, KC. Jones.
I don't think about Red auerback, Bill Russell, so Forth
and so on, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce. I start to
think about some of the deeper, paying to think about
(08:00):
Babe Ruth. Yeah, that's what I start to think about.
When the Knicks come down from twenty points, not once,
but two times. I think about the Curse of the Bambino.
I start to think about two thousand and four and
Pedro Martinez when he had assaulted Don Zimmer, the late
(08:24):
great Don Zimmer. You couldn't you couldn't just let the
old man go, could you paydro You had to grab
the old man by the back of his head and
throw him down to the ground. Pedro Martinez. I think
about Manny Ramirez and it's fucking Jerry Curl and Pedro
Martinez and is Jerry. I think about No Ma, No Ma,
(08:45):
Gassi Aparra two thousand and four, the pain, the hurt,
it doesn't go away. The Knicks being up two games
to nothing in this series. It's beyond the Knicks and
the Celtics. It's beyond on the NBA. It's a beyond basketball.
This is deep seated hate. Let's call it what it is.
(09:07):
Celtics don't like us. We don't like the Celtics. Boston
doesn't like New York. We don't like you either. Let's
cut the shit and the pleasantries. New York sports fans
disdain Boston sports fans. I don't care. If we're talking
about the Patriots, I don't talk I were talking about
the Boston Bruins. I'll talk about the Boston Red Sox.
(09:28):
I'll talk about the Yankees, the Mets, the Knicks, lacrosse,
track and field. It doesn't matter. We don't like you,
you don't like us. So when we're up two games
to nothing, this is big fucking deal. And you got
Jason Tatum with his beautiful curly hair doing his chatchatch
hot slide, and Jalen Brown, I start to think about
(09:52):
all of it. I start to think about a new Addition.
I start to think about the new kids on the Block.
I start to think about Mark Wahlberg, Donny Wahlburg, Nis Leary,
Bill Burr, Bill Simmons and all of them. And I
love New Edition. I love Donnie Warburg, I love Mark Wahlberg,
I love Ben Affleck. I love Matt Damon, but when
(10:13):
it comes to this, this thing, this sports thing, nah
nah nah, let's cut the pleasantries. You don't like us,
we don't like you, and you should start blaming Bill Belichick.
He has tainted, he has tainted all Boston sports things,
all things Boston sports have been tainted. In real time.
(10:36):
They're tainted right now. Instagram post after Instagram post after
weird interview after weird interview from your guy Bill Belichick.
Is who is getting turned out in real time? Your
guy Bill Belichick is getting turned out in real time
by a twenty four year old chippy. It's all combined,
(11:00):
all connected. The Knicks being up two games to nothing
after coming back down twenty points, not once, but twice.
It's all tied together to Bill Belichick and what he's
doing to the legacy, to the legacy of Boston sports,
of the New England Patriots, and Boston itself. We don't
(11:20):
like you, You don't like us, Call a spade a spade.
I think about Eli Manning. I can almost I can
almost cry think about Eli. I think about fucking Tom Brady.
I think about Julian Edelman, I think about David Tyree,
(11:42):
I think about the New York Giants taking you guys down,
slaying the evil Empire, I mean evil, the New England
Patriots and all their cheating, and all of Bill Belichick's mumbling,
and Tom Brady's conno ice cream skin and his John
(12:02):
Travolta chin cleftmore and his gorgeous head a hair. I
think of all of it. I think of all of
it because Eli Manning. You could say what you want
to say about Eli Manning the two biggest days of
his life. He was the best looking guy on the field.
(12:26):
He was the man. Oh yeah, oh yeah. It's not
just about Patrick Ewing, Bernard King, Charles Oakley, Doc Rivers.
It's not just about a Glenn Gondrazik, Earl the Pearl Monroe,
Dave de Busher, the late Great Dick Barnett, the Captain
(12:48):
Willis Reid. It's not just about any of that. It's
not just about Jeff Van Gundy. It's not just about
Pat Riley. It's not just about Paul Pierce Garnett, Jason Tatum,
Jalen Brown, the White Mamba, Brian Scalabrini. It's beyond that.
It's Boston, New York, New York Boston. You don't like us,
(13:11):
We don't like you. Let's cut the shit, cut the gentrified,
fake sports bullshit. You never liked us, you don't respect us,
and we look down on you. This is New York.
We're looking down We're looking down on you. Boston. We're
a better city, we got better style. You have an
(13:34):
inferiority complex Boston and Boston sports fans have an inferiority
complex towards New York and New York sports fans. It's okay,
you won a World Series or two. It's fine. You
got banner after banner for the Bruins, you got banner
(13:55):
after banner after banner for the Boston Celtics. But you'll
never be New York. And that's that's part of it.
That is a beautiful part of it. So yes, it's
only two games, it's only two nights in Boston, but
what a glorious, gorgeous, iconic two nights in Boston. So
(14:22):
fuck you, Johnny Damon, fuck you, Roger Clemens, fuck you,
Bobby Orr, fuck you, Terry O'Reilly, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale,
fuck you man, fuck you man, and so forth and
so on and so forth and so on, The Knicks
(14:45):
right now are up two games to zip to zero.
Two nights in Boston. Oh yeah, go New York Go,
New York Go.
As if one night in Boston wasn't enough, then came
to two Knights in Boston, too, glorious, two glorious Knights
in Boston. When we made the Garden Eden, we made
(00:32):
the Boston Garden Eden. The New York Knicks in twenty
twenty five made the Boston Garden Eden. I don't know
what the name of that arena is. I honestly could care.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Less what that The name of that new Boston Garden
place where they play basketball is called, what is it?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The Cisco the Cisco Building. It's got no history, it's
got no soul. All the history from Boston Celtic basketball
is gone in the debris from the Boston Garden. I thought, okay, well,
(01:17):
we came from twenty points down the other night. Let's
just get back to New York and keep playing, keep fighting,
and lo and behold, it happened again, Boston. It happened again, Boston.
It happened again Boston. When I repeat things in threes,
(01:39):
does it remind you of Halachack stole the ball. Halachack
stole the ball, Halachack stole the ball? Does it remind
you of that? When Johnny Most said, Halacheck stole the
ball over and over and over. Well, the new Halicheck
stole the ball is Bridges stole the ball again. Bridges
(02:05):
stole the ball again. Bridges stole the ball again. You
fuck you. Now we think about going to the hardware store.
Now we have to consider going to the hardware store
(02:25):
to get out the brooms. Okay, now we're talking about brooms,
and I suggest New York Nick fans in New York
Tri state area, don't go to Target, don't go to
Home Depot, don't go to Rite Aid, Dwayne Reid or CVS.
(02:47):
When you go get your brooms, go to your local
old school hardware store where they got the old thick,
thick handle with the goodwood. Get the goodwood broom from
your local hardware store. Now, I'm not saying we're gonna sweep,
but it's on the table. I ain't saying the Knicks
(03:09):
are going to sweep the Celtics, but it's on the table.
I know something about brooms. Oh yeah, I brought a
broom to the Cleveland Cavaliers versus the Golden State Warriors
Game three. I'm saying, different set of circumstances they had
Durant Klay Thompson in his prime, Steph Curry, Steph Curry.
(03:32):
Last name rhymes with Flurry and so forth and so on.
But if you're really about that Knicks life, and I'm
not saying I am, if you're really thinking about sweeping up,
bring that broom to the garden for Game three. If
(03:56):
the Knicks beat the miserable Boston Celtics Saturday, in Game
three Sunday morning, every single broom from every local hardware
store in New York City should be sold out. You
should not be able to have a broom. And like
I said, get the thick wood, the heavy wood, not
(04:18):
the plastic. Oh it's light. Get the kind of a wood.
The broom handle an old school that used to play
stickball with with the bristles that you could clean in
the house and you could also clean the street with.
I woke up this morning, I'm not thinking so much
about the Knicks Celtics history. Let's be honest, there isn't
(04:39):
much to think about Knicks Celtics. There is no rivalry.
When the Knicks went up two games to nothing in
the second round of this series, after coming back not
once from twenty points down twice two fucking times, I
start thinking about nineteen seventy nine Madison Square Garden. I
(05:02):
start thinking about the Boston Bruins in the world's most
famous arena playing the Rangers third period. I'm not even
a I'm not even a hockey fan. Nine years old.
Young Michael Rapport, nine years old, December nineteen seventy nine.
It was like a violent act had taken place in
(05:23):
New York City. Those goons, Terry O'Reilly and that other
ape Lalande Lalandi from the Boston Bruins. When they they
couldn't just leave well enough alone. They couldn't just leave
the world's most famous arena. If somebody said something, somebody
(05:44):
did something, somebody took a stick. Who cares. The apes
from the Boston Bruins they went into They went into
the stands at Madison Square Garden and started beating up
New Yorkers. Boston Bruins. Terry O'Reilly and the rest of
those goons went into the stands and start beating up
New York Ranger fans. Terry O'Reilly or one of those
(06:05):
animals started beating up a New York Ranger fan with
his own shoe. When I think about the Knicks being
up two games to nothing, two games to nothing after
being down twenty points, not once, twice, two times. I
think about that. I think about Bucky Dent, Bucky Dent,
(06:30):
fucking Bucky Dent with that little that little dink on
that glorious day in September or October. I think about that.
I think about Bucky Dent with his beautiful hair. Bucky
Deed was handsome. He looks like Scott Bayle in his prime,
looked like Ralph Machio in his prime, Eric Estrada in
(06:53):
his prime. I think about that. It's not just about
the Celtics and the Nick You've gotten the better of
us year after there's no comparison. We haven't won a
championship since nineteen seventy three, which I documented fabulously, award
winning thirty for thirty, When the Garden was eating, and
(07:14):
we made the Boston Garden eating last night twice, two times,
two nights in Boston. That sounds like a porno. That
sounds like a poor no film. That sounds like a
no no. Two nights in Boston. I don't just think
about Larry Joe Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, Danny Ainge,
(07:38):
Jerry Seasting, the late great Dennis Johnson, Bill Fitch, KC. Jones.
I don't think about Red auerback, Bill Russell, so Forth
and so on, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce. I start to
think about some of the deeper, paying to think about
(08:00):
Babe Ruth. Yeah, that's what I start to think about.
When the Knicks come down from twenty points, not once,
but two times. I think about the Curse of the Bambino.
I start to think about two thousand and four and
Pedro Martinez when he had assaulted Don Zimmer, the late
(08:24):
great Don Zimmer. You couldn't you couldn't just let the
old man go, could you paydro You had to grab
the old man by the back of his head and
throw him down to the ground. Pedro Martinez. I think
about Manny Ramirez and it's fucking Jerry Curl and Pedro
Martinez and is Jerry. I think about No Ma, No Ma,
(08:45):
Gassi Aparra two thousand and four, the pain, the hurt,
it doesn't go away. The Knicks being up two games
to nothing in this series. It's beyond the Knicks and
the Celtics. It's beyond on the NBA. It's a beyond basketball.
This is deep seated hate. Let's call it what it is.
(09:07):
Celtics don't like us. We don't like the Celtics. Boston
doesn't like New York. We don't like you either. Let's
cut the shit and the pleasantries. New York sports fans
disdain Boston sports fans. I don't care. If we're talking
about the Patriots, I don't talk I were talking about
the Boston Bruins. I'll talk about the Boston Red Sox.
(09:28):
I'll talk about the Yankees, the Mets, the Knicks, lacrosse,
track and field. It doesn't matter. We don't like you,
you don't like us. So when we're up two games
to nothing, this is big fucking deal. And you got
Jason Tatum with his beautiful curly hair doing his chatchatch
hot slide, and Jalen Brown, I start to think about
(09:52):
all of it. I start to think about a new Addition.
I start to think about the new kids on the Block.
I start to think about Mark Wahlberg, Donny Wahlburg, Nis Leary,
Bill Burr, Bill Simmons and all of them. And I
love New Edition. I love Donnie Warburg, I love Mark Wahlberg,
I love Ben Affleck. I love Matt Damon, but when
(10:13):
it comes to this, this thing, this sports thing, nah
nah nah, let's cut the pleasantries. You don't like us,
we don't like you, and you should start blaming Bill Belichick.
He has tainted, he has tainted all Boston sports things,
all things Boston sports have been tainted. In real time.
(10:36):
They're tainted right now. Instagram post after Instagram post after
weird interview after weird interview from your guy Bill Belichick.
Is who is getting turned out in real time? Your
guy Bill Belichick is getting turned out in real time
by a twenty four year old chippy. It's all combined,
(11:00):
all connected. The Knicks being up two games to nothing
after coming back down twenty points, not once, but twice.
It's all tied together to Bill Belichick and what he's
doing to the legacy, to the legacy of Boston sports,
of the New England Patriots, and Boston itself. We don't
(11:20):
like you, You don't like us, Call a spade a spade.
I think about Eli Manning. I can almost I can
almost cry think about Eli. I think about fucking Tom Brady.
I think about Julian Edelman, I think about David Tyree,
(11:42):
I think about the New York Giants taking you guys down,
slaying the evil Empire, I mean evil, the New England
Patriots and all their cheating, and all of Bill Belichick's mumbling,
and Tom Brady's conno ice cream skin and his John
(12:02):
Travolta chin cleftmore and his gorgeous head a hair. I
think of all of it. I think of all of
it because Eli Manning. You could say what you want
to say about Eli Manning the two biggest days of
his life. He was the best looking guy on the field.
(12:26):
He was the man. Oh yeah, oh yeah. It's not
just about Patrick Ewing, Bernard King, Charles Oakley, Doc Rivers.
It's not just about a Glenn Gondrazik, Earl the Pearl Monroe,
Dave de Busher, the late Great Dick Barnett, the Captain
(12:48):
Willis Reid. It's not just about any of that. It's
not just about Jeff Van Gundy. It's not just about
Pat Riley. It's not just about Paul Pierce Garnett, Jason Tatum,
Jalen Brown, the White Mamba, Brian Scalabrini. It's beyond that.
It's Boston, New York, New York Boston. You don't like us,
(13:11):
We don't like you. Let's cut the shit, cut the gentrified,
fake sports bullshit. You never liked us, you don't respect us,
and we look down on you. This is New York.
We're looking down We're looking down on you. Boston. We're
a better city, we got better style. You have an
(13:34):
inferiority complex Boston and Boston sports fans have an inferiority
complex towards New York and New York sports fans. It's okay,
you won a World Series or two. It's fine. You
got banner after banner for the Bruins, you got banner
(13:55):
after banner after banner for the Boston Celtics. But you'll
never be New York. And that's that's part of it.
That is a beautiful part of it. So yes, it's
only two games, it's only two nights in Boston, but
what a glorious, gorgeous, iconic two nights in Boston. So
(14:22):
fuck you, Johnny Damon, fuck you, Roger Clemens, fuck you,
Bobby Orr, fuck you, Terry O'Reilly, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale,
fuck you man, fuck you man, and so forth and
so on and so forth and so on, The Knicks
(14:45):
right now are up two games to zip to zero.
Two nights in Boston. Oh yeah, go New York Go,
New York Go.
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