The Season of Hope: As Derek Jeter reminds us of magic, Odell Beckham Jr. gives glimpse of bright future in NY Elsa/Getty Images Derek Jeter gives us another magical moment in his final Yankee Stadium at-bat. This one is for the sports fans of New York on Christmas, the ones who have seen most of their teams around here — not all, but most — fall on hard times lately, made New York sports, at least for now, look and feel like the capital of the overpaid and the under-producing. This is for all the ones who keep caring, and keep coming. They keep coming at Madison Square Garden to watch the Knicks, even knowing what they know about the last decade-and-a-half, knowing that only one team in the NBA — the Minnesota Timberwolves — has lost more games than the Knicks have lost since the start of the 2001-02 season. The other day I wrote about somebody who works at the Garden, someone who has been around a while, asking him why the people still keep coming the way they do, and paying what they have to pay, to watch what they have to watch. He shrugged and smiled at halftime of another game the Knicks would lose at the end, this one to the Suns, and said, “It’s still [...] newsnyork/the-season-of-hope-as-derek-jeter-reminds-us-of-magic-odell-beckham-jr-gives-glimpse-of-bright-future-in-ny/
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:15:27 +0000
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