Drama Queens

As much as I sympathize with the striking WGA members, if you live in New York, who needs ‘em? When the sports page is filled with more drama than all of your favorites shows combined, it takes the sting out of the fact that we now have no excuse to not be productive with our free time. A-Rod interrupting the World Series in order to say that, on second thought, a quarter of a billion dollars just isn’t worth it? The Isiah Thomas sexual harassment trial? And now Stephon Marbury basically just saying "I quit, deal with it?" This stuff is pure gold.

In case you don’t know what went down, here’s the supposed back story: Isiah, in trying to do something to turn around his train wreck of a team, decided to bench Marbury. Thinking he’s god’s gift to whatever the Knicks do, Marbury didn’t show for a game in Phoenix last night. Odds are he’s not showing again tonight in L.A. And just how could he get away with this? Rumor has It that he says he has some serious “shit” on Mr. Thomas that would make what happened during his recent sexual harassment trial look like kiddie stuff.

One can only speculate as to what these other things are. We all know that Isiah isn’t capable of running a McDonalds, let alone an NBA team, though as long as Jim Dolan decides that winning 56 games in 2 years is enough improvement to keep him around, he’s not going anywhere. Pay no mind that 56 wins is an off year for the Dallas and Phoenix’s of the league, so the bar has been set incredibly low. Whatever Stephan has on Tohomas, or claims he has, has got to be juicy. It’s got to be enough to make him say, “you know what, you’re better off staying home than coming off the bench.” And it must be better than Marbury giving it to an intern in a pickup truck. This is pure speculation at this point, but I t bet it involves farm animals and the South Pacific sex trade. Because at this point, it’s going to take something of that magnitude for Dolan to grow the balls to put an end to Isiah’s tenure as coach/owner/colossal fuck up.

So what if the writers are on strike a few more weeks when we have the constant soap opera that is New York City? I don’t know what will come of this, but with the cast of clowns involved, it’s not likely to disappoint. Grab the popcorn, this is gonna get good.