Now you can’t comment trashing Stephen A… Unless you take a few minutes to register.
MITCHELL BLATT

Here at Juiced Sports Blog, we pride ourselves in giving you the best coverage of Stephen A’s outrageous blog. (Just look at our past three posts.)

Well, when I was at Stephen A’s blog this morning reading his new post (or rather reading the comments), I realized something was different. When I clicked on Jay Mariotti’s name under his comment, the link took me to his column page. When you click on the new comments, they take you to a profile page of each commenter. That’s because you now have to register for Typekey commenting to comment on his blog.

After all the supportive comments on his first post, why doesn’t he want more people commenting? (end of sarcasm)

This ain’t gonna work, Stephen A. We hate you more than you hate us, so we will always find a way to win. You’re prank may have worked for now, as there have only been eight comments so far, but most of us hate you enough to register to comment.

If you really want to stop us, you have to get the Knicks security on this.

Knicks owner James Dolan has a very interesting idea about business: If you can’t beat em, outspend em. If you still can’t beat em, put your GM as coach. Finally, if you still suck, supress media coverage.

This is an old story, but it’s been happening at the Knicks arena for a long time–all this season, security has been stepped up, but they’ve always been brutal.

Anyway, someone was kicked out of a Knicks game for using the word ass when heckling Jared Jeffries. Some of the media were there to interview Giants players during halftime. The reporters wanted to interview the man, but they were held back by security, and one of them had their press pass torn off.

The ushers said that the media was impeding their ability to do their job by trying to interview him. Or by broadcasting to the public how oppressive the Knicks KGB-like treatment of fans was. The story got out, anyway, and it painted the Knicks worse because of the attempted censorship of the guards. To bad they don’t control the press outside of Madison Square Garden…

But, the press’ excuses for why they weren’t wrong were wrong. They said:

The security staff evidently felt that we had been impeding the ejection of the fan, which of course wasn’t true. We got nowhere near the fan, thanks to the overzealous security staff.

Not that the security staff wasn’t overly aggressive, but if you use the excuse that you got nowhere near the fan, your reasoning can’t be because security held you back.

That would be like an attempted murderer saying, “I didn’t do anything wrong. You guys shot me before I could shoot him.”

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