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It's been quit some time since the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils actually played a game that the Rangers didn't win in! Maybe just maybe it lit a spark in this heated rivalry, and I think it showed last night even while the Devils were kicking the Rangers butts all over the ice.  For the first time in a long time it was a rough and tough game that had plenty of fights in it, more than I've seen in recent bouts between the two teams. It  looked like a game out of the mid 90s where Mark Messier and Scott Stevens would be pushing and shoving after the whistle. All it took was for the Devils to stand up to the Rangers and finally play with them, and better than them for most of the game, to be honest.  As a Ranger fan, I had seen enough in last nights mess of a game, of course if your a Devils fan, there wasn't much of a reason for you to change the channel but it was Friday night and I had better things to do then watch the hated Devils beat up my Rangers so when I met up with some friends at a local pub, it was to my surprise to see a tie game 5-5, and I must've just missed the game tying goal cause seconds later just like the Rangers had done all game,  they let the Devils play and shoot in the middle of the ice, and it cost them. After the go ahead goal I figured maybe if I don't watch they'll come back again, but we all know that didn't happen, and I'm okay with the loss, I'll lose the battle to win the war so to speak, last nights game was one of the most passion I'd see out of them for awhile. It was defiantly one of the harder fought games I've seen in awhile, (Thank goodness for Rangers Replay at 2 am).  Hopefully for fans on both sides, this was just a preview of the kind of games we'll get to see down the road, the games where the players on the ice are playing for the name on the front of the jersey!

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It's funny that for three weeks the Yankees had an offer on the table that surely they knew wasn't their best foot forward kind of offer. It was them letting the other teams know that if we can start at 140 million dollars whose to say we can't reach 180 million, and they would've if they had too, the next closest bid was 100 million and word around baseball is the other owners aren't too happy with the Yankees for flexing their big market muscles, but come on like they wouldn't if they could. Maybe the other teams shouldn't spend their luxury tax money on airplanes and cars and start putting back into their teams and see where that gets them. Everyone knows that these days money doesn't guarantee championships, heck for the past 8 years the Yankees

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It's only fitting that I start off my first blog talking about the New York Knicks, simply because lucky for me I was 10 rows behind the basket at Sunday's game against the Detroit Pistons, a game that saw the Knicks drain three's from all over the floor and play with more energy and cohesiveness then they showed the last two games combined.  With Nate the Great still nursing that hamstring, Duhon played all 48 minutes and Jared Jefferies added a much needed lift to help the Knicks end there three game losing streak and get the W. But the story here is Al Harrington's play Sunday, he was hitting three's, hitting the open man for the three, playing D and rebounding, he provided a big spark for the Knicks.  Watching him play, only convinced me more that this team is going to compete and that he can be a difference maker for the Knicks.  I'm beginning to see why Donnie Walsh has always found a way to get Al Harrington on his teams!  Walsh has made some great moves for the year 2010, moves that could land the greatest person ever to where the number 23 , and it's not your AIRNESS,  it's LeBron James! Don't worry I'm well aware that Lebron James is 6 NBA championships behind Jordan, so let's just say the greatest person RIGHT NOW to where number 23 ok?  If I'm going to mention some of the good things I must mention some of the bad and I have to admit Donnie has also made some not so great moves,  the big one being Stephon Marbury,  and you had to see this coming, it wouldn't be a Knicks conversation without uttering the name Stephon Marbury, the thorn in the side of everyone in the Knicks organization from Dolan right down to us, the fans. But although I can't argue that it could've and should've been handled better than it was, ultimately the right decision was made, which is not letting Marbury anyway near the rest of the Knicks, HE was the one thing holding them back from actually being a team, and now that the dust has settled on the trades for the future and the Marbury fiasco, the Knicks can focus on being the team they've been working hard to be. With a few new weapons and a lot more unselfish play, the new Look Knicks are only starting to reach the surface of their potential! And  Noooo, I'm not delusional, the Knicks potential doesn't go further than sneaking in the back door of the playoffs with the 8th spot in the Eastern Conference but for now, if they can get consistent and play like they did against Detroit, the Sky's the limit, and in the Knicks case the Sky's the 8th seed. 

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