Goodbye Donnie Walsh

[21]

Stepping down as Knicks prez and GM.


http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/news/story?id=6622321&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

 

[JC]

Hello Isiah.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Hello Isiah.

Too soon.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Dolan is a moron. And he is going to **** up the team again. He didn't want Donnie Walsh getting the credit if they turn good. But Walsh could have been the best thing that happened to the Knicks, if Dolan would have just left him alone and let him do his jobs. The Knicks could have had Carmelo Anthony, without giving up as much as they did, but Dolan wouldn't trust Walsh. Now they need some size and a shooter. Isaiah will be whispering in Dolan's ear, even if he isn't on the payroll, and I will lay even odds they screw up. What a damned idiot.

One thing I didn't understand. The last year or so, I thought Walsh looked worse and worse, to the point where he was being wheeled in a wheelchair and had oxygen in his nostrils. Would that have been part of it, or is it Dolan just being an idiot?

 

[D-3 Fan]

Ragu, I second everything single thing you wrote. Dolan is beyond a moron. Dolan is delusional and he doesn't "get it" about running a franchise. Never have, never will.

Walsh's health has been an issue. It's because the Dolans keep ****ing with him and not letting him run the team in the way that it needs to be run.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Whoever thought the Knicks would become the NBA's version of the Detroit Lions?

 

[slappy4428]

How do you know the Lions aren't the NFL version of the Knicks?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

At least George Steinbrenner won a couple of championships during his reign of terror, and for all the crap he gave his employees, he never insisted upon them taking their free time to come cheer him on while he played his guitar.

Dolan hasn't won squat, and still treats his employees like ****.

 

[YankeeFan]

Why did Charles Dolan ever give this idiot kid control of the team?

Couldn't he have started a horse breading operation in Ocala and stashed him there?

 

[Brian]

It's pretty bad when Larry Dolan is the "good" owner in that clan.

 

[YankeeFan]

Didn't the Dolans want to get into the NFL at one point and were kept out?

I think they objected because of their cross ownership rules. But, I think they just didn't want the Dolans in.

 

[Bob Cook]

Sorry, YF, but I'm laughing picturing "horse breading," probably in preparation for serving at Long John Hi-Ho Silvers.

 

[YankeeFan]

Sorry, YF, but I'm laughing picturing "horse breading," probably in preparation for serving at Long John Hi-Ho Silvers.

I meant it as a Steinbrenner reference, but so long as it got a laugh...

 

[suburbia]

Why did Charles Dolan ever give this idiot kid control of the team?

Because Jim Dolan is his son and he wanted to take care of him without screwing up the family's bigger picture that badly.

Remember that the Knicks is just one of many Cablevision holdings. It joins Radio City Music Hall, Paramount Theater and the New York Rangers under the Madison Square Garden umbrella. Then there is also Cablevision cable and a bunch of other businesses in a variety of industries.

Even though Jim Dolan has totally screwed up the Knicks, it's peanuts compared to the successes of the rest of Daddy Dolan's holdings.

 

[YankeeFan]

Why did Charles Dolan ever give this idiot kid control of the team?

Because Jim Dolan is his son and he wanted to take care of him without screwing up the family's bigger picture that badly.

Remember that the Knicks is just one of many Cablevision holdings. It joins Radio City Music Hall, Paramount Theater and the New York Rangers under the Madison Square Garden umbrella. Then there is also Cablevision cable and a bunch of other businesses in a variety of industries.

Even though Jim Dolan has totally screwed up the Knicks, it's peanuts compared to the successes of the rest of Daddy Dolan's holdings.

When the Heinz family decided their idiot kid wasn't suited for the family business they sent him into politics, where he couldn't do any harm.

Why couldn't Charles buy poor Jimmy a political career?

 

[Det. Jimmy McNulty]

Dolan hasn't won squat, and still treats his employees like ****.

Paging Danny Boy Snyder.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Whoever thought the Knicks would become the NBA's version of the Detroit Lions?

Only the entire known world . . . the minute the clown-show Dolans sank their fangs into the outfit.

 

[wicked]

Thank God those idiots never bought the Red Sox.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

At least George Steinbrenner won a couple of championships during his reign of terror, and for all the crap he gave his employees, he never insisted upon them taking their free time to come cheer him on while he played his guitar.

No, he just insisted that many of them stay in their offices until he deigned to leave the premises.

No putting lipstick on that egomaniacal pig.