It’s 10:15 pm, and I can’t help but jump on the anti-MSG band-wagon. I have to tell you though, since Sunday afternoon, that wagon is standing-room only. I’m sure the entire Islander Country let out one huge expletive when it was “announced” the Rangers, with their one point for the regulation tie, had won the Hummer Metro Challenge. After I stopped throwing pillows at the big screen in the living room, I kept looking at the numbers. I didn’t quite get it. Numbers aren’t supposed to lie. The Devils were of no consequence, but somehow it still looked like the NY Islanders had won the challenge. I chalked it up to the truck giving someone on air the wrong info through their earpiece.
And then it happened… the internet lit up like a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. The comments, the emails, the blogs, hit the net fast and furious like a wildfire through California. Here was just another way for the Islander/Ranger rivalry to become even more intense, passionate and down-right UGLY. By some convoluted twist of fair-play, the $50,000 charity prize was to go to the NY Rangers' charity, whatever that is. Did anyone in the media business actually think that Islander Country would sit idly by and let that happen?
Hey! A tie is a tie, and this is for charity. Let the teams split the prize and everyone goes home happy. Award it to the rightful winner (you know the one who actually won more games WITHIN the competition) and most people will be happy. Award it to the team that should have rightfully lost, and you will have a firestorm on your hands that will rival the Richard Riot. (Oh look, a hockey history reference.) We’re Islander fans…. We’ve got plenty of time on our hands right now. And we all have computers and know how to use them.
According to today’s 1st Point Blank entry (http://nyipointblank.blogspot.com/), a proper resolution might have been announced tonight on air. It failed to come. As this may be a legal issue, I’m willing to give them another 24 hours. If it doesn’t come…. We shall release the internet Pitbulls. And I warn you… we're a little hungry right now.
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I saw your comments on Bottas blog and I just wanted to let you know that I am with you on this!
I have been checking Chris Bottas blog hoping for updates regarding the resolution that has not come to pass, but unfortunately there has been no update. Like you, I am fine with waiting a little longer to see what is happening... but I do not think that waiting indefinitely will serve any purpose whatsoever.
I really should not have been surprised that MSG failed to make this right, but I actually am. I gave even MSG more credit than this. To steal fifty thousand dollars from a charity and do so with impunity, there are no words that can adequately describe how tasteless and disgusting that action truly is.
Like you, I think the worst thing would be to bow down and allow this thievery to pass by. If the money has already been given to another charity, so be it... but that does NOT have to mean that this is over. If that is indeed the case, then the Islanders fans need to step up and do something to make this right. We might not be able to raise fifty thousand dollars, but we can do what we can. We should have donation tables at the draft day party. We should have a site where people can donate to a collective donation pool as well. And whatever we do raise, if the Islanders organization perhaps wishes to match even part of it we should present it to representatives from the Long Islannd Childrens Foundation at the first Ranger Islander game at NVMC next season. This would be a wonderful way to make our statement and in the end it would only help even more people.
Please let us know if there are any updates or if there is any information about this. Like you, there are many of us who want to make sure that justice is served.
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