Mission Statement

OK, so this blog is titled “David Lee Needs a 'Stache“ and I suppose I need to explain why. Well, I guess it was about a month ago that I was at opening night for the Knicks at MSG and I started thinking about a few things. The predominant thought was that the Knicks are one of the flagship teams in the NBA (along with the Celtics, Lakers, Bobcats, and Bulls) and yet they really don't have any super-popular athletes that are embraced by the city and marketing execs. You see Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Eli Manning, David Wright, Bret Favre, Johan Santana, and Joba Chamberlain everywhere, but it's been about a decade since we've seen a ubiquitous Knickerbocker. Since the NHL folded in 1998 the NBA has been the only relevant winter sports league in the United States, New Yorkers love basketball, and yet there is no one that represents the team to the common man.

I have a solution. David Lee has been almost unilaterally the most popular Knick for the last few years, has been one of if not the best Knick in this same time period, and it appears this is unlikely to change until after next season, so he's the player I'm targeting. My theory is that he will never be an unstoppable force in the league with his ceiling being a borderline 3rd string all-star, so he needs to bring something else to the table to gain notoriety and get his name into the collective unconscious of the citizens of New York. I think that something is a mustache. Everyone loves a big goofy white guy playing basketball; this is inarguable. However another thing that just about everyone loves is an ironic 70's porn 'stache on a celebrity and if said celebrity can't totally pull it off and it's totally wispy (as I can only assume Mr. Lee's would be) then that's even better. I think this would give us something to talk about that's only tangentially about basketball, which is exactly what this city needs because right now no one really wants to talk about basketball. Then again, maybe I'm wrong.

So that's why the name of this blog is what it is. That said, I will more than likely never bring this up again. It's been a month, I've not thought of more than 3 basketball/'stache thoughts in that time frame and do feel like blogging about other stuff and don't feel like changing the name. In reality I'm just going to rant like any other blogger about whatever I feel like and try to provide funny spins on it. Occasionally I'll write about my feelings and why I'm so alone in the universe and write poetry that will imply that I may be a cutter. I might think about flagging individual posts with either a smiley face, meaning it's something that you might find funny, or with a sad face meaning that you don't want to read it unless you're secretly in love with me.

With that, welcome to the blog, I hope you stay awhile, unless you're looking to point out my mis-spellings and poor grammar, that's just weak, I blog so that I don't have to proof-read, if I wanted to proof-read I would get a job and move out of my mom's basement.