Spending approximately the last 100% of my life in New York, and more specifically Queens, I have to say something?s not right. Discounting the Yankees, the last time New York brought a national victory home was 1994, with of course the success of the Rangers in the Stanley cup finals, yea, its been that long. This is not just pertaining to a specific sport, this includes all New York played sports, including but not limited to the big four, Basketball, Baseball, Football, and Hockey. More than ten years without a major victory is tuff to deal with, especially with an already agitated New York population. The Knicks came close in ?99 but without Ewing in the Finals the Spurs easily embarrassed the Big but shamed Apple. This year the Knicks didn?t even bother to try and build any hope; they let us down softly somewhere at the mid point of the season. Houston didn?t play and Marbury ended up being nothing more than all talk. We need a victory. The only fans that have bragging rights are of course those of the Yankees, and that?s maybe the reason why the city is so strongly split on them, I say this after personally witnessing just three out of the many fights at Shea during the May subway series, one of them not eight rows ahead of me. It worked out perfectly because I was there the day of the Mets victory. Nothing is more obnoxious in a friendly sports argument, or even a heated one for that matter, than someone touting the number 26 as if it were the answer to all their problems. When the Yankees are winning they?re the greatest team of the season, when they?re not, then they?re just the greatest team in history, if you can understand it, then you?re a Yankees fan. At least we have the Knicks and Mets to watch; apparently Hockey could just be taken away from us with the slightest of ease. When it will be returned to us only an older brother would know, going off the experience of my older sister, never. The Great one is gone and the rest as well. A sports city like New York can?t handle the devastation much longer, if it weren?t for the ill-fated playoff run of the Jets last year, we would have nothing at all. Although I am personally for the West Side Stadium, it doesn?t quite make up for the fact that the team hasn?t been winning for the last several dozen years. At this point, people around the city have already settled on cheering for other cities more successful teams, not as big this year but the Piston?s were definitely a favorite around New York bars the last NBA Finals. Remember Clyde Frazier, or Willis Reed, or that long haired one, Joe Nameth, Tom Seaver, Keith Hernandez, Plante, Richter, Messier, any of them, of course you do, which is something more than I can say for the current New York lineups unless they bring home a win. If we don?t win a championship soon, I think it will come down to just taking someone else?s, and with my personal favorite Giuliani out of the way, that might just be the case.