Chuck, you know nothing about me and couldn't be more wrong. I'm not loving this. I hate this. You want some honesty, ok.
I've probably been a Ranger fan longer than you've been alive. I pay thousands to go to the games, and I'm far from wealthy. I have to travel in from NJ and that's not cheap. I no longer even buy water because it's $5.25 for a bottle. My heart has been invested in this team for more than 50 years. I actually bought a Nash shirt, hoping I was wrong. I don't know if you have tickets or not, but if not, it's a little different. When you go to game after game, year after year, for most of your life and nothing much changes, your always optimistic view starts to dim, where you take the blinders off and don't think every prospect is great and the team is just a few moves away from being great. You stop chanting Lets Go Rangers most of the time because you've become more realistic and don't fall for the usual homer crap. Your excitement has waned You are waiting for the team to do something to get you excited instead of yelling to try to excite them to play better. For me, the 2009-2011 team was so much fun and had myself and my friends that are fans so excited because it was the first one they built from within since before Mess, and came after another fat cat period of hired guns. They played hard, stuck up for each other, were a real team. Then it was ripped apart in the blink of an eye, basically for the glitz of one supposed goal scorer. I knew Nash was not the guy we needed, and I saw this disaster coming, making it worse for me. The constant FA and trade route for years had been a disaster, especially under Sather. That's why I'm so pissed they dismantled that team. Knowing this trade would kill us and being right about it made me more pissed. The fact that this team is now so small, slow, and such a pushover adds to it. The MSG renovation with the huge price increases, seats so small that my knees hurt from hitting the seat in front of me, having to stand up 100 times a game whenever someone wants to get out, with the fabulous scoreboard I can't see because of the Chase bridges, has made me even more unhappy. I don't fall for the marketing crap where now the Garden, fans, and team are a supposed family called "Rangerstown". What a bunch of crap that is. I thought Sather finally built something that could challenge for awhile, but he tore it apart for the same stupid quick fix scheme. Yet, I love hockey, love the Rangers, still pay my money, and hope each game they'll win. Still hope something changes. I'll unfortunately go to my grave feeling this way, but always thinking they're close, just needing a couple of moves to be a top team, yada yada is long gone for me. My Ranger blinders are off and I see reality. This team stinks and is not close. Like a dope, because I love this team, I will continue to wait until Sather is gone, and pray the idiot owner hires the right guy for a change, no matter how long that takes. Sather is older than me. I can wait him out. Yes, I now follow CBJ. If the Rangers are out and CBJ is in, I'll root for them. JD runs the team, there are a bunch of ex Rangers there, and I'd like to see them do well. Just not as well as us. This is not a time to shine, This is a sad, sad time for me. I love talking hockey so I came here. After a job change I no longer work from home, which is why you didn't hear from me for awhile. I have some time off over the holidays so I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in as well as vent a little. So try to excuse me for being a passionate fan who is upset at the direction of the team and hated the Nash deal. Any other questions?
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