I don't see the connection.

"The signs are everywhere now. Panic on the sidewalks of New York, lumps in throats ... hope and faith and belief in miracles in Beantown. It can’t be happening again. But it is. Because if it can happen to Joe Torre and Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, it can sure happen to Carmelo Anthony.

Only this time, it isn’t the Boston Red Sox who are desperate to Reverse the Curse. It is the New York Knicks, champions last in 1973. And this time, the choke’s on them."

This is actually confusing.

This time, the choke's on the Knicks, instead of the Yankees ... and the team looking to reverse the curse is the Knicks, instead of the Red Sox.


So people are actually talking to Kevin Millar, Derek Jeter, and others in an attempt to force this comparison.


Basketball vs. Baseball.

First-round vs. ALCS.

Curse of the Bambino vs. No Curse at all for the Boston team trying to come back from a 3-0 deficit.


Let's listen to Brian Cashman for some common sense, who is a baseball GM inexplicably providing basketball commentary:

" 'I don’t see a comparison,' Yankees general manager Brian Cashman told the Post’s Mark Hale. 'The Knicks will beat Boston if healthy. The Knicks are considerably better than Boston. The Knicks are supposed to win. They will win.' "


Serby gets the final word, proving just how tough it is to force this comparison:

"And the Celtics never sold Bill Russell to the Knicks. But could this be some Curse of the ... Jambino ... anyway?"

I don't know what that means.