MSG's new playoff ticket payment plan is the "most onerousplayoff ticket deal in the long history of the Garden," writesPhil Mushnick in this morning's N.Y. POST. The ITT/Cablevisionownership is now asking for an earlier full payment from seasonticket holders for playoff tickets to the Rangers and the Knicks.MSG says it is billing "extra early as a service to fans; toavoid long lines at the box office ... How considerate."Mushnick says MSG should return money for unused playoff tickets,or apply the money to next year's tickets with the "appropriatebank interest attached; months worth of interest the Garden willpocket." In other Garden news, the MSG Network has notifiedtheir affiliates there will be no rebate for the 35 lost Rangergames due to the NHL work stoppage. Earlier, MSG NetworkPresident Doug Moss "promised cable systems and, by extension,their subscribers, a rebate based on the loss" of the games.Moss has since left the network. Mushnick writes, "We don't knowenough about ITT, but we do know that an abused consumer has longbeen Cablevision's idea of a job well done" (Phil Mushnick, N.Y.POST, 3/29).