A 2007 Retrospective: It Was Not a Good Year for Boston Sports Fans
In fact, it was a bad year for Boston sports fans, and there are three good reasons for that: the Red Sox, the Patriots, and the Celtics. And don’t even talk to me about the Bruins.
The Red Sox? So you won the division championship － with the Yankees spotting you a huge handicap from get-go, it wasn’t a real season anyway. You did win the World Series, I have to give you that. But the Colorado Rockies? Who did you pay to get that draw? It’s like being the last man in the world; you’re supposed to score. And score. And score.
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The Patriots? Huge disappointment. 16-0? Big deal. Where’re the Super Bowl rings? No, not those, they're not even so yesterday. Those ones, you dopes, the ones for the 2007 season. Whaddya mean ya gotta go through the playoffs? If you’re so good, Mssrs. Smartypants, why don’t the other playoff teams just forfeit and go home now? Do they know something you don’t know, or what?
As for the Celtics, forget it. You spoil a once-in-a-lifetime chance to go 80-2 for the season by losing at home against Detroit, so you decide to go to L.A. on New Year’s Eve and take it out on Kobe, all by his lonely little self and four guys in short shorts. Yeah, right. Celtics, you’re mean. You’re bullies, that’s what you are. If you were real men, you know what you would’ve done? You would have told the pilot to turn south, made him touchdown in San Antonio, and challenged the Spurs to a best of seven, right there, on the tarmac. Schedules, schmedules, that’s what real men in a real sports movie would have done, get it? It was a charter flight, it was your call to make, and you flubbed it. Now that would have been a nice way to end the year. You still have the chance to redeem yourself, but I’m warning you guys, if you don’t run the table all throughout the playoffs, I’m going to call you out for what you are: sissies.
Oh, and L.A., good luck in the football playoffs. Arena Football playoffs, you know. Hey, I may be demanding, RS, but I’m not mean.
The Red Sox? So you won the division championship － with the Yankees spotting you a huge handicap from get-go, it wasn’t a real season anyway. You did win the World Series, I have to give you that. But the Colorado Rockies? Who did you pay to get that draw? It’s like being the last man in the world; you’re supposed to score. And score. And score.
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The Patriots? Huge disappointment. 16-0? Big deal. Where’re the Super Bowl rings? No, not those, they're not even so yesterday. Those ones, you dopes, the ones for the 2007 season. Whaddya mean ya gotta go through the playoffs? If you’re so good, Mssrs. Smartypants, why don’t the other playoff teams just forfeit and go home now? Do they know something you don’t know, or what?
As for the Celtics, forget it. You spoil a once-in-a-lifetime chance to go 80-2 for the season by losing at home against Detroit, so you decide to go to L.A. on New Year’s Eve and take it out on Kobe
Oh, and L.A., good luck in the football playoffs. Arena Football playoffs, you know. Hey, I may be demanding, RS, but I’m not mean.
posted by Jun Okumura at 5:02 PM
6 Comments:
Well, at least I am not from NY. Must be miserable for these people as this must be the first time ever that Boston dominates NY in pro sports pretty much across the board.
Still, I'd bet you can't take all three. Either the Patriots or the Celtics stumble, more likely the Celtics. Though since the Celtics play in the Eastern Conference the core three can take the final month of the season off to rest and still take the top seed in the conference playoffs. And the Patriots have look beatable of late. We shall see.
Last, those weren't real short shorts on the Lakers. They were much too baggy. They still wore the standard loose fitting jerseys. And they wimped out and changed back into the big shorts at halftime, not that it did them any good. No, it was nothing like the old days.
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ross
Hi Ross. They weren't? They looked pretty tight to me. As for New York's teams, they're proof that money can buy you a lot of unhappiness, if nothing else.
Other things being equal, I like the Celtics' chances somwhat more. The Patriots are basically in a three-stage knockout tournament, where the margin of error is narrower. Of course if the Celtics don't measure up come playoff time, then it's moot. Likewise if anyone of the three goes down.
Have a great year. Or a great trade for the Lakers.
the shorts were short, but they weren't really tight. go back and look at magic and bird pictures and see what they were wearing.
as for the celtics, it will be interesting to see how this second game with detroit turns out.
Yes, they did wimp out. I must say that they look better on the Laker girls.
As for your second point, the game showed that the Celtics can match up against anyone as long as KG has a less than disastrous offensive game, one of the other two shows up, and someone from the supporting cast steps up.
A conference finals matchup, after going through Orlando and Cleveland. The West looks far more unsettled.
Celtics closed well against Detroit. So which is it? Does the Western conference make those teams stronger because of the level of competition or will all those teams just wear each other down and then lose to the Celtics?
I don't think pros, particularly the kind of veterans that the Celtics have, need 82 hard-fought practice games to peak. So if physical assets depreciated evenly in proportion to use, I'd say that the Celtics, coming out of the East, is best situated to win. But so many of the key players in the elite teams are around thirty, you never know when and where fatigue will cause lingering and/or serious injuries to strike. That goes for the Celtics and Pistons too. In that respect, San Antonio have been best over years at conserving their stars for the playoffs, so that would be the safest bet. After that, it's the Celtics, because Kevin Garnett, carrying about as much weight as a shooting guard, has been remarkably durable. It all comes down to KG and probably Pierce staying healthy.
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