RE: Damn it! Third time lucky?

["Ozersky, Joshua A" <OzerskyJA@corning.com>]

This is driving me crazy!  I never had to break lines before.  This is the kind of thing I would be getting vituperative letters about from Greg Oddegaard, if I hadn't blocked his address.  Maybe I'll just encourage everybody to check it out at bskball.com after tomorrow.  But I can't figure out why there would be big chunks missing!
Joshua Ozersky
Marketing Communications
Environmental Products Division
Corning Incorporated.
HP-CB-02-C6A
Corning, New York 14831
Phone:  (607) 974-8124
Fax:      (607) 974-2233



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> From: 	Alex Wang[SMTP:awang@mit.edu]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 10, 1999 3:21 PM
> To: 	Ozersky, Joshua A
> Subject: 	Re: Damn it! Third time lucky?
> 
> Josh, I think you need to break the lines.
> 
> Alex
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Locked and Loaded
> > 
> > > It has been a tough offseason for Celtics fans -- simultaneously trying and
>  * noneventful.  Even the spectacular good news of an immensely lopsided trade 
>  *for Ron Mercer with the Denver Nuggets could not be fully enjoyed, because it
>  * was immediately followed up by a terrifying rumor that the team was consider
>  *ing trading Antoine Walker, its best player and greatest asset, for a couple 
>  *of mediocre veterans and a late round draft pick.  Amazingly, the other team 
>  *refused this trade, and so the Celtics appear primed for the devastating play
>  *off run we have all been predicting since the arrival of Pitino two years ago
>  *.  But first it's necessary to backtrack.
> > > 
> > > The departure of Ron Mercer had been considered a fait accompli by Celtics 
>  *fans at least since the end of last season, when the lanky youth turned himse
>  *lf into a contract-seeking missile guided by a sadly deluded and amateurish P
>  *imp-Bot wannabe in the employ of rapper Master P.  That Mercer should have fi
>  *red David Falk to hire such a dilletante suggested that he had lost contact w
>  *ith reality -- or more accurately, that the flattery in his ear from these ba
>  *d influences was difficult to resist.  Mercer's shortcomings as a player -- h
>  *is hesitancy to rebound, pass, defend, shoot 3-pointers, or take it to the ra
>  *ck in traffic -- were exacerbated just as Paul Pierce was coming into his own
>  *.  So Ron had to go, and money was a convenient excuse.  But a sadistic tradi
>  *ng moratorium imposed by the league caused Celtics fans to hunger desperately
>  * for news and rumors for the entire month.  A number of trades were rumored, 
>  *including one for Samaki Walker of Dallas and dallas's first roun!
> > d !
> > pick.  This seemed about the be
> > > 
> > > The Celtics now have the personnel in place to make their playoff run.  Two
>  * great do-everything players in Walker and Pierce; a physical, punishing cent
>  *er in Vitaly Potatpenko; a pure rebounder in Danny Fortson; a long fast shot 
>  *blocker in Tony Battie (a role which Theo Ratliff and Marcus Camby have shown
>  * to be invaluable for playoff success); proven bench scorers in Eric Williams
>  *, Dana Barros, and recently signed Calbert Cheaney; and more-than-adequate ba
>  *ckups in Adrian Griffin, Walter McCarty, and Wayne Turner.  The only question
>  * mark is Kenny Anderson, who will either be a dervish of uptempo passing or w
>  *ill > ride the bench until he can be traded for a bag of Funyons.  The Celtic
>  *s are as loaded with talent as any team in the conference, from 1-12:  the on
>  *ly question is whether they can play together and stay together long enough t
>  *o become serious contenders.  So what Celtics fans have to fear most now is t
>  *hat either Rick Pitino will trade one of our good young players a!
> > wa!
> > y in an act of managerial surre
> > > 
> > > If the Celtics under Rick Pitino are to make hay in the 21st Century NBA, t
>  *his is the team it is going to happen with.  There is no chance of winning wi
>  *thout a talent like Walker, and there is no way to get a talent like Walker i> 
>  *n return unless Walker starts producing, in which case it would be stupid to 
>  *trade him.  If that happens, and if Kenny Anderson can play uptempo ball, and
>  * Paul Pierce can diversify his offense.....and if the Organization doesn't bl
>  *ow up this wonderful team they have put together....this can be the year the 
>  *Celtics return to glory.  And I mean glory.  Not one round and out glory -- b
>  *ut deep into the playoffs, since we now play in such a shady conference.  Thi
>  *s is the make or break year for the Celtics.  I think that once Pitino can sp
>  *end his time coaching instead of stewing or talking on cel phones, all will b
>  *e right again.  But for my part, I am lobbying the NBA for a one year trading
>  * moratorium to begin immediately.> 
> > > 
> > Joshua Ozersky
> > Marketing Communications
> > Environmental Products Division
> > Corning Incorporated.
> > HP-CB-02-C6A
> > Corning, New York 14831
> > Phone:  (607) 974-8124
> > Fax:      (607) 974-2233
> > 
> > 
> > 
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