Re: BOB RYAN

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, Ryan is a great sports columnist and knows his
basketball, but he is way out-of-bounds in his hatred
for Antoine Walker, which is unseemly not only because
of his age, but because he is a public figure whose
words carry a lot of weight.  This pluralistic
freedom-of-thought stuff applies to us, but not to
Ryan.  For my money, he is an irresponsible crank, and
not even accurate in his assesment of the Celtics,
circa 1999.
Ryan should stick to college basketball, the Red Sox,
and Celtics history.  He needs to get laid, or
something.  Antoine was right.  Ryan doesn't know him
from a can of paint.

--- Dorine <norine@sover.net> wrote:
> No comment on what Bob Ryan wrote, but I have to
> correct something that keeps getting repeated here,
> that he doesn't know basketball.  He was the Boston
> Globe's reporter for the Celtics for a long, long
> time - starting when Russell was nearing the end of
> his career.  Even since he has not been the main
> Celtics reporter, he's at most of the home games, I
> see him in the audience.  As for writing, he's a
> very talented writer.  It's fine to disagree with
> what a reporter writes, and to not like it if it
> goes against what you believe, but you don't have to
> criticize someone's ability to write or their
> knowledge of the game just because you don't like
> the opinions expressed.
> 
> One of my favorite quotes is "I may not agree with
> what you say, but I'll defend to the death your
> right to say it".  People on this list don't agree
> about everything either, but I would hope that's the
> purpose - different views are expressed and
> discussed.  
> 
> Dorine
> 
> Dorine
> 
> 


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