FW: Mark Blount

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

> ---Original Message-----
> From:	OzerskyJA 
> Sent:	Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:52 PM
> To:	'Joe Hironaka'
> Subject:	RE: Mark Blount
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> Jeez!  Ease up on the espressos, Joe.  Blount is very
> big and strong, take my word.  220 is toothpick thin.
> This guy is a big, chiseled he-man.  His build is closer
> to Kevin Willis than Walter McCarty.  And in defense
> of the original monkey outbreak, it was damn effective
> on most teams, even with the shady personnel running
> it (knight, etc.)  It was last year's lemur-outbreak that was
> so pathetic.
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> Josh Ozersky	
> Marketing Communications Specialist 
> Corning Museum of Glass
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joe Hironaka [SMTP:j.hironaka@unesco.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:48 PM
> To:	OzerskyJA
> Cc:	'celtics@igtc.com'
> Subject:	Re: Mark Blount
> 
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> OzerskyJA wrote:
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> > One interesting thing about Blount's obscurity is how it
> > highlights how lazy sportswriters are.  The guy not only
> > has grown three inches since his NBA measuring at 6 10,
> > but if he is 220 pounds than I am Johnny Depp.  Blount
> > is 250 if he is a pound.  Even Walter weighs 235!
> > ,
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> List eye-witnesseses, please kindly clarify!!  If this guy Blount truly
> has truly slimmed down to the 220 pound, 7-0 weight class in order to
> regain his previously thoroughly invisible lateral mobility (as now
> hyped by Head Coach Spin-Retardino and also widely lapped up by the
> local media), won't Blount and Moi-So-what? eventually slide into the
> identical " 'tweener" space that McCarty, Battie and Frog Man alrready
> ineptly occupy at a combined multimillion dollars per year, in order to
> satisfy Pitino's dillusions? All four of these "a weight room away"
> Spintino star recruits are creepily identical in size and build.
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> Now more than ever, it is meaningful to salve the dignity of Boston
> Celtics fans that we actually have just one spirited guy over 230 pounds
> (Potapenko) who noticeably endeavors to body-up on the Shaqs of the
> league. May the player's who care last until the next coaching regime.
> 
> I still say let's stay serenely calm and patient and treat this latest
> joke play as a mere coincidence until Pitino finally gets fired, just
> as  he squandered Fortson's 11.6 pure-guts rebounds per game in order to
> emphatically prove a point that his monkey outbreak was simply the worst
> defensive system in the league, and further demonstrate that it was
> progressively even more hopeless as NBA veterans became familiar with
> it.
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