RE: BSG reader rant

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

Dude!  I think you better lay off the coffee.  What's your problem?
I saw this on the BSG reader rant page and thought it was interesting,
so I forwarded it to the board.  Is that OK with you?  Perhaps I should
have gotten a trans-board visa for it and conducted a straw poll on whether
anybody would be interested in it.  Chill out.
Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Meninno [SMTP:Jim_Meninno@hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 08, 2000 7:40 PM
> To:	celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Re: BSG reader rant
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "OzerskyJA" <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>
> 
> > Please, please, please, let's not get on an Antoine thread.
> 
> What parts of your post are we allowed to comment on, Josh?
> 
> Also, and I don't mean anything by this, but I did wonder why you chose to
> post that "rant" to the list.  It can be very difficult to read someone's
> meaning when they post quotes with no comment, a la Way of the Ray.  Are
> you
> agreeing with it, or parts of it?  What parts?  Why was it so interesting
> to
> you?  My guess is that you are simply bringing up the possibility that
> Paul
> Pierce has a tendency to coast sometimes.  I'm not sure what is so earth
> shattering about that.  I mean, doesn't Tommy say just that all the time?
> 
> I also had a couple of problems with the post but wasn't going to say
> anything, because the poster is not on the list to explain himself  (Does
> he
> know you're posting his words (and e-mail address) to hundreds of people
> he
> doesn't know, by the way?).  For instance, Antoine has plenty of 9-24, 30
> point type games, doesn't he?  And Pierce getting stripped to lose the
> game,
> didn't Antoine do just that in his 49 point game against Washington, which
> was also not a great shooting night?  I liked how he called Matt Harpring
> a
> defensive "stud" sarcastically, and in the same paragraph called Pierce's
> three a bad shot because Harpring was "flying" at him while Walker was
> open.
> As if Walker doesn't take ill advised threes or try to force his shots!  I
> think you know I'm one of Antoine's biggest supporters and I appreciate
> the
> qualities the poster was pointing out (plays hard, etc.), but does he
> really
> force things less and take fewer poor shots than Paul Pierce?  Over his
> career, not the last four games?  Remember, he's only just started to show
> a
> consistent jumpshot a month ago.
> 
> If all you wanted was to start a thread about Pierce's somewhat overlooked
> shortcomings, that's fair enough.  You don't want to start talking about
> Antoine?  Fine.  Although your post had a lot to say about him.  I think
> bot
> h purposes would have been better accomplished if you had used your own
> words, or maybe clipped out the parts about Antoine, though.
> 
> Jim