RE: [Celtics' Stuff Cuban

["Orion" <jlyell@netzero.net>]

You can blame Cuban for being aggressive and making good acquisitions to
make his team better. I which we had an owner like that. We could have had
Van Exel and maybe La Frentz and we fought over the last year of his
contract and lost out. Instead we end up with Rodney Rogers and Delk, one of
which will likely move on after the season.

Poor decisions from a GM that should be out of a job after the latest draft.






 -----Original Message-----
From: 	owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com]  On Behalf Of
JB
Sent:	Saturday, March 30, 2002 4:05 AM
To:	Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com; Celtics@igtc
Subject:	Re: [Celtics' Stuff Cuban

on 3/29/02 9:29 PM, jsjs3313@cs.com at jsjs3313@cs.com wrote:

Ya know I am really pissed cause we have been humbled tonight, but that
bastard is fucking whopping it up like he just won the f-ing tittle... I
dun't know if anyone else is watching the game tonight...but c'mon... christ
show some class.. before this I thought the guy was a ass but kinda ok, now
I dislike him...I will say one thing if I was at tonights game and even
within 20 rows that friggin' jackass would have a big ass beer and some
popcorn rained down on him and screw the consequences.. and my friends I am
not joking and believe me if ya knew me you would know I am not kidding... I
am one pissed off c's fan tonight, I am feeling like I did when we got
sweeped by Milwaukee back in 85 ...and got my ass busted at the local tavern
after the game ...yeah well that guy got what he deserved  and that was a
stone cold knockout... John is not amused tonight
JS
            ********
   Well, John, I'm not going to punch anyone out, or even throw beer and
popcorn, but as I was watching last nights debacle, I was plotting my own
revenge against that grinning fool, Cuban.
   I turned on the game, early in the third period. We were down twelve and
Pierce fires an impressive pass to Walker, cutting under the basket for an
easy lay up and we're down ten and I settle into the couch and......"wham
bam, thank you ma'm" ..., the Mavericks start banking in shots off their ass
and every thing that can go wrong for the C's does. To top it off, there is
that grinning "jackass" (yes JS, you got that right), "shaking his booty"
with every basket. He's pursing his lips, slapping his head and gyrating
around like a character in an old Mac Sennett; silent screen, slapstick
comedy. He had to know the camera was on him. If not, he's really an "A"
hole. He's like the rich kid in the schoolyard, who buys protection; pays
other kids to beat up people he doesn't like and then taunts the victims, as
if he'd done it himself..
   Anyway, as I'm sitting there, regretting that the salary cap and luxury
tax haven't worked out quite the way that Stern envisioned, with Cuban
throwing around money, like a kid who finds an old monopoly game in the
attic, I get this idea. Why not take the luxury tax money and allow the
teams getting it, to use it to go over the cap? Lets say, we give out the
money a week, after the season ends, just before the draft and free agent
period and tell the teams that they can spend that money, up to the start of
the season, or they have to give it back to the league,  for the old timer's
pension fund, or something. Now the competitive levels would get more even
and even a cheapskate like Gaston would have to spend the money, or lose it.
Can you imagine? Now Cuban would not only be buying players for his own
team, but for ours too.

        JB

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