Re: archivists?

["Dan Stadnick" <dstadnick5150@hotmail.com>]

I predicted:

50 wins for the season
finishing in 6th place
losing in the second round

Thank God there was no final vote on executing the team earlier this season


----- Original Message -----
From: <Douglas342@AOL.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: archivists?


>     Now, Snoops (I think) did a wonderful job of tracking our predictions,
> but he only tracked our W-L predictions.  Can anyone tell us if anyone
> predicted that the Cs would
>     - win any playoff games?
>      - win a series?
>     - win two series?  (Maybe Ray said they'd win one series an forfeit a
> second?)
>
> This has really taken on an air of unreality.  The following could have
been
> written about the Celtics had they lost to Detroit or even to
Philadelphia.
> However, it is from Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press, in bidding
> farewell to the Pistons:
>
> So it ends. They gave it a hard run. They gave it what they had. They gave
us
> a terrific year and more basketball thrills than we anticipated or maybe
even
> deserved. Thanks are owed. But thanks don't last long in sports. When you
> deliver a division title, you raise the bar of expectations.