Re: Got it all figured...

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sending this one out to be analyzed. I missed this class.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Malo" <kimmalo@mindspring.com>
To: <Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 2:14 PM
Subject: Got it all figured...


> OK guys, in the giddy relief of knowing that no matter how bad it looks,
we
> are not going to go 0-82 for the season, I've got it all figured out. No,
> really. Bear with me - some of this gets complicated.
>
> This whole preseason, early season disappointment, list infighting and
> everything else has been a set-up for Pierce's ego. And Pierce's ego is
> <drum roll please> Lance.
>
> Now stop it.
> Listen to me -what do Pierce's detractors say is the biggest problem with
> him: his ego and the fact that it continually says **everything is about
> Pierce**. What was the essential and annoying fact about a lot of Lance's
> posts, especially early before he developed subtlety in implementing this
> insidious plot?  **Everything is about Pierce** even when there's no
> evident reason it should be. If it looks like a duck and walks like a
> duck...Starting to see some nods out there aren't I?
>
> OK, take it a few steps further. What was the visible result of all of
> Lance's public **all about Pierce** harping? Pendulum swing the other way
> and a list that was full of praise for Pierce, even from people that might
> have their own doubts about him. In other words, FEEDING Pierce's ego to
> the stuffing point. Who brought this on? Lance. Hear that duck quacking?
>
> Lance is part of an insidious plot to get us to feed Pierce's ego, and is
> in fact Pierce's ego personified. It's the only answer that makes sense.
>
> The 0-2 start? Pierce's ego setting up for him to be the hero and come to
> the rescue with a 42 point game. Every missed free throw in that game -
and
> not just those by Pierce - was part of the plot, to make those 42 points
> necessary. Clearly his teammates are part of the conspiracy. And the ones
> that wouldn't join in -- well, finally you can make sense of those deals
> that got rid of some players that didn't seem to make sense. And maybe
they
> were even becoming a bigger threat. Vitaly practiced that deadly baby hook
> in the pregame shootarounds, but never dared bring it out in a game. And
> now he'll never get a chance to... with the Cs. While his replacement the
> Vinster has a game that is clearly no threat. Maybe Cook, Forte and others
> were demanding something in return to get the ball into Pierce's hands for
> 100 shots per game. Maybe they were actually threatening to take more
> themselves. We'll never know and they'll never get the chance. Gaston sold
> the team to get out of this alive, with a 30MM media contract sweetener to
> guarantee his silence. I can go on, but I do go to the Cs games and I'd
> like to be able to continue to attend them and well, YOU know....
>
> Lance will protest that he is not Pierce's ego, that au contraire he is
his
> biggest critic and all of it based solely on fact. Well I ask you, what
> does THAT make you want to do? See? It really IS the only answer that
makes
> sense. And Pierce doesn't even have to pay Lance anything because we do it
> for him when we FEED Pierce's ego aka Lance...
>
> Anyone know where I can buy a bullet proof Cs shirt to wear to games?
> Kim