Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V9 #385

["hironaka@xxxxxxxxx"<hironaka@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> 
> Whatever..
> I don't think you should "assume" such nonsense.
> 
> Gaston is a cheap bastard..
> The moment the new owners take over I guarantee will we 
sign someone for a 
> full roster..
> 
> Pete
> 


I definitely hope you are right about the new owners. 

If they re-sign Shammond at his current salary plus both 
first-round picks (or whatever we can get in a trade for 
them), I'll be satisfied. 

That's a ten-man nucleus, at around 57 million. Since 
we're over the lux threshold already, why not spend the 5 
million exception?

Gaston publicly attached his honor to "fiscal sanity" and 
also seemed to infuse his working culture (post Pitino) 
to a bean-counting mentality. 

There's plenty of evidence that his heart was no longer 
in the product he owned, which no doubt it once was. The 
whole Pitino thing was probably the beginning of the end 
in terms of his disillusionment. Maybe having a young 
Walker as your team symbol didn't help either.

After the letdown of Pitino, I can't blame him if he 
derived more of his satisfaction in the bottom line. If 
you can't win enough on court, you can at least gain a 
good chuckle out of high-fiving your CFO beancounter each 
year you turn a bigger profit than dad. 

The new owners will probably get more ego gratification 
out of trying to build a on-court winner in the Mark 
Cuban mode, hopefully short term financial losses be 
damned (since that looks to be the reality). 

Most young blow-dried owners like Wyc and Pag get into it 
to build a winner and have fun, not to make a mint or 
defend "fiscal sanity". 

If these guys need to raise money, the same fans who 
bought those stock certificates will line up again.

I'm still pretty convinced the no spending order comes 
from the agreed buyers, not (just) from Gaston. Why 
should Gaston care after all? 

But that doesn't mean the new owners won't be willing to 
spend once they are officially in control. Luck is 
turning in our favor lately (the sale itself was a 
godsend), so there is no reason to be pessimistic.

JH
 




 


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