Re: My Bitch Is

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, thank God for Delk. Maybe a diamond in the rough compared to what has
come along lately. You don't always get what you ask for.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Malo" <kimmalo@mindspring.com>
To: "Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@JUSTICE.GC.CA>; <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: RE: My Bitch Is


> At 12:08 PM 10/31/02 -0500, Wright, Cecil wrote (in response to Dan
Forant):
> >...You will flip flop like a flounder all over the place.  You
> >will praise Toine on his good performances and rip him for being
> >uncaptainlike when he doesn't measure up.  You'll blame Obie when we lose
> >and commend him and Harter when we play well.  It is a tad predictable,
no?
> >Why not just wait and see how this team takes shape before you come out
> >swinging.  Oh...that's right...we had the preseason and one regular
season
> >game.  And from that you know how the team will do.  Good thing we kept
> >Delk?  Most folks wanted him shipped out for a bag o thumbtacks after
last
> >season.  It was generally accepted that Rogers was the contributor to our
> >success, not Delk.
>
> No, no, Cecil. This isn't like you.You're missing the awe inspiringly
> hyperbolous (is that a word?) bit from the original Delk comment. This
> wasn't just "good thing", this was "thank god". Y'know, like thank god
> Larry could come out of traction for the playoffs, thank god Red had the
> sense to swap Easy Ed for the rights to draft Russ, thank god Nellie had
an
> in with the rim gods before sending that championship winner bouncing high
> up in the air and back down swish, thank Pierce didn't get killed in that
> fight. I mean, Tony had one nice game shooting, usually passed off the
ball
> when the shot clock was still in the teens for a change, and was one of
the
> few Cs that seemed to understand a pick or screen did not mean you had to
> just give up trying to guard your man. I'm happy for him, but 'Thank
> god'???? For Tony Delk???? You don't pick them up by the dozen cheap at
> Costco, but still...
> Kim