Re: Salvos coming from Walker - calls Ainge a snake

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Salvos coming from Walker - calls Ainge a snake


>     < All I can say is *4* in a row....stick that in your hat....something
>     called chemistry is working.....the ingredient that wasn't working
>     was removed.....>  - DanF
>
> Dan - Until now, you and I have stood apart, studiously neutral on each
> other's posts while all along my husband was finding my Celt board
> activity to be 100% counterproductive.  He would hear me alternately
> giggling with glee and then screaming <<''Jesus Christ<<'' and question
> why I was enjoying each early morn baiting my IGTC mousetrap with
> cheese yet never leaving room for the mouse.

We are in a free and debating society....you are good at the moustrap
thing....it takes
some thought to get through the smoke sometimes.....

>     <''Real fans just sit back and enjoy the games without feeling
>     the need to constantly voice their opinions.<'' - Mr. Egg
>
> I knew there was some reason why I married the guy.  So hallelujah all
> use po list sinners. I have finally crossed the Rubicon, seen the error
> of my ways in attempting to post what I have perceived as truths and
> what Dan and others have perceived as across-the-board negatives.
> And believe me, I have enjoyed doing it.  But I also realize that due
> to my constant Danny bashing, sarcasm, and misread bhumorb
> (like yesterdaybs foolish post on Kedrickbs 70+ IQ), I have lost more
> credibility than I will ever be able to regain.  This board remains much
> more intellectual and serious than I could ever hope to be.  And how
> about all those list lurkers/snipers such as PaulMaurice or cel33tics
> (Wyc?) who have presented themselves only to diss selected posts as
> opposed to risking their own original thoughts.  I hereby describe
> these contributors with the coined phrase bNegative Chickenism.b

It's hard to find who and not to tickle because we don't know one another
personally and print is hard to define personality. Most of these dudes take
this stuff seriously...so one can't be too jelly like and withdraw from the
fracas. We all have to be able to take a poke now and then. The framers of
the Constitution insulted each other so much it's amazing they got it
written...

>
> At any rate, I am truly ashamed of myself for evolving into one of this
> list's premier mouths. Had this straight-laced list had a heart, an
> allowance for a bit of playfulness, and a little light humor, it would
> have deserved better.  Honest, it was never my original intention, but
> unfortunately being privy to so many of Danny's unpublicized
foolishnesses,
> my internal virus just grew and grew much like the Bush deficit.  Worse
> yet, as I received little or no list support on the Ainge subject, I
became
> more and more strident in my anti-Ainge campaign which I am sure
> bored most of you to tears.  In the end, I even stopped enjoying my
> fascinating self... a first...nuff said.

so what really set you off? an achy hip sort of thing? a little venemous
humor is better than hydrocodone...why suffer alone?
>
> Surely my husband is right - true Celt fans, the ones we casually
> encounter in our neighborhood , or while waiting in line for lotto tickets
> at a convenience store, or in a bar, or stuck on a plane next to a
> Laker's fan, do not feel the necessity to voice their private opinions
> in such a cyber forum.  Yet it is difficult to resist reading these Celt
> lists/boards and not oppose those fans who continually wear the jester's
> motley garb.  We are a better team than Indy or Detroit because we beat
> them in the playoffs one or two years ago?  Milicic straight up for
> Hunter and/or Perkins?  Holy schmolly, Josh, has our homerism
> stooped to the Heinsohn level?

they are the Valuim, Prozac,  Ritalin generation, lost, looking for
clues.....

>
> Okay DanF, back to you. You are a funny and entertaining guy.  In many
> ways you are the glue of this list with your short and succinct
> responsive posts vs. others' painfully-inward occasional editorials.
> Yet your all-up/all-down mentality has continually struck me as being
> based solely on nothing more than our last win or loss.  You seem to
> alternately love our team; think it sh-ts; think it sh-ts; love our team.

Short term option trading did it to me.....hair trigger.....
>
> Being a Celt fan these days just ain't no bed of roses which maybe in
> some ways renders all Celt boards as superfluous. I think I hear your
> confusion, Dan, but still find it confusing.  Should we all just turn off,
> tune off, and drop out till 2006?

You think it's confusing....sometimes I believe someone else wrote it.....
>
> < Could you provide some facts DA is becoming an insider joke?>
> - DanForant

Facts, just the facts maam, was good enough for Sgt. Joe Friday......

>
> YES, if I wished to... but I do not.   Big deal - I am a senior-citizen
> hanging on as a minimum wagee contributor to a reasonably major sports
> column ... albeit with little background in Bball as my brealb editorial
> field remains politics with all its built-in cynicism.  But YES again -
> I could back up every comment I have made about Ainge in spades
> since much like a sous chef in a restaurant, I have unfortunately been
> privy to much of the discouraging crapola that has gone on behind the
> scenes during our teambs latest passing of the crown. When is Danny's
> investiture scheduled?

Well if you took an oath, that's different. My last oath taking was to my
wife...that cured me.....
>
> As is, the defensive Mr. Wyc has been on my case in private emails
> concerning my divulging too much negative stuff on this list and
> elsewhere.  His shell is way too thin for the high level of financial
> burdens he has taken on, but I certainly have no intentions of
> entertaining a law suit by venturing into specifics in such a
> public forum. So it appears that I have been hoisted by my own
> petard and that my only way out is silence. Damn!

Private emails.... r u kidding.....private email are quickly moved off
screen...my wife believes nothing could take this much of my time up......
>
> I'm really sorry, DanF, that my foolish posts eventually raised your
> blood pressure in a period that found you in a temporary positive
> mindset after our recent winning streak. One loss in the last two
> nights and my recent posts might well have placed us in agreement...
> at least until our next win.

Actually my pressure was 160/100. Dr. recommented a pill and
brainy-ot-to-me(sp)
>
> But chin up - Obie is once again winning the battle... this time against
> his third GM.  Still, he better put up a strong fence around that lofty
> cliff upon which he presently hangs because that ambulance is still
> waiting there down in the valley.  The big question remains - Is Obie
> the savior who has consistently beaten all odds or is Obie the fool
> who has screwed up our team for several years?

OB has been a student at our expense.....but lately a promising graduate....
>
> As I have mentioned before i.e. Oscar Wilde, I apologize for the
> length of this post;  I just didn't have time to shorten it.

The conscience is all powerfull....like Confession for a Catholic.....for
your penance...obey your husband......

DanF
>
> Egg