Re: Pacer game

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bird" <birdw@mac.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Pacer game


> > From : lapdoggy < lapdoggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >
> 
> > On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 11:23 AM, bird wrote:
> > Maybe there could be another list for people who only bitch and moan.
> >
> > If the team is going to be down 60 points on their home court they get 
> >  what they deserve. They owe the fans to put out their best effort on  
> > any given night. That was hardly the case vs the Pistons. This team  
> > should be ripped as long as they continue to play half-hearted  
> > basketball. To make matters worse they sure didn't look like they had 
> > a  lot of fire in them last night. Never during the second half was 
> > the  game in doubt.
> 
> I'm not talking about the game, I'm talking about people saying the 
> team will *never* win anything this year, won't can't, win, because 
> they didn't do what I think they need to do.  It's not possible.  The 
> team sucks so bad.  Walker, Pierce, Obie, Wallace, Gaston, blah blah 
> blah.
> 
> And, actually, what I'm talking about is people characterizing anyone 
> with a reasonable opinion as "an apologist".  Can't say anything 
> remotely good about the team (which we all know is a black void of 
> antimatter that will never amount to anything), because that means 
> you're just not seeing what's so obvious, so strikingly obvious that a 
> child could see it.  Here, let me post about it about a million times 
> so we can all completely understand where I'm coming from.
> 
> Criticism is fine.  There's certainly a lot to be critical of.  I enjoy 
> those who post reasonable, insightful critiques of the team, especially 
> those who "spread it around" and don't confine themselves to beating a 
> dead horse or two over and over and over and over again.  And, again, 
> it's a poor fan who boo's their own team.  I realize the C's played 
> unprofessionally and really badly.  They deserve no congratulations for 
> that.  Fans deserve good (full-hearted, trying-hard) play out of the 
> players.  Players deserve not to be disrespected (cheering for the 
> other team) by their "fans".  Two wrongs ain't gonna make a right of 
> the whole thing.  Here, god forbid you say that an aspect of another, 
> totally different, game was a positive thing, because then you get a 
> down-and-outer who's just got to convince you that the team sucks, will 
> never amount to anything, yada yada yada.
> 
> Bird