Re: Baylor not holding back

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only fact that kept Boston sport teams respectable were the Celtics of
the Bird and previous era's. This town is just clueless. Even the Big Dig is
showing signs of a pulse.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: <Douglas342@AOL.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Baylor not holding back


> In a message dated 2/2/2003 2:03:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> lapdoggy@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> > Now a question for you. Do you think Baylor would have pulled off that
> > trade for Baker if he was in Wallace's shoes?
> >
>
>
> I don't think anyone but Wallace and maybe Baker's parents would have made
> that deal.  I was thinking how surprised I am that this team is only one
game
> behind last year's pace.  Finally the difference hit me:  last year's team
> was on the way up - the future lay ahead.  Now we're on the way down and
> there is no future.  Sure, we may make the ECF again, or at least the
second
> round, but will this team ever attain the heights of Utah?  (Utah being
the
> Best Team Never To Have Won a Title.)  The Jazz made it to the Finals
twice
> and were oh so close once to winning it all.  I doubt that the Baker-lead
> Celtics (and that is NOT a typo, rather a reference to his feet and hands)
> will ever make the Finals, and, quite frankly, they will have to be real
> lucky to make it back to the ECF.  To move ahead, we have to move one of
the
> three big contracts, and no one will take Baker.  Therefore, I think that
the
> WalkerPierce era is entering its terminal phase.  That's really too bad -
> Boston is lucky to have them, but the Baker trade was just a stake through
> the heart.
> - Doug