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Re: ESPN, the place where "No Celtics News Is Good News"
Snoop!
Were you prescribed medicinal marijuana? Cause you're
seeming a little paranoid. However, a little paranoia
never did hurt, especially when there are people out
there with hidden and ulterior motives. But you
forgot the greatest injustice (and the one that REALLY
hurts)...and that is the officiating. Even in the
summer leagues (at least in the two televised games),
we were getting screwed (Kedrick, on a couple of
occasions, seemed like he wanted to bend that one
female ref in two) by the officials (I'm not the only
one who noticed this...Pete, in one of his posts,
mentioned it as well). Summer league, however, is one
thing, but in the regular season and playoffs it has
reached new heights....and if you wanna get pissed at
something, get pissed at that....for of all the Celtic
hating out there, from the refusal of a cap room
exemption following the passing of Reggie to the
rumored reluctance of other teams' GMs to even deal
with the C's, the bias of the refs is one that is the
most galling, coming as it does from a supposed
bastion of objectivity and fairness. For a profession
that aims to be as unemotional and discriminating as
the judicial branch, it often acts more like your
run-of-the-mill nightclub bouncer, hiding behind rules
which are capriciously enforced acccording the whimsy
of the moment.
Ryan
--- Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
<snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's amazing, really. If a flea farts on LeBron
> James, it's an ESPN
> sidebar. Kobe Bryant buys an apology present for
> cheating on his wife (and
> when said event puts her on the evening news it had
> BETTER be expensive)
> and rates a headline for doing so. Even a whisper
> of talks between the
> Clippers and the Heat merit a clickable headline.
>
> Yet the Celtics have completed at least one signing,
> possibly two,
> accompanied by showing Travis Best's agent how the
> Celtics expect the game
> to be played on and off the court; and from ESPN we
> get.....
>
> Zip. Not so much as a whisper.
>
> I know, it's me being a hometown fan, some will say.
> True, but that
> doesn't matter any to a sports desk. Others will
> chime in, insisting that
> signing a second-round pick isn't worth the space.
> This is the internet,
> people. For all intents and purposes, space is
> limitless, given the amount
> of drivel that somehow finds it's way online.
> Besides, a look at today's
> news of front page interest includes the naming of
> the Rockets' new arena;
> Lue signing with Orlando; and someone named P. Diddy
> wanting to own the Knicks.
>
> It was two days after the fact that Walter McCarty's
> signing was mentioned
> on the site. The Summer League, to hear it from
> them, was attended by one
> player from Cleveland. No mention of the fact that
> LeBron's first shot of
> the league was an airball courtesy of the Boston
> Celtics.
>
> I know there's some bad blood in the past. Red was
> arrogant in
> victory. No less so, I think, than anyone who has
> won 16 championships has
> a right to be. The Celtics had the whole mystique
> thing going. Anything
> bad that happened to the Lakers, was cause for
> celebration in
> Boston. Anything bad that happened to the Celtics
> was cause for
> celebration everywhere else. The owners got to
> stick it to the C's by
> voting down a request for relief when Reggie Lewis
> died, which is the main
> reason the owners no longer have this power.
>
> But the networks have perpetuated this sort of
> idiocy for years, now. Tom
> Heinsohn was fired as a national NBA announcer
> because of his bias for
> Boston during the mid 1980's. As Heinsohn put it,
> paraphrased, the team
> was winning 60+ games. Was he supposed to say they
> stank? Yet Jeff Van
> Gundy, a former coach of the Knicks, conspicuously
> said "we" in speaking of
> the Knicks, as if he were still working for them,
> and not TNT. Hubie Brown
> never met a negative comment about Boston that he
> didn't freely repeat on
> the air as often as he could. We all remember too
> well the playoffs tv
> schedule, where the Celtics had two playoff games in
> the same series
> relegated to NBAtv, including what could have been a
> series-deciding
> game. Other teams had only one such appearance.
> During those games we DID
> see, the announcers would talk about every subject
> under the sun BUT the
> Celtics, save only to say, "Walker likes taking
> threes" like it was a state
> secret that nobody had figured out.
>
> The Celtics take more heat than the Heat do. The
> Trailblazers team picture
> practically needed to be taken at the city jail.
> The Lakers are getting
> progressively crazier. Police in places ranging
> from Toronto to Orlando
> are making it clear they don't tolerate NBA players
> behaving like thugs.
>
> The Celtics have been to the playoffs two years
> running with a team that
> the previous owners did their best to gut like a
> cheap fish while taking
> money by the truck full to their own hands. They
> have made a determined
> effort under new ownership to commit to long-term
> winning, not only this
> season, but in the future. I think that ESPN, to
> name one incredibly
> unbalanced bastion of sports journalism, needs to
> stop bashing Boston and
> start acting like they know what the words
> "balanced" and "objective" mean.
>
> Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
> Please visit the
> <http://www.celticsbeagle.net/>Celtics Beagle
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