Re: win

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:03 PM 5/5/2003 -0300, Cecil wrote:
> Why can't there be a happy medium where opinions are respected regardless?
Which I agree with about how it should be, and pointed out what I think the 
real problem is elsewhere.

> I have been called many names by individuals on this list because of my
> loyalty to this team.  I see nobody defending my right to express my
> support.  I see nobody asking Ray to stop with the foolish and vile
> references to Toine and his sperm.
Cecil, Cecil, this isn't a take the positive approach, such as I'd expect.
Flip it over another way - I mostly don't read Ray, because his better 
posts reflect a virtual GM fan vs a Celtics fan, or at best a college hoops 
junkie rather than Cs fan, neither of which are something I have interest 
in. While most of the rest are so full of malevolent glee, that I wasn't 
even aware he'd made any such references to Toine's precious bodily fluids 
(obligatory Strangelove reference, since my Celtics movie would also have a 
subtitle about how I learned to stop worrying and learned to love the [3 
point] bomb <g>).
Lack of comment is not necessarily agreement or approval, even implicit 
approval : )

>   I see folks taking delight in the
> failings of the front office.  I see folks hoping that we lose to improve
> our draft position.  I see people who call themselves fans of this team,
> hoping that they lose.
BTW, I agree that the problem that probably lead to Art's outburst wasn't 
complaints per se, as those arguing against him imply, so much as those who 
seem to take delight in it and go out of their way looking for excuses to 
do so. There IS a huge difference

> But it occurs every year.
Ay-YUH. Unlike the Cs getting to the playoffs, at least until very 
recently. She said gleefully <g>

Kim