Re: Detroit News East Preview

[Kestutis.Kveraga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kestutis Kveraga)]

--- You wrote:
<< All these out-of-town articles and reviews on the NBA really make me 
appreciate
the Boston sports media. They may be the "PR firm of ..." as Mark calls them,
but at least they occassionally borrow a clue. Most of these out-of-town
scribes know about as much about the NBA as I do about the National Bozkashi
Association, the Afghan pro league of their national sport, "goat-grabbing". 
Kestas >>
Why, because the national (out-of-town) writers are ALLOWED to be 
a bit more honest in their assessment of our team?  
--- end of quote ---

No, because they don't know crap about the NBA, at least the ones that Ray
chooses to post to the list. (So, it could be selection bias). They simply
tally up the names they've heard of for a particular team and repeat the
"common wisdom". Add Antoine Walker, good; subtract Antoine Walker, bad. No
understanding of the internal dynamics of a team, no insight of any kind, just
dumb shuffling of paper lineups. 

As for the oppressed local scribes, perhaps they should form a samizdat where
they could publish what they REALLY think about the Celtics under pen names.
For we all know the great risks they face if they say what they think in their
Celtics-approved columns: a long train ride in a cattle car to a Siberian labor
camp, a bullet in the back of the head, even terser post-game quotes from Obie,
no free food courtesy of the Celtics ever again. 
Kestas