Re: [Celtics' Stuff ] "Vin talks to Baccus every day..."-Herald

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:41 AM 2/13/2004, JB wrote:
> > Quotes are from the below Marc murphy column in today's Herald:
> <snip>
>         Um, Mr. Goodwin, not seeming to be rude, but aren't you contradicting
> yourself?
>         I understand it's your job to represent Vin Baker and present him as
> the victim here, but how can you have it both ways?

You missed another sort of manipulative hypocracy wherre he's trying to do 
that...

> >      Goodwin accused the Celtics of looking to get out from under the
> > $36 million deal.
> >
> >      ``The urgency of (last night) has been put in you-all's head,''
> > Goodwin said of the media. ``(The Celtics) should be concerned about
> > getting Vin back to play, instead of getting out of his contract.

The urgency of last night was put in us-all's heads strictly by you and 
others in the Baker camp, since you're the ones who initiated all the 
recent discussion of it. Likely to try to put public pressure on the Cs and 
also to make sure other teams are aware of it to see if you could troll up 
any feelers of interest with all your talk of what might happen and how 
ready to play Vin is despite it.

Don't get me wrong, undoubtedly the Cs would love to get out from under his 
contract and Goodwin's job is to try to stop them from doing that 
(interesting though that earlier in the article it said  he was hired 
specifically for this fight, which could be seen as an admission that Vin 
knew he wasn't going to be able to save his contract and career by abiding 
with the terms of the agreement) . But I actually think they've been pretty 
fair to him in all this, including not making the first couple of strikes 
public when they happened, giving him some breathing space to get his act 
together despite the slips.

Kim