Boston Sports Guy Weighs in on the Trade

[Sean Giovanello <sgiovanello@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thought I would forward this on in case any of his fans were on here.  
At worst, its a "national" media perspective.  He posted this over at 
Sons of Sam Horn.
Sean



You know how CSI spun off "CSI: Miami" and the upcoming "CSI: New York"? 
Could somebody create the Sons of Eric Fernstein or the Sons of Terry 
Duerod or something? Please?

I think I'm going to have a nervous breakdown over what's happening with 
the Celtics... I'm at a complete loss for words. This Chucky Atkins 
trade was the dumbest, most inexplicable trade in the history of Boston 
sports. In all my years, I can't remember a local team making a trade 
that literally didn't make sense. We just traded a starting PG (James) 
for a guy who isn't as good as him (Atkins), and also makes nine times 
as much money, plus he has a contract that doesn't come off until 2006. 
And we threw in Mills's contract, which many teams would have loved 
since it expires after the season, and got NOTHING back for that. On the 
bright side, we got what will likely be the #28 pick in the draft, plus 
cash. Yippee!

On the heels of the Baker trade, the Walker trade (getting a guy back 
with a bum knee who makes $10 million a year), and the immortal Ricky 
Davis -- all horrible trades, but at least trades in which you could 
understand why they happened, even if they were dumb, and the Davis one 
maybe even wasn't that bad -- and now we have the first Boston trade 
where they did something simply to help another team. "You want Rasheed 
Wallace? here, we'll help you! Sure, we don't mind taking a bad contract 
back! Good luck in the playoffs!"

And here's the kicker: We've had 13 straight years of dumb decisions -- 
spread through a whopping five regimes -- save for the Montross-Walker 
trade and picking Paul Pierce (a no-brainer). It's absolutely unbelievable.

Anyway, somebody please start a spinoff Celtics board so I have a place 
to vent. This is craziness. Spring training needs to start right away. I 
can't take it. I think I'm going to walk into traffic on Hollywood 
Boulevard.

And yes, I know this belongs in the place for no-Red Sox threads, but I 
couldn't remember the password.

Damn it all.

Chucky Atkins.

This is unbelievable.

Is this a special sports edition of Celebrity Mole, but with Danny Ainge?

I can't stop talking about this.

My God.