Thanks to everyone on the list for the last 10 years!

[David J. Boutte]

Ahhh, Bill Cooper's summaries!!  Did it get any better than that?

I remember going to work and having a non-Celtics fan constantly asking 
me to forward the summary from the previous night's game to him.

-David


Mark Piotrowski wrote:
> Maybe this is horribly premature, but...I think we're all aware that 
> things are gonna change for us as Celtics fans over the next few 
> years --- a lot of us think for the better (or even for the best).
>
> But before *everyone* says they are and always were a Celtics fan, I 
> for one want to thank all y'all [1] for getting me through the last 
> 10 years. And I mean all-y'all -- the folks i agreed with to the 
> folks i had on auto delete (only 1 or 2 over 10 years).
>
> I can't remember exactly when I joined this list [2] but WE are the 
> true fans... not just the folks on this list obviously, but the 
> larger WE who've stuck by this team through thick-and-mostly-thin 
> since the late 80s.
>
> We're the ones who went to the games in the ML Carr era, who ordered 
> League Pass even though we won 30 games the year before, who went to 
> sports bars in far away lands (say...Gainesville, FL) and pester them 
> to put on the Celtics vs. Bucks on a Friday night, and who listened 
> to all 7 hours of Celticsstuff Live on Draft Night 2007.
>
> We've argued over players big and small:  Toine, Ricky, Pierce, Joe 
> Johnson, Big Al, Todd Day, Erick Strickland, Derek Smith, Alton 
> Lister, Eric Williams, Rick Fox, Vin Baker, .... and on and on. 
> We're the ones who desperately wanted to keep Gomes, that 
> once-upon-a-time #50 pick.
>
> We're the ones who fought with each other over spending the MLE, over 
> tanking, who to draft, how to defend the pick and roll, on what form 
> of torture was most appropriate for Pitino, Gaston, Vin Baker, Chris 
> Wallace, et al.
>
> And it hasn't all been bad.  Watching the kids the last few years -- 
> especially the sadly departed trio of Jefferson, West and Gomes; the 
> 2001 ECF run (even if we thought it was fleeting), the anticipation 
> that came with Pitino, the solid play in the face of mounting losses, 
> Paul Pierce, Al Jefferson.
>
> But all that's gonna change.
>
> People all over the country are gonna jump on the bandwagon and say 
> they've always loved the Celtics. And that's fine, that's great.  The 
> C's are a great team that all of us love for a reason, for a lot of 
> reasons.  But THEY, the Johnny-Come-Latelys, the "Pink Hat Brigade" 
> that's stuffed Fenway... THEY"LL never know what we've gone through 
> together.
>
> To them Junior Burrough, Thomas Hamilton, Kevin Gamble, Kevinn 
> Pinkney, Thomas Mobley, Joe Forte, Ben Pepper, Ron Mercer and Jiri 
> Welsch are just names.
>
> And to them Bruce Bowen, Joe Johnson, Chauncey Billups, Antoine 
> Walker,David Wesley, Mikki Moore, Adrian Griffin, Justin Reed, heck 
> even Delonte West and Ryan Gomes... those are just guys on other 
> teams.
>
> So thanks to all y'all.  For being true Celtic fans! For doing this together.
>
> (the other) mark
>
>
> [1] that's how we say it down here in Florida
> [2] it seems to me, some time in the mid-to-late 90s ... back when 
> Bill Cooper wrote the greatest game summaries and Steve Chomiscz had 
> the Bostonian Steve site.
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