Bye bye big intangible, we hardly knew thee
R Howe
regmanw6 at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 19 13:43:22 CST 2007
I did not know Egg has left the list, I may not always
agreed wth her but she always seemed to have a pulse
on the good and bad "eggs" in the C's locker room.
I am one of those always green eyed optimists and I
am with you on the name calling in that it makes the
list boring and makes the discussions sink to Jr High
bus ride levels.
Egg please come back.
Go C's
--- JoeFan11111 at aol.com wrote:
> >> I was that "unnamed poster," and I stand by what
> I said then. The
> >> fact that the C's released Wallace yesterday
> doesn't give your
> >> evaluation any more credibility in my eyes.
>
> >> You might want to hold off on your public pat on
> the back until
> >> a few years from now (if you can wait).
>
> This just isn't right. Why still the hostility and
> sarcasm especially
> when that poster was essentially correct about
> Wallace and while
> our team is doing so well.
>
> As a long time lurker who probably hasn't earned the
> right to
> a voice, Iâd still like to say that I used to
> enjoy this list before
> it got so lame with its name-calling and defensive
> and
> confrontational and yes boring posts.
>
> Seems to me all this list is good for now is for
> posts that
> keep repeating that our team is fabulous and that
> our
> every player and coach is off the chart. Have been
> reading the
> same rosy posts now for what seems like forever even
> when we
> won so few games last season..
>
> But a funny thing seems to have happened on our way
> to success.
> Nowhere does there anymore seem room for
> contributions which
> are not starry eyed optomistic. And God help those
> who
> post otherwise. I for one really miss all the give
> and take by
> intelligent posters with varying views who once made
> this list
> what it was.
>
> As an example because I missed her contributions, I
> emailed the
> late Egg a few days ago to see where she was at.
> She responded
> that she has actually removed her name from this
> list. What a
> shame as I recall the very guys who drove her off
> arenât nearly
> her equal in interesting input. I'm not familiar
> with who the
> mystery man is who owns this list but she also told
> me that
> she requested that he speak to posters about
> personal attacks
> but never heard back from him.
>
> Just my humble opinion but with all the Celtics
> blogs and
> forums out there nowadays it seems to me that the
> competitiion
> for intelligent thought-provoking contributors is
> keen and that
> none of the dozens of Celtics sites can afford to
> drive away
> quality contributors.
>
>
>
>
>
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