Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V5 #258

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Nice article. If you feel Philly is 2nd rate compared to Boston, so be it.
Boston fans expect nothing but the best, especially from its basketball
team, which we are beginning to get again, and as much from the Boston
press, in which we are not getting. Yeah, I'll trade you the press and
Cous. Maybe your guys in Philly just don't have anything to write about
lately. 

>From: lenthall@sas.upenn.edu (Bruce K. Lenthall)
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>Let me say right off the bat that I haven't lived in the Boston area in 
>several years, so I haven't read the Globe or listened to Cousy regularly 
>in several years. You can all decide that invalidates what follows if you 
>want. That said, having lived in the Twin Cities and Philadelphia, 
>listened and read the local sports coverage, I caution all you Globe and 
>Cousy haters about wishing for their retirement. You could do much, much 
>worse. Most of the sports columnists in the Philly paper aren't worth 
>reading -- and not just because they're writing about the Sixers. Every 
>morning when I read the sports pages here, I long for the Globe. It may 
>have dropped from the days of Montville, Madden, Gammons, et al, but it's 
>still better than just about any sports page I've seen. If you ever hound 
>Bob Ryan out of Boston, I'd trade stable of Philly columnists for him.
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