Posts Tagged ‘boston celtics’

Under the Fedora: Goals, No Debate on this, Protesting the Geek Prom, Barr None, Redsox vs Miami Heat advantage Sox

Posted: April 27, 2024 by datechguy in baseball, culture, education, elections, media, nba, politics, Sports, under the fedora
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Other than the Professional activists who are being paid to upend universities I would be real money that the girls at the “Free Palestine” protests are there for status and self esteem and the guys are there in the hopes of getting laid.

In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if more than one guy at these “camps” are taking liberties that they shouldn’t and the ladies who are being taken advantage of are told not to talk about it, complain about it or report it for the sake of the cause.

I don’t care what Radio host he said it to does anyone really believe Joe Biden circa 2024 is going to take a stage opposite of Donald Trump?

Cripes they don’t even let him walk to the airplane or helicopter without being surrounded for fear of people seeing how fragile he is and you’re going to put him in front of Trump who will ask Biden before millions of eyes how heavily did they have to drug you up to get you to this podium?

If they thought Biden could stand up to Trump they wouldn’t have spent the last year trying to jail him.

The White House Correspondents dinner is going on as I type. The folks at the Lincoln Project are suggesting it’s going to be a big win for Biden. Given the hundreds of protestors outside making trouble, all leftists btw, I think this is another example of redefining words.

The real irony is just about all the journalists in their spend most of their time whitewashing the crimes both of Hamas and the protestors themselves, but every revolution eventually eats their own allies.

As you might have heard Bill Barr who did his level best to ignore and enable the steal of 2020 by inaction endorsed Donald Trump for 2024 on the grounds that whatever he might think of Trump, Joe Biden and the Democrats are an actual threat to freedom.

Trump being Trump accepted the endorsement listing all the names that he has called Barr and stated from now on the label “lethargic” will be removed from the list.

CNN hoped to pounce on this but Barr just laughed and when pressed listed all the ways that freedoms are being threatened by the Biden Administration rules that were not being done under Trump.

That’s how bad this administration has been, they’ve got Bill Barr doubling down on an endorsement of Trump.

Finally I was out with a devout young friend of mine who was once my boss. He was part of the layoff at my place but because he is a hard worker and very talented he quickly found another job at a better pay and has by that hard work advanced himself admirably.

We went to Buffalo Wild wins and caught the Celtics vs Heat game and the end of the Red Sox Cubs game while we were at it. As I watched the finish of the Redsox game which carried into the 2nd quarter of the Celtics playoff game I saw something I had never seen before.

The Celtics have a spectacular defense and put on a show during the first quarter of the game. How much of a show? It took the NBA’s Miami heat until 2-3 minutes into the 2nd quarter before they managed to outscore the Boston Red Sox who put up 17 against the Cubs today.

If the Celtics play this kind of defense during the rest of this playoff run I don’t see how any team beat them. Bill Russell would have been proud of them.

The Celtics Trade Away The Thing They Need Most

Posted: June 22, 2023 by datechguy in nba
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Is there is one thing that Celtics fans and the talk radio crowd agreed on is that the thing that the Celtics needed the most and didn’t have during the playoffs was heart and balls.

The Celtics were too full of themselves and because of that they needed strong efforts to beat teams they should have rolled over and we’re unable to beat a team that while inferior by every measurable standard had the two things that the Celtics lacked during their playoff run.

Heart and balls.

So what apparently was the solution? To trade away the player who had the most heart and balls on the team for a tall guy with a big contract and two 1st round picks.

On a team that didn’t have leaders Marcus Smart was a leader. Over and over he stepped up. There were times when he could not carry them over the hill because his talent alone wasn’t enough but he always stepped up, always played hard and never laid down.

Now that player is gone and Memphis will benefit greatly from his presence there.

As for the Celtics? I think they followed the following line of logic:

  1. Something must be done
  2. This is something
  3. Therefore we must do it

Well I say this. Unless you can somehow trade those two 1st round draft picks for a set of balls for Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown you are going nowhere.

Now I’m not a basketball GM and I don’t do this for a living. It might be possible that the Celtics will turn those two draft picks into gold or will draft two players who turn into gold or that their new tall man from the wizards will turn out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread so if I turn out to be wrong and they come home with a ring this year or next I will be happy to eat these words.

But absent evidence to the contrary, this was idiocy.

Five Sports Thoughts Under the Fedora The Five Minute Solution, Ime Who? As Expected in Foxborough, Winning in a Vacuum and the Price of Success

Posted: December 4, 2022 by datechguy in baseball, nba, nfl, nhl, Sports, under the fedora
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With apologies to John Cleese If you want to understand why Soccer/Football is a sport that Americans on the whole reject go to youtube and compare the highlights of the game for any NFL game vs the Highlights of any of these world cup matches.

You will not that it takes 10-12 minutes for them reviews of the 60 Minute NFL game but only about 6 minutes for a 90+ minute World Cup match.

For the other 80 minutes it’s the Simpsons

Was it just two months ago that Celtics fans were worried about how the injury to Robert Williams and the suspension of Ime Udoka would mean doom to a team that was just two wins away from a championship last year?

Joe Mazzulla has made them forget all about Udoka but his answer to the question if he met with “the Royal Family.” when the Prince and Princess of Wales means they won’t forget him

They’ll never forgive him for that

Patriots fans seem to have very short memories.

Just 14 weeks ago everyone was noting that while the Patriots have pretty much the same team that they had last year, that all of the teams in their division and many others in the in the conference had improved.

So is it so strange that they sit in last place in their division while still having a ..500 record when in the previous season they made the playoffs by the skin of their teeth?

20 years of Tom brady success really has spoiled the fan base here.

Speaking of success have you ever seen a team as successful as this year’s Boston Bruins that has gotten less attention from the media and the fan base of a city.

The Bruins have set a record for consecutive home wins, they have dominated their sport and they can’t buy any press. All people want to do is to talk about how bad the Patriots have been.

Again I blame Tom Brady. In the days before his time the Brins would be THE story in the city.

Finally the Red Sox seem poised to lose Xander Bogarts. He is the link to the David Ortiz days winning and the Mookie Bettis days of winning.

They will not get a player as good at him at short or second (they can always move Story to short which I suspect was the plan from the beginning) but this tells me they are going full rebuild mode.

If they figured on losing him I can’t see why they didn’t trade him while they could, Better to get something for him than nothing for him, particularly if the plan is to rebuild.

Again success makes it difficult. 20-25 years ago when winning was practically not in living memory they could have gotten away with it, but now with four titles in under 20 years the fan base may not be as patient as they once were.