Ah, yes….

L.A.
Uptight,
city in the smog,
city in the smog.
Don’t you wish that
you could be here too?

Fuck the fucking Celtics, they’re fans are nearly as impossible to take as fucking Yankees fans. The Celtics suck, their fans suck, their ball boys suck and people who blog about them suck.

Balls. Hairy balls. Sweaty balls. Just suck them.

Just ask that clown Simmons, if he has managed to release his jaw from the latest New England sports stars jock.

Fuck. The. Celtics.

Go Lakers (and I’m a Philly native)

Their … goddamn fucking Celtics

Hmmm…There must be some problem with the Intertoobs. All I can read after your handle is “meow, meow, meow, meow.” I’m sure it was enlightening AND grammatically correct.

A pox on both their houses. Bitter Sixer fan here, but then again, I lost interest in pro basketball about 25 years ago. Booooring. I’d rather watch a 24 hour marathon of An American Carol than the NBA. Sorry, Jay B.

25 years ago? Yeah, that’s about the last time the Sixers were good, so it makes sense.

I hate Bill Simmons. But give the Celts some credit. No one thought they would even make it past the Cavs, But they did. Then Orlando. And the Eastern Conference is physical! Not like the swishers in the West. Gotta like the blue collar work-a-day Celtics. Plus Obama picked LA. I’m sure Deval Patrick appreciated that. Kiss of death if you ask me. Unless Sarah Palin shows up with a Celtics jersey at the games.

Simmons didn’t even think they’d make it past Miami. So fuck him too.

Given the 76er’s history with the Celts, I can understand how it could have traumatized you. I miss those Russell-Chamberlin match-ups. You’re missing a great series, though.

Humboltblue…

The sad life of a Philthadelphia sports fan… Reduced to all schadenfreude, all the time… Booing good teams (and Santa… and potentially paralyzed guys)

Oh for the days when the rivalry was between the Celtics and the Knicks.

That was way back in the Bob Cousy/Bill Russell days for all you history fans.

Well Sir, that’s a mighty purty speech. Kinda like English Bob’s denigratory assessment of the US of A afore Little Bill got a holta him.

For your own safety’s sake, best stay outta Hollywood, sidewinder.

Jesus H. John F, Kennedy Christ, give it a rest will you? Any lack of ostentatious behavior on the part of the Beantown born is hardly attributable to any superior values or character. I don’t know what [pathetic need is driving it but you should work on it. I will acknowledge it takes a certain amount of smarts to resist driving anything there you’re not willing to abandon in a heartbeat and without a moment’s regret. If the salt and chemicals don’t eat it outside-in, residue from 6mos worth of greasy haired/ faced spud queens will eat it inside-out. And they do seem to understand that when your income comes from political graft, mob related services or door to door coke sales, you wan’t to keep your bling (like your priestly perversions) on the down low. But hey, you gotta hand it to the pig-shit Celts for their long held progressive attitudes toward the brothers waving their flag. Does the Garden have an interracial section yet? Tomorrow, we can talk baseball, you spud stuffed puke.

BOTH teams SUCK! The league SUCKS! It’s stupid and ugly and smells bad. Everyone travels, the refs are crooked, and no one can hit from medium range anymore. And you have to play once a year in OKC. If that is not a messure of suck I do not know what is. Unless you play at OKC ALL THE TIME- THAT IS ULTIMATE SUCK.

Stupid LA vs. Boston. Stupid NBA.

I MISS MY SONICS!!!

And now that I think about it, as a native Angeleno, we didn’t see any of that shit until Boston and Buffalo got T.V. – one shot of the Rose Bowl on New Year’s day and the great Studebaker wagon trains began snowplowing and rutting their way west without the benefit of tire chains or condoms. Also, too. Go Lakers.

But hey, you gotta hand it to the pig-shit Celts for their long held progressive attitudes toward the brothers waving their flag.

First black drafted. First black starting five. First black coach. First championship-winning black coach. Three black coaches with championships (5 out of the 17, with #6 in the balance). You must have them confused the Red Sox. Or the Lakers.

Thankfully, LA is all about positive race relations. Well, since the mid-90s or so.

With a Glesca grandfather, I never imagined I’d be wishing well to a club called “Celtic”. Still, all things are relative. Three times have I had the misfortune to visit that anti-city that is Los Angeles; each visit confirmed, and heightened, the ill-will I’d already had. Boston, by contrast, is a wonderful wee town, bar the Red Sox and their supporters. So, although I couldn’t give a rat’s fart about basketball, and am watching the ongoing football World Cup half in enthusiasm, half in resentment that it’s grabbing broadcast slots that would be better spent showing the northern hemisphere’s tour of the southern in the superior code, I’m happy to shout GO CELTS!!!

Only Mickey Kaus and Boris Karloff can be Mickey Kaus

You’re just upset because Philly hasn’t had a basketball team for decades. And yeah, I’m counting the 76ers. They just haven’t been a team since Moses Malone left.

“First black drafted. First black starting five. First black coach.”
Holy crap! And Mayor Curly had the first black houseboy in Southie that got paid! I’m sorry, when I mentioned the garden I wasn’t referring to the help.
Surely even from the depths of your ignorant delusions of status, surely, you wouldn’t dare? You’re far too young to have fallen victim to toxins from the molasseses flood but too old to pretend that Roxbury was some sort of anomaly.

the superior code

The one played by blokes with poor eye-foot coordination? Well, the hand is superior to the foot, technically.

I’m just happy to get a peek into Jay B.’s soul. It’s nowhere near as bad as I’d thought. And yeah, Celts over Left Coasters any day.

Now THAT I sympathize with. A travesty, utter and complete.
At least you’ll have the pete Carroll era to enjoy.

Sorry. That was mean.

And I must say for the sake of friends who are Celtic fans who actually appreciate the rivalry, I’ve always admired the team. But you just got pig-shit Hibernian mouthy one too many times. You haven’t been in L.A. long enough to know how to drive, much less to drag your lame-ass stereotypes out and critique the locals. You are the stereotypical transplant who spends ten years missing all the things that never existed and couldn’t wait too leave. Do yourself a favor, swap the bug up your ass for a Tommy’s in your mouth and resist bitching your mouth full. You just may see a few of the things we’ve always seen and you’ve apparently missed. It’s a better view and a much smoother ride.

You mean The Big Sleep isn’t an accurate portrayal of LA? Fuck you, Howard Hawks.

Dude. I’m having fun with this. The lakers are up 10. I’m fine. It’s called talking smack. I said, in my post, that I love it here. It’s a confession for fuckssake. At the same time, it’s fun to have a little edge. Hibernian mouthiness? Jesus fuck. Get over yourself.

Sigh, Santa Monica has changed since Chandler called it Bay City. And Echo Park, well I find it hard to imagine the Hawks or John Fante version. But one will get you ten that the above featured Hummer is owned by a guy who’s fresh out Dorchester, Brockton or some similar model of east coast sophistication.

Oh I’m sorry, maybe you could see your way clear to allowing my pig-shit Hibernian mouthiness comment to be categorized as, what was it called, smack? And Dude, as a native who’s far more Irish than anything else… take your own counsel and get the fuck over yourself. This might be a good time for you grab a tonic, jump into the beach wagon and run a truncheon over to your sons of Branch Rickey, apparently your team’s didn’t make the flight.

Great guest posts and all, but — don’t any of you people have pets???

I realize it’s probably too much to hope for bassets, but, maybe a ferret, or a pot-bellied pig, or a pygmy goat?

Brittle. Soft. Try not to live up to every expectation, son.

Lakers look good. Better than the celts. By far. The game and the series ain’t over, but I think the lakers are the better team. The things that have struck me — the c’s are still alive in the playoffs and that a douchebag with a “MTV STAR” Hummer is a big Laker fan. You want to react all whiny again?

And in case you missed my affection for the rivalry, I watched a good deal of the ’84 & ’85 series in my favorite bar on the planet, at the Copely Plaza.
The smack consisted mainly of the dearth of lakes in Hollywood and the inexplicably preferred pronunciation of Celtics.

Brittle. Soft. You want to react all whiny again?
What’s next, you gonna talk smack about my vans? Did I say he wasn’t a douche? I think I was pointing out that staking your claim on such a tiresome stereotype was a douche move. Your nba draft rejoinder was just stupid. Hard to say where the whine is in pointing out some of the more blatant dumb-ass in your smack. It doesn’t sound like your having fun, maybe you can explain the smack rules again.

Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow… Who you like I. Game 7?

There must be some subtlety in American sports trash-talk that I’m missing. Odd that “smack” and “douche” would be mutually exclusive.

My favourite example of smack was pretty douchey. Australian bowler asks Zimbabwean batsman why he’s so fat. Zimbabwean responds “Every time I fuck your wife, she gives me a biscuit”.

I like that. Maybe the la wives haven’t shown up to wherever the celts are staying yet.

The first part escapes me. I wouldn’t venture a guess on Game 7. When L.A. lost game two, in the manner they lost it, it was all bets off for me.
I had no inkling that they would dominate tonight. Boston v L.A. in the finals has tortured me for years. It’s a yawn when we dominate and it’s almost insufferable when it’s close. If we were playing Cleveland, I could have been a wonderful sport about the whole thing, win or lose. It’s like the Dodgers and the Yankees for me, exquisitely painful to watch.

and the supposed attraction would be what? Men who wear big shoes or know their way around good public transportation? I just don’t see how that works for you an insult.

I will say I’m encouraged by the Celtics not being able to muster any kind of a run tonight. I can’t imagine the Celtics shooting this cold back to back, but the Laker’s defense was impressive .

please go away now

Speaking to anyone in particular?

where’s tbogg?

“Hey, yeah, Moses Malone does eat shit.” Larry Bird, upon seeing a fan’s sign at a victory rally, City Hall Plaza, Boston, 1981.

Oh, yeah.

The sad life of a Philthadelphia sports fan… Reduced to all schadenfreude, all the time… Booing good teams

You have no idea what you are talking about – obviously. Knicks fans are reduced to booing their own damn team all the time so stick your Philly sob story where the sun don’t shine.

For sheer incompetence induced misery, try being a Knicks fan for five minutes and then feel for the ones who have been fans since 1988.

Nope. T-Wolves. A team so sucky not even Kevin Garnett could save it.

I’m with ya on Hummer hatred, but screw the Celtics. To each their own – I won’t begrudge anyone honest fandom – but I’ve known far too many obnoxious Celtic fans to root for the team.

Anyway, it’s been a great series, and here’s to a good Game 7!

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