Oct 21 2003

You Miss The Point Completely, I Get The Point Exactly

The Fatoine Walker fallout continues, but make no mistake, the Walker era is over in Beantown.For some reason, everyone thinks the C's got played in this trade. Why, I have no idea. Don't get me wrong, at times, Fatoine could dominate a game, but he was usually a ball hog with a big head and inflated view of his value to the team that took bad shots and didn't make many of them. His stats have decreased across the board for the last 3 years. Funny how no one seems to mention that. Someone compared him to Jerry Stackhouse yesterday and I think that's on the money.
LaFrenz will do fine in Boston with old friend Paul Pierce and Welsh is gonna be a player. Mark it down. Danny Ainge knows what he is doing. We may have a small step back right now(I doubt it) but this move will pay off down the road. None of the C's younger players would develop properly as long as Antoine was dominating the ball. Now they can shine.
In the end, Bob Ryan makes the best case for doing the deal:
...there is no more oddball player that Antoine Walker, a 6-foot-8-inch guy with a questionable body who can make threes but who shoots too many of them; who can dribble like any guard you can name but can't really handle the ball properly; who has post-up moves but can't get them off against any good athlete; and who can make sensational passes but can't be trusted to make them at the proper moment. Wednesday night is the C's first game without Toine. It's Must-See-TV to say the least.
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM THE INTERNET:
- Finally got Room On Fire last night thanks to Redboy. Seems like a grower upon the first few listens. I shall reserve judgement for now.
- Hey, I'm on Blogshares! So is that a good price or do I suck?
- As with most crazy ideas, the Simpsons thought of it first:
Homer: "I'm feelin' low, Apu. You got any of that beer that has candy floating in it, you know, Skittlebrau?"
Apu: "Such a product does not exist, sir! You must have dreamed it."
Homer: "Oh. Well then just gimme a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles."
And so with that, the Skittlebrau project was born. [link via FOW The Blueprint]
- Shatnerian comes through with a link that takes popular songs, say "Baby Got Back" for instance, translates them into Spanish and the translates them back into English. Hilarity Enuses.
- 1115.org lays down some iTunes science. Well said. PS - iTunes for Windoze has been downloaded 1 million times over 3 1/2 days.
- The story behind The White Stripes video for The Hardest Button To Button. Cool video.
- For all of my Boston peeps, the history of The Pill.
- Speaking of Boston peeps, Peter Gammons says keep Grady Little. The Sports Guy counters after some time to reflect:

The ultimate Grady moment happened in the eighth inning of Game 7, when lefty Embree was pitching to switch-hitting Enrique Wilson (tie game, guy on second, two outs), and Grady brought in Mike Timlin, so Torre countered with Ruben Sierra ... so poor Grady had to walk Sierra, meaning he had a righty pitching against lefty Karim Garcia with two runners on instead of one. Unbelievable!

One last note: I TiVO'd Game 7 from 5-to-8, then TiVo'd the Fox shows afterwards in case it went into extra innings. Well, what would have been a "Simpsons" episode in L.A. from 8:00-8:30 p.m. ended up showing the eighth inning -- starting with Jeter on second base, one out, and Williams at the plate against Pedro. And the entire Sox collapse ran in the place of this Simpsons episode.
The synopsis of the episode, according to TiVO? "Thinking he's dying, Homer assesses his life."
You couldn't make this stuff up

Any day that I can fit two Simpsons references into information leafblower is a good day in my book.
I'm off to buy a new cell phone. Cheers.
Remember, one awkward conversation can ruin my whole day, in the company of strangers with some vulgar shit to say.
I always seem to miss the point completely.
And here I am again.

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Comments

Posted by: Coolfer at October 21, 2003 2:31 PM

Posted by: Uncle Grambo at October 22, 2003 3:37 PM