Red Auerbach RIP
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PopeDirkBenedict
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RIP to a basketball genius.
GENTLEMEN, tear up your front pages!
GENTLEMEN, tear up your front pages!
Chuck~Taylor
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RIP Red. Not only was he a great bball coach, but he was one funny dude as well.
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I'm not so sure it's not an A1 option for everyone.
RIP.
RIP.
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Idaho said:
Mine too, especially with Texas trying to choke against Tech.
Michael_ Gee
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Blogger just ate my obit. Laker fans, you're just amateurs at Celtic-hatred. I'm from Philly. I was one of the rowdies who threw lit cigars at Red's head in 1967.
Then God laughed and I covered the '80a Celtics. Auerbach was the best journalism teachers ever.
Once I asked a question with the hackneyed "some people say."
Auerbach: "That's bull****! You mean what you say, but you don't have the guts to say so."
Busted. And every time I hear that question format, I agree with Red.
Another lesson: The Celts win Game 4 of the NBA Finals. In LAX, they're waiting for the same red-eye as some weekly writer. It's late, and a concourse and a half away, Cedric Maxwell (I think) finds an open cafeteria.
I snag the last dessert, a lime Jello. The man behind me in line, Auerbach, swipes it off my tray and gives it to the man behind him, Larry Bird.
"Larry ought to get this," Auerbach said, "because he was a good boy tonight."
Bird had only had a 20-20. I let him the Jello. Then Kevin McHale came over and said, "Red will only respect you if you fight for the Jello."
Try being more hopelessly ****ed then that. Try standing in Red Auerbach's way. He beat segregarton, Michael Gee couldn't have been much of a contest,
Poor Mendy Rudolph probably thought eternity would be a peaceful place. Not anymore.
Then God laughed and I covered the '80a Celtics. Auerbach was the best journalism teachers ever.
Once I asked a question with the hackneyed "some people say."
Auerbach: "That's bull****! You mean what you say, but you don't have the guts to say so."
Busted. And every time I hear that question format, I agree with Red.
Another lesson: The Celts win Game 4 of the NBA Finals. In LAX, they're waiting for the same red-eye as some weekly writer. It's late, and a concourse and a half away, Cedric Maxwell (I think) finds an open cafeteria.
I snag the last dessert, a lime Jello. The man behind me in line, Auerbach, swipes it off my tray and gives it to the man behind him, Larry Bird.
"Larry ought to get this," Auerbach said, "because he was a good boy tonight."
Bird had only had a 20-20. I let him the Jello. Then Kevin McHale came over and said, "Red will only respect you if you fight for the Jello."
Try being more hopelessly ****ed then that. Try standing in Red Auerbach's way. He beat segregarton, Michael Gee couldn't have been much of a contest,
Poor Mendy Rudolph probably thought eternity would be a peaceful place. Not anymore.
Great stories. But I hate the Celtics and the cigars. And turning up the thermostat in the visitors locker room. And the leprechaun. And Boston Garden. But ... I respect them. That should be enough. RIP.
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shotglass said:
It's going inside here. We have too much local today.
Michael_ Gee
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Dear Mile High: Your thoughts are the point. Red needed hate. It was the only form of respect he believed in.
As for you how you play it. I got 10 bucks that say Red is a front-page below the fold Times obit tomorrow.
I hate blogger. And I guess I picked the wrong week to go drinking with an old college buddy.
As for you how you play it. I got 10 bucks that say Red is a front-page below the fold Times obit tomorrow.
I hate blogger. And I guess I picked the wrong week to go drinking with an old college buddy.
Michael_ Gee said:
Yeah, he did. He reveled in it. His tweaking of Phil Jackson was *shudder* great. It's amazing how time bypasses greatness and legends become "back in the day" geezers. No, we should remember it. Respect it. Embrace it.
That said, I'm not going to have a cigar tonight. But the game, sports overall, has lost a legend. Again, RIP.
Michael_ Gee
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Dear Mile High: There was a cigar in my tuxedo left over from my niece's wedding in June. I just lit it.
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MileHigh said:
It has to go inside here, too. We'll give it a nice refer on the front, and blow it out on the back page.
If it happens Monday, it goes out front. Hell, even if it happens tomorrow, it goes out front. But not today. Sadly.
