Well, this TWIBS! will only be about our beloved 2008 NBA Champions…your BOSTON CELTICS!

I am still in disbelief over the storybook ending that took place less than 48 hours ago. If you’ve read over the last few months, I’ve completely morphed into a new-look Celtics fan- jumping on the bandwagon as a diehard after their 7-0 start. I know, I know- “where were you last season?” I’ll tell you. I was simply too busy watching all of the other Boston sports teams winning, that I didn’t have time to witness their 18-game losing streak.

As you’re well aware, it started with the NBA lottery last season when Boston got absolutely robbed by landing the 5th pick in a weak draft class. I mean, we could’ve ended up with Greg Oden damnit (thank you God). Danny Ainge ate a lot of shit from fans and the media over the last few years, but somehow the stars aligned and he made a bevy of correct moves to pull off one of the greatest coup d’etats in the history of free agency. He trades that crap-ass #5 pick to Seattle along with Wall-Z and Delonte West (both of whom we revisited in the Cleveland 2nd round series) for the aging Ray Allen. OK, so Pierce and Ray-Ray should automatically make this team a playoff contender. Fast forward to July ‘07, and the C’s announce the trading of 5 million picks, rookies and scrubs to Minnesota for Kevin Garnett, with a little help from our old pal Lurch…I mean, Kevin McHale. NOW we are fucking cooking with gas.

The preseason expectations for this team were through the roof, and the media did it’s usual job of over-hyping the shit out of this team. How can three superstars in their own right drop some of their game and check their egos to make a championship run? Surely they’ll have to burn a year or two just to figure out how to play with each other, right?

Well, all of the bold predictions and far-fetched fan dreams came true. This team set a lot of records along the way to capture their 17th NBA title- best one-season turn around (um, worst to FIRST); defensive accolades; most playoff games ever played, and subsequently longest season; 66-15 ranks in the top 10 best regular season records of all time; greatest comeback in NBA finals (24 point deficit only to win by 6); biggest blowout in the NBA finals clincher (dismantling the Lakers by 39 points)- the list goes on and on.

Hollywood couldn’t have scripted a better NBA season as far as I’m concerned. Three veteran superstars who love each other, craving their first NBA title, young starters with Rondo and Perk who are going to be prominent players for a long time, Posey, House, LEON POWE contributing left and right, the signing of E.T. and PJ Brown- everybody contributed through Doc’s personality wrangling and Thibideoux’s Xs and Os. Absolutely the definition of a classy team effort that paid off in the end. Not one player on this team has a Kobe complex, everyone’s in love, everyone’s a family man, they won in dramatic fashion against the franchise’s long-time arch enemy. I know David Stern and the officiating committee probably had a large hand in setting up the storied rivalry, but the players still had to play, and had to go through every beast in the East to do so- a young, electric and unexpected Atlanta team, LeBron and Z, downing Detroit in 6, then man-handling LA with ease.

Soo many incredible images along the way:

- Ray’s buzzer-beating 3 against the Bobcats (with Mike Gorman’s great “…Got it!” call)
- Rondo breaking Steve Nash’s ankles
- Beating Houston by 20 to break their historic winning-streak
- E.T. contributing to beat the Mavs last minute?
- Big Baby’s big game vs. Detroit the second time around?
- Rondo’s knock-out dunk in 3rd reg season game vs Detroit?
- Leon Powe’s multiple 20-point games down the stretch

So much drama throughout the playoffs too. Pierce being carted away in the finals in embarrassingly hysterical fashion, other numerous injuries in the LA series, almost losing to ATLANTA in 7, Dick Bavetta calling finals game 2 with ridiculous hometown discretion in the midst of that cheating referee unearthing new allegations against other cheating refs….

These lists go on and on, but the point remains that the new-look 2007-2008 Boston Celtics were full of heart, grit, determination and refused to let anything derail their quest for Title 17. This was the greatest championship season I’ve witnessed in New England sports, and that’s including the ‘01 Pats and ‘04 Red Sox. I went to Sonny McLean’s in Santa Monica (THE greatest Boston bar outside of Boston) with Big Daddy around 3:00pm to ensure we’d get barstools. We had a ton of light beer, ordered up a pizza and took it all in with our brethren drenched in green. Speaking of drenched, our bartenders Sammy and Pat sprayed the greatest champagne shower into the crowd, and we were soaked as if we’ve been dancing in a thunder shower. Just an all-around magical time with close friends to celebrate with- you can’t beat that.

Here are a bunch of pictures from the finals clincher, postgame and victory parade. There are too many for me to color-correct, but they’re still memorable photos from a memorable run. Is it too early to say “back to back”???

This is what happens when you eat your Wheaties.
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So, yes this site has been quite uneven since running out of oldieo videos.

And yes, I should be much more regular and timely with my current postings.

But I’m in the middle of a creative crisis, and I need to line up all my eggs and shoot fish in a barrel before I can start making sense and humor again.

Boston sports are gonna be shitty with just one major sport currently active, so we shall see what type of material fills this website for postings to come.

That said, I love you for reading this line. That must mean you love me too.

THANKS TO YOU AND THANK YOU BOSTON CELTICS!!!!!!!

Sincerely,
Brent

You know, I’m getting real sick of you.

Here’s a turbo Boston sports post. Let’s gettoit.

The Sox are slowly falling apart, but young guns and role players have stepped up to fill in some injuries/suspensions for this clubhouse gone mad. They fight the Rays, Manny fights Youkilis, J.D. Drew fights the chicken pox…actually Drew has been on fire the past week, batting in the .400s and smacking homers left and right. He’s in the three-spot with Manny batting clean-up seeing that Big Papi is going to be injured throughout the damn season once again. Bout damn time J.D. started earning some of that $15 mil a year JEESH! After blowing through a rattled Tampa Bay squad and pitiful Seattle club, the Sox finished the week with a 40-26 record, one up on Tampa. These two teams really hate each other. Sloppy infield scuffles between Coco Crisp and Tampa’s 2B, then Rays pitcher Shields plunking Coco in retaliation, followed by Coco charging the mound, dodging a haymaker, slapping Shields in the ear, then getting pummeled by some of the fatter Tampa players causing a bench-clearing brawl. THEN in the 4th Manny and Youk start slapping each other in the Sox dugout - WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO THIS TEAM! Whatever’s in the Boston tap water (besides alarming amounts of lead), they’ve somehow managed to brave this shitstorm to retain their 1st place status in the AL East.

Don’t fight fellas, it’s not good for your complexion.

Sorry, I had to- best thing I’ve ever seen on television bar none.

…Please pinch me. Pinch me HARDER! The Celtics…are leading in the NBA finals, 2-0 over the Lakers!?!?!! ARE you ##$%$# kidding me? FUCK ME! I bleed green, but I’m also a realist, and before the series started I had Lakers in 6. The C’s have been playing through their High Tops - Pierce is actually taking advantage of the big stage, Ray Allen is sinking three after three, the bench is playing lights out - LEON POWE scored 21 with 8 boards playing Gasol in Game 2! And after a close Game 1, you had to wonder how healthy Paul and Perkins were from their respective injuries, but they both bounced back to participate in a good 3 1/2 quarters of #2 (the last 6 minutes of that game was a disgusting display of Celtics poop). Loud-mouth Curt Schilling shouldn’t be analyzing the Lakers, but he’s not wrong in saying that Kobe’s been bitching more than playing in this series so far. To say the refs in Boston have been calling home-field advantage is an understatement, but the Lakers haven’t played in the post at all after two games- zero inside presence. LA almost came back in historic fashion to steal game two, cutting Boston’s lead to TWO after losing by 21 in the fourth, but luckily those lazy..I mean “complacent” idiots held serve and protected home court. Tonight is Game 3 which LA is 99.9999999998% likely to win. They’ll get the calls, they’ll have their phony crowd behind them (excluding Jack and Leo from said-slander), Kobe will walk away with 98 points - all will be well in LALA land. Being a Boston sports fan in LA isn’t so bad - you get hazed a bit, but LA fans are so cosmetic. The ones you have to watch out for are the Mexican bangers because…well, they’ll bang you, rip off your Celtics garb, then toss you in a dumpster. Anyway, with Phil Jackson’s cries of foul discrepancy, Kobe’s bitching, David Stern’s evil scheming to force a Game 7, I predict that the Lakers will win at least two at home, and probably by 1,000 points each game. Pierce is from Inglewood, and has to prove his worth to family and friends. I hope they can squeeze out one victory in this 2-3-2 format. Think about it, they’re just TWO WINS AWAY FROM THE NBA TITLE!! You know they’re gonna blow it somehow.

God bless when Kobe’s ego is rattled!

Zen Master my dick! (…that’s an insult, not a request)

Leon had three earth-shattering dunks in Game 2. Phil Jackson mispronounced Leon’s name in the postgame press conference- goes to show how clueless the rest of the league is to this 24-year old bench wonder!!

Did you know the Bruins are now selling babies at their online store?

The Patriots held their first mandatory mini-camp in Foxboro this week. Not much to report there- the bums are back and ready for another tense-filled dramatic season. A bunch of the Pats have been spotted at the NBA finals in Boston which is cool. More Pats, less Curt Schilling please. OH one bit of news - Offensive Lineman Nick Kazcur got busted for posession of 3,000 oxycontin. Wonderful- just one more reason to drag this team’s name through the mud. It’s unclear if Kazcur was reselling the OCs, or if he’s just really really addicted. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say both.

Another day, another $14,000 dollars for ol’ Tom. Getting long in the tooth Tommy, how bout a legitimate Super Bowl this year, that too much to ask!!!

This guy got busted this week for selling painkillers to all sorts of athletes. C’mon government, these circus animals need it!

That’s all for this week. Game 3 tonight, Game 4 Thursday, Game 5 Sunday- all in LA. If the Celtics can somehow pull this out, this will be the greatest year in Boston sports (minus the soul-crushing Pats Superbowl loss- I know, I know, I’m trying to erase that from my memory).

Have a good one - P Prizzy, bring home a title!!!
Brento

…hi.

NOW I know what you’re thinking. Before you flood me with questions and biting comments, that is, if you’re still even visiting my farty little website, I’d just like to say that I haven’t posted for two weeks for a number of reasons:

1) I’ve been working and am too tired to bitch at the end of the day.
2) I don’t have any more videos, nor do I currently have the means for new videos.
3) I don’t think you need to rely on this website for current Boston sports news.

That actually brings up a fantastic question- what the hell is this website supposed to be post-oldieo videos? Do I just bitch about stuff? Anything specific? When did this turn solely into a sports gossip site? Any suggestions on your end? I’ll list a few topics of which I have interest in, and could crap about (I’m worst than a 12 year old girl with these fucking lists):

1) Film and Television
2) LA Dipshits and Hollywood experiences
3) Direction and Production Theory
4) Creatively absurd short storytelling
Maybe for a new Thursday post, I can just share some production/directing/film study theory. Blabber all about the movies near and dear to my squishy heart.

OK let’s catch up on the latest in Boston Sports.

Before we start, I’d like to share with you a catchy tone poem I wrote to welcome in the month of June:

Whoop, Whoop! Let’s here it for Juuune.
Whoop, Whoop!….Shabalabah Boom.

Seriously? Are we seriously in June of 2008. JVT termed it well – Commence operation put up or shut up time!

SO The Celtics are back in the finals after a 20-year absence to face off against the Lakers in what should be an exciting addition to the sport’s most hallowed rivalry. Nebbishy commissioner David Stern has been pulling late nights chanting for this cashcow of a matchup, and his prayers have been answered. I was only four years old in 86, and didn’t really experience the Bird/Magic, McHale/Rambis, all those incredible skyhooks, hard fouls, flat-out dogfights…

At the beginning of this season, I felt it was going to be a letdown if they didn’t make the finals. I didn’t have them winning it all, but I figured they had a real shot to make the finals. And if the Lakers didn’t seal the steal of the decade in signing Gasol Christ, I’d feel a lot better going into Game 1.

Um, fellas hate to cut your celebration short but you know that trophy is made out of tin foil. Start freaking if you get the one that doesn’t come in a crackerjack box.

KG said he hadn’t slept during the last five nights of the Eastern Conference Finals. Kev, sleep is part of the human functioning process. Deep breaths! Oxygen to your brain!!

Honestly I think that Boston is going to perform like they’re content with just getting to the finals. During the regular season they didn’t have an answer for Gasol when he was with Memphis. Couple him with the league’s most complete player and an incredibly deep bench…hate to say it, but I have the Lakers over the Celtics in 6. But hell, I’m proud of these guys getting this far, especially considering the bumpy postseason road to get here. Hey, anything could happen.

The Sox have had their share of wins and losses, injuries and milestones, and currently rank 2nd in the East one game behind the still-scorching (Devil) Rays. The big story of the week was Manny’s long-awaited 500th homerun against Baltimore on Saturday. Man Ram became the 24th player in MLB history to reach the sacred milestone.

Manny exchanges a few autographed bats and balls for his 500th, caught by Nahant-native Damon Woo. In an age of cutthroat sports memorabilia, trading in the ball for next to nothing was a nice gesture by a loyal Sox fan. Who else kinda wants to see Manny and Damon starring opposite each other in Rush Hour 4?

Bartolo Colon has been quite productive since activation, winning all three starts thus far. That’s pretty clutch considering our starting rotation woes: Dice-K hits the 15-day DL with shoulder problems, Bucholtz slowly recovers from an ailing hand injury, J.D. Drew has vertigo, a scratchy sore throat and the shits.

Ellsbury’s been a base-running machine. He stole six in the last two games against Baltimore, and his 18 SBs in May match the all-time most steals in a month. You have to love true role players- get on base, run really fast, then score.

Keep skatin’ Sid the Kid. You’ve got a long way to go my friend.

The Pats start mini-camps in two weeks. Besides that, the only blog-worthy piece of news has been the team’s overwhelming support of the Celtics throughout the playoffs. A number of marquee players and personel have been to multiple games, and the latest appearance includes Belichick and his Cougar girlfriend Linda Holliday. I don’t know what Bill’s thinking, but his new persona post-Super Bowl disaster has all the signs of a superstar coach undergoing a really expensive and fun mid-life crisis.

I hope Bill and the Pats can learn how to take the edge off this season. Maybe if everyone has a little more fun and can avoid burning out during the regular season, they would have a great chance to go deep once again.

So with the Celtics in the NBA finals, Boston fans have made four consecutive championship appearances (Red Sox, Revolution, Patriots, now the C’s) in one calendar year. SPOILED BRATS! Talk about a justified label; it grows harder to defend our success with every team in town dominating every professional sport in America (well, besides hockey- the B’s aren’t shitting with the seat down anytime soon).

Game One of the NBA finals begins this Thursday at 9/6p PT. Pray that KG, Prizzy and the rest of the green team gets proper rest and isn’t star-struck with a finals appearance alone. Four wins away from title #17! Do it for KG. Do it for French Lick! DO IT FOR RED!!!

Enjoy!
Brento