Jon Took Em is a very passionate reader of Kaliphornya.com. Last night he disagreed with one of the articles I wrote in which I put a curse on Boston and its sports nation. I love hearing from my fans and try to respond to as many of them as possible. Below are the three, yes three comments that Jon left for me. Lets check it out.
Lets dissect jontookem arguments to the blog. He says that I make no coherent or logical argument. The basis of my thesis for this article was the fact that last year and in previous years Paul Pierce has faked injuries. Lets now look at who is injured in Boston this past year. Starting with Baseball, do you remember that series where the BoSox played the Rays? Big Papi was injured during the series and did not produce jack shit. That was probably the sole difference in the series. This year Dice K is injured as well as Smoltz. I listed some more baseball injuries but we will stick with the “big names”. Does anyone remember what happened to the Patriots star player last year? Tom Brady went down for the whole season and had several complications on his knee surgery. Ok Lets now look at the C’s this year. Scalibrini, Powe, Allan, Rondo have all been injured this year. Now the big name is the Big Ticket and he is not available to play in the play offs. That seems like a lot of injuries. I think that should explain quite a bit.
Jon wants me to explain how they won a title, won 62 games without their top player, and have a legitimate chance of getting to the Eastern Conference Finals. Yes, you guys did win the title last year. I did not create the curse until after the finals. This is probably my weakest argument of the blog. You win here. You guys did win 62 games this year, and that is an exceptional record. Where you are wrong is saying you did it without your best player. As far as I am concerned KG only missed at most the last month of the NBA regular season. So you guys did not play the whole season without your best player. Finally, in regards to having a good shot at getting to the ECF, well hey that phrase explains a a lot. I know in Los Angeles we as fans and the players consider the season a failure if we get anything less than an NBA title. It sounds like you are already admitting defeat. I don’t think the Lakeshow did that when Bynum and Ariza were not available for the playoffs last year. Its all good though. The ECF is good, no really it is.
He then tells me that “You might forget about the fact that not every good team can win everywhere”. As a reader I am kind of lost on this phrase, please write back and further expand on this. Jon writes “I think getting to the ECF finals and being a couple wins away from winning a title is a pretty good accomplishment”. Yeah that is a really good accomplishment if you are the Sacramento Kings or the Los Angeles Clippers but you are the Celtics, nice attitude and way to give up. Where is your guys fight? I now see what Boston nation is truly made of. Like I said above, when we didn’t have Bynum we still thought we could win the Finals. I guess that is the difference between aspiring for greatness and settling for mediocrity.
Jon asked me what I accomplished. Well I received a BA in Communication, played four years of Division 1 tennis, in the fourth grade I was student of the month, in high school I won four section championships and was on the Honor Roll, ohh yeah and I created the post it, well not the last but everything else is legit. What have you accomplished jontokem?
Jon asked me how many titles I have won. I am curious if you are asking me or how many titles my teams have won? I am going to presume that you are asking how many titles my teams have won. There is a really good blog that broke down sports between Boston and Los Angeles. As the author clearly shows LA is the dominate sports town. Feel free to check it out.
Dodgers have 18 baseball titles
Red Sox have 7
The Rams, Raiders, Trojans, and Bruins have 14 football titles
The Patriots, BC, Harvard, Tufts, and Northeastern have 14 (10 of those were from Harvard when there were about 3 football teams in college football)
Lakers and Bruins combine for 20 (that is not counting the ones we won in Minneapolis)
The Celtics, BC, Harvard, Tufts, and Northeastern have 17
LA is titletown, boston sucks Click on this link to see specifics.
Jon Took Em, please feel free to write back if you have any more problems, arguments, or questions in regards to this post. Thanks a lot….
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