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Show Me The Negative Contest
« on: March 29, 2011, 11:16:11 AM »

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**OFF DAY CONTEST: Show Me Your Negatives, Negatives**
Show me the most negative tweet or quote you can find today about the Celtics. Go find me rock bottom.

Has to be a legitimate quote too, WITH LINK PROVIDED, to be considered. I'll put up a poll towards the end of the day with the best entries.

Here is mine:

This year looks worse. RT @evilmiamimonkey: @SherrodbCSN Would you say the C's looked worse at the end of last year or this year?

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Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2011, 11:20:55 AM »

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Wait, do CB quotes count, or just established media?

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2011, 11:25:03 AM »

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Wait, do CB quotes count, or just established media?

Come on now, if CB quotes counted, that would make this WAY too easy. 

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2011, 11:27:56 AM »

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Wait, do CB quotes count, or just established media?

Come on now, if CB quotes counted, that would make this WAY too easy. 

But way more fun.  Also I think finding the single biggest rock bottom quote here would be a pretty big challenge these days.

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2011, 11:36:46 AM »

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So we got nobody reading the papers, huh?

"You've gotta respect a 15-percent 3-point shooter. A guy
like that is always lethal." - Evan 'The God' Turner

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2011, 11:44:55 AM »

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darn we should include cb quotes.

Sometime in the last few days, a poster here wrote that Heinsohn was "a fair weather fan" Im sure he was serious, too. Think he knows who Tommy is? Anyway that will at least be my favorite all time silly quote. Id use stronger terms but I no longer know where the lines here are at all. Other sb nation sites are like the wild west vs this one.

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2011, 11:54:40 AM »

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Not overly negative, but I think this Pierce quote from the Globe show some real conern on his part:

"We've got to make up our minds right now," Pierce said. "This is a weird time to be talking about with nine games to go in the season. This is the type of stuff you talk about at the beginning of the year. We're about to get into the playoffs and we shouldn't be talking about this stuff. It's just mental, how bad we want it going into the playoffs. We can't think about what happened last year and ease into the Finals. That's not going to happen...

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« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2011, 11:58:08 AM »

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That's kind of negative.

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2011, 12:00:46 PM »

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Consecutive tweets by Bill Simmons which I found comical:

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sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
A feel good story! They exposed Bulls by going small last night, that's the best way to play them. RT @michaelombardi: how about them 76ers?

then

Quote
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
Not a feel-good story: Celts becoming first NBA title favorite to make a deadline deal that morphed them into an also-ran.

No chance we play the Bulls, right?

http://twitter.com/#!/sportsguy33

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2011, 12:02:48 PM »

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Our last 10 games of the regular season last year we were 3-7

WOW

Last year was last year. This year is this year.

This post is a post.  Period.

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2011, 12:05:05 PM »

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Consecutive tweets by Bill Simmons which I found comical:

Quote
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
A feel good story! They exposed Bulls by going small last night, that's the best way to play them. RT @michaelombardi: how about them 76ers?

then

Quote
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
Not a feel-good story: Celts becoming first NBA title favorite to make a deadline deal that morphed them into an also-ran.

No chance we play the Bulls, right?

http://twitter.com/#!/sportsguy33

Ugh. That one's bad. Its nice of Bill to label us a 'title favorite' when he never believed that to begin with though. My biggest concern here though is that he didn't work a goonies or corey haim reference in there somewhere. I hope he's okay.

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Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2011, 12:06:01 PM »

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Consecutive tweets by Bill Simmons which I found comical:

Quote
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
A feel good story! They exposed Bulls by going small last night, that's the best way to play them. RT @michaelombardi: how about them 76ers?

then

Quote
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
Not a feel-good story: Celts becoming first NBA title favorite to make a deadline deal that morphed them into an also-ran.

No chance we play the Bulls, right?

http://twitter.com/#!/sportsguy33

Ugh. That one's bad. Its nice of Bill to label us a 'title favorite' when he never believed that to begin with though. My biggest concern here though is that he didn't work a goonies or corey haim reference in there somewhere. I hope he's okay.
He's more into Jersey Shore now a days.

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2011, 12:09:04 PM »

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Consecutive tweets by Bill Simmons which I found comical:

Quote
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
A feel good story! They exposed Bulls by going small last night, that's the best way to play them. RT @michaelombardi: how about them 76ers?

then

Quote
sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
Not a feel-good story: Celts becoming first NBA title favorite to make a deadline deal that morphed them into an also-ran.

No chance we play the Bulls, right?

http://twitter.com/#!/sportsguy33

Ugh. That one's bad. Its nice of Bill to label us a 'title favorite' when he never believed that to begin with though. My biggest concern here though is that he didn't work a goonies or corey haim reference in there somewhere. I hope he's okay.

I'm ok with this - remember when Simmons guaranteed we'd lose to the Heat in the first round last year?  He'd fit in well around here, and at least he'd try to be creative with the Chicken Little-ing.

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2011, 12:15:50 PM »

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I'm happy this thread popped up b/c I didn't want to make those Simmons tweets into their own thread.

But it is pretty funny, it's a complete overreaction by someone who is either a bandwagon fan or just extremely prone to overreacting on the state of "his teams" AND it comes directly after a tweet that would seemingly justify the trade.

You can't really say the #1 team in the East's weakness is small-ball then criticise a team for getting rid of their slow defensive stopper in favor of a combo-forward.

EDIT: Anyone actually catch the Bulls-Sixers game? Does his assesment seem like it could be accurate?

Re: Show Me The Negative Contest
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2011, 12:20:39 PM »

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Our last 10 games of the regular season last year we were 3-7

WOW

Last year was last year. This year is this year.

You are right History doesn't tell us anything

(insert political joke here)