CALL ME SNAKE

If my intuition is correct, the NBA playoffs are about to begin and this year the Celtics may be joining the party. I say “may be” because I’ve had a problem with my Boston Globe subscription, particularly at the delivery end. It seems I have not been tipping the paperboy (or “information delivery specialist,” as they now like to be called) as often and generously as he would like. (I receive a solicitiation envelope at least once a week!) With the information flow cut off, I’ve been forced to rely on what I hear on the street, and from the dribs and drabs I pick up from the postman and the like, I get the distinct sense that something is afoot.

There has been much wrangling over the deal that brought Antoine Walker back to the Celtics, and I admit that “Call Me Snake” has been dragged reluctantly into the fray. It’s now time to settle this issue once and for all. With the benefit of hindsight, it seems clear that Ainge’s deal was indeed “brilliant” and I was “wrong” to have suggested otherwise. Of course, the “genius” of that transaction may soon be called into question, depending on how the Celts fare in the postseason, and I may ultimately be proved “right” again. There is only one place on Earth where I am always right, and that is here on the blogosphere in that cozy little nook known as “Call Me Snake.”