THE AGONY OF DEFEAT by Steve Nadis
By all rights, I should have missed last night’s Celtics game. My two-year-old had a late-afternoon nap, which kept her up until 11 p.m., so I should have been reading “Whingdingdilly” to her. Instead I made her watch the last quarter of the game with me, and it was painful to see the Celtics fritter away their lead and let the Pacers back into the series. Don’t get me wrong. I can handle defeat; everyone tells me it’s an inevitable part of life. I just can’t stand losing.
Posted by in 15:53:56
There was a silver lining to Monday nights loss by the C-dogs. Fans of the Three Stooges call particular episodes a "Shemp," if there is an appearance by the fourth stooge, Shemp Howard. True Celtic fans appreciated Mondays game because it was a "Cooz," i.e. a game in which Bob Cousy made one of his rare appearances as extra color commentator on the FSNE broadcast. A rare and delicious treate.
I mean "treat."
Well put, MG. Its always great to hear the astute observations of the Cooz–the subject, I might add, of a new biography.
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