38.7% Ain’t So Bad

As far as #7 goes, Doc doesn’t have to go to the hall of fame. He can stare at the bust of Red that is sitting on his mantle at home.

As we don’t grade on the spellng of first names, Roy Hobbs gets a gold star.

And don’t grade me on the spelling of “spellng” please.

1. is quite hilarious.

As someone pointed out in the forum, the Celts’ odds are actually a little better than 38.7%.

Kamicly the Celtics so deserve this. After Len Bias, Reggie Lewis, Tim Duncan, the Patino era and so fourth no fans in the league deserve this break more than Boston’s. The problem is that Boston fans so don’t deserve another break. Three Super Bowls in four years anyone? Having grown up in a town that lives and dies by its NFL team (Kansas City), I don’t think the typical Boston fan has any clue what it really means to win that many Super Bowls. The typical Patriots fan is just not the same thing as a Chiefs fan or a Steelers fan. The typical Red Sox fan of course is and the team finally won a World Series and has apparently after spending $162 million on their roster become Evil Empire North. So, Boston is going to get Oden or Durrant on top of all that? As a Celtics fan I am sure hoping they do. As a sports fan, I worry that somebody in town has to stink and since the NHL has become a minor league, it looks it might be the Celtics. God I hope I am wrong.

If the Celtics don’t get #1 or #2, I guess they’ll have to hire Carmen Electra to be a Celtics dancer and install new strobe lights and an explodng scoreboard at the Fleet Center.

Just ask yourselves what do do with pick #4 after Oden, Durant, and Yi JianLian are taken by the Sonics, Grizzlies and Bucks, respectively, with picks #1-3.

I believe Bush is at 24% approval rating BTW.

Make it happen Tommy, make it happen. Oden Oden Oden.

I wonder who that guy holding the sign is? God I bet he felt stupid after the lottery and is not happy to see the picture druged up again.

Brick,

If Oden or Durrant end up playing in Memphis, it won’t really matter what the Celtics do because the NBA will become a minor league. People are really fed up with the league. The poor play, the boring games, star players mailing in playoff games, the perception that the league’s only exciting team (the Suns) getting completely jobbed by the league with the Diaw Staudamire suspensions, the prospect of another Pistons Spurs wrestling match finals, the horrible image most NBA players project have turned off huge numbers of fans. If either Oden or Durrant, two guys that caused a national sensation in college this year and got a lot of people watching basketball again who had stopped in the last 10 years, end up in Memphis, playing in a terrible market replaying KG’s career of going one and done in the playoffs on a team no one cares about, I really fear for the future of the league.

Large James – I had heard about President Bush getting into the 20s in one poll this month (Newsweek at 28) but not as low as 24 (but we may have missed this). But from this site there was a range in all other polls from 33% to 38, so 35 in the AP poll seemed a good estimate:

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

I thought Congress’s recent approval rate was 28%.

I think the problem with calculating the Wyc/Danny/Doc approval rating is that it is an imaginary number. Mathematically it would be represented as .38i

ReggieR has nailed #10! Brilliant!

These are great odds in a deep draft – positive thoughts for a return to greatness.

Here’s an almost exactly analagous situation from poker: JT vs. AK

http://twodimes.net/poker/?g=h&b=&d=&h=js ts
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I’m sure all the poker players know that being a 38.5% is not bad at all. It’s less than 2-1 odds against you. More than enough to get all your chips in with. :-)

Ugh, the URL got messed up:

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Sigh, last try, I swear.

http://twodimes.net/h/?z=185109

Well, I could name the Russian president before I tuned in to this thread, so if the Celts don’t come away with a top-2 pick, at least I’ve got that going for me…right?

Wow do we ever need a top-2 pick!

Marc,

As with Bush’s rating, it depends who you ask:

http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm

Pick one.

A sarcastic buddy of mine (a Bullets fan who refuses to recognize the franchise’s name change) thinks the Cs should complete their roster by getting an unheralded, slow-footed, poor-shooting Eastern European, either through the draft or a trade. He apparently does not remember the Vitaly Potapenko/Zan Tabak era.

“A sarcastic buddy of mine (a Bullets fan who refuses to recognize the franchise’s name change) thinks the Cs should complete their roster by getting an unheralded, slow-footed, poor-shooting Eastern European, either through the draft or a trade. He apparently does not remember the Vitaly Potapenko/Zan Tabak era.”

Insert “Chinese” in place of “Eastern European” and you friend might get his wish in this draft.

A few weeks ago in the wake of the Telfair gun charge, this site turned into a boring-as-hell episode of Law & Order. Now it’s turned into an edition of Lou Dobbs that’s experiencing technical difficulties. :)

Didn’t know the breadth of this site, did you Jeff?

CitizenWakefield – A top-notch metaphor, but aren’t “Lou Dobbs” and “technical difficulties” redundant?

Jeff, and any L.Dobbs fans, forgive me. No political commentary really intended; ok not much at least. I’ll stop.

CitizenWakefield: I’m with your friend on the name change of the Washington team (who will remain nameless). Kornheiser refers to them as Les Boulez these days

CtizenWakenfield: Tell your friend if he wants a bullet we have a good point guard available ;D

Doc’s approval rating is lower than Antoine’s shooting percentage.

JohnCK said:

Brick,

“…If either Oden or Durrant, two guys that caused a national sensation in college this year and got a lot of people watching basketball again who had stopped in the last 10 years, end up in Memphis, playing in a terrible market replaying KG’s career of going one and done in the playoffs on a team no one cares about, I really fear for the future of the league.”

I agree with the gist of your post, although I thoroughly enjoy watching the Spurs and Jazz play. It’s like watching the Patriots play the Broncos: two well-coached teams that know what they are doing.

I don’t expect the Memphis franchise to stay in Memphis. I expect the new owners to move it to Vegas as soon as Michael Heisley sells the team.

Well, as one of the few who believes that Stern manipulates the lottery, I see Oden going to the hometown Pacers, the Bulls or the Sixers. Of course if the Bulls get him (with the Knicks pick) there will be pandemonium in Secaucus.

It’s pure bunk to believe that Syern manipulates the lottery. What he does do, however, is maintain a lottery that fails to deliver the end result for which it was created. It fails to help the worst teams and instead rewards “lady luck”. With so much at stake it’s hard to justify maintaining this broken system.

Stern likes the broken system. If teams just picked in order of finish, as in the NFL, he couldn’t work his magic.

By the way, in case anyone is foolish enough to check back into this comments section at this late moment, I take it all back. 38.7% is hideous.