Bob Ryan: The Tide Is Coming In

by Jeff Clark on Apr 24, 2008 7:54 AM EDT in Boston Celtics News & Links

See, if Bob Ryan keeps writing articles like this, nobody is going to miss Peter May at all.

This team doesn't deal in tsunamis. This team makes you feel as if you're tied up on the beach and the tide is coming in and coming in and coming in, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. They get you with 6-2s, not 14-0s. They just keep making more stops than you, many more, in fact.
If you never looked at a scoreboard last night, you might have thought the Celtics were leading by 10 or 12, when, in fact, they were winning by 18 or 20. It's an amazing phenomenon, and it happens all the time.
Last night's victory was the 47th by 10 or more points this season. That's 47 wins out of 68 by 10-plus, and that is a simply amazing stat. But in most of them the vanquished foe came away thinking that if only we had done this or that at a particular time, we could have won the game.

I also enjoyed the part where he broke down the 3 things Doc thinks the team still needs to work on. I grew up reading Bob Ryan in the Globe. I know he's got other commitments all over the place, but I just wish he would write more about the Celtics. That way we don't have to keep making fun of him for bemoaning the depth of the team back in August.

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See, if Bob Ryan keeps writing articles like this, nobody is going to miss Peter May at all.

Wait, people are going to miss Peter May? Will Ryan be filling the factually-inaccurate, sloppy, needlessly bitter void on the Globe staff that May occupied for the past several seasons?

by Roy_Hobbs on Apr 24, 2008 9:03 AM EDT reply actions

Roy, that reaction by you was about as predictable as the tide ;)

by Jeff Clark on Apr 24, 2008 9:12 AM EDT reply actions

Haha. No doubt, Jeff. May just really irritated me the past few seasons by his total lack of professional pride.

I’m sad to see Jackie go, and I actually miss Shira’s puff pieces a bit. I’m not shedding any tears about Peter May leaving, though.

by Roy_Hobbs on Apr 24, 2008 9:19 AM EDT reply actions

I’m with Roy… again predictable… no one will miss Peter May. Except maybe Nick Cafardo as he now rises to being the 2nd biggest hack at the Globe.

by The Duke33 on Apr 24, 2008 9:56 AM EDT reply actions

Bob Ryan’s had a tough, tough year personally.

If the C’s finally bring him some joy again and we need to cut him a little slack for his caught-in-the-80’s prognostication last summer—note he’s never been the mean type of writer Roy’s referring to—I’m happy for him to have that.

by clover on Apr 24, 2008 9:56 AM EDT reply actions