Danny Ainge Steps Down

Danny Ainge Steps Down to Leave at seasons end

WEEI - Phil Brody


APP Wire Services

Danny Ainge long time president and former GM of the Boston Celtics stepped down from his current position and will leave at the conclusion of the season. Ownership and players were shocked at the news of his departure, however anonymous sources are quoted as saying both management and coaching staff were not statified in player selection in the draft and his inability to attract top free agents.

This is a developing story by WEEI Boston.

112288

I wonder if this has anything to do with Wyc selling his share of the team? There was a report that Sidd Finch might buy in.

WOW! This couldn't be at a more inopportune time in the season with everything on the line and the summer coming up! WTH!!

db

Hey guys,

Today is April fools day no?

I can't believe this without further verification.

Berlin-T

This is true! Dang it! I never see this coming!! It gets me every time!!

db

APP Wire Services...I thought it was AP!! I smell a RAT!!

db

Hahaha

hahaha

This is funny stuff, right up to the point where I choke the shit out of the asshole who wrote it.


bob



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Gawd #&$#;&!!!

I was on vacation most of the last two weeks and thought tomorrow was the first, so here I am at hooters seeing this, then dealing with beer coming out of my nose and gagging, which is not a good look for me at all.

Oh well at least I got past the Ides of March without incident.

Loved it as soon as I saw it. 112288 has a wicked good sense of humor.

Couldn't help but add to it rather than call April Fools on it.

Wonder how many got the Sidd Finch reference?

Good God almighty!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I almost had a heart attack thinking here we go, next thing Stevens leaves. who ever started it, what a GOTCHA!!!!!!! Man, this was a "take my breath away" post


Rosalie

ALL I CAN ADMIT TO IS ...............IT MUST BE FAKE NEWS!!!!!!!!

LOL

112288

Right up there with the "Blue Hills" are erupting April 1st hoax of a few years ago. (1980 to be exact)

 swish

After your post Gyso, I looked up Sidd Finch......Am I correct.....George Plympon fictional character in one of his books??????

112288 This was a good one. Nice to be able to laugh at ourselves every now and then!!

Rosalie,

That one came from me. Sounds like you remember it too.

Sidd Finch was one of the all-time great April 1st hoaxes; Sports Illustrated pulled it off along with George Plimpton.

They did a feature article, written by Plimpton, for their issue that was hitting news stands April 1, 1985. It was made to look real, and Finch was supposedly a Mets rookie who could throw a fastball over something like 150mph. The Mets were in on it. The whole country fell for it, and no one seemed to catch the first line. If you took the first letter from each word in that line it read Happy April Fools Day!

The magazine and the Mets played it up for all it was worth, announcing that Finch had decided to retire to pursue yoga just a week later. A couple of weeks after the story came out, SI let on that it was all a hoax.

As you correctly recall, Plimpton ended up making it into a novel.

112288 reminded me of that with his "fake news."

What a great idea. Reading the headline about Ainge, I'm betting he caught every one of us for at least a little bit.

Regards

Then there was Orson Welles famous Halloween hoax of 1938 - "The war of the worlds"

swish

There used to be a record out with that whole "War of the Worlds", years and years ago. I bought it for my Dad because he remembered it and talked about it vividly. Welles was a genius the way he pulled that off.

swish wrote:Then there was Orson Welles famous Halloween hoax of 1938 - "The war of the worlds"

 swish

Still stands as THE greatest ever.

Probably couldn't do that one now. You'd need the video to back it up.

RosalieTCeltics wrote:There used to be a record out with that whole "War of the Worlds", years and years ago. I bought it for my Dad because he remembered it and talked about it vividly.  Welles was a genius the way he pulled that off.

Rosalie

I still have vivid memories of that Halloween night in 1938 - below is a recording of that show some 80 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g

swish

swish wrote:Right up there with the "Blue Hills" are erupting April 1st hoax of a few years ago. (1980 to be exact)

 swish

Hadn’t heard of that one Swish and I’m a Bostonian. Looked it up and guess it caused quite a stir! The producer got fired for it.

Whew. Glad that was an April 1st hoax.

NYCelt wrote:I wonder if this has anything to do with Wyc selling his share of the team? There was a report that Sidd Finch might buy in.

Hey NY,

Thanks for keeping the scam alive a while longer! You effort made it so much better!


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