Summer Quandaries Coming Next Sunday 7/26

Summer Quandaries Coming Next Sunday 7/26

By:  Lee Lauderdale






Each summer for the past ten years, I have done a series of posts in an effort to fill the void between the drop off in free agent activity near the end of July and the start of training camp at the end of September. For me this was the true doldrums of summer. The Boston media sportswriters lost all the lead out of their pencils—and what should just be a personal problem became instead an empty pit in the hearts of Celtics’ fans. Now, the blogosphere has helped fill the vacuum but if you keep open a number of browser tabs/windows (which ones might be a good subject for a later post) and periodically refreshed during each day, you have noticed the next week will seen a serious drop off in traffic. Even worse is that more and more of what does pass for basketball postings, are vapid rehashes or delusional pipe dreams (often passed off as unsourced rumors). Far too often I spent an entire August combing through the sports sites without finding a single item that actually provoked thought.

Eventually that led me to the realization that if I wanted something worth reading and contemplating, I should get up off my arse (in this case a particularly poor analogy) and create such provocative content myself. So to span this yearly dead-zone I shall try to generate 60-something thought provokers to tickle the little gray cells these next two months. After all the unquenchable thirst for Celtics’ musings should not go unslaked.

Starting the last Sunday in July (kind of a blue moon or double negative--as Sunday is typically the lightest day of sport discussion traffic and the end of July the veritable cliff in meaningful discourse about the NBA) I will once again throw myself into the breach, and I invite your participation. I readily admit that most of my postings throughout the year are offered with little attention to comments (I came, I saw, I wrote, I don’t really want to argue), but during the Summer Quandaries I make an exception. Offer criticism, I’ll consider and answer. Offer praise, I’ll try to humbly acknowledge. Offer ideas and I’ll surely consider adding topics to my daily musings. You want good stuff--get off (or on) your duffs and get engaged.



Later today I'll post a teaser.



bob
MY NOTE:  This WAS a teaser!  I can't wait for some Lee Lauderdale!  His last sentence, in particular, makes sense.  If you want some good stuff about the Celtics, get up off your duffs and get engaged!  If you're a member of this board, please continue to post throughout the summer as well as into the season.  If you're not a board member but like to read what is written here, we could always use some improvement.  Why not yours?


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I wonder if the process of thinking up "something worth reading and contemplating" (at which he obviously does a superb job) is so draining that Lee has to rest on some Caribbean Isle, drinking green crême de menthe and watching cable feeds, for 10 months of the year.

Sam