Hello Mainstream

The Super Bowl is over. NCAA basketball is only big for the die hard fans, which has been made easier by the fact that Greg Oden and Kevin Durant are always on. Jerry Jones and his quest for a new coach are only so interesting. The NHL is the NHL. So yesterday the C’s became one of the biggest sports stories. They were the leading feature on Outside the Lines:

“They’re not just bad. The Celtics are historically bad…” – Bob Ley as C’s highlights begin to role.

“This team is playing hard and tanking.” – Guest Jackie MacMullan

“They’re trying to win. They’re just not good enough to win.” – More MacMullan

“I think they’ve totally overvalued a lot of these players.” – Guest Tim Legler explaining that none of the young Celtics are franchise guys.

“There is no possible way you can turn down Kevin Oden as the number 1 pick.” – Legler went on to correct himself and explain why Greg Oden is the consensus #1. He then immediately explained that, “Having said that Kevin Durant is a much better player.”

You can catch the footage of MacMullan and Legler here while catching up on a story that will lead to more conspiracy theories despite Mike Gorman’s best efforts.

3 Final Points about OTL:

1. For the record growing a beard does not make you old. Oden looks old because of his size and resemblance to Robert Parish.

2. Is anyone considering Joakim Noah as the #1 pick? I guess stranger things have happened.

3. There is a part of me that would find a ton of humor in Oden, Durant, and Noah staying in school. It would be funny in a Texas knocking off USC in the Rose Bowl after ESPN spent a month proving how the Trojans would have run roughshod through the best teams of the last 25 years kind of way.

- The Celtics also got some run on the 6:00 Sportscenter last night. And not for good reasons.

- Finally ESPN should have named today’s Daily Dime the Celtics Dime. I wonder if the C’s had won that Hawks game and had now lost 20 of 23 and only 6 in a row would they be as big a story? Either way I hate to see them get this much negative press. Although it charts like the one to the right that make C's fans care less.