Bostonist: Sports Redux: Putting Down the Clamps

Ackbar

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:13:08 -0500

Paul Pierce's injury was bogus. What a showmen? HA. First, getting carried off and then taken out in a chair, only to come back 2 mins later looking a 100%??? Come on. Coco Crisp is so weak. He first complains about a legitimate baseball play and then he intentionally tries to hurt the Rays shortstop. Coco knows that he's going to see retaliation and he gets a blunk on the thigh, not the face, hands, or elbow. Crisp is the so-called 'girl.' I just wish Shields would have connected on that haymaker. If I was a ballplayer, I would love to have Johnny Gomes as my teammate. . . he backs up his team.

MJG

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:46:06 -0500

VinF - Bill Plaschke is a COLUMNIST not a beat reporter. He's like Bob Ryan, or Dan Shaughnessy. A box score can tell just so much. Pierce got hurt. But not as bad as we first thought. On TV, it looked like he was done for the series. He turned out to not be so badly hurt. After he returned, I thought of Ray Bourque. He was "hurt" in a playoff game and stayed on the ice. After earning a penalty call on his opponent, Bourque skated off and winked to his fellow Bruins. Maybe Plaschke is right and PP was faking. If victory requires gamesmanship from PP, that's fine by me. Just ask yourself, What would Red do?

VinF

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:36:06 -0500

That writing by the LA "writer" (the term "reporter" is not fit for him after this column) is reprehensible. Pierce WAS injured. Maybe if he (or Kobe) suffered the same injury it would have been a different story. And then to say that Pierce had an "apparent serious knee injury that momentarily deadened and distracted the Lakers." Oh, it's too bad that it affected the LAKERS!?!?! Don't you think it just maybe affected the Celtics a little more.