Blowout!

No that'd be everybody. Just like when the patriots won, just like when the sox won. What sucks is when it goes on, and on, and on until 3AM with complete morons thinking it's so cool to honk their horns and wake up everyone.

the car horns are getting

By Lyss
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 12:38am

the car horns are getting old pretty fast

loud maniacs

By grrl8trax
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 1:03am

Yeah it's been utter mayhem outside by my house for an hour now. This always happens. I live above a bar.

Da Choppa

By Matthew
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 1:35am

For the third time in 8 months, there's a helicopter circling the neighborhood at 1 in the morning. Come on, NECN, or whoever the heck is trying to get the perfect overhead shot. I'd prefer to sleep.

Well...

By Eighthman
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 9:25am

Could've been the police.

heard some of those too....

By Lyss
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:15pm

heard some of those too.... was too tired to go outside and see if it was the media or the cops.

Better yet

By Arborway
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 1:58am

Now I'm getting the delayed reaction from people who decided to wait a few hours before freaking out.

people celebrate for the

By anon
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 9:53am

people celebrate for the patriots? I've never seen it in the city, aside from planned events. Is there a big SUV parade through the suburbs or something?

And maybe I'm just getting old and jaded, but was anyone else not overwhelmed by the Celts celebration and thinking everyone is being a bit hyperbolic this morning? What I saw btw Harvard Sq and the North End last night was about 1/3 the size of what I saw in October 2004.

Sure do

By BStu
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 11:10am

Back when the Pats won their first Super Bowl, the city was insane. I remember Kenmore Square being shut down for a while after the game with throngs of people celebrating in the streets, hanging from light pools, jumping on top of an MBTA bus. I'll grant things have gotten progressively more sedate since then, but the city went nuts when the Patriots first won it all.

my old roommate accidentally

By Lyss
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 11:01pm

my old roommate accidentally drove into some situation like that when the Pats won.

So happy!

By Route 66
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 12:31am

So happy for Paul Pierce - he deserves it. For someone who toiled in the mire that was the Celtics through most of the 90s, this is the icing on the cake.

And KG is super HOT!

woooo hooo

By DJDiva
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 12:34am

People have been driving by on my street for the hour beeping like crazy. Nice job Celtics!! Pierce MVP - well deserved!

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By Dave
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 12:39am

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Nice Job!

By Suldog
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 9:01am

Did you do the mock up? Nice!

Russell and Garnett was the highlight, for me. Did you all hear the words exchanged? I got misty.

KG: "Are you proud of me? Are you proud of me?"

Russ: "Yes, I am."

KG: "I got one of my own. I got one of my own."

(This in response to Russell's offer, earlier in the season, to give Garnett one of his rings, if he didn't win one of his own.)

Lovely.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

Yeah, that was beautiful

By Spatch
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:03am

KG: "Are you proud of me? Are you proud of me?"

Russ: "Yes, I am."

That was such an incredibly sweet moment and poignant moment. I confess I got a little misty at that, too. KG was so full of emotion that every time he showed up on camera, you could just feel his joy radiating through the TV.

Though the best moment was when he gave shout-outs to everyone on camera, then told his ma "TOP OF THE WORLD!" and the newsdroid then asked him "How does being on top of the world feel?"

I howled.

And that's when ...

By adamg
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:15am

Nancy started yelling at the TV: "Shut up! Shut up! That's so inappropriate."

was hoping for this

By Spatch
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:37am

"How does being on top of the world feel like?"
"Feels like I'm on top of the world!"

THESE ARE THE JOKES, FOLKS

And Kobe

By Suldog
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:37am

If you stayed up for the press conferences, which I did, you got to witness a depressed Kobe fielding some of the most inane questions ever asked. If it had been me, I would have been seriously tempted to hop off the podium and strangle a few people.

Made me smile :-)

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

One problem ...

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:57am

like the rest of the Lakers, Kobe was participating by phone.

the other Kobe interview that made me laugh

By anon
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 6:52pm

was game 2 in LA when they were doing a human interest piece on him, showing the personal side of him, and he siad he liked spending time with his family...all I could think about was the rape case and how he is still doing personal promotionals in recovery of that.

Sounded a lot like he was

By Lyss
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:19pm

Sounded a lot like he was speaking in tongues... in a good, excited, I just won a championship way

Not my work; I just linked

By Dave
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 11:54am

Not my work; I just linked to it.

KG

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 12:44am

(Actually swirlyHubby here)

KG has quite a mouth on him. I've never witnessed the sound get beeped on a nationally televised sporting event like that -- a few times during the 4th quarter and then during the interview again. And the way he was swaying around during the interview. Is that Turettes?

But, man when he hugged Bill Russell I just melted. That was beautiful.

Tourette's

By anon
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 6:12pm

Tourette's

The question I'm dying to have answered

By rsybuchanan
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 1:07am

How will Dan Shaughnessy spin the Celtics victory to maximize his own schmuckitude?

And the second is like unto it: how long will it take for some random idiot caller to WEEI to say the Cs ought to fire Doc anyway because he didn't like how the first round of the playoffs played out?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Bonus Points

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 7:27am

if he mentions Tim Russert dying to remove whatever curse via Mike Barnicle

Oh, CHB...

By Spatch
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:40am

How will Dan Shaughnessy spin the Celtics victory to maximize his own schmuckitude?

He'll do it this way:

The Boston Celtics, once synonymous with sports supremacy, are back where they belong, and Boston gets to party like it's 1959.

So basically he's gone from "NEVER GONNA HAPPEN OMG" to "DY-NA-STY! DY-NA-STY!"

More on CHB

By adamg
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 11:56am

Read Bob Ryan instead; also, did you notice the obligatory Belichick reference?

14 arrests

By adamg
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:31am

And some property damage on Canal Street.

All Quiet on the Causeway

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:14am

Lots of horseflop on the pathways to the dam (I suspect they offloaded horses in the statie's parking lot). Also, the trailer park on the east side of the Garden is being dismantled and they are taking the fence sections down.

As this is a heavily travelled commuter route and they parked stuff on just about every piece of sidewalk, maneuvering the fence sections past rivers of people in the roadway is taking some time.

Oh yeah, they have about eight people with newsboy bags handing out cereal as people duck under the fence sections being carried around by laborers and dodge the odd Fed Ex vehicle trying to bully its way through the mess.

I feel conflicted about this

By mediaseth
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:35am

I hate to rain on anyone's parade. I do like all of the excitement outside every time a local team wins. But I'm here at work with maybe two hours of sleep and I work with inner-city kids. I see two possible solutions: Make the following day after a big sports win a holiday. Or, start fining people for blaring their horns needlessly and lighting off fireworks, which people are not supposed to do anyway. I like the holiday plan, myself.

To add to the excitement, most of the streets in my area were closed already this morning for the filming of that Bruce Willis movie and that's the reason I was late!

best to own a small fan or

By anon
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 9:24am

best to own a small fan or two.

Sleep with one on every night, even in the winter, and I've never had a problem with noise.

Another option

By Gareth
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 9:39am

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old coot, but maybe they could play sports games earlier, so that people who have normal jobs could watch them, and all the hubbub would be over before grownups have to be in bed.

Problems with a National basketball association

By BStu
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 9:47am

I'd agree that 9pm seemed late to me to start a game. But it was 6pm in Los Angeles. If it had started at 5pm or 4pm in LA, that would have inconvenienced a lot of Laker fans who'd have missed the start of the game due to work. In spite of myself, I think the 9pm start is probably a good compromise for a league that serves 4 time zones, and indeed one that stills advantages us lucky enough to live in the nation's dominant time zone.

instead, a large portion of

By Lyss
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:23pm

instead, a large portion of the East Coast was overtired (and in my office, overtired and cranky) for much of the last week

We are seriously outnumbered

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 11:08pm

The LA media market is not only about 6 times as large as the New England media market, it has a higher proportion of that all-important demographic: young people (specifically, young men).

Sponsors ain't paying to make fewer older people on the East Coast happy. They are paying to get those young male eyeballs on their products.

I still don't know why they didn't change the start times of the Sunday games, but I guess money talks.

when?

By anon
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 6:56pm

people wouldn't be home from work if it started much earlier, and wouldn't be able to watch. I'm sure the Lakers' people wouldn't have agreed to an afternoon game that most of their friends, family & fans would have missed.
suck it up. the season is over...you can sleep soundly tonight.

if the day after was a holiday...

By anon
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 6:15pm

...wouldn't people stay out later because they wouldn't have work the next day?
My work wouldn't participate in that - we don't get Marathon Day off and we're in Boston.
Would the kids then have to stay in school another day longer?

I don't think you've thought this plan out...

This just in: Boston public schools are open tomorrow

By adamg
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 7:15pm

We just got robo-called by the BPS, letting parents know that school is open tomorrow and that there are other ways to celebrate the Celtics than taking kids down to the parade - such as wearing green.

All quiet on the Southie front; rioting in Allston

By adamg
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:53am

Jason reports on the eerie calm in South Boston:

... Way too quiet for a city with yet another championship victory. I remember people screaming and cars blaring their horns down my street when both the Sox and Pats won, and figured the Southie faithful wouldn't disappoint.

Perhaps we're expecting wins too readily? Or, perhaps in being a Tuesday night at midnight, people were just ready for bed.

Compare with Quasify's report from Allston Rock City, where, apparently, a lot of out-of-town kids are already up for summer session:

... [T]he kids are straight up rioting in Allston Village. There are multiple paddywagons down at Harvard and Brighton, horns going nuts and screaming runners heading up the side streets, a mass of dancers blocking traffic lanes and motorcycle cops unsuccessfully trying to break things up. This town hasn't felt this hopped up since the Sox did that little thing back in 2004. ...

Report from Causeway Street

By adamg
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:58am

ChezNiki, who lives near the Garden, surveyed the scene:

... Crowd cheering running in circles horns blasting towels and t-shirts helicopter

Two sets of bootleg fireworks on Merrimac Street, until the BFD rolled by in a truck

Motorcycle crew who were stopped at the bottom of Staniford, made a U Turn, pumped their fists and rode off

Several fans relieving themselves in my building's manicured garden and right outside my neighbors terrace in the walkway up to Thoreau Path AREA A1 TAKE NOTICE ...

The suspect began struggling with the officers as they attempted to handcuff him.

At that time, officers realized that he was in medical distress; they immediately began to administer CPR and summonsed EMS to that location. An ambulance arrived on scene and took over emergency CPR. He was rushed to Beth Israel Medical Center where he is listed in critical, but stable condition.

Homicide and Internal Affairs detectives are now investigating the incident.

Blowout!

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