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The Wrong Guy With the Celtics Got the Nickname "The Truth"

Mike Gorman is a treasure. The Celtics' play by play announcer had Diogenes hanging up his lantern and scouting condos in Sarasota last night.

Idly, and I do mean idly, clicking the remote last night to discover yet again how short my attention span is, I stopped to watch a few moments of the Celtics-Pistons game.

After about a minute of exceedingly scattered action, I remarked to Alice that this was a classic late regular season NBA game, in that the only people involved more with it than myself were the players.

Not ten seconds later, Gorman said "not a lot of energy in tonight's game."

For that nice and understated man, that sentence was a shriek to his viewers to change the channel if they were seeking entertainment with a pulse.

So I did. But not before thanking higher powers for living in a town with an announcer with the respect for his game not to make just another night at the gym into the End of History As We Know It.

posted by Michael Gee @ 4:23 PM