{"id":5766,"date":"2008-06-06T08:33:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T08:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/mike-across-america-15-title-town-more-like-ridiculous-expectationsville\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T08:33:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T08:33:53","slug":"mike-across-america-15-title-town-more-like-ridiculous-expectationsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/mike-across-america-15-title-town-more-like-ridiculous-expectationsville","title":{"rendered":"Mike Across America #15: Title Town? More Like Ridiculous Expectationsville!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay, Boston, we get it.  Seriously, you win a lot of championships, you have dumb accents that you play up because you think girls in other parts of the country find them sexy (they don’t), you play the part of the perpetual underdog when you’ve also taken to calling yourself Title Town lately, and you’re damned sure the Celtics are beating the Lakers in the Finals when they can’t manage to win a single road game in the playoffs.  We’ll see.<\/p>\n

But maybe you take things too far.  As nice as it is for the Celtics to know that the Sox sell out all their home games, I can’t imagine it’s fun to see a sign hung from City Hall with your logo and the text THINK BIG, or a similar one hung from the State Capitol building, with the almost menacing “Good Luck From the People of Massachusetts” added in for good measure.  The Celtics aren’t stupid, Boston, they know what that means: Think Big is the sports equivalent of “Come home victorious, or bloody and broken, carried on your shield.”  It means all or nothing, it means win or don’t come back.  That’s why I can only assume that the reason the Celtics have been losing on the road in the playoffs is because when they get out of town, they don’t fear for their lives enough to play hard.<\/p>\n

Finally, there was the sign hung from Quincy Market, a popular tourist destination that we—being popular tourists—stopped at for lunch.  It reads: Go Celtics!  NBA Championship HERE WE COME.  For a town so willing to blame nine decades of inferior baseball on a fabricated curse, you think they’d be a little more jinx-conscious.<\/p>\n


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A Side Note: One weird side effect of Boston’s love for its own teams is that every business in the city wants a piece of the action, so all over the place you see things like “Official Office Furniture Movers of the Boston Red Sox” or “The Official Septic Tank Maintenance Team of the Boston Celtics” or this gem:<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, this was not a rehab hospital where you go for knee treatment, but the kind Lindsey Lohan has been in and out of.<\/p>\n


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