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Celtics in Comcast HD
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Celtics road games are now available in HD. Comcast Sports Net launched its exclusive HD channel on Comcast cable systems. ALL Celtics games, home and away, are now offered in high definition on Comcast channel 852. Check out the Celtics in HD tomorrow night as they take on the Indiana Pacers at 7:00 p.m.

finally! it took FSN/Comcast long enough to get around to this; it was especially frustrating knowing that the local markets of the home teams were getting an HD broadcast.

(ok, so it’s just a moral victory. i don’t actually have cable…)

from today’s Daily Dime on ESPN.com (emphasis mine):

This time, however, the aura surrounding the Nets is different. The roster remains fundamentally flawed from the duplication Richard Jefferson and Vince Carter bring to the roster, and the nine-game losing streak has left New Jersey with a goal for this season that really boils down to striving to secure the seventh or eighth playoff seed in the East, which brings with it a daunting postseason matchup against the clearly superior Celtics or Pistons.

you would think that with all the talk about the transformation of the C’s this season, this sort of rhetoric wouldn’t faze a diehard fan like me. but you know… it really doesn’t get old, and i don’t think it ever will.

i’m going to post my thoughts on the C’s recent trade for KG soon, but don’t have time to right now. in the meantime, this post on celticsblog.com does a pretty good job of capturing my level of excitement.

So I got the new site up with the main intention of starting to post more, but clearly that well-laid plan failed. Ah, well, there’s always tomorrow.

The good news is that I turned on registration, so if you’ve been itching to comment on posts (the old ones are coming, I promise) you can go ahead and do so. Just click on the “Comments” link below, try to log in, and click “Register” on the login page. You’ll need a valid email, but fear not — I won’t spam you.

Because my night-owl ways have returned for the week, here are some thoughts and links:

• My buddy John introduced me to a new web comic recently — and of course I had to go back and read every strip in the archive. This is by no means the first incident. Ctrl-Alt-Del is similar to Penny Arcade in premise and focus (video-game-centric) but the method of delivery is different (plot vs loose association).
• The Celtics 2006-07 schedule just got released today, and the home opener is against … the Hornets?!? What kind of old-school rivalry is that? The last two years they’ve kicked off the season against the Knicks and Sixers. And before that, it was the Heat, Bulls, Cavs, and Raptors — at least they were in the same Conference. It still frustrates me that teams play divisional rivals (against whom they’re vying for divisional titles and playoff spots) no more often than most other teams in the league. It’s all about marketing to the NBA; gotta make sure the big names hit all the cities to get those butts in the seats, as opposed to, say … playing engaging basketball and building rivalries?
• I have restrained myself thus far and have only made two purchases off of Woot, both of which are getting steady use around here.
• Some day, I’ll have one of these… but until then, I’m going to have to keep using these lesser devices. At least I’ll soon be making one upgrade.

More to come…