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Willard Tries to Make Basketball State Sport

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“Stop the insanity,” cries Jon Keller on his blog, and he is exactly right. Power mad after assuming control of the CA/Tastrophe, Willard is poised to sign a bill, evidently introduced at the whim of some fourth graders, to make basketball, invented in Springfield, the Official State Sport of Massachusetts. The timing is a cruel slap in the face to current Face of Massachusetts Big Papi and surgery-bound Red Sox captain Jason Varitek (has the Utah import no humanity?) but, more generally, it unfairly elevates basketball above other equally beloved Massachusetts sports — most importantly, politics. Here is an excellent list of other Official State items including the official soil sample (I thought it was produced by bulls), and the state song All Hail to Massachusetts.

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  1. The official state:

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    Excuse

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    Delay tactic

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    Boondogle

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    Misuse of taxpayer funds

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    Crony

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    Notorious Criminal (I vote Whitey Bulger)

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    Notorious Politician (I vote Billy Bulger)

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    Most well preserved politician (Ted Kennedy – he has to get something)

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    Most important event (hmm Lexington Concord or the Red Sox winning the series, tough choice đŸ™‚

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    Founding Father (John Adams?)

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    Nickname for an idiot (I vote Marblehead, as in “Light dawns on Marblehead”)

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    Former great company (I vote Polaroid with Digital Equipment Corp. and Wang a close second)

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    Current great company – that’s gonna be tough…

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    Best political lie ever told by a state official (like when Bush the first said, “no new taxes”)

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    Worst political lie ever told  (like when Clinton said, “I didn’t inhale”)

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    Best named monument (Ted Williams Tunnel)

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    Worst named monument (bunker hill zakim bridge?)

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    Ok, have at it… and SMILE damn it đŸ™‚
    Mark

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  4. In a state where the crowd at a SuperBowl victory rally takes up chanting “Yankees Suck”?? How could you choose anything other than baseball?

    • What about the 1960s, 70s and even early 80s when the Celtics were winning championships left and right?  Was Boston and the rest of MA a baseball town or a basketball town?

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      What about the Bruins, who had five championships in the 70s and 80s?  Hockey Town USA?

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      Hell, in the past ten years, the Pats seem to be setting the pace.

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      The whole thing is dumb.  I’d gladly raise a drink to whichever politician worked at reducing the number of state such-and-suchs.  They’re just a bit silly, that’s all.

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        What about the Bruins, who had five championships in the 70s and 80s?  Hockey Town USA?

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        I meant that they played in the Stanley Cup finals five times, winning two of them.

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