From: EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu
Subject: Mail from a fair-weather Celts fan
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit MI  U.S.A.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:23:13 GMT

As one of a few Pistons fans on the net, I sometimes get
"fan mail" from various parts of the globe (mainly Chicago and Boston).
Here's some excerpts from one of my "fans" whom I'll refer to by the
obviously phoney nickname Ida Amin.
 
Ida has been looking forward to last night's game between the Celts
and the Pistons. Early in the season when the Pistons were 2-9, Ida was
all hot & bothered. When the Pistons reached .500 before the Celts, that
calmed him down a little, but after a recent slump coinciding mainly with
the loss of Dennis Rodman, Ida was at it again...
 
Here's a letter from the brash woofing Ida I know too well:
 
>From: "Ida Amin" <...>
>Subject: Re: Worms and Squirming
>To: EIVERSO@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Eric)
>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:42:50 EST
>In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Eric" at Jan 27, 93 10:33 am
>X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
>
>You write:
...
>> With Polynice back and pulling 15 per game avg. since his return, I'll live.
>Mabe youll live, but PIStons wil get killed !!  sorry, sucker!
>(Said like a true Eric Iverson fan, huh?)
 
[This is a joke--Ida is imitating the near illiteracy   ]
[a Bulls fan who "writes" me on occasion.               ]
...
>> >Advance woofing...pretty rash of me, huh?  Aren't you impressed by how
>> >much guts I have?  Huh?  Huh??  Are you?  Huh?
>>
>> You mean you actually think *your* favorite team is goin to win?
>
>There's a difference between rooting for a team and being smug and
>overconfident about it.  Then again, considering that the Pistons
>really, really suck, it's not really overconfident.
 
[And yet, the Celts lost! :) ]
 
>If they were playing Phoenix, they'd still be my favorite team, but I
>wouldn't woof in advance that they'd win.
 
[Note: here he claims that Boston, not Phoenix, is his favorite team.]
 
>> >Well, not really, considering the Pistons' 0-10 record without Rodman
>> >(woof woof woof)
>>
>> [Mentions Dennis Rodman thrice]
>
>So, I see you noticed there was a theme to my letter?  :)
>
>From the Boston Globe:
>
>   "The reason [Rodman's capricious, childish behaviour] is tolerated
>is obvious:  With Rodman, the Pistons are 17-12.  Without him, they
>are 0-10.
 
[Make that 1-10.]
 
>   "Without him, the Pistons couldn't even beat Dallas.
 
[But they can beat Boston! :) ]
 
>   "Detroit will tap off against Boston tonight with a six-game losing
>streak in tow.  Rodman has been injured for - naturally - six games."
>
>> Well, they *did* just miss beating the *best* team in the league.
>> And they are pretty hungry. And it's a home game. But those Celts
>> are quite rested--perhaps *too* rested. :)
>
>Don't get your hopes up.  Against any other team, they might be too
>rested.  But these are the Detroit Pistons.  The way I see it, these
>two teams hate each other, so they're motivated.  When two teams are
>this motivated, if one team is significantly better than the other,
>it's even more likely to win than it would be otherwise.  That would
>be the Celts.
 
[That would be wrong. :) ]
 
OK, now here's good ol' Ida *after* last nights game.
Now he's the excuseful cynical Ida I'm just getting to know.
I received this about 5 minutes after the Celts lost, so the "prediction"
on Ida's part is irrelevant.
 
>From: "Ida Amin" <...>
>Subject: Yeah, I know, I know.  Leave me alone.
>To: eiverso@cms.cc.wayne.edu
>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 21:53:40 EST
>X-Woof: No more woofing.  I'm a Suns fan from now on.
                          [^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What a turncoat!]
>X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
>
>Fuck it.  The Celts are gonna lose.
 
["have lost" was more like it]
 
>The Palace officiating is atrocious, as usual.  This is worse than New
>York!  The Pistons have been flopping all over the floor and getting
>to the line for it, and they've been grabbing arms (*litterally*) and
>not getting whistled for it.
 
[Excuses, excuses. Remember; the Celts led by 3 at the half and were    ]
[down by 2 with less than 5 min remaining in the 4th.                   ]
 
>The Celts lost their best rebounder, too.  All their inside players
 
[More excuses! When will it end?  ]
[I seem to recall the Pistons lost their best rebounder too...a certain  ]
[Dennis "Worm" Rodman. Perhaps he's heard of Dennis?                     ]
[The Pistons would've out-boarded the Celts by 30 if Dennis was back.    ]
[Instead they out-board them by 11. :)  ]
 
>have just been standing around wondering why the ball isn't guiding
>itself into their hands.  Did it ever occur to them that maybe if the
>bothered to *reach* for the damn ball and move their feet, and, god
>forbid, jump, then maybe, just MAYBE, they'd get the damn thing more
>often?  Jeezus fucking kee-rist!
 
>WHO THE FLYING FUCK IS TERRY MILLS?!  I've never even heard of him,
>and he's playing like a fucking all-star!!
 
[I guess the rsb.pro-ers were wrong when they said the trade for Mills ]
[was some practical joke on McKloskey's part to take revenge on Daly   ]
[and the Pistons.   ]
 
>This is going to be Rodmanless win #1.  And the Celtics gave it to
>them.
 
>Don't bother answering me.  I'm not speaking to you.  No smiley.
 
>                                        --[...] the Sour Grape
 
What a whiner! The Celts are .512 , the Pistons are only .450, and he's
jumping ship. I had to post this here because he has chosen to not
communicate via email with me anymore. At least I protected his identity.
 
Just wait 'til Rodman returns!
 
--Eric