my name is frank walsh along here with michael ware door and as we take this today is thursday may second and what an incredible day in boston we have every reason to be happy because our three home teams won their games last night the red sox kick some fanny the celtics had an exciting win to keep them alive in the bruins started off their stanley cup quest by beating toronto so we have a lot to talk about and instead  listen to me i am throwing it to mike because i am sure he has a lot to say about the celtics mike franco i home well what do you think of those celtics bruins and rough last night the rumor that the celtics have been buried is very premature and i would say that j r smith put it best when he said we got married last night i came into that my name for him is j r stiff actually that's who he is that was like the most classless thing i've ever seen putting you know wearing black thinking that they're going to bury the celtics last night before the game is even played not only that it was a blip we have an hour the thing that has gone on with the marathon and absolutely  mean listen class that's right in my groin and said that and i didn't think of that aspect until he brought it up but i mean either you know i mean it's just and the right and the best thing about it is that a great organization like the celtics and the players completely them and stuff that right down their throats and the best thing was when their fans were filing out at the end of the game and were there to win you know where winning the game and to me it was like you can't say enough good things about the celtics organization and the players you know they really got heart they really got pride and to me the new york knicks really their name should be new york thugs and that's who they are to me well the celtics i think really demonstrated what kevin garnett said a couple of years ago griffin balls that's right you know grit and ball as it is in the last couple of games where pretty much everyone including me wrote them off and didn't think that they had a chance to move forward in the series and the way that they've made in the last couple of games i didn't know you were one of the few you know and i thought that they were going down for the count but i just thought that the a legs were wary i didn't think that they had the horses i didn't think that they had the you know the drive in them to put up what they have over the last couple of games and i tell you i don't like to be wrong but i am glad i'm wrong on this one well i'll tell you that the things that makes the difference to me is the play of jeff green and jason terry i mean they have been key in the last two games brandon bass and brandon bass but terry was like a non factor during the season right and he's made he it was five right you know you know it's like almost like panic mode exactly but you know they they sucked it up and they made those shots and you know i think they're playing with a lot more confidence and i think the celtics are going to win friday night i really do i think it's going to go back for game seven and i thought there's no doubt in my mind because i just don't think i think now we're in their heads which is the best place to be right now i mean if you know if there was ever this guy felt in there you know  tables could be reversed where the celtics could have won these games because you know carmelo anthony has been a no show you know really not doing much i mean you know he's just throwing up brick c's got these terrible shooting percentage right he doesn't pass the ball as we know and no defense no defense and i think that bass has him under control and you know we're leaving out another key factor in the win last night was garnett i mean he was immense last night he was eighteen points eighteen rebounds right but it's come to the point where you almost expect that from him you know well most expect that from him yeah but you know what you know but you know what the thing is that he said himself every game is a seventh game and this guy is playing with his heart on the sleeve and he's going to do whatever he can to to win the game and he's in he's getting banged around all the time he's got some injuries even on the postgame and they're not calling fouls and i think you know as long as the other guys are doing their thing and making shots and they don't continually go through peers for their noise right guard that will probably come out you know yeah like a total madman right and i think that the adrenaline and the energy that's going to be pumping through these guys to hopefully doc can can contain them a little bit because you don't want them coming out and just start those two shots by terry at the end you know that they were critical they were absolutely going that jumper by guy in that right you know where they brought it back to five and he brought it out of reach and i know you haven't seen that a lot from the celtics lately no but i mean you know they know it's crunch time and terry played on a championship team so when he you know if he's this is what he's here for you know he's here to help us get as far as we can through the playoffs you know  want to say it too early but we're not going to by the time we watch we'll be here again next week at the series will be over i predict that it's going to be we could be the first team in the n b a to win a four seven game series after being down three now i think i can easily see that happening because i think that the garden things are going to be crazy and i think that if anything you know the knicks are going to wilt i just think they're going to wilt and i agree i just think they just don't have the leadership or the backbone i don't play a great and i' be shocked to see if they do you know that i was so excited in opening up the show here and getting ready to turn it over for you yes i hope the boys in the booth the listening to this i forgot to start the timer you know oh really somewhere along the line as we move along the guys in the booth are going to have to stick up how many fingers and minutes that we have left because you know let us know which is to pump to put that but i was afraid that if i hit that but not break i know in fact what the adrenaline going that's true well  of you know at that one one and then it was another shot that horton gave them the lead at the end of the first period and they were off and running they were off and running and they played tough tough hockey i mean they were for checking they looked like the bruins of the of the early season when they were actually got off to a good start and they never really got the you know the kudos for that going into the game they you know people were weary and leery about how they were starting because you know they played a tough schedule you know they didn't have the energy that they were losing a lot six out of nine of something of the last games they were like thirteen well when and you know here they come in you know with a couple of days rust and they hit that ice and it was one of those type of games were actually watching any one of the three and it was tough for us jumping back and forth but did you get a sense in any of those games even the bruins game that we're talking about now that they were going to lose did you sense that either any of those three teams we're go great game and then put the back in it's two one yeah you know the first period and then put on the second period it's it's in the middle second period already for one idea celtics are you know it was a little nip and tuck there but they started controlling the second half absolutely you know in a fifteen point lead yeah i never had a sense that they were going to lose that game but you know the bruins came out yeah they played aggressively they were just like the big bad bruins offense or a they were they were pounding people they got a multiple of scores and they spread the scoring across to go look good behind the net he did you know and you know as we talked a little bit off the air about you know one of the critical points early in the game was when toronto hit the crossbar right and then there was that i think they were down one nothing then they came back tied at one two one right and then when the guy hit the crossbar you know in a relatively open net bruins get the rebound skate down and score so instead of being down two to one up two to one right they said it was at a point it's like they're he hasn't done anything against the bruins i was going to say isn't a thing all year against the pro know it even like in past years i think that like three points in twenty four games or something and you look at his death because i think he's eighth in scoring he's a good score you would never know that from watching him when the bruins play them they they they they they really they throw you know knock him around like like unbelievable you know and i'm still a kid what's he like eighteen nineteen if that twenty maybe i don't know  eighteen yeah but i think now he's got business mid twenty's probably that old i think it's been a few really maybe but my bad you know but the but they're their front line their main line had a really good day you know  guess there are a couple of series that have to play back to back games really yeah and that's going to obviously help whoever goes into that second round because they're going to be worn out i mean you know having to play such a compact schedule right so if the bruins can get through the forest round they'll have to play the team that had played that condensed schedule and they'll have the physical advantage of having the rest between games that the a couple of other places teams won't i know and you were saying even even prior to that that they had to play the game on sunday which they had off right so that and that's why they ended up playing the maple leafs but you know that's good so good for the bruins and they're off to a great start and that leaves us with the  write and also i mean other little things that are just flying out of the radar was like really said ellsbury has like twelve thirteen fourteen stolen bases already i saw that when they come from i don't because they do in so many other things they are that they are just flying under the radar with everything that they're doing they know they like it they like a well oiled machine they are i mean i've heard feral say the beginning of the season that we were going to be relentless and they are they're playing it they are playing the way he is they represent the way he wants to play baseball and but i don't think anybody thought this was going to happen who'd expect but i saw a five point three lester to be you know eleven wins i thought if they get the five hundred to start the season we bowl i think we will be good on that i think we're both looking at you know five hundred and we were praying that they would end poll with a a winning record or you know i know close to first place and not running out of the race i know it's just it's just amazing that that happened and you know the question is now can they carry it on  know they're all they're all going to happen that you know poppy you know poppy who defunct poppy would come back he's batting almost five hundred he hasn't missed a hit since he came back from last july i think he's crushing the ball is it twenty one straight gaining everything he hits a family is doing is working like magic it's just amazing and if you listen to pharrell he's very even keeled is you know he is not over praising you know he is not under praising he's just stating the game plan is right and what they're us and then if you look at these guys you know it's almost like it was back in the heyday when you know you're watching new television and you get that center field camera yeah you know angle at the plate and you look at the guys in the box it's like this disguise going to get a hit or he's going to have a good at bat yeah you know yeah the same thing with buchholz last night we talked a little bit off the air you know i look at bucholtz i look at leicester and you watch these guys and it's almost like i'm going to get you out you know there's no fear now there's no intimidation no they're just there the a locked in they get on a sign and they throw the ball with the catcher wants it and then you know they're not colts are like schilling and pedro at their peak actually but colts i mean i've never seen him pitch so great i mean the guy is just perfect i mean he's almost perfect you'd have to say it's hard to you know want to say that but he's up to his i think but nine home run he just kept the bat on his shoulder when when i had to strike pitch that just painted the corner and i just said and there was another one that he just struck a guy out of i think it was a three into pitch or something and he was probably sitting on a fastball you know this team a red sox etc or and you know they were talking about some of the moves that they make and they said hey get a hold of this josh beckett the one five zero one five zero one five one of the dodgers record with pitcher to the till he retires now and he's just going to count his money i heard that from someone but you know it's great to see it though is when that the red sox a plane so good and don and jerry are like waxing poetic over all the it's just like you know they had they're  excited about talking about baseball you can just see it in their voices and you know every night there's a different hero i mean there's go names there's dhruva there's ortiz there's joy and ellsbury have been very consistent but they're they're not the one basically a really good and i'm glad that they kept they really as the closer you know we could i mean somebody some some people some of them have said controversy over that but to me there was no no doubt in my mind if i was a manager i'm not going to give this guy his job back him in it was to close right but he was hurt and then he was hurt right then he came back but but but let me ask you this because i heard some of these experts and i say when hanrahan comes back you know who's the guy who has a low voice i can't think of his name one of the guys have been following the celtics i mean the red sox forever he's done a stint kalyan he's got the he's got a beard when you see him on the station i call i know what you mean anyway and yeah i know he was saying when hanrahan comes back he should be the closer because he's the guy they brought in to close and i'm saying to myself no you're wrong how could you possibly do you don't know what he's going to do he had some played against major league and this guy is winning i mean anybody with any sense would say i'm not going to change in midstream this is the horse that keeps winning for me right do you i mean you understand it great i agree i said i would have bailey but you know hanrahan you know was not really that impressive no i mean you know he coughed up that big that big game that you know what propel them well you know which kind of ended their big winning streak right you know he coughed everything up in the ninth and i agree with bailey bailey seems to be more closer minded it all seems to be like a close or he looks comfortable in the rose you know and offer some reason hanrahan just didn't strike me as a closer it's almost like you know he looked like a middle guy who looked like the seventh inning guy you know it was bailey just felt like a closer to me they really seem to have the fire i mean when he gets that third hour he's like so happy was absolutely and he comes out and he shakes hands with the guys you know speaking of palpable and i haven't heard his name mentioned yet this year any idea what jonathan's don't have no idea and no i know i don't know i don't know how the phillies are doing and i don't like the i don't really follow those other you know we've been so consumed over the last few weeks with the events of the bombing and mohit and then you know the red sox bruins you know everybody you know even the patriots i mean the patriots have made a lot of moves a far down excellent point you know equilibrium to people's lives has returned you know somewhat especially if you're in boston and you know meanwhile of course that investigation continues but at least now we have something that we can you know makes us happy and because both earth to the both i don't think they're there yeah they're probably having a sandwich or something who the heck knows but we could talk about anything we want him but anyway you know i think one of the things that we have not covered that we did a half element it's historic and all of that's right but as you said in today's society can say that i agree and it's not it's undoubtedly going to be more and more down the road it may to happen right away but you know it's not a race like you were saying it's not a race ms kudos for having the courage and strength to do that but i think it's far as you know what his orientation is ok i don't know it doesn't bother me at one minute left so ok you know a little