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Keller At Large 6/03/2008

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Play from 0:16[0:16] ..." logged on to Celtics dot com and the phone in my hand preset to doubt the Celtics ticket number. Thirty frustrating minutes later the crew with a towel no way I didn't even come close to a snip of those tickets. And I can't say I was surprised. The memory is still fresh of that wasted Saturday morning last winter spent logged onto Red Sox dot com. Trying my best to stick a couple of measly seats to a midsummer game against Kansas City. A couple of times I even got past the first hurdle only to have the programs seize up and throw me off of foreign made it. That's what life is like when -- Boston sports not. A true blue fan without the money or connections to school or even an occasional peek at the live action. Now I certainly don't begrudge the true fans who shell out huge bucks for season tickets their access to the playoffs. And some of the celebs who"...

Play from 0:00[0:00]" I tried yesterday afternoon to get a pair of tickets to Sunday night's game two of the NBA finals really I gave it my best shot. I didn't have the chance to go to -- camp out with the folks down at the garden. But I had two computers up and running at 2 o'clock yesterday all logged on to Celtics dot com and the phone in my hand preset to doubt the Celtics ticket number. Thirty frustrating minutes later the crew with a towel no way I didn't even come close to a snip of those tickets. And I can't say I was surprised. The memory is still fresh of that wasted Saturday morning last winter spent logged onto Red Sox dot com. Trying my best to stick a couple of measly seats to a midsummer game against Kansas City. A couple of times I even got past the first hurdle only to have the programs seize up and throw me off of foreign made it. That's what life is like when -- Boston sports not. A true blue fan without the money or connections to school or even an occasional peek at the live action. Now I certainly don't begrudge the true fans who shell out huge bucks for season tickets their access to the playoffs. And some of the celebs who show up at the big games like Mark Wahlberg in Denis Leary hey. Their legitimate fans to. But I have to admit it to bomber to be squeezed data inning shot at Sunday's Celtics Lakers game. Knowing that many of the seats will go to folks who didn't watch a game all year and will spend most of their time with their backs to the court. Chatting about business or -- the book today. I can assure you with my son and I somehow find a way to buy a -- for Sunday night. We will be screaming or lungs out for the Celtics and instructing the rest on their shortcomings and high volume and that's all even before capped off. And if we have to do so at home in front of the TV like all the other have -- Hey will do it anyway because that's what we'll fans do even when they get squeezed out of the garden by fair weather acres and yes. That runs with Lakers"

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