The 82-0 Edition of Barstool Friday!

OK, I admit it, the Celtics aren't going 82-0. But a man can dream, no? After Wednesday night's complete domination of the Denver Nuggets, even the biggest skeptics are forced to admit that this Celtics team is something to be reckoned with. I cannot remember a game in the last 20+ years that has featured so much unselfish play. 77 points, 72% from the field..in the first half! 20 steals in the game. Text-book passing. Incredible. I'm looking forward to seing how they take care of a hot Atlanta team tonight. Good grief...the last time anybody looked forward to a Celts-Hawks game, two guys named Bird and Wilkins were playing.

5 Quick Hits for your Barstool Friday:

1. Expect a Mike Lowell deal, roughly 3 years at $14 million, to be announced by Monday. I think both side want to see this done, and neither is really all that interested in letting this get into the free agency fray. After that, any thing the Red Sox do this Hot Stove Season is gravy. I'm so confident, I'm going to predict right now that the Red Sox repeat as World Series Champions. Hey, I'm serious...wipe that look off your face!
2. I'm looking at the Celtics' schedule right now. If we can come out of New Jersey tomorrow night with a W, I'm looking at the game at Orlando on the 18th as the first stumbling block. So that makes a 7-0 start. I'm only picking the Magic game for a loss because we all know it has to happen sometime. I do think we can take the 2 early season games off of the Nets to start pulling away in the Atlantic Division before the first month of the season is out.
3. At this point, is there anyone in America who doesn't believe, even if they won't admit it, that the New England Patriots are going undefeated?
4. For those of you not paying attention, the Revolution won last night, placing them in the MLS Cup Championship game and setting up our second title for New England this year. Of course, no one noticed and even ESPN Soccernet doesn't have the game on its front page. Still, Taylor Twellman's decisive bicycle-kick goal was pretty impressive, in that "if I'm only going to see one score in 90+ minutes, the guy who makes it should at least be upside down when he does it" kind of way. Really, it was cool. I swear.
5. Tiger Woods will win 3 Majors in 2008. Yeah, I know, I know. But really, baseball is over and there isn't any "Guy From Japan We Never Heard of Until This Week But Suddenly We Really Need To Get" Watch, the Pats have a bye week, I've got to save up some adjectives for how great the Celtics are to get me through the rest of the season, I've already written about soccer twice this week, the Bruins are (not surprisingly) faltering, and I still haven't learned the names of all of the new guys on the UMass basketball team to write about them (although they do tip off the 2007-2008 regular season at 4:15 today against Cal Poly in Cedar Rapids, Iowa...and no, of course it isn't televised despite the fact that there is absolutely nothing more complling to broadcast at 4:15 on a Friday afternoon - who runs these networks?). Give me a break.

UMass vs. UNH tomorrow in what should cement the Minutemen's trip to the D1-AA Playoffs. As always, this will be a battle, and it will be key to both teams' seasons. Expect the Minutemen to return to form after last week's tough loss to URI in 4 feet of rain.

Have a great weekend, I'm saving my Barstool sitting for Saturday night this week. But I willbe having a BBC oak-barrel aged Scotch Ale later this afternoon. Ah yes, it is nice to know I've retained some special priviledges.