Now a thread for EVERYONE
 

I know you all love my threads about Boston championship sports teams. After all, Boston is America's city and their teams are loved by the entire country.

Anyway, if you haven't been keeping track, the Red Sox won the World Series last fall, and the Patriots won the Super Bowl this past January. Now the Celtics are going to round two of the NBA playoffs and the Bruins are going to round two of the NHL playoffs. So we are well on our way to a Boston Grand Slam of Championships. I thought I'd start a thread so we can all follow this remarkable journey. No matter how it turns out, I know you will all enjoy this thread. Go Bruins, Go Celtics!!

Coming up, the Celtics (5) versus Milwaukee Bucks (1) and the Bruins (2) versus the Blue Jackets (8?).

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Bill, it is the Hub.
I too was thinking of the grand slam. The B's were looking a little shaky there but pulled through.

Nothing to see here folk. Now just move along. :)

It would be quite the thing to have that many champions at the same time but I'd think to be considered a grand slam the red sox will have to repeat so all the wins are in 2019.
Levi

The first sport of the year is Baseball. All the others follow.

OK, that works for me too.
Levi

Too bad there aren't any decent college sports up that way. :devil:

Go Bruins,Go...:thumbup:

Just to add some spark this thread.....

GO BLUE JACKETS!!








Ok, that is all I know about hockey.

I'm glad you Mass folks have good teams and reasons to celebrate! It is so hard to be a Boston team fan these days! :LOL: :LOL:
Enjoy! :thumbup:

:LOL: Says you!

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Boston has always had high caliber and high class teams. As long as it's not New York I will be pulling for bean town.

Yeah, I heard they had a tea party too. Bill may have been there.

Basically, you're right.

BC and BU have some sports stature but there is a gigantic cluster of colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston; 154,000 students at the last count that I saw. There are ongoing municipal studies and programs because, although there is a very large student population from outside the area, the metro is only retaining about 50% of it's graduate population. It's a small brain drain. While sports has its tradition in the metro area, there is a much higher emphasis on education. During my four years in high school, we were Class B state champions twice in baseball, once in hockey and contended in football and golf. Basket ball was a non-starter. But, we had no locker room, no gymnasium, no stadium, no practice field and no ice rink. Sports were totally extra-curricular except for a stipend given to the sports program for coaching and some equipment. If you were an athlete, you or your parents paid for most of your equipment. But, we had new classrooms and state of the art laboratories. 95% of each graduating class went on to college.

I have two cousins who grew up in New Mexico and both were sports scholarship football and track stars. They went to UNM. Both are minimally functional in math and English. But UNM has a great sports program.

Not so fast my friend. This could be the year that the Mets and Jets take it all. (Hey, its still early. I can dream can't I. The collapse won't happen until mid May)

Lets Go Mets.

The Wall Street Journal has taken notice:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/be-afra...ng-11556192739

The Northeast does boast some of the finest universities in the world. And most states up that way do a better than average job of supporting secondary and primary education.

I was just pulling Bill's chain.

Mike, I thought you were making a joke. You are pulling my chain on something I don’t care about.

Not a big sports guy but always root for my home teams, Sox, pats, bruins and Celtics.

Bruins win the first game against the blue jackets in O/T!!!

The tying goal in the third period was a truly a thing of beauty.

Why would you? It's like I don't care about U.S. men's soccer because we suck at that.

I care!! and I hate that we suck at it.

Small bore when I left,

Never thought I'd see a single World Series Championship in my life time

Celtics, Bruins???

Another overtime game for the Bruins tonight.

I'm not sad that I went to bed after first overtime.

Just wait til other countries get invited to play in the World Series too. :p

/obligatory rest-of-the-world comment.

I wonder if there is pressure on each of the boston teams when the other wins.

oh yeah like the C's did today.... :LOL:

Yup. The Celtics make a statement in game 1 against the Bucks, while the Bruins drop game two in double overtime, allowing the Blue Jackets to even up the series. But the hope is still alive, and even strong!

We are taking a bad turn. Bruins down 2 games to 1, Celtics tied up 1-1.

yep, last night was not a good night.

Jackets & Bob - great defense.

Celts had a rough night.
The ref certainly didn't throw the game on their behalf.

Bruins are keeping the dream alive. They just defeated the scrappy Blue Jackets 4 games to 1. Bs move on to the Eastern Conference finals. I think that means they only have 6 more series to win to get to the Stanley Cup...

Celtics looked ok going into the 4th quarter tonight and then the Bucks just did what they wanted. The Celts are one game away from elimination and they are heading back to Milwaukee for the next game. The Boston Slam needs a miracle. But a Boston Triple is looking better.

Do the Bruins 3-0 close out Carolina tonight?

It is tough to sweep a team at home, but I say yes out of loyalty and hope.

And sweep it is! On to the finals. I guess we wait a couple of weeks for this to get started.

Dave, do you know which city already has a triple crown in the same year from its major league teams?

^^^ Had to google that one. Worth the trouble.

Wow! 1935 Detroit. If you count Baseball (MLB), Football (NFL), and Hockey (NHL) as the three major sports. 2002 LA. If you count soccer (MLS) or Women's Pro basketball (WNBA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multip...onship_seasons

Bill, in our house triple crown means horse racing.

:D

there are a number of cities that don't have 3 pro teams.
Buffalo comes to mind. Oklahoma city and Kansas city

Cleveland might almost qualify :stick:

In fact only 19 cities could lay claim to having 3 titles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...rts_franchises

New York, LA and San Fran should have the best odds but well you know....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multip...onship_seasons

Boston has two 3 times and all in the modern era of sports.
NY has had a few but most not in the modern era.

Go Stros! Good game tonight. First game of this series with the Red Sox. And three more games next week...