What a Year for Marilyn Manson and the Celtics

A year ago, Brian Warner was filled with marital bliss. So was Heather Sweet. Ahh, love lasts eternal, doesn't it?

(A year ago, the Celtics were in turmoil.) 

Little Sweet/Warners danced in their heads. Just think, a second generation of Marilyn Mansons to entertain us was possible. Could life ever be so hopeful?

(There was more frustation, and patience than hope in Boston.) 

There would be swimming lessons, little league, flag football, music lessons, choir practice, maybe even band practice, scout meetings, dance classes, and bake sales for the elementary school book drive. These would be very talented off spring, I'm sure.

(Celtics were getting lessons every game, too.) 

Whew. It's a busy thing to raise kids nowadays.

And now that dream is put asunder.

(The Celtic dreams are just beginning.) 

Marilyn's (Brian Warner) marriage to Dita Von Teese (Heather Sweet is her real name. I love both names.) the model and burlesque dancer is ending.

According to Yahoo News...

"Manson later told Spin magazine he was devastated over the breakup.

"She said she had tolerated the lifestyle because she hoped I would change and threatened to leave if I didn't," he said.

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Isn't that always the way? Sigh.

Some dreams end. Others begin.

Last year the Celtics won 24 games for the entire year. Tonight they try to break that record. (tense organ sound here) The drama heightens.

Some records are easier to break than others - especially when you trade in a bunch of young players, a few draft picks, and some journeymen players with big contracts for 2 all stars and a big baby.

It was The Lost Year (or two). It is now Paradise Found.

Doc Rivers and Paul Pierce wanted to change their dancing partners, too. They also couldn't tolerate the lifestyle.

Last year 24-58. This year 24-3. Ridiculous, isn't it?

It is a hard thing to raise baby NBA players....telling them where and when to shower, what to wear, when to go to bed, and where to go on the floor. "Daddy, what's a 'pick and roll' ?"

Whew, again! What's a coach and veteran all star to do?

The Boston Steamroller is orchestrating a new sound in Beantown. It is filled with wins. It is a sublime, trebled sound because there are many more high notes than low notes. There are different sections of stunning musical bliss by highly trained musicians. Solos, duets, and choruses of beautiful sound. There are even wonderful periods of improvisation by three of the league's best improvisors.

The orchestration is musical, synchronized defense alternated with staccato like offensive rhythm that softens and crescendos each and every game. You don't watch it. You bask in it, as with a great cd on a superb music system - except it is a live performance each time.

There is also a prodigy. You can't have a great orchestra without a child prodigy. His name is Rajon Rondo.

He is receiving training from the very best. You can tell in his own recitals each night that he is learning. There are moments of staggering genius when he plays with the best. There are moments of disappointing 'ahhs' as when he has an off night. Heads nod. We knowingly acknowledge that this will happen to youth.

Tonight the Boston Steamroller Philharmonic Orchestra of Basketball will play in the backwaters of Utah. They have a team in that state idiosyncratically called the Utah Jazz. Their conductor is a crotchety, old school former defensive specialist, NBA guard named Sloan. Jerry Sloan. He never tolerated rookies much either.

He likes to hear music from his own team - not yours. His musicians know their parts well. He wouldn't tolerate anything less. In years past, they may have sounded like an oom-pah band. But they were always the best oom-pah band in the land. Lately, they get a little frenetic, like a classic rock band. They still don't improvise like a great jazz band would. That's not the Jerry Sloan way. But they have a great PG named Deron Williams who may, one day, be allowed a chance to improvise some great solos.

Don't get in the way of a talented Jerry Sloan club when they're going well. Right now this Jazz team is down. They will give it everything they have to break their recent bad luck. They are 3-7 over the last 10 games.

Every team is gunning to say that they beat the Celtics now. It is a bragging point that gets respect from their peers. Only three teams can actually say that they did. Three.

Beating the Jazz in Utah will be no easy feat. They are only 16-15, but 10-2 at home.

This will be an excellent game for the new Cs. It's the third game of 4 in 5 days on the road.

Will a Steamroller Orchestra beat a classic rock band misnomered as a Jazz band?

Tune in tonight at 9:00 PM to find out.

This just in: The Jazz just today traded Gordon Giricek and a # 1 draft pick to the Philadelphia 76ers for sharpshooting Kyle Korver. I'm not sure if Kyle will make tonight's game, but he will be a definite upgrade for the Jazz going forward. Whoever ends up being that draft choice will determine how good the trade was.

This article is courtesy of the Connecticut Post.