A good substitute - for now

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Well, we won't have a pennant raising at Fenway in the spring of 2009. Tonight, we got a nice substitute. The raising of the Celtics' 17th Championship Banner at the Garden. A lovely salute to that team, and it's appropriate that the key emotional moment was provided by team captain Paul Pierce. His tears of joy reflected his long years of waiting for a decent team to play with, waiting for the Celtics to recapture the magic of the 1980s.

And now the road to a repeat begins!