10.30.06 RED AUERBACH IS DEAD

Longtime Celtics coach and GM Red Auerbach died at the age of 89 yesterday, which has led us to lovely retrospectives on his life such as this ESPN.com piece. You can go there for sentiment; it's Monday morning, and I don't really feel like being nice about anything, especially when it comes down to a coach for a team I don't particularly care about.

Does that make me a bad person? Fine, fine. I'll be nice:

A nation weeps as we look back on Red Auerbach, whose life was tragically cut short by natural causes. It's times like these where we have to try not to question God's will, and merely accept that He takes some of us before our time. May the light of his life outshine the shadow of this dark day, or something like that.

Aw, man. Even when I try to be nice it comes out sarcastic. I swear that wasn't intentional.