My Trip to Detroit

[Banks2Pierce]

Sorry, no pics. I don't have a camera and my camera phone is terrible.

Saturday - What a game. Didn't hear a lot of crap from fans and the ushers were unbelievably nice. Said a "what up" to Dickerson. He's a good guy. We jokingly asked Scal "Where's the after party?" and he actually told us where the team was going after the game. We were dead from driving so we headed back to the hotel. The Pistons intro was cool to watch and the crowd was going insane during pregame. Our fast start took them completely out of it. We ended up in an area with a bunch of other C's fans. And by a bunch, I mean 8 or 9, which was about half of the C's fans in the whole arena.

Sunday - Crazy day. We found out where the team was staying and kind of stalked the team, but not in an annoying way. We didn't want autographs, just to see the guys. Nothing else to do in Detroit. We were playing football in the park and Big Baby gets out of a car and asks us if he can throw the rock around. He's a real nice dude. Next thing you know, we are playing against some high school kids that were around. Baby is an unbelievable athlete with the best hands I've ever seen. You could throw the thing anywhere near him and he'd pull it down. He gave us chest bumps, too. He wasn't going full speed but he was talking trash.

Van Gundy and Mark Jackson walked by and were loving it. They talked to us for a few minutes. Very nice guys. We saw Ray and Sam around the street and also saw Powe and PJ walking around. They give you respect when you aren't asking for autographs and pics.

Monday: not as fun. They had terrible hecklers. They were awful. Not awful in a mean way, but just awful hecklers. I have red hair and had a pierce jersey on and they were like "paul pierce doesn't have red hair." It just wasn't funny and didn't even get me mad. I dropped the "Paul would be the best player on the Pistons" after a "paul pierce sucks" and there were no comebacks. The crowd was fairly dead for the most part. Only one section at a time could get the "lets go pistons" chant going. One guy even fell asleep during the third quarter.

Pet peeve: thundersticks. They are annoying and don't even distract the players. They are old.

[Bleeding Green]

Wow, awesome story about Big Baby. That's hilarious stuff.

[mr_sunshine]

Good **** man. Was it worth missing graduation? :p Sounds like an awesome trip, and I'm glad you didn't get heckled too hard.

[SonicYouth34]

Baby is the shiz!

[SeizeCoup]

JVG told the BigBaby pickup football story on-air during game 4. Very cool.

No pics though? Lame! Phones on cameras suck, but a pic with you and Davis at the park would have been a good idea.

Having gone to an opposing arena to support the Celtics myself, gotta give you mucho props. It is a fun, yet stressful experience... way to be b2p.

[bruno sundov]

So you did miss graduation. Was it worth it?

[DorfonCeltics]

Having gone to an opposing arena to support the Celtics myself, gotta give you mucho props. It is a fun, yet stressful experience... way to be b2p.

Absolutely Calder. I went to a game in DC last year wearing my Delonte jersey. It's fun but can definitely get heated. It also sucked because we ended up losing in overtime and I couldn't talk **** walking out of the arena.

Great story Banks2Pierce.

[Celtics_Champs]

Awesome story. Big Baby is awesome.

[Banks2Pierce]

Yes I did miss graduation and it was completely worth it. Mom's not too happy about it, but hey. I would have been in my chair in the middle of a 5 hour long ceremony sweating wishing i was in Meeeeechigan. It's all about the diploma anyways.

I agree about the camera, Calder. Completely blew that one. Kills some of the story's credibility for the future I guess but we have the memory in our brains.

Mike Breen came up to us before the game (we were sitting right outside the tunnel for pregame stuff) and told us the guys were going to bring it up on air so we naturally called everyone in our phones. At the start of the second quarter we probably got 40 text messages between the 3 of us in a matter of seconds. My phone had the permanent vibrate going.

The Palace is a little crazier in pregame, but the Garden is more wild when it counts. Half of their crowd left when the team had a feasible chance to come back in Game 3. Boston wins.

[greenbeans]

thats ****in nuts!! great story man, got me jealous now

[roc]

I would miss graduation too, good stuff. We used to have the best heckler ever but he has passed on. The crowd has gotten worse as the ticket prices have gone up. Too many corporate suits for my taste.

I did get to sit in some killer seats though due to my brother working for Bill Davidson's Gaurdian Automotive.

I had my goatee pretty long and braided ala Johnny Depp in Pirates with Piston's colored red and blue rubber bands. Some older suits were bitching at these girls in front of us to sit down. I gave em a pretty evil stare and motioned with my hands for them to stand instead. They complied with a look on their faces that was priceless.

[Tricky Ricky]

that sounds awsome and Big Baby sounds like an awsome guy

Glad you had fun and happy to hear you missed graduation, mine sucked last year

[AWalkerREMIX]

How could you talk to Mike Breen without laughing? He always looks like he's on the verge of bursting out laughing.

[pballa]

awesome!

[Athanacropolis]

Great story! Wish I could've done that too!

So Big Baby didn't flatten you all with his chest bumps?