OK, so the Celtics do the Honorable Thing and waive Vin Baker. No biggie - very few sports teams support their players when they have problems like the alcoholic Baker (with the notable exeption of Arsenal FC).
Baccus? Really? I know pro athletes in the US get paid way too much and all that, but come on - that’s just mean!
Getting Dr. Baccus to oversee Vin’s aftercare program is about as sensible as getting Dr. Caulkin to counsel Jacko regarding his …problem. It’s a funny old world, or as we say here: There are many strange things in the cow’s head.
What got me about this whole post was not the basketball player…but the fact that Baccus - sometimes known as Dionysus - is the Greek God of wine and festivities! So an alcoholic getting treated by the god of alcohol is rather funny!
Whew! For a moment, I thought you were talking about our very own Baker! Nice to see it’s a British soccer player, and that he’s finally getting some help.
Actually, Mr. Baker is an American basketball player, and the help he’s getting from his team (The Boston Celtics) is being released from his ($30m?) contract.
I guess I should try and be a little less vague when and if I start another thread… :o
Oh no Uselessgit - I do not mock you at all…I just don’t give it to the common everydayer to know who Baccus is in the classic sense. I read your post quickly…but I certainly wasn’t mocking you
Ha ha, that’s funny. Baccus was the guy who played Thurston Howell on Giligans Island. He was always saying “want a martini, lovey.” So it’s odd that Thurston Howell should be treating Baker, the alcoholic hockey player, with martinis.
OK, as long as everyone gets the fact that an alchoholic baker/croquet player is being treated by a castaway from Gilligan’s island named after a Greek god of wine, I’m a happy man - albeit not a particularly funny one…
It’s my fault. I follow British soccer more than I follow American pro basketball, and when I saw “Celtics” in the same sentence as “Arsenal”, I assumed that Mr. Baker was a soccer player.
Was it also your strange sense of humour that led you to misspell “succeed” in your sig? Just thought I’d point that out in case it hadn’t been pointed out already.
Actually, that would be a combination of my foreignness and other dopers’ callous indifference to the sufferings of the linguistically challenged.
Over 200 posts without anyone telling me … thanks, snooop, I’ve fixed my sig and I even threw in another comma for good measure and changed one comma to a hyphen. I know it ain’t much, but it’s the best I can do. My gift is my hyphen and, well, this one is for you, snooop.
Wow… this thread is turning out to be almost as stupid as it is useless. Come on people, this is good stuff! Baccus? Alcoholics?
Oooh, don´t be sad - it is ironic and amusing. Very much so, in fact.
When I saw the thread title, I actually assumed it would be about the actual Greek god (at least in a metaphorical way). But this is much better!
(Only isn´t he spelled with an h? Bacchus? Nevermind.)
