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Weeeellll, loyal readers of THF, it’s time to call a spade a spade.

The guys at assholes and mustaches have officially welched on our blog post bet, and unfortunately, we here at TellHimFred surrendered our thirty-day “take it easy on the welching shitheads” token a couple of bourbon shots ago.

We’re a Boston-based blog, as you know, and the guys at A&M are a couple of West Coasters. Of late, we’ve enjoyed a tentative, Israel v. Lebanon style “we’re-not-actively-nuking-you-so-maybe-we-can-be-friends” style of blog friendship with Magglio and Jericho, but the events of the NBA Championship have led us to an unfortunate and awkward head, which THF is all too willing to exploit for fun and profit.

For those of you without the wherewithal to register a forum ID, I’ll sum up: after game three of the NBA Finals, where 0-2 L.A. lashed back against the many-headed hydra of the Boston Celtics with an 87-81 win, the A&M crew crowed that the Celtics were a flash-in-the-pan team who couldn’t stand up to the might of the Kobe Beef Squad, saying, and i quote: “Fuck you, Boston.” Bristling at this shot across the bow of our fair city, and fully prepared to eat crow and Magic Johnson’s T-Cells if the Cs were to lose, I proposed the bet:

If the Celtics lost the finals, we would compose a blog post, deliniating how the Celtics had lost to the Lakers, and how the team with the best record in the regular season had choked hardcore and let the Lakers walk away with a championship.

However, if the Cs were to win, the Assholes and Mustaches crew were to write a post on tellhimfred, outlining how they were wrong, that the Cs had held up their end of the Ainge-Rivers bargain, and mastered the 2008 finals after all.

Well, we know how it ended.

And we waited.

We gave Maggio and Jericho a THF ID to write a post.

Nothing.

We posted on our forums, nakedly goading them into writing something.

Nothing.

(Sigh)

Now, we at THF realize that the rest of the U.S. hates Boston. I mean, HATES us, like wicked bad, like the Superficial hates Heidi and Spencer. It’s understandable; we have the worst fans in all of sports.

But this is worse than that - the A&M guys have demonized Boston sports, under the guise of “we support west coast teams because they don’ get no respect!” to the point where they’re willing to just say “fuck Boston.”

Weeeelllp. Here’s how it shakes out. The LA Lakers lost the fucking finals, and the game which they lost it was the biggest deficit in NBA finals history. Say whatever you want about Boston as a city - The. Celtics. Kicked. LA’s. Ass.

Kobe? He may be the best player in the NBA, but on a team that chokes harder than a man with an auto-erotic asphyxiation fetish, he might as well just strangle himself on the bench, which is exactly what he did for a good portion of game 6. Sorry, guys, but you need starters AND a bench to win in the NBA.

So we gave A&M plenty of time to make good on their bet and they decided to go ahead and not recognize traditional property rights, and therefore, we say:

You, sir, are an asshole.

by the way, in case you haven’t seen the other videos of this guy we’ve posted, it’s Paul “Fitzy” Fitgerald of TownieNews dot com.