"Enemy to those who make him an enemy friend to those who have no friend - that's Blackie!"Good Day Readers:
Conspiracy theory is interesting plus its always fascinating to speculate but first a little background.
It all began as a Boston Celtics fan for more years than we care to remember - after all the city is the intellectual capital of basketball in spite of what Los Angeles Lackers fans would have you believe. Then there were marathons (1975, 1978) which we didn't win but finished the second time to prove the first was no accident followed by an early 1980s Eastern Conference Semi- Finals game at "The Gadens" today aptly named the TD (as in Toronto Dominion) "Gardens" won, of course, by the Celtics thanks in large by Larry Bird's fourth quarter heroics - in his prime no one could stop his fade away jumper!
Our favourite Larry Legend (true) story? After the Celtics had called a time out at "The Gadens" against, who else, the Lakers on the way back onto the court he went over to a grop of opposing players to tell them exactly what the next play would be. While they were still laughing his teammate got the ball into him and it was a 15-20 foot fade away from the left side - swish!
During this time Whitey Bulger was at the height of his "career" but had yet to achieve international notoriety. As those not familiar with the story will soon discover while a serial pathological killer he is also extremely well-read, articulate and some would even say brilliant. Look how long he was able to avoid capture with the world's police forces including the FBI looking for him. Not your average bad guy!
Our most memmorable Whitey story. There have been so many but two come to mind. He knew the FBI were constantly trying to wiretap his gang so he'd hold meetings with his crime organization's top lieutenants in the Boston Common a large park in the city's centre once used to garrison troops during the civil war. They'd bring lawn chairs sit around and discuss "business" on bright, sunny days while all undercover FBI agents could do was watch from a distance through binoculars.
Or the time he found out someone had a winning $4 million lottery ticket which hadn't been cashed. That was probably the easiest money Whitey ever made.
Irony of ironies? For many years Whitey has suffered from a chronic heart condition which requires a special medication. In fact, that was one of the clues the FBI tried unsuccessfully for years to track him. Will the devil get him before he's convicted?
In the mid-1970 we also spent time in Santa Monica a delightful Southern California town which in those days appeared to be a small wealthy enclave.
Back to Blackie.
To be continued .....
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