Getting ready for the 5 p.m. Celtics rally at City Hall Plaza.

Starting at noon today, T riders will get to hear Kendrick Perkins tell them over and over why they should use a CharlieCard (non-T riders, or T riders who want to hear him in crystal-clear CelticsAudio, can listen here - it's a 4.7M WAV file). The T says it'll be adding extra T service, will hold the last trains out of North Station until 15 minutes after the end of the game and will keep subway service going if the game goes past 12:30 a.m.

Dart Adams says real Celtics fans know how good he really was:

... Forget what Bob Ryan, Peter Mays, Mike Felger, and countless other writers and talking heads here say and have said about him. We true fans supported him from the beginning, rocked 8 jerseys and celebrated when he won his ring. I doubt they'll ever retire his number but I'd like to see him retire a Celtic and him and for him and Paul Pierce to both get their unis retired together. Here's to wishful thinking. ...

UPDATE: They've fixed it online.

Hilary Chabot starts a Herald story today like this:

It was a game-changing moment no Celts fan could forget - Kevin McHale clotheslining L.A. Lakers bruiser Kurt Rambis in Game 7 of the heated 1984 playoffs.

Herald reporters, however, apparently could forget which game that happened in - it was Game 4 - and that's important because some would argue it changed the course of the series (hat tip to Peter Shanley).

The Herald does redeem itself with its right person in wrong place story on a guy murdered in South Boston on Saturday. The Globe's coverage so far consists of a news brief.

Woot!

Jay Fitzgerald is glad he was wrong about the Celts and rounds up background links.

Capn Ho has an '80s flashback. Jay G. posts a photo of what he looked like the last time the Celtics made the finals. Denton gets out the wardrobe:

Our long Celtical nightmare is over

Don Martelli: I'm waking up this morning slightly hung over from the excitement of a Celtics playoff road win.

Steve Wineman: Monkey-off-back win.

Celtics outlast Cavaliers.

Teddy Kokoros: Clark Kent/Superman: Peter Parker/Spiderman: Bruce Wayne/Batman: Paul Pierce/The Truth.

Rob: Maybe LeBron is the NBA's A-Rod.

Sam Weinman: Despite the vastly increased margin of victory, Game 2 of Celts-Cavs offered quite the pleasant redux of the Celtics' bench's efficacy from Game 1.

Rob: The Celtics' annihilation of the Hawks in game 7 makes it hard to believe that the series even got to a 7th game.

Also: Here's why Shaughnessy didn't take a buyout: Sheer spite. "Your 2007-2008 Boston Celtics," he writes, because you know he's holding his nose not wanting a single thing to do with them.

Could Bob Ryan be blogging about this Curse Boy train wreck of a column when he writes the following?

Have we no institutional memory? People are beginning to act as if something odd is going on in the Celtics-Hawks series, as if we've never seen this before.

If so, that would be so cool.