In fairness, Nasdaq did try to bring order to the freewheeling Bulletin Board--and has taken a pratfall, recently scrapping the plan for the so-called Bulletin Board exchange.

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Boston's past couple of years have been frustrating ones, to be sure 2011 ended with a comical pratfall on the season's final night but the franchise is coming off its most prosperous decade-long stretch since the 1920s.

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