SlowBoristheBlade
12.03.10 | OH, THE HUMANITY!!! |
theacademy
12.03.10 | didnt the heat have the same record as the knicks a few days ago? |
Satellite
12.03.10 | the entire city of cleveland is collectively on suicide watch atm |
Hawks
12.03.10 | Lebron definitely raped every single member of the Cavs. I don't care for either team really, I like the Celtics, but I love Lebron and it's great to see his team win and him be the leading scorer after all that shit he's been hearing from people from Cleveland. Fuck Cleveland in general. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | "I like the Celtics..."
YEEEESSS
"... but I love Lebron"
wat |
JWT155
12.03.10 | Hey Pit. |
Satellite
12.03.10 | the 2 are mutually exclusive.
it's a fact. |
CrisStyles
12.03.10 | that's better than what the fans were apparently going to do....
http://www.inflexwetrust.com/2010/12/01/cleveland-cavaliers-fans-make-chant-sheet-for-lebron-james-return/ |
theacademy
12.03.10 | sat u like the pistons?
i'm positive/neutral on the pistons and tigers and wings... i like em to do well but they're not 'my' teams like the lions. i loved their championship team a few years back... |
Satellite
12.03.10 | yeah i'm unfortunately a pistons fan. it's honestly getting hard for me to give a shit about them right now, though.
that '04 team was incredible. |
Defeater
12.03.10 | what was the score |
Satellite
12.03.10 | 118-90
LBJ didn't even play in the 4th quarter. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | I mean, I think we were all expecting to lose this game. My only disappointment was the crowd. 20,000 Cleveland natives in one arena and not a single thrown beer? Bad form. |
Satellite
12.03.10 | south park just isn't funny anymore. |
Awesomesauce
12.03.10 | "south park just isn't funny anymore."
Wrong. There were some great episodes this season. Crippled Summer, Medicinal Fried Chicken, It's a Jersey Thing, etc. Gold. |
Satellite
12.03.10 | the laugh-out-loud moments have been few and far between imo, especially compared to 5-10 years ago. |
Defeater
12.03.10 | I don't watch South Park anymore, but
"Medicinal Fried Chicken"
sounds like a lolocaust. YES I'M RACIST!!! |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | fEELS GOOD MAN |
AggravatedYeti
12.03.10 | I dunno Its A Jersey Thing was pretty amazing.
also sorry Cleveland : (
we'll take him out for you in the playoffs. |
conradtao
12.03.10 | "south park just isn't funny anymore."
shit i forgot that it was still on! i used to watch it religiously.. what season are they on again? season 13? 14? |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | CTHULHU EPISODES > SATELLITE |
Hawks
12.03.10 | Creme Fraiche might have been the funniest South Park I've ever seen. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | CTHULHU KILLING BEIBER TALIBAN DRIVING PLANES INTO GUIDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Awesomesauce
12.03.10 | Really Satt? I dunno man, I was watching some season 6 episodes last night and I didn't think they were as good as I remembered. Especially compared to the newer episodes. The Coon and Friends trilogy is pretty funny too.
Also, suck the bags Cleveland. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | "also sorry Cleveland : ("
No worries! Peyton Hillis will run over the Dolphins on Sunday, though whether anyone will care will be the real question. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | lol no they will lose |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | I didn't say they'd win :) |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | then whats your point? |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | I don't really know, tbh. That it's going to suck to be Dolphin linebacker on Sunday? |
Satellite
12.03.10 | 5 months till baseball season, cleveland! the indians are gonna have a good year, right?
RIGHT?! |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | CAMERON WAKE IS BEAST |
Awesomesauce
12.03.10 | Mintberry Fucking Crunch |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | If we play by the rules of Cleveland fans being hopelessly optimistic every year, sure, except Choo wants to go to a competent team and no one here blames him in the slightest. |
Aids
12.03.10 | what was the score? |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | GRADY SHOULD STOP SNAPPING PENIS SHOTS |
Satellite
12.03.10 | choo said he wants to play for the tigers some day. can't say i have a problem with that.
the tribe definitely has a lot of potential with some of the prospects they've received via trade. |
Accipe
12.03.10 | 5 months till baseball season, cleveland! the indians are gonna have a good year, right?
RIGHT?!
ahahahaha |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | I mean, the Indians always trade and farm pretty well. We've brought a lot of the premiere players into the league, we just don't have the money or incentives to keep any of them. That's why people in Cleveland have taken to calling the Tribe a major league AAA team. We give players time to grow so other teams can use them to win championships. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | LIKE mARLINS |
Satellite
12.03.10 | "We give players time to grow so other teams can use them to win championships."
ha, sad but true. just think if they still had lee, sabathia, martinez, peralta, etc. |
Satellite
12.03.10 | "LIKE mARLINS"
seriously the miguel cabrera trade has to be one of the most one-sided deals in recent history. not complaining or anything... |
Satellite
12.03.10 | when i'm drinking i talk about baseball a lot, sry guys. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Gruden isn't happening. |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | Cthulhu was really cool...
Until South Park made an episode with him in it like two pregnancies too late. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | i like sports.
mainly because:
2007: michael vick is public enemy #1, brett favre is G.I. Joe american hero, Lebron James is Caesar himself
2010: michael vick is the feel good story of the year, brett favre is feeling himself on camera, Lebron James is the Brutus of the century. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | We like sports, and we don't care who knows. |
Satellite
12.03.10 | hahaha |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | I don't have enough cable TV to facilitate caring about sports. I do love the occasional epic game though. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | I care about sports but I'm so damn tired of being born, raised, and living in Cleveland. All my parents had to do was choose to settle in almost any other decently large city in the country. |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | Be happy with what you got. You don't have to deal with Lakers fans. There are so many people riding Kobe's dick here you'd be able to stack them to the fucking moon.
FUCK KOBE |
darthbarf
12.03.10 | the heat are great at beating bad teams |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Boners. |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | hell yeah. cleveland's a cesspit full of truly delusional fans with a horribly misplaced sense of entitlement. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Wah, he left the Cavs! We suck again! Oh no, sports is a business. WAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | Gaping vaginas, the lot of them! |
dnor
12.03.10 | Cleveland, the city, sucks, so I'd imagine if any of the "akron hates you too" fans were given the opportunity to play on the same team as D-Wade and Chris Bosh to form an "All-Star Trio", they'd take that ticket out of town as well.
Fuck Cleveland. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | where are you from dnor |
Satellite
12.03.10 | cleveland is a decent city, and from my experiences the people seem pretty cool. i'm guessing dnor's never been there. |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | Not gonna lie, the majority of my experience with cleveland comes from The Drew Carey show.
ANYONE REMEMBER THAT SHIT? |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Drew Carey is annoying. Makes me not want to like Cleveland. |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | when lebron wins his title(s) i hope he buys out every billboard in the city to rub their noses in it.
and it's funny because akron probably hates him the least of all the areas in cavs territory. |
VRtrooper
12.03.10 | when lebron wins his title(s) it will really not mean that much because Kobe will still have existed. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | Cleveland is alright. I've been here my whole life so my perspective is probably different from everyone else, but we definitely get a bad rap from the media, especially ESPN. Cleveland and it's people are probably just like your town and it's people.
"Fuck Cleveland."
I don't even know who you are but fuck you too. You've probably never been here. |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | When (insert basketball player other than Kevin Garnett because he's black as fuck's name here) does (insert accomplishment here), it won't really mean anything because the MJ era Bulls were the shit. |
slep
12.03.10 | Disappointed with how this game turned out... Cleveland just didn't have the talent to pull a win.
But hey, it rules to be a Spurs fan now. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Fucking Spurs, ugh. |
slep
12.03.10 | Mavericks fan? |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | my favorite sign, out of all the nasty ones that I saw last night, was the one that said:
"Cleveland is not terribly fond of Lebron James"
the guy had just written with a marker in like 5 seconds and was sitting there with a blank stare on his face. lol |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | (oh, and Pit, you might want to change that profile pic now) |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | hell yeah. cleveland's a cesspit full of truly delusional fans with a horribly misplaced sense of entitlement. [2]
FUCK KOBE [2] |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | yeah why would anyone think cleveland fans have a sense of entitlement? delusional fans, maybe, but I don't see entitlement at all...
and Kobe's awesome |
BigHans
12.03.10 | That was an ass kicking |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.03.10 | The new Drew Carrey Show theme song:
CLEVELAND SUCKS!
CLEVELAND SUCKS!
CLEVELAND SUCKS!
CLEVELAND SUCKS!
O-hio!(hio-hio-hio) |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | I don't even know what the fuck "entitlement" refers to in the sense of being a sports fan. Can someone explain to me, or is that criticism as empty and meaningless as I suspect it is? |
Kimm
12.03.10 | Hey Pit [2] |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | Cleveland may have been raped, but I'm pretty sure the sex between Delonte West and LeBron's mom was consentual |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | Lebron looks 40. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | especially without his headband |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | he looks like Danny Glover |
BigHans
12.03.10 | he does kind of |
AggravatedYeti
12.03.10 | he has a 5-head. |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | I'd like to suggest a new official nickname for the former "King" James and his self-given "The Chosen One" (god what an arrogant prick)
"el BJ" |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | Joel Anthonys forehead |
dnor
12.03.10 | I have family in Cleveland. I dred visiting them. Also, I am from West Palm Beach, Florida. Yeah, it's better than Cleveland. I'll just leave this here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY |
theacademy
12.03.10 | fuck kobe [5000]
leborn will never be able to do what kobe did, tho [1] |
dnor
12.03.10 | And if that wasn't enough...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM&feature=related |
theacademy
12.03.10 | well i'm from new york, so west palm is basically cleveland to me. |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | isn't west palm where new yorkers go to die? |
theacademy
12.03.10 | yeah it is exactly that. soo hilariously perfect.
"I have family in WEST PALM BEACH. I dred visiting them." |
dnor
12.03.10 | Eh, I'd rather live in a rich area near the beach like I do than a "scooby-doo ghost town inhabited with the most drifters in the US." |
BigHans
12.03.10 | I summer in the Hamptons |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | 'Eh, I'd rather live in a rich area near the beach like I do than a "scooby-doo ghost town inhabited with the most drifters in the US."'
I live about 8 miles from Malibu. No you don't. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | hey man, times is tough in the'Bu y'all. |
dnor
12.03.10 | Maybe someday you can get a bungalow on the water in the south of France like me Hans, who knows, maybe I'll even invite you out for a nice glass of wine this summer so you can get out of the minor leagues known as "The Hamptons". |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | wtb>moar real ppl. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | Yes, I do grow tired of the influx of borderline commoners that have infused themselves into the Hamptons lately. Perhaps I will buy an island in the Bahamas and winter there. |
dnor
12.03.10 | I find you shallow and pedantic Winsom, shallow and pedantic. |
dnor
12.03.10 | Excellent choice Hans!! If you decide to winter near Lucaya in Freeport, do let me know. I have a 160 foot yacht waiting to be lowered into the channel and go out for a nice day on the water. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | Down town West Palm has too many blacks.Otherwise a chill place to longboard. |
dnor
12.03.10 | WOAH BALLS!!!! DTWP is one thing, I live in Gardens. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | yes yes, we shall sip Louie the 13th whiskey and throw away caviar before we finished it just to piss off the help. Bully up Chap. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | Dont know there. West Palm has a badass looking mall which i've been meaning to check out. Actually wanted to see that area and how it compares to Pembroke Pines as well as the clusterfuck known as Ft Lauderdale. |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | FLORIDA IS FOR OLD PEOPLE AND HURRICANES
But seriously, isn't it ever terrifying to think that your house could be buttfucked by mother nature at any given time? Or has money developed a solution to that, too? |
dnor
12.03.10 | Gardens is a nice little sub-sect of West Palm. Lower crime rate (if ya catch my meaning). Also, are you talking about Gardens Mall, it's the "Big Mall" in West Palm.
http://www.thegardensmall.com/
Also, @Hans
Sounds like the perfect afternoon. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | Most likely. Pretty sure it's by the Sweet Tomatoes or the best buy which i've been too. |
Counterfeit
12.03.10 | guys, i need a team to follow since the t-wolves suck ass. who's the ones that'll make me look good? lulz |
dnor
12.03.10 | @Winsomniac - Idk if you remember the year two cat-3+ hurricanes barreled into Florida within like a month a few years back, but both of them pretty much went RIGHT over my house. Lost shingles and knew people who had extensive damage, but terrifying? No...And we do have a solution, housing laws are EXTREMELY in-depth here to prevent hurricane damage. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | SAN ANTONIO IS A GOOD TEAM TO BANDWAGON WITH. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | na feit, now is a great time to buy in on the thunder.
the spurs have been good forever |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | I just meant dealing with rain falling from the sky n shit.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! |
dnor
12.03.10 | Cuz Cali isn't known for a specific Natural disaster or anything...wait, what's that thing called when the earth literally shakes out of control and opens up into endless chasms?
oh yeah....Earthquakes. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | Any beaches or any large number of hot hipster chicks in Palm? |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | no don't "buy in on the thunder" dude, that's not going to make you look good at all. every media member has been riding their dick since last season, and they haven't really lived up to it yet, so either you'll be proven wrong, or you'll just be the 10,000th person to jump on that bandwagon this week.
if you want a team that a lot of people are doubting, but will probably make a push to the conference finals -- look no further than YOUR CHICAGO BULLS!!!
otherwise I'd say jump on the Magic, as soon as they turn some of their depth into another star-quality player (Chris Paul, Gilbert Arenas, Monta Ellis are the most likely candidates in my opinion) they're going to be even more dangerous than they are now. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | "y media member has been riding their dick since last season"
yea but they drafted cole aldrich since then. |
dnor
12.03.10 | Yes Balls. Yes. Alot. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | (i've been repping the thunder in the west since the sonics drafted nick collison) |
Counterfeit
12.03.10 | imma just jump on every bandwagon. |
BallsToTheWall
12.03.10 | ZING!!!!!!! Need to take a trip up there, where would you recommend for visiting? |
theacademy
12.03.10 | put your willy in the mufflaz |
BigHans
12.03.10 | Feit, figure out which player you love the most and back his team, simple. |
dnor
12.03.10 | Well, the mall has always been a great place, and you've been meaning to go there anyways, you'll see some fine girls there. Also City Place is a popular hangout spot for alot of those girls. I moved out of gardens last year, up to Jensen Beach (About 45 minutes north) for College. Check those spots first tho. |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | fair enough, acad, fair enough. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | Fuck Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins. My upstart North Dakota State University Bison made it to the DANCE in 2009 but drew the Rock Chalk fags first round and got beat pretty bad. |
Winsomniac
12.03.10 | Lol, my college made it to the dance in '09. |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | fuck Cole Aldrich's toothless ass |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | although my NIU Huskies are pretty terrible at bball -- our football team is KILLING it right now! top 25 for the first time since we had Garrett Wolfe!
although nothing will touch the Turner the Burner year (my freshman year) |
theacademy
12.03.10 | "My upstart North Dakota State University Bison"
this was awesome. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | my Cornell Big Red came within A MINUTE of beating the jayhawks last season... |
theacademy
12.03.10 | A MINUTE! |
theacademy
12.03.10 | http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D2DO9ibMP0U/S0VaAY0MJ7I/AAAAAAAAAo8/Nh0PTJDgr7o/s1600/yeaaaaaa.JPG |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | hey acad, were you in "Here Comes Treble" with Andrew Bernard while at Cornell? |
BigHans
12.03.10 | fuckin Jayhawks. On a side note, the North Dakota State University Bison Football team beat their asses this year. Thats right, D-1AA Represent! |
theacademy
12.03.10 | lol @ the acapella groups... they're like cults
i actually don't know for sure that that was a real group tho |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | MAC Championship tonight suckas! watch out for them Huskies!
man that loss to Illinois is even more heartbreaking now. If we'd have won that game we'd probably be ranked between 15 and 20 right now. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | oh yeah, the Bison have beaten Ball State and Central Michigan too. BOOM |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | hey we beat Central Michigan 33-7
and Eastern Michigan 71-3 lol |
BigHans
12.03.10 | yeah but the Bison are D 1-AA. Theyve beaten the Gophers too, not that thats saying much. Sorry, I am grasping at straws because they have to play at Montana State this Saturday in the playoffs in Bozeman and are going to get slaughtered. |
SeaAnemone
12.03.10 | I'm actually really good friends with most of the players on my school's b-ball team... which looks really odd to some people, seeing skinny white guys like me co-mingling with 5 6'4'' black guys with prominent tattoos... and they're actually pretty good this year. Loyola made it to the Big Dance a few years ago and it could easily happen this year. We upset Indiana last year, even. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | sea youre gonna make the fantasy football playoffs and i'm not |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | "Eh, I'd rather live in a rich area near the beach like I do than a 'scooby-doo ghost town inhabited with the most drifters in the US.'"
"Gardens is a nice little sub-sect of West Palm. Lower crime rate (if ya catch my meaning). Also, are you talking about Gardens Mall, it's the "Big Mall" in West Palm."
You have no idea how pampered and sheltered this makes you sound. My city is better because we're wealthier and... I don't know what else you're alluding to with the crime comment, that there's less black people? Holy fuck you sound ignorant.
|
theacademy
12.03.10 | yeah i think he missed the point of how every american city (other than new york) is somebody else's cleveland. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | Fargo, ND > New York |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Chuck Klosterman is from Fargo. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | He is. I read that book. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | indeed he is, hence why I worship him. Actually he's from a town of about 400 people about 20 minutes outside of Fargo. |
dnor
12.03.10 | You have no idea how pampered and sheltered this makes you sound. My city is better because we're wealthier and... I don't know what else you're alluding to with the crime comment, that there's less black people? Holy fuck you sound ignorant.
lol |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Whatever.
I have that book, but got bored by it. I have 3 others of his too, only one of which I've ever read. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | Fargo Rock city is not boring, take that back!
But seriously, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live rule hard. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | holy shit, that place is real?!
i just assumed everything west of ohio is california |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | "But seriously, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live rule hard"
I have those, but the only one I've read is Chuck IV. I got all of those around the same time. But then I got into history and other real shit, so I just never read them. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | well if its any consolation Klosterman is now the personification of a hipster and living in NYC |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | i just assumed everything west of ohio is california
^it is, don't believe the lies academy |
BigHans
12.03.10 | Chuck IV doesnt hold a candle to any of those other 3 books. |
theacademy
12.03.10 | whew i got nervous 4 a sec |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | "Chuck IV doesnt hold a candle to any of those other 3 books"
I've heard, but I just don't have interest in reading them anymore. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.03.10 | Wow, this certainly blew up.
"Gruden isn't happening."
Can't deny me my dreams, boy!
|
BigHans
12.03.10 | I've heard, but I just don't have interest in reading them anymore.
^ Read them now or die |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | he will trek his ass down to the greater Houston area and literally murder you |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | I'd rather read Michael Shermer and Bertrand Russell and Sam Harris right now.
Gruden won't happen, and that's an order. |
BigHans
12.03.10 | with a trident |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | "lol"
Not surprised that you can't legitimately defend yourself. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | "he will trek his ass down to the greater Houston area and literally murder you
Come on wit it, 5th ward bitch, ride or die. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.03.10 | "Gruden won't happen, and that's an order."
If the contract Gruden wants is either impossible to fulfill or sexual in nature, I will gladly take care of the latter. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.03.10 | Where's Cavs, btw? This list was meant specifically for him, considering he told me Cleveland would rape the Heat about 3 weeks ago. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | Well that was dumb. Our team, let's face it, sucks, and I'm not betting on us to beat anyone that's halfway decent. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | He's hiding in a corner of a dark room. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.03.10 | More like cowering, and trying to scrub the "filth" off his skin. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | foreskin* |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | lol |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | "I don't even know what the fuck "entitlement" refers to in the sense of being a sports fan. Can someone explain to me, or is that criticism as empty and meaningless as I suspect it is?"
Seriously? All those Cleveland retards holding up 'quitness' and 'selfish' signs and chanting crap like ass-hole and scottie pippen (???) doesn't scream false sense of entitlement to you? To actually define it in this sense, it's your typical sports fan who feels that they DESERVE a good team to follow, or they DESERVE certain players and think they're selfish or whatever for leaving in free agency. Or if the front office passes on the big trade, they'll slam them for not being committed enough or some crap. They're usually either pink hats or just not very knowledgeable (thereby taking up a very large portion of whatever fanbase they are poisoning). |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | I played D&D too! |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | oh... didn't realize the thread was no longer about cleveland.
proceed. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Time to make the doughnuts.
And now, it's time to die. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | Well, I'd really encourage everyone who gives a shit to read this article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=101201/Cleveland
It's pretty long, but like I said, if you care at all about this topic, it's a pretty interesting read and definitely gives a lot of perspective on the LeBron/Cleveland situation that I think most of the country is lacking.
It's a very good article at explaining the Cleveland mindset. What I like about the article is that it never shies away from portraying Cleveland as it actually is, which is to say, it's a place inhabited by fans who are certainly not perfect. It's about LeBron, sure, but it's about a lot more than that, and it will probably shed some light on the anger surrounding LeBron and his decision.
Anyways, if you have 20 minutes, read it. I'd really like to know what everyone thinks. |
Oceans
12.03.10 | Basketball LOL |
BigHans
12.03.10 | Read that article yesterday Pizza, I feel for Cleveland. |
Josh D.
12.03.10 | Yeah, basketball is my least favorite major sport.
That doesn't include soccer because it is worthless in my country. |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | so that article hasn't taught me anything new so far, just reinforced that the majority of cleveland fans are fluff-loving prima donnas who take sports way way way too seriously.
i'll keep going though, reluctantly since i doubt this is going anywhere. |
Inveigh
12.03.10 | so you don't think paying customers deserve a good product?
"My number one goal is to bring a championship to the city of Cleveland, and I won't stop until that's accomplished."
direct quote from LeBron. you don't think he deserves to be called a quitter? |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | they pay to go watch the game (likely with a worse view and less comfortable environment than if they watched it at home on TV). if the product isn't good, don't pay for it. if you payed for season tickets and got burned, well, there's your lesson. the box office thanks you for your idiocy. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | I think the guy who calls Cleveland a cesspool over the behavior of their fans is the one who's taking sports too seriously, but that's just me. |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | as a fan, you don't have a RIGHT to have a good team to waste money on. stop acting it's your birthright to see your team make the playoffs, and saying that they're tanking otherwise and should all give back their paychecks. |
Jesuslaves
12.03.10 | i work with i'm given. if people are truly that devastated and outraged about a fucking basketball player leaving, they have many, many more issues that need their immediate attention and energy. |
FreePizzaDay
12.03.10 | If you're going to play this "it shouldn't be a big deal" card just because it's basketball then lead by example and shut the fuck up. All your immediate attention and energy is going to it too. |
Jesuslaves
12.04.10 | ^you're pretty fucking stupid. there is no 'lead by example' idea in play here. cleveland fans are dumb, clingy little cunts who can't handle a sports player leaving town. i find amusement out of this, not outrage or devastation. hardly the most important in my life right now. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.04.10 | To be honest, though, Cleveland has had it's share of letdowns and traitors. I mean, there's the Drive, the Fumble, the Shot, and the Hit. Then there's Art Modell and Lebron James. If Lebron or Art Modell was the only person that left, I'd feel for them, but both of them left, and it gives me the feeling that Cleveland fans and their city aren't all that great. |
FreePizzaDay
12.05.10 | "hardly the most important in my life right now."
The same is true for everyone in Cleveland. Do you think life stopped here because LeBron left? People are upset, but this really doesn't occupy much of anyone's time around here, trust me. It's hardly worth trashing the city over nuances like their sports teams and fan's behavior, and if you disagree, then you take sports way more seriously than anyone in Cleveland.
We're not the only city who does this. I remember a ton of of this shit occurring when Johnny Damon and Manny leaving Boston, and when Nick Saban left Miami, Favre going to the Vikings. Houston felt pretty shitty when the Oilers were moved. And these are just the betrayals with strong fan reactions I can think of off the top of my head. There's a lot more I'm sure.
Don't buy into the bullshit. It wasn't LeBron leaving that makes the current reaction so strong, it's the fact that he did it an exceptionally tasteless way, and in front of the whole country, and because he's a media magnet when he's not doing anything drastic. Most city's fans would react in a similar fashion. People in all places get attached to their players and teams, there's not something dumped into Lake Erie that makes us special. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.06.10 | Dude, 90% of the analysts and commentators believe Cleveland over-reacted, and that the reaction would have been the same even if he did it the way he should have. |
Inveigh
12.06.10 | I can only imagine what Boston would have been like if Larry Bird had done the same thing LeBron did back in 1987 or something
I don't think it's right for any fan to say horrible things about a player's family or that he should die or something ridiculous like that, but it's perfectly fine to boo the shit out of him and make a reaction commercial to his incredibly moronic and egotistical "what should I do" commercial. |
musicConsumer
12.06.10 | They definitely over-reacted. Dragging your lebron James jerseys from your car or burning them in protest only makes you look like a douche |
Inveigh
12.06.10 | yeah don't burn em donate that shit to Goodwill or something, maybe to kids in Africa |
FreePizzaDay
12.06.10 | "the reaction would have been the same even if he did it the way he should have."
When did Nostradamus get a job at ESPN? |
feav233
12.06.10 | I liked how they still cheered for Z in that game |
FreePizzaDay
12.06.10 | Sorry, that's kind of an asshole way for me to respond. My point is that that type of thing is pretty unknowable. Speaking for myself, I would be disappointed, definitely. Losing LeBron pretty much guaranteed our quest for a championship was going to be set back, and that's definitely a bummer. I might have some hostility against LeBron, as he promises were made and I'm generally pretty turned off to the idea of players ganging up and forming super-teams, but I wouldn't burn a jersey over it and I feel like that would be a pretty level-headed reaction. I feel like most of the population would fall into this range. There are always going to be those fierce, irrational douches who will light jerseys on fire, but they are few and far between and (unfortunately) will end up getting the most press coverage.
That being said, if we bring statistics into this, a recent poll on ESPN.com said around 60% of the people polled disliked Lebron, 30% liked him, and the rest had no strong opinions. What this indicates to me is that people all over the country generally found LeBron to be pretty classless in his move. One could argue Cleveland is overreacting, but it wasn't their city that was slighted by The Decision. You can't expect to be as emotionally distraught about your friend getting dumped as he is because you're not in his shoes. You may feel bad for him or you may think he's being melodramatic, but in the end, it doesn't matter what you think because he's the one suffering the brunt of it.
But if you hate Cleveland you hate Cleveland. What else can I say other than at least you don't have to worry about Cleveland beating your team in a championship game.
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SlowBoristheBlade
12.07.10 | "Cleveland beating your team in a championship game."
At any sport.
Don't you love it? South Florida is responsible for two of Cleveland's biggest letdowns:
The Hit(Thank you Edgar Renteria)
The Rape(MI-A-MI LOVES YOU!!! *CLAP-CLAP-CLAPCLAPClAP*) |
FreePizzaDay
12.07.10 | I wouldn't count the latter as one of our bigger letdowns because I'm pretty sure anyone who knows jack shit about basketball could have told you we were going to lose. I would say our loss to the Magic was more of a letdown, but I don't know what's technically considered South Florida.
In my lifetime, Boston has let us down twice, once last year in the NBA and once back in I thin '07 in baseball when they came back from being down 3-1 in the ALCS. Once from Atlanta back in 1995, once from the Spurs and Magic, once by Art Modell, and and once by the Bulls, with a nod to the Broncos for disappointing us in both AFC Championships preceding my birth. Smaller letdowns can be traced to pretty much every city in the country, though, so it's not exactly an uncommon thing to have contributed to Cleveland's disappointment.
All I can say is that we (as Cleveland is as much Buckeye country as Columbus is) were able to get some measure of revenge on Florida during that double overtime game between OSU and Miami at the Fiesta Bowl. That was a pretty big deal around here for a while. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.08.10 | I'm talking about the Rape of Cleveland by the steal of the city's favorite son(despite the fact that he's from AKRON), not the game itself. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.08.10 | "All I can say is that we (as Cleveland is as much Buckeye country as Columbus is) were able to get some measure of revenge on Florida during that double overtime game between OSU and Miami at the Fiesta Bowl. That was a pretty big deal around here for a while."
Yeah, too bad OSU didn't win that game themselves. They had to have help from the officials. |
Jesuslaves
12.08.10 | "I can only imagine what Boston would have been like if Larry Bird had done the same thing LeBron did back in 1987 or something"
frightening, because boston as a whole is not only one of the top 3 most retarded fanbases in the country, but they're as obsessed with sports industry fluff (loyalty, guts, heart, tradition) as anyone. |
FreePizzaDay
12.08.10 | "Yeah, too bad OSU didn't win that game themselves. They had to have help from the officials."
If you're referring to the pass intereference call in the first overtime, that call has been validated as being the correct call. It was just odd because the official took so long to throw the flag. |
SlowBoristheBlade
12.09.10 | "If you're referring to the pass intereference call in the first overtime, that call has been validated as being the correct call. It was just odd because the official took so long to throw the flag."
No, it was odd because it's one of the worst calls I've ever seen. Herbstreit, Fowler, May, and Holtz, as well as Sporting News writers and Peter King, all agree. |
ShadowRemains
12.09.10 | "My only disappointment was the crowd. 20,000 Cleveland natives in one arena and not a single thrown beer?"
i think that kind of shit all changed after this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-UCwYfXqak |
FreePizzaDay
12.09.10 | "No, it was odd because it's one of the worst calls I've ever seen. Herbstreit, Fowler, May, and Holtz, as well as Sporting News writers and Peter King, all agree."
CBS' Dennis Dodd and several other noteworthy sources agree that it was the correct call, including a validation by the National Association of Sports Officials.
http://www.naso.org/PressReleases/st104.htm
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