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Are there words to describe how the Cavs played tonight?

STUNK IT OUT

is the only thing I can come up with.

As I have posted all year on this blog, Larry Hughes is such a hot and cold player that he hurts more than helps. However, when he misses 5 shots and keeps firing, I blame the coach for leaving him in or telling him to stop taking 28 foot jump shots. His game is slash and cut, not 3 point shooting.

The Cavs played the last 2 games with no purpose, and they have reverted to the "We have LeBron so we will win" mentality. The last two games this team has been James and 4 guys named Joe. Those first two wins were examples of 5 players playing as one. These last 3, even the game 3 win, were the exact opposite. Too much one on one, no sense of purpose on the glass...

Cavs are done. New Jersey will win the series.

It's working already and it's 5 days from the big day!! Gas is DOWN to $3.03 in my area.

See, just the mere threat of a handful of people not buying gas on the 15th and you have personally forced them to lower prices!!!

I am assuming you know sarcasm when you see it?

LOL!!!

I am behind this 100%. Just today I saw prices as high as $3.29 reported. That is far too high.

Of course, I am speaking of the ridiculous price of bratuwrst these days!! How dare t hese butchers hold us for ransom this way. Knowing full well that it's coming up on summer barbecue season, you just KNEW they would raise the price of bratwurst this way!

So I propose that on May 15th, nobody buy any bratwurst. All that bratwurst just sitting in the store's meat case will show those butchers that we are FED UP and won't eat their crap any longer!!! It's time these high prices are mustered out of here. We need to kick them right in the buns!

 

See how ridiculous it sounds to think not buying any product for one day will make a difference? Those of you who claim that in 1997 when this chain letter made the rounds it resulted in a 30 cent drop in price are mistaken. I don't care enough to go back in my blog archives to find it, but gas th enext day was the same price as the "boycott" day.

And think of it like this. If 10 cars are driving down the street, maybe 4 of them will need gas any time soon, so those projected figures about how much the oil comapnies will "lose" are ridiculous. Every one of you who buys into this nonsense will have to buy gas the next day, possibly after another increase.

They have us, people. You have no control. Admit it and move on with your life rather than posting this silly rumor 25 times on this blog. At the very least, out of courtesy, read and see how many times this has been posted before you break your "big news". I know this kind of internet hoax is new to some of you, but for most of us, we have enough internet experience to remember how many times this has made the rounds.

Have you gotten the mail announcing that you have won the big UK Lottery? Despite the fact that you never entered?

PT Barnum was right .... one every minute.

Would the football "expert" who chastised me for being honest about Troy Smith about a month ago when I said he may not even get drafted please drop me a note and apologize?

174th player taken, in the 5th round.

Said "expert" told me Smith would be a top 10 pick and be a star QB.

He was the right guy for THAT college team. He is NOT an NFL quarterback, and apparently most of the league agrees with me or they would not have taken 173 players ahead of him.

Nice guy, success story, po' boy from the ghetto, yada yada yada.....

Not an NFL quarterback.

Typing as the Browns are on the clock.

TAKE HIM!!!

Frye is NOt the guy.

I am sitting here watching the game, and up to this point Eddie Jordan is outcoaching Mike Brown so badly it's embarassing. With almost 50 points of offense on the Wizard's bench due to injuries, the Cavs should be running this team into the lake.

Again the soft mentality of this team shows. To this point I have counted 5 times that a Wizard's player was allowed to drive to the basket for a layup (3 times for 3 point plays) and no Cav has stepped in to challenge. Daniels made one with 10:30 left in the 4th quarter afte a steal, and Varajeo, Hughes and Z all stepped back and let him drive. This is the playoffs. That guy has to be at least tied up and thrown to the floor if necessary, as the Wizards just did to Hughes with 8:41 remaining.

This is the playoffs. NO LAYUPS.

This team would be something special with a center who can run and a coach that has a clue.

With all due respect to Jackie Robinson and what society has perceived as his huge accomplishment, isn't his entry into professional baseball more of a tribute to Branch Rickey , the man who offered Jackie Robinson a contract? Had Rickey not offered the job to Jackie Robinson, there would have been nothing to celebrate. At least not that particular event. Somebody would have done it. The Dodgers were just the first to take a chance signing a minority athlete. The Negro Leagues were filled with talented players.

And what is the reason there is no celebration for the first Mexican to play pro baseball? The first Puerto Rican? The first Panamanian, Venezuelan, etc.....?

I am waiting for the day everybody wears Ty Cobb's number, possibly THE most hated man to ever play the game.

I am going to say something that will be very unpopular with the blindly devoted sports crowd in the area, but at some point it should be said. I live in Akron, and after 4 years of seeing LeBron James being canonized by the media and the fans, enough is enough.

LeBron James is the worst that ever happened to the kids in this city. His decision to forego college and take the quick money, something far too many inner city kids do, is sending a terrible message to the kids in the school system. Sure, he goes and does community reading days for the kids (only in the inner city schools, which I find completely racist), but he can barely read, so the day is little more than little kids hanging out with their hero. Because so many of them don’t even know their father, this is a huge thing for them. I laud his efforts. I even laud his motives. However, unless those kids are going to grow to be 6’8” tall, weigh 245 perfectly sculpted pounds, and have the benefit of a family like the Walkers to take them in when their own single mother can no longer care for them, they will not get the quick millions like LeBron James did, and their future will be as bleak as LeBron’s would have been had there been no such thing as the NBA.

What exactly would this man be doing for a living if there were no NBA? He has not exactly demonstrated a lot of gray matter to this point. He has fired his qualified advisors to give his neighborhood kid friends high salary jobs as “advisors”. (Tell me honestly, what kind of advice can Maverick Carter give him? He’s another kid from the inner city who got through high school as a basketball major.) LeBron took remedial classes for 4 years at St V, and got by only because no teacher wanted to be “the one” who kept LeBron James from staying eligible.

Kids all over the city are now looking at life with an attitude of “I don’t need to go to no college. Look at ‘Bron. He didn’t go to no college and he’s RICH!” Well, “’Bron” has physical gifts that come along once in a generation. The rest of you don’t. It distresses me that he is perpetuating the stereotypical inner city life style fathering child after child without that troublesome formality known as marriage. Is that the correct example to set for these kids who idolize him, or would the responsible route of marrying their mother seem to be appropriate? There is more to supporting children than a weekly check.

Whether he wants to be a role model or not (due respect to Charles Barkley, who articulated that very thought years ago), he is. And he needs to set the RIGHT example. Professional sports are NOT in every kid’s future. The odds are millions to one against it. They need to read and study, and get whatever they can from their developmental years, and drooling over LeBron’s new house isn’t going to do it.