Clevelander17

At this point in his career, James is basically the coach. I'm not saying that to make him sound more important than he is, nor am I implying that this is a bad thing. But strategically, motivationally, etc., he's running the show and it's the teammates that matter most to him. He'd have a problem with a coach that would try to change that. Blatt is not that type of coach.

I don't care what anybody says, I will never be able to "enjoy the ride" as long as I'm still waiting for a championship. And I will never be able to look forward to "next year" knowing that there are literally thousands of variables that go into determining what that future outcome may look like. We were knocking on the door of a title, we lost, and it hurts. That's all I've got right now and I take no solace in anything else.

Fareed Zakaria of CNN ran a segment this past Sunday about the impact of "fracking". Industry experts said it's becoming much safer for the environment and the economic affects of the job creation and cheap energy are really measurable. Every single home owner is seeing an average of $800/yr savings on lower priced gas for heating and job creation for this is dramatic. Add to that how much leverage it's giving the US as we've now become the #1 oil/gas producer in the world, ahead of Russia & Saudi Arabia. The environmental concerns are legitimate but they are being addressed as the process evolves and the restrictions to protect the environment aren't affecting the cost of extraction. Which is a good thing. Right and I have heard that sales pitch from all of the advertising that the Natural Gas industry does. That said, there's still no reason why severance taxes can't be increased to levels similar to what other states have. Heck, even Texas has higher rates than we do. If there's any wonder why they've got no income tax, it's in part because they appropriately tax their natural resources. Environmental risks aside, which I think will take years to fully appreciate, we're not getting as much out of this deal as we should be. That's to say nothing of the fact still that the best-paying jobs for these operations are located out of state. These are our resources, we can do better.

Unfortunately no increase in drilling taxes in the latest Ohio budget. I think that one day we'll regret allowing our land to be pillaged and to get so little in return, particularly considering the potential costs. All of the highest-paying and corporate headquarters remain out-of-state. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/06/16/severance-tax.html

Sagamore Hills has a population of nearly 10,000 and Northfield Center comes close to 5,000. The cap on village population is 5,000, so they hardly qualify as tiny. The city of Macedonia, by comparison, has just over 11,000. I don't see the state government actually getting rid of them anytime soon, particularly with the GOP in charge. Too much clout, and the opposition would be intense. I didn't say anything about the state government getting rid of them. :shrug: Though I do think that Kasich has an unstated goal of forcing more and more communities of all types to either consider sharing services or even outright merging, though the latter is years down the line and would happen well after Johnny is gone.

I don't want him seriously injured, but I would've loved for someone to give him a hard foul in one of the earlier games. Kind of like some of what James has had to deal with all postseason.

Couldn't agree more. People tell me that you can't pin the game (or series) on the refs... But I tend to disagree. The calls that are being made affect the flow of the game in ways that allow for one team to have more momentum than the other. Pretty upsetting. I was absolutely SHOCKED that Lebron was not getting any calls going to the rim last night, especially in the 4th. The conspiracy theorist in me believes everyone wanted GSW to win that game to set up whats coming next (one can always hope). I mean he was pushed, hacked, molested every time he entered the paint. On the other end, often a Warrior went to the hoop and tossed up garbage and was bailed out. Yes I'm biased, but I know that even at one point Van Gundy (of all people) mentioned that James got nothing called in his favor. And maybe I don't understand what an illegal screen actually looks like, but it appears that Golden State is moving just about every time they set a screen. I know they must be frustrated and that was part of why I think J.R. Smith destroyed Igudoala on a screen (and got a flagrant foul) in the first half of last night's game.

I really want to get into these last few games and feel like this team has a chance, but the officiating was so bad last night that it's almost too frustrating to watch anymore. I'd rather have them be blown out than to be so close that a few bad calls (almost all going the way of Golden State) end up costing them a shot at the game and the series. I'm beginning to remember why I hated the NBA so much a few years back.

Check the schedule again. Game 7 would actually be Friday, oddly enough.

I think when we're talking about townships, particularly those as tiny as the ones in question in northwest Summit County, it's not the same as well-established municipalities in Cuyahoga County. Part of this discussion cuts to the core of what role local government should have.

Interesting that the "liberal" suburbs rejected it while Northfield Center and Sagamore Hills (where "Agenda 21" and even "density" are cuss words) have done it for years. You might make more progress focusing on governmental efficiency and going easy on "regionalism" references. If anything, the concern was regarding efficiency coming at the expense of service. The unions weren't happy with the plan, either. Cleveland Heights wanted in, but they were never asked to participate. As liberal as you may think that SH and UH are, I'm not sure that regionalism for the sake of it is a big sell around here.

Shaker Heights and University Heights had some momentum towards merging fire departments, but I haven't heard much about it recently and I think that there was enough pushback that it fell through.

I agree, tomorrow is still unbelievably important. Before game 3, I kept hearing that in previous Finals where the series was tied 1-1, the winner of game 3 went on to win 31 out of 37 times. I haven't been able to look it up, but my suspicion is that most of the 6 times where it didn't happen, the team that lost game 3 was the team that had home court advantage.

While that's true, there are a lot of taxes that aren't being collected or reported that the government isn't trying as hard to actively get their hands on. Kasich even mentioned during the announcement that this revenue would go towards potentially lowering other taxes. I read that as meaning increasing the income tax. Seems this move makes our system overall more regressive.

I almost started my own thread on the story (which I had read elsewhere) but decided to see if there was any prior discussion. I'm fairly certain that it's actually a Federal law...or the interpretation of a Supreme Court case from a few years back. An argument can probably be made that this doesn't really benefit local mom and pops all that much because they were mostly never competing with Amazon on price to begin with. Larger retailers like Walmart and Target are the ones for whom this is leveling the playing field. In terms of PR, I think this would have gone over a bit better if they two things were announced separately spread out over time. I think to many Ohioans not living in Central Ohio, it's going to leave a sour taste in their mouths. And yes, this is tax that should have been paid anyways.

So what exactly do they want? A bunch of Starbucks drive-throughs and Whole Foods stores? This is the point, the type of businesses that are affordable for and appealing to the people already living in the area seem to be the ones that the OC leaders are looking to box out.

California sports teams and their names are all messed up. Here are a few more examples: UCLA plays its home football games in Pasadena. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim play in Anaheim. (This one might be the dumbest of all.) The San Francisco 49ers are soon going to play in Santa Clara. The San Jose Earthquakes have played in Santa Clara and Oakland. The Los Angeles Galaxy have played in Carson, Fullerton, and Pasadena. That said, the Cleveland Cavaliers once played in what is arguably an Akron suburb. I do vaguely remember hearing stories that there was talk of changing the name to the "Ohio Cavaliers" and playing games around the state.

This is great news: Columbus gets new jobs, the rest of us Ohioans get a tax increase!

Regardless of the specifics, for those living in these neighborhoods or nearby, the implication should be clear: This project is not really for you and never was meant to be. Which is pretty much what most of us opposing this glorified highway have been saying for some time now.

Maybe I just need to expand my thinking, but there seem to be some serious racial implications with that statement. The communities through which this highway is carving a path are the communities in which those types of retailers tend to be predominantly located.

Probably none, right? Because to do so would be absolutely foolish. However, since we have four separate municipalities chasing scarce retail tax revenue, we end up with a duplication of stupidity.

I'm not so sure about that. If Kyrie is anywhere close to full-go, our offense is anything but limited. I think the team has actually proven to be quite versatile on that end of the floor. We can score inside, we can score outside, we can score in transition, we can create our own shots, we can swing the ball. Keep in mind that LeBron has not been at his best from an efficiency standpoint and Kyrie has not been Kyrie, yet we have cruised to the Finals. Our defense has been solid, but our offense is not getting the credit it deserves. Two things I perceive everyone is overlooking in a Cavs-Warriors series are (1) how good the Cavs offense is and (2) how good the Warriors defense is. I'm starting to talk myself into thinking that they have a shot despite all of the injuries. I've been very impressed by the Cavs' outside shooters and by the way the Cavs have dominated the offensive boards. I looked at each team's PER yesterday, and while you have to take that stat with a grain of salt, I think that player-for-player the Cavs match up pretty well with them. Golden State is about 6 or 7 deep with solid talent, but the Cavs are as well.

Yep, that's "my" song. I guess they've had a lot of songs in their history, but this is the one I remember being played at Richfield Coliseum before my first ever games. I think it's great being sung by Michael Stanley and all, but I'm biased.

You're right that there is a difference between theoretical (coin-flipping) and experimental (shooting percentages) probability. However you're wrong if you believe that in either case subsequent outcomes must "even out" at any point based on previous events. This is about regressing towards the mean over a truly large sample size, it's about approaching the expected probability, not about hitting it exactly. Even with coin-flipping where we definitively know what to expect, if you flipped a coin 1000 times and got heads 550 times, you can't expect to get less heads (like around 450) if you flipped it another 1000 times. You'd expect to get about 500 heads. And if you flipped it another 1000 times, and another, and another, you'd expect to get about 500 for each set of 1000 flips. And as you add these up as the sample size gets larger and larger, your overall experimental probability will approach 50-50 (though obviously not hitting it exactly), despite that initial set being so unexpectedly out-of-whack, and despite not necessarily having any set that favors tails in the exact extreme the other way. The same goes for basketball players and shooting percentages. If James Jones is a 40% shooter based on prior history, he could have 10 (unlikely) games in a row where he shot 0-for-5, followed by 154 games of shooting nothing but 2-for-5, and his overall shooting percentage is still approaching his expected shooting percentage without having any games where things "even out" for him in the other extreme. This is called the law of large numbers. I've seen better visuals than this, but it will do. I hope it works: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Lawoflargenumbersanimation2.gif

True, but Houston fans have titles. Atlanta fans have titles. Chicago fans have titles. We don't. From my point of view this postseason is a pointless exercise unless the Cavs win a title, which they're not going to do because they're going to run into a juggernaut in the next round. I don't really remember much about the 2007 run because it ended up in a Finals loss. I won't remember much about LeBron's heroics, or Delly's gamesmanship, or Tristan's grit from this year unless this ends in a title.