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Court costs are paid along with every ticket. I know that for a fact (speeding tickets are usually in the range of $30-$50 and the rest is court costs). The question is whether those court costs cover a trial or not.

ccars, everything you said sounds correct to me except the court costs. I thought the court costs you paid along with your ticket covered a trial (whether you take the case to trial or not)?

The original does look like that. The Akron Welcomes You sign is on a different post. The screws you can see are just holding the white sign onto the green backing. Here is a link showing the sign: http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/?p=30883 It actually looks as if they removed the Home of Lebron James sign.

I'm sure I should know this, but what is the huge U-shaped white building in the last shot?

Will Lebron be taking his Crab Dribble to South Beach?

I dont know where I got that! Where do you get any of your pictures is the real question. I'm guessing you gave it that name because the first time you found the pic you were using it to poke fun at McCleveland.

That pic has a filename of MayorMcCleveland.jpg? :)

I like the Bellflower, Juniper area (except for those horrendous 60s dorms). It feels like an extension of the north campus of CWRU, and in many ways is. A lot of those buildings are used by the university or for businesses (L'Albatros, Arabica, frathouses, alumni house, etc.). It has a little bit of a quad feel by not being really high-density and having older historic structures.

So we "rebuild downtown" so people like Lebron want to play here? No thanks.

Not completely, but you can't say those three ended up in Miami because Cleveland sucks any more than you can say they went to Miami because Chicago sucks or New York sucks. They ended up in Miami because D-Wade was staying put, all three of them wanted to play together, and Miami was the only place that could happen. I guarantee you that if the Grizzlies were the only team where all three had the option of teaming up Lebron would have been announcing his departure for Memphis last night. By the way, Shaq wanted to play here, so it's not like nobody would come here.

Easy come, easy go for King James http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AgiDRsCdAFLaMW4O67sXauA5nYcB?slug=aw-lebrondecision070910

I was being sarcastic. I was saying that it's ridiculous to say (as mrnyc did) we need to rebuild our downtown because Chris Bosh and Lebron James didn't end up playing here.

And he took a pay cut to leave. And he never once thanked the fans of Cleveland during his one hour TV special. And he left to play with somebody (Bosh) who just dissed our town. I'm sick of hearing how we never "put the pieces in place" for Lebron. That's bullsh1t. We got Mo Williams, who played great most of the time even though he did end up choking in the playoffs. We gave him Delonte West, who turned out to be a pretty solid player. We gave him Shaq, who gave us a tough presence down low even though I felt we didn't always use him right. We gave him Antawn Jamison, who is a good outside shooter, rebounder, and knows how to put the ball in the basket. We kept Z around, which seemed to be something Lebron wanted. We got Anthony Parker to help surround Lebron with 3-point shooters. We developed Hickson into a promising big man. We kept Varejao around for his hustle, defense, and the intangibles he brought to the court. I'm sure I'm missing some while I ramble here, but I feel part of the problem is that Lebron doesn't really make many guys better players. Instead, many players with offensive talent would come to Cleveland and all of a sudden have to stand around watching Lebron dribble the ball for 80% of the 24-second shot clock, or they all of a sudden would have to snap out of their funk and do everything for a few minutes when he was either out of the game or for those times he decided to just hide on offensive and pass the ball the instant he touched it to "let other people score". After watching Lebron for 7 years, I think my conclusion is that he's quite the physical specimen and has a lot of amazing and showy basketball talents (fancy passes, high-flying dunks, cornerback style pass interceptions), but he's not as great of a winner as many people thought he would be. I think what may exemplify this more than anything is how he seemed more comfortable shooting tough high arching fading away and to the left jump shots from the baseline corner with the shot clock running down than wide open jump shots. If you make the latter it's expected and if you miss it looks bad. If you miss the former it's expected and if you make it you're on the highlight reel.

no he's not the first to leave. but he is the first to turn the process into a circus, drag 5 cities through the mud, and then buy an hour long tv special just to give a middle finger to his current team / city / home. And in addition, he is possibly the biggest and most well-known hometown hero in the history of pro sports.

Must be the city then. Maybe they should rebuild their downtown. Neither DWade nor Lebron wanted to play there.

This is the main thing I'm worried about. Not that Lebron doesn't play for us or that we might not win as many games, etc. But then I think of when the Indians stopped selling out. Downtown has still been thriving (even more so since 2000). And that was a much bigger impact. The Indians brought 42,700+ people downtown 82 times a year, and that has dropped to about 15,000. So we lost almost 30,000 coming downtown 82 times a year. With the Cavs, even if we only get 5,000 a game, that would be a 15,000 loss 41 times a year, 4 times less of the impact. And maybe instead of people buying tickets, they will come downtown to enjoy other things and have more money to spend doing them.

The only reason I wanted him to stay was so that we would have energy downtown during Cavs games. Hopefully we can build a new team and continue that. On the plus side, I'll be able to afford tickets once again. I didn't want to say too much about it before I knew he was gone because I knew I might have to root for the team he played for if he stayed, but his attitude has been getting worse and worse the last couple of years. I was starting to lose pride in having him play for us with his stupid antics and cockiness during games. This shameless self-promotion 1 hour TV special capped it off for me. How could you root for someone that would do something so dumb? I almost feel liberated that he's gone and now we can hopefully assemble some guys worth rooting for.

Oy

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It won't take that long. In about 8 months Android has gone from a minor player to a true competitor to Apple. If it keeps trending this way, the iPhone will join the Mac as a nice but overpriced device that only die-hard Apple fans use. You think that soon? I think Android phones will "catch up" to iPhone very soon (you could even debate they already have in the US at least, I'm pretty sure they collectively have a larger share of the US handheld market than iPhones now and many are considered to have as good or better features). iPhone turning into a specialty item like Mac computers will likely take much longer.

Interesting... http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-blog/index.ssf/2010/07/lebron_james_and_chris_paul_on_1.html LeBron James and Chris Paul on the same team "After years of recruiting, Chris Paul will finally join LeBron James' LRMR marketing company, writes Yahoo.com's Adam Wojnarowski."

Actuall it's not called the "miami" market its called the SE Florida. It's huge in size as it Palm, Broward, Miami-Dade and the Keys. As well portions of Monroe and Martin counties are included. Thanks for correcting me, I should have mentioned that, especially since I called it Northeast Ohio. But I have to correct you in return. :) It's actually called South Florida.

It won't take that long. In about 8 months Android has gone from a minor player to a true competitor to Apple. If it keeps trending this way, the iPhone will join the Mac as a nice but overpriced device that only die-hard Apple fans use.

NEO market is around 4.5 million. Miami is around 5.5 million. Different, yes, but we're hardly a "map dot" compared to Miami.

Definitely, and I think RIM is in trouble. A coworker of mine recently went from a Blackberry Storm to the HTC Droid Incredible and can't believe how much his new phone blows the Blackberry away.