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Finding a bus stop was probably the better strategic option I wonder.

Please take photos all! I woke up early on the west coast to watch streaming. http://fox8.com/on-air/live-streaming-sc/ http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/live

Monsters will get a bus/float tomorrow:

Seriously ???? And there is no company in NEO who can come to the rescue. Man, maybe I should try to get a city job...

PARADE ROUTE: https://clecityhall.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/cavs-parade-and-rally-v2.pdf

Cavs parade route? http://www.neosportsinsiders.com/source-cavs-championship-parade-route-info-reveled/

Curious about bus rapid transit? Check out Cleveland Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press 10:46 p.m. EDT June 19, 2016 Tiffany Augustine has thought about buying a car, but she has other priorities. “It’s either I get a car or I pay my bills,” she said while riding a bus in Cleveland last week. “I think it’s more important for my (12-year-old) son to keep a roof over his head.” The 33-year-old takes the same bus route daily to and from her job as a sandwich-maker at a café and bakery near Cleveland’s main drag, Euclid Avenue. On this particular Wednesday afternoon after her shift, Augustine was heading home on a bus full of people, so full that she felt compelled to ask the “young people” on the bus to give up their seat for an older woman nearby who would otherwise have had to stand. Moments later, the woman had a seat as the bus continued on its route, the HealthLine, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s most popular bus line, serving 5 million riders each year. For metro Detroiters, Cleveland’s HealthLine offers a well-regarded version of what they will likely be asked to support this fall when voters in Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties head to the polls. The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan has made bus rapid transit, with lines on Woodward, Gratiot and Michigan avenues and a separate line connecting Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, the centerpiece of its $4.6-billion master plan. And if, as assumed, the RTA board gives its final approval to the plan in July, voters in the four counties will weigh a 1.2-mill property tax to pay for it. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/06/19/riders-praise-cleveland-brt/85970434/

I say we expand the parade and make it a city "Parade of Champions" - Stipe Miocic - Lake Erie Monsters - Cleveland Cavaliers Heck, the Cleveland public schools won the world robotics competition this year as well. :)

Crazy to think how much money RTA could have made last night.

What the crap. So depressing and embarrassing. https://m.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/4otlle/psa_rta_is_not_extending_rapid_hours_tonight_plan?utm_source=mweb_redirect&compact=true

And here's the video of Oprah on here Cleveland Clinic visits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yR_mmmVh0A

A few good ones on a Friday: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/06/serving-tea-islam-understanding-cleveland-160605093632075.html http://www.eater.com/2016/6/16/11950340/michael-symon-barbecue-cleveland http://fox8.com/2016/06/17/oprah-on-cleveland-this-is-a-really-religious-town/

June 14, Tuesday, city celebration of winning the cup to be held in Gateway: https://m.facebook.com/events/1721822678107240/ http://www.lakeeriemonsters.com/team/news/monsters-host-championship-plaza-party-tuesday

Finally... Cleveand.com put the monsters victory on their main landing page...

Fellow UOers, feel free to contribute in the comments section asking why this story or any mention of the 2016 Calder Cup winners (home game victory mind you) does not make the Cleveland.com landing page: http://www.cleveland.com/monsters/index.ssf/2016/06/lake_erie_monsters_and_hershey.html Here's some other media attention: 1) Apparently most attended hockey game in Ohio history http://www.todaysslapshot.com/from-the-ice/lake-erie-monsters-set-record-ohio-hockey-attendance/ 2) Story from the NY Times Cleveland Realizes a Championship After All, Thanks to the Monsters By DAVE CALDWELL JUNE 11, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/sports/hockey/cleveland-may-get-champion-after-all-thanks-to-the-monsters.html?_r=0

^ Ironic, isn't it! Cleveland now holds 10 Calder Cup victories in its history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_Cleveland#Championships Lake Erie Monsters win Calder Cup title in 1-0 OT victory over Hershey By Branson Wright, The Plain Dealer Follow on Twitter on June 11, 2016 at 10:31 PM, updated June 11, 2016 at 10:50 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio - The wait is over. Oliver Bjorkstrand scored the winning goal with 1.9 minutes left in overtime to give the Lake Erie Monsters the Calder Cup title with a 1-0 victory over the Hershey Bears before a sellout crowd on Saturday at The Q. Bjorkstrand, who had six winning goals in the postseason, was named MVP of the Calder Cup Finals. This is the first professional sports title for Cleveland since the 1998-99 Cleveland Crunch of the National Professional Soccer League. This is the first title for a professional hockey team in this city since the 1964 Barons. http://www.cleveland.com/monsters/index.ssf/2016/06/lake_erie_monsters_and_hershey.html

Cross-posted from Greater Cleveland Sports Commission thread:

Interesting to see who Cleveland has lost in the past 3-4 years: From 2012: Cleveland 1. Eaton 163 Cleveland 16,049.0 -- moved "headquarters" to Dublin, Ireland 2. Progressive 169 Mayfield Village 15,508.1 3. Parker Hannifin 216 Cleveland 12,345.9 4. Sherwin-Williams 293 Cleveland 8,765.7 -- will be much larger after acquisition of Valspar 5. TravelCenters of America 329 Westlake 7,888.9 6. Cliffs Natural Resources 366 Cleveland 6,794.3 --> 860 7. Aleris 494 Cleveland 4,826.4 --> 687 8. KeyCorp 499 Cleveland 4,780.0 -> 540 Plus losing fortune 500 National City Bank six years ago during the financial collapse really hurt as well. Glad to see Cleveland is still holding their own in the fortune 1000.

Transplant games of America hosting in Cleveland this weekend: https://www.facebook.com/Transplant-Games-of-America-218395054888480/ Schedule: http://www.transplantgamesofamerica.org/cmsproxy/5/files/TGA%20-%20Event%20Schedule(3).pdf

Quite bizarre Cleveland.com does not have the Monsters on their main page being one game away? Go there right now, and see how long it takes you to find the story from above. Man, someone is missing the boat over there. Similar to how they didn't send any beat reporters to cover some the Tribe away series this year: http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/04/12/the-cleveland-plain-dealer-is-not-sending-beat-reporters-to-indians-road-games/

Lake Erie Monsters one victory away from Calder Cup title after beating Hershey in OT http://www.cleveland.com/monsters/index.ssf/2016/06/lake_erie_monsters_one_victory_1.html

'Comeback’ Cleveland readies for a rare moment in the sun By Mary Jordan National June 6 at 6:49 PM https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/comeback-cleveland-readies-for-a-rare-moment-in-the-sun/2016/06/06/aaecee6e-298b-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html

Tribe keeps rolling http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2016/06/cleveland_indians_kansas_city_89.html EDIT: check out he crowd tonight featured on the MLB Twitter page https://mobile.twitter.com/MLB/status/738900588553867264/photo/1

Monsters are 2-0 http://www.cleveland.com/monsters/index.ssf/2016/06/calder_cup_2016_lake_erie_mons_3.html