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Does anyone like the Attack Cat over the paw print? I have yet to meet anyone... Wasn't sure how I felt about the black uniforms though. I think I would have liked it more if it was easier to read "Ohio" on the helmet. Great showing by the Bobcats! My wife was happy as a Florida alum as well, to see Steve Addazio get beat (former Florida offensive coordinator she hated and now Temple head coach).

I've pretty much stopped going to cleveland.com and haven't picked up a PD in years. Just started to look into the Akron Beacon Journal and it seems to be a bit better, at least so far.

I'm usually very impressed with their play. I don't just mean by their talent either. They usually play very hard and pretty well-disciplined and they look crisp on both sides of the ball. Sure, they make some mistakes here and there, but most high school teams do. However, the only game I saw them play this year was against Ignatius, and they didn't look like the Glenville of old. Sure, they still had a good amount of talent, but not like they traditionally have had, and their offense seemed really sloppy and one-dimensional. I only saw part of the game that was on TV earlier this year, but a co-worker's son is on the team and we talk pretty frequently about how things are going. So admittedly, most of my opinion is based on what she tells me.

I don't really have a better solution - and I don't think the computer system is really all that bad. I suppose I was just pointing out, given Ginn's health problems and who they lost to, they were still a top D1 R1 team. But I agree, they likely weren't going to win the region - they traditionally don't play to their talent level anyway and they have fewer top recruits than usual.

Glenville lost to Ignatius, Eds, and an out of state team. They smoked JFK 40-0. But for computer points purposes, they didn't make the playoffs. They also didn't get to play a game because Rhodes had the majority of the team suspended the week they were supposed to play Glenville due to fighting the previous week. The Senate also doesn't play each team in conference. Had they played 6-4 John Marshall instead of 0-10 Collinwood, they would have made the playoffs. JFK beat John Marshall 8-0.

Agreed In NYC, given the cost of living, it may not be. In Ohio, you are doing very well for yourself if you are pulling in $250000/yr. Several top doctors and lawyers are in that range. I think you two are confusing rich with filthy rich. I would agree. Rich has to be defined as relative to the rest of society. I you make more than 95% of others, I think that qualifies (and that's less than $250k).

Yes, we need more sweeping generalizations about suburbanites...that will help create a positive sense of community... When I first moved back to NE Ohio, I lived downtown. And when I would tell people I just moved back home, they would ask "why". The receptionist at the Holiday Inn Express was one specific person who really sticks out as she kind of went on and on because I was foolish enough to tell her why I was excited about moving back here. And she was certainly not from Avon. Snobs exist, sure. But there are just as many "I'm bitter this is my lot in life" people dogging the city.

^ BoA is a disaster. What's odd is I was a customer of theirs from 2001-2006 before moving back to Ohio and I was pretty happy with their general banking services. But their mortgage division is a nightmare, they should have never acquired Countrywide, and based on what I know of the internal operations, there's more bad stories to come before things turn around (if they can turn them around). They almost need a Lee Iacocca type story to get things in the right direction.

Ha - Zeno's...there's like a 99% chance you'll see a fight break out there and a 10% chance you'll get sucked in (unless you leave). They're pretty open about allowing smoking.

That's the amusing part to me...the Bengals are 4-2, showing signs of having young talent with promise, just made a great trade, yet they might not sell out the game.

The only complication involves what you're doing to remedy the fact that you're spending more than you're making. No one agrees on what to cut (without mentioning that a large % of the money spent is simply used inefficiently, or that budgeting out 10 years is pretty stupid). The problem is actually pretty simple - we're spending more than we make. Speaking of a 10 year budget, and extending the analogy, the government would like you to believe they "cut" money from the budget moving forward because next year they had "budgeted" to spend $40,000 but now they are only going to spend $39,000. Thus, they cut $1,000 off the budget. That doesn't count as a budget cut to me, when you're already spending only $38,000.

^ Yes, but I believe the condition is they make it to the AFC title game either this year or next, the pick is upgraded to 1st round.

^ The Tower building had all kinds of problems. I've heard some bad stories. The Plaza building didn't have the same construction issues, at least to this point.

I lived in the Plaza building from the time it opened until Jan of this year (about 3.5 years). I enjoyed living there and do miss the area. There were some building management issues at first, but residents got together, the property manager changed, and things were resolved. I always felt safe down in the flats around my building. It could get sketchy as you head up the hill towards W25th by Lakeview Estates or across the river if something was going on at Club Alchemy. But I have dogs and never felt unsafe walking them, nor did my wife, as long as we stayed in the immediate block around the building which included the little park on our side of the river. Ohio City is not too far to walk to, but there is a sketchy block just south of Detroit on W25th (more section 8 housing). I know my wife didn't like walking to OC b/c of that section. I didn't work downtown for all of the time I lived there, but when I did I would walk or ride my bike which was nice. Walking to Tower City or W 6th was a bit more palatable for my wife that Ohio City was. Anyway, it's not a bad place to live - I think the ability to get financing for condos is really what is hurting the market. I know when I moved out, I had my unit rented in a couple days.

Busy year. I did travel a lot for work, but frequently tried to mix in pleasure too. I worked in Chicago for 1/2 the year while living in Cleveland so I'll leave that off the list, although I did get to explore the city quite a bit (and made it to a Bulls and Cubs game). Jan: Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Ft Lauderdale Feb: Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando Mar: Milwaukee Apr: Las Vegas May: Ft lauderdale, Put-in-Bay & Middle Bass Island June: Philadelphia, PIB, MBI July: PIB, MBI Aug: PIB, MBI, Appleton WI Sep: PIB, MBI, Orlando, Erie PA Oct: Ft lauderdale, Miami, Bahamas, MBI Nov: No trips planned Dec: Atlanta, Ft Lauderdale My wife is from Florida and her family is there which is why we're there a lot. I have family in Atlanta. We have a cottage on PIB with friends on Middle Bass and go there a lot in the summer. The rest was bachelor parties, weddings, or just visiting friends. I also moved twice during all of this and our son turned 1. It was easy travelling with him, but after the last trip I think we'll have to put plane rides on hold for awhile until he's a bit older...hence we're driving to Ft Lauderdale, via Atlanta, this holiday season :)

I generally agree with what he's saying (and always amusing to watch) however, what's his role in LBJ's "self crowning"? The media is who anointed him - how did he get "The Choosen One" assigned to him? Oh, that's right - the cover of SI his Jr year at SVSM. So what are they expecting? Goes both ways. Annoys me to defend LeBron, but the environment he was brought up in kind of shaped him to be what he is today.

Doesn't make it accurate. :-P It's a word that has taken on a different meaning over time. Do you also refuse to call Lolley the Trolley, Lolley the Trolley? Because it's actually Lolley the Bus? Did you actually find someone who was looking for the "E Line Trolley" miss it when the "E Line Bus" went by because they were looking for a trolley and didn't see the big "E Line" sign on the front of the "bus"?

worked for me...sadly...

^ Did you hear about his Twitter "discussion" about playing in the NFL? With John Clayton and Pete Carroll?

"Like" Unless you'd rather sit at home and do nothing for unemployment benefits. Which actually pays more than alot of entry level jobs like retail or food service, especially if you have to commute, pay for gas/parking, etc. I've seen too many people, in various situations, take this route. They always seem to miss the value of what hard work has in the long term, even if it means less money in the short term. I always like telling my brother's story who dropped out of law school, couldn't find a job, took a position through a temp agency at $7/hour for a bank, and a few years later was in charge of the entire department he started in. Ended up getting a graduate degree after all (MBA) from the same school he dropped out of law school, commuting between Cleveland and Chicago to get it done. I think it was his personal mission to "beat" the school...but he did it, starting from a $7/hour job at Ameri Temps.

That, to me, qualifies as rumblings...which is what you were disputing.

It was likely heard from the Commissioner of the NFL who is on record as saying he would like to expand to London.

Before we let the speculation ruin a couple pages of this thread, let me offer this piece recently written by Malcolm Gladwell on NJ (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets and NBA economics. I believe it applies b/c at the end of the day, it's a real estate investment and like the former owner of the Nets, I doubt Dan Gilbert won't get a return on his investment, whether that's Phase II of a casino or something else. That and the obvious basketball owners similarities (and old Dan is mentioned in the article). http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7021031/the-nets-nba-economics

My take is that Woltein and Fishman don't think that Flats residents will want to look out their windows at a working port facility. I disagree. I think that would be more interesting to watch than just about anything that's on TV these days. Agree. The ambiance from the boat traffic and industrial nature of the flats is the best part about living there.

If I am understanding correctly - aside from "more efficient local gov't (which I agree could be a plus, where it makes sense) - Regionalism will help resolve city decay and give more people opportunity to succeed. The fragmented municipalities has allowed people with resources and the ability to influence change leave the core city behind to rot. If they had stayed, things wouldn't be as bad, people would have more opportunity, and all would be well. Collapsing everyone back into one single government will fix that. Yet in Cleveland Heights, where those people exist with their resources and ability to influence change, why are there still parts that aren't taking advantage of the opportunity they have? Schools are good. Community is full of people they can learn from, be connected to, and gain an opportunity. Yet it seems the few bad apples are causing more problems than those with all of the resources are able to remove. And what's the ratio here? 10:1? 20:1? What happens if you annex East Cleveland and it shrinks to 5:1? The majority isn't able to lift the problem population as it is now, what makes anyone think that if you add in an additional volume of problems everything will be fine because the local government is consolidated? Problems still exist in suburbs that have resources and opportunity. The argument for regionalism is that all it takes to make people into good citizens is resources and opportunity. If that's the case, then everyone should be doing pretty well for themselves in Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, and even Solon. But it's just not the case. People in those citites are fighting now to keep their city what it was/is. But at some point, they get sick of the knuckleheads and move to a place where they don't have to deal with it anymore (and somehow get blamed for the problem because they left the city behind to rot). I posted this earlier, but your argument totally reminds me of the quote from the pastor of the Old Stone Church so I'll post it again... "Ive been thinking about the thoughts of the late Yale scholar, Letty Russell, who once compared the city to a battered woman: The city is beaten and bruised, isolated, abandoned, and then blamed as if she somehow did this to herself. How easy it is for us to take what we want from our city jobs, resources, entertainment while disavowing any responsibility for her." http://hotcleveland.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/bang-bang-love-your-city/ I saw your quote. What happends when you take the battered woman in, clean her up, give her a job, and she starts stealing from you?