April 30, 201015 yr Check it out...looks liek the Plain Dealer is trying to stary a fight! http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/04/boston_has_history_but_we_have.html Why can't every PD article be written like this? It's not the best, but a far cry from the "Rustbelt doom and gloom" we read multiple times a day!
April 30, 201015 yr Congrats, LeBron, on your second MVP trophy! Well deserved!!! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 2, 201015 yr Mo's 3rd Quarter performance was amazing. The team didn't miss a shot after his dunk.
May 3, 201015 yr 11. It wasn't until I scrolled back through this thread to understand what your occasional numbers mean -- countdown in the number of wins needed to win the championship. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 3, 201015 yr http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2010/05/03/no_mistaking_it_he_loves_cleveland/
May 3, 201015 yr Just reading some comments on LeBron's second MVP on another website. It is weird and nice at the same time for the haters hating on Cleveland and Lebron because he is so good. It's a nice change from getting shat on for our other dismal sports team.
May 4, 201015 yr Yes, me too. Forget magic numbers to win the championship. If the Cavs keep playing like this, they won't survive the conference semifinals. EDIT: I've given up on the Cavs game and am watching the Red Sox hammer the Angels. Go Bosox! :-o "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 4, 201015 yr That was rough. I wonder if there was any partying in Akron, maybe that had an effect on the team?
May 4, 201015 yr I was a little worried about the possibility of the MVP hangover. But it's clear that there were a lot of problems tonight, I don't even know where to begin...
May 4, 201015 yr Accept for Game 4 and part of Game 1 against Chicago, (and really, much of the last month of the season), the Cavs have been sleepwalking on Defense, their Mike Brown hallmark. LeBron and the Team seem to be on a different wavelength from Brown and Brown, frantic to get Shaq going for Orlando (a series that, if we have one more game like tonight, will not materialize), even though Shaq is wrecking the flow of our office -- exactly what critics of the Shaq deal have, all along, said would happen... Tonight was just a complete manifestation of these problems. We'll see what happens Friday, but as much as Mike, Ferry and teammates are feeling heat, the very trophy that LeBron hoisted before his adoring (soon to be quieted throng), will become awfully small indeed. (my buddy also thinks our, Cleveland championship-paranoid fans came up really small, sitting on their hands, even booing, at the least little adversity). We can only hope this debacle finally awakens the team's collective manhood ... otherwise, as phony Republicans keep threatening in the US Congress, the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise will face the 'Nuclear Option'.
May 4, 201015 yr I thought they were booing on one of the calls. Still, there was nothing to cheer about in this one and we can only hope it does serve as a wake-up call to get this team out of Rip VanWinkle mode...no, worse.. Sleeping Beauty mode. What an embarrassment. No "D", No "O"..no nothing.
May 6, 201015 yr I hope that LBJ is sleeping in the oxygen tent and whatever else he can think of to get that elbow back into playoff form.
May 6, 201015 yr Raymond Towler has another dream come true: He'll sit courtside Tuesday at a Cavaliers game By Mark Puente, The Plain Dealer May 06, 2010, 11:38AM Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Raymond Towler has dreamed about watching the Cavaliers play for decades. The team has fulfilled his dream. The man who spent nearly 29 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit will sit behind the team Tuesday against the Boston Celtics. He will also be on the court during pre-game activities. The team invited Towler after it learned he is a big fan of LeBron James. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/05/raymond_towlers_dream_comes_tr.html
May 7, 201015 yr Anyone drive/bike across Memorial Bridge lately?? http://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/05/05/memorial-bridge-statues-get-cavs-headbands
May 7, 201015 yr Please, Please, Please win tonight. For the sanity of all Cleveland sports fans to remain in tact. Does anyone fly United Airlines? i will be on a flight tonight and I want to see if i can get the game either on wi-fi or direct TV.
May 7, 201015 yr Anyone drive/bike across Memorial Bridge lately?? http://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/05/05/memorial-bridge-statues-get-cavs-headbands I have to stop and get a picture of that! BTW anybody else already noticed that their Cleveland fan self-defense instincts are in full effect? Mine are. The Cavs are better team but damn...I will leave it at that. Go Cavs! Amen Believeland!
May 7, 201015 yr ^I agree, but I'm also excited. These last three days have felt waaaaay to long. Some good quotes from Antawn Jamison http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/?p=28187
May 7, 201015 yr Anyone drive/bike across Memorial Bridge lately?? http://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/05/05/memorial-bridge-statues-get-cavs-headbands MAYDAY!! If you get the chance- PLEASE get a pic of these! They can hate all they want, but this is the best team in the league! GO CAVS!!!
May 7, 201015 yr ^ what do you call the Cavs classic colors? Ah yes, I'm quite aware of that. Are they wearing those? Those are hideous!
May 7, 201015 yr Tonight the Orange and Blue delivers! Orange and Blue? The Michael Stanley Cavs song... http://www.nba.com/media/cavaliers/tonights_the_night.mp3
May 7, 201015 yr I have a bleak feeling it will be Cavs down 2-1 by tonight... Jim Chones got it right in the interview after the game about this team basically sleepwalking. I don't care how "old" the Celtics are..it also takes brains and a plan to win this game and that is the department we have been falling short in lately. I hope I am wrong, but will not get hopes up.
May 8, 201015 yr I have a bleak feeling it will be Cavs down 2-1 by tonight... Jim Chones got it right in the interview after the game about this team basically sleepwalking. I don't care how "old" the Celtics are..it also takes brains and a plan to win this game and that is the department we have been falling short in lately. I hope I am wrong, but will not get hopes up. You have to be positive. Look at what they did tonight.
May 8, 201015 yr a bunch of fair weather fans...... are you guys really from Cleveland? No, no, no, but we're Cleveland fans, and by nature, very pessimistic about things! Tonight the Orange and Blue delivers! Orange and Blue? The Michael Stanley Cavs song... http://www.nba.com/media/cavaliers/tonights_the_night.mp3 Exactly! They used to play that song all of the time when I started becoming a fan in the late 1980s.
May 8, 201015 yr My thoughts below from FB. I'll admit that I was holding my breath there in the last half of the 3rd waiting for the Celtics comeback. It never came. Nice demoralizing victory. Game 4 should be a bloodbath: CBC's FB Friend Post : To: The Dark Underworld Overlord controlling the Cavs playoff run From: Every Cavs fan on the planet Whatever Doc Rivers is paying you, we'll double it. 4 hours ago via Facebook for Android · Comment · LikeUnlike . CBC:You mean David Stern? I swear to god he is the pulling the strings to drive drama and ratings. It is the only logical explanation I can come up with to explain this playoff run. The Cavs should be tearing heads off and pissing down throats in every game like they did tonight. 10. Word.
May 8, 201015 yr Woah! The REAL Cavs came tonight! Keep up the killer momentum...See what happens when you play while you're awake! :whip: GIDDY UP!
May 8, 201015 yr Dan B..I agree, the fairweather fans are really annoying. I don't buy the "Cleveland fans are naturally pessimistic...BS! Have some faith no matter what. This is an elite team and can take the championship without a doubt.
May 8, 201015 yr I think the Cavs were angry. Shows that channeled anger can be very useful. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 8, 201015 yr Dan B..I agree, the fairweather fans are really annoying. I don't buy the "Cleveland fans are naturally pessimistic...BS! Have some faith no matter what. This is an elite team and can take the championship without a doubt. Again, I don't think this is about being fairweather. It's not like thousands of Cavs fans started rooting for the Lakers or Magic after Monday night's loss. I think many of us were simply deflated and thinking "here we go again with another Cleveland sports team."
May 8, 201015 yr Dan B..I agree, the fairweather fans are really annoying. I don't buy the "Cleveland fans are naturally pessimistic...BS! Have some faith no matter what. This is an elite team and can take the championship without a doubt. Again, I don't think this is about being fairweather. It's not like thousands of Cavs fans started rooting for the Lakers or Magic after Monday night's loss. I think many of us were simply deflated and thinking "here we go again with another Cleveland sports team." No, not naturally pessimistic. Trained like a goddamned mule to be pessimistic. I'm still trying to recover from the '07 Indians. We were up 3-1 and I'll bet 85% of Indians' fans knew Boston was going to come back in that series. If it rains for 46 years straight and you say, "It's probably going to rain today," it just makes you a realist. Go Cavs!
May 8, 201015 yr Frustration should not be confused with being fair weather....It does not mean deserting the team.
May 8, 201015 yr I remember being in Warren.....and having to deal with all the Steeler fans who were bandwagon fans... I knew more about their team than they did! The area is situated in such a spot where you get a mixture... But from my experiences over the years, the Browns fans were the truest. Also sounded a bit more evolved. The funny thing is...that eventhough a Cleveland team has not won the entire climax in a long time, all the teams have had more memorable games that entail all the drama and excitement of which the highlight films tell the greatest sports stories. More-so than many teams who seemingly slipped into the big one without so much as a whisper. In my opinion, we have had the teams to reach the big one and win it...but luck failed and we just didn't in a long time. I also think we have had better single season teams that did not win the big one...than some teams that did. (Ex: '85 Patriots..thought Browns had fielded equal of better teams during that era that just didn't get to the big one) So, from a historical context and to the general sports fans... although not winning the big in a while, plenty of Cleveland teams have yielded much excitement/drama/ups/downs to the audience of the sports world. Make sense?
May 9, 201015 yr I've had the same arguement with Bengal fans here in cincinnati 20 years ago. I would much rather have the Browns years of 85-89, than the 2 unexpected years of the Bengals super bowls. In both years, the Browns were picked to win the division, and the Bengals were not expected to be close. In '81 the Cardiac Kids had a major meltdown, and the Bengals had the perfect storm. In '88, Bernie got hurt, the Browns had 5 or 6 different QB's and they still made the playoffs losing to Houston in a close game. Bernie would have made all the difference that year. Perfect example of what I was saying. By the way....Did anyone see this? Utterly disgusting. Never seen such a place that has this kind of sense of entitlement!
May 9, 201015 yr I admit, I don't know a lot about the game of basketball. It may just be the emotion in the game but it seems like a whole lot of the calls went one way. It's probably just bitterness speaking. Go Cavs, your going home.
May 9, 201015 yr It is funny though that MO had the highest +/- differential this game. We actually cut the lead down when Lebron was out of the game and in the 3rd quarter with Mo penetrating the paint we came back.
May 9, 201015 yr ^ You can say that again! This is where we need to grow up as a team....mature....The focus and determination of this team is about equal to the attention span of my add dog. At least that is how it appears. Get the i-pods out of your ears guys and focus!
May 9, 201015 yr I've had the same arguement with Bengal fans here in cincinnati 20 years ago. I would much rather have the Browns years of 85-89, than the 2 unexpected years of the Bengals super bowls. In both years, the Browns were picked to win the division, and the Bengals were not expected to be close. In '81 the Cardiac Kids had a major meltdown, and the Bengals had the perfect storm. In '88, Bernie got hurt, the Browns had 5 or 6 different QB's and they still made the playoffs losing to Houston in a close game. Bernie would have made all the difference that year. Perfect example of what I was saying. By the way....Did anyone see this? Utterly disgusting. Never seen such a place that has this kind of sense of entitlement! Today's Daily News was just as bad... it had a cut out of Lebron in a Knicks jersey and is promoting people taking it around NYC and snapping pics with it then uploading to their website.
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