YAYsports! is on an EXPLOSIVE move
Published by The Cavalier November 30th, 2006 in LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, Announcements, Life Discussions, Internet
These were the Atlantic Division standings as of day the last.
If you haven’t guessed, this was something we were gonna get into yesterday afternoon, but didn’t. We’ve slyly transported the picture into an all-new post, and that’s the experience you’re having now.
Alas, the Atlantic Division is worse than ever, but after last night’s Nets victory over the Celtics, New Jersey has at least taken sole control of the group.
As they say, that’s all we have to say about that, although you might go read Bill Simmons’ latest for a full breakdown of the sadness that is the Eastern Conference.
Moving on to one other NBA-specific note before we go forward with the YAY-centric notes…
After the uninspired Cavaliers lost to the Knicks at home last night, we’re doing something we haven’t done since LeBron arrived on the scene: we’re voluntarily boycotting the game against the Hawks Friday night.
We refuse to watch Malaise LeBron and his merry band of Whatever Men play down to another team they should slaughter.
LeBron - we love ya, but if you don’t care, we don’t, either. Losing is fine, and we can deal with it. What we can’t deal with is losing because you didn’t try. You guys are making us sick - it might be Mike Brown, but it’s also you, LBJ. You’re the King - act like it.
F’ING TRY - even Damon Jones, of all people, got in your face about (repeatedly) not closing out on Quentin Richardson last night.
Okay, moving on, which is a sick transition. UNGH!
We’re switching server companies, so we no longer get raped on bandwidth costs, and also so we can transfer everything over to Wordpress blogging software. (From Movable Type.)
What that means is thus - our content output this month is going to be down - there’s no way around it.
This isn’t really a change from the last three months actually, but between switching over to WP, doing a complete and total redesign of the site (possibly with a different name), finishing up work on WSM?, travelling to see family in various places, some other non-blog professional things that have developed, and our vast charity works, we’re swamped.
Of course, if we’re forced to completely boycott the Cavs altogether, this frees some time up, yes?
Anyway, this starts soon - don’t be surprised if the whole deal looks different one day, and it’ll probably start on a generic design and stay there for several weeks. We don’t think we can even get to the new graphics and such until we’re home with Mom and Dad in mid-December. (Who beat us!)
Thanks for your patience - things will get back to somewhat normal in January - promise.
Hey, wordpress, that’s where I tried blogging. Go there now to find out how the Cavs are like Sears.
http://searssucks.wordpress.com/
The first statement in your linked column says it all…
“The one facet of the game the Cavaliers can usually count on is their defense.”
If the Cavs are counting on their defense, then they’re sunk. Oh boy I hope the Cavs’ fans start to boo LeTravel when he’s on the free throw line again.
It seems obvious that LBJ’s disquietude stems from his declared distaste for the new Roundie. This has created a disruptive discord between the two most powerful entities gracing the hardwood today, and the resultant lack of harmony is the reason for state of lassitude we are Witnessing. He simply has no option but to acquiesce to the will of the ball, as once that happens, together they can be truly unstoppable.
Speaking of Roundie, unless you happen to be changing the name of the site to ‘The Ascendancy of the Orange Roundie and the Subjugation of All Those who Oppose’, you can expect my protestations.
You might need to shorten it a bit, though. I’m cool with that.
If you’re so busy that you need to give away the free video games/various crap you’ve rec’d and are asking for on your site, let me know. Other than that, Lebron is going to average a triple double in December. I just have a feeling. Of course, last time that happened a baby Panda was born
Oooh, “LeTravel”! Witty!
Oh, and look, the person guarding Dwyane Wade just got called for a foul!! Ha ha!!
Sigh…
(Sorry for the bitterness. I blame Maltesers - they are my undoing.)
Sweet, baby pandas!
Farewell, bitterness!
I mean it’s good to watch the Knicks get a quality win - but seriously, what is wrong with the Cavs offense??? If it weren’t for Eric Snow inexplicably exploding to the basket a few times it would have been even more horrifying (and I guarantee you those weren’t plays called for him).
Why is it that Eric Snow always like triples his scoring average against the Knicks? This has happened before.
Wait, don’t answer that.
Do not underestimate the Power of the Panda!
As for Mr. Snow, that’s easy. He likes to snort blow off of Eddy Curry’s ass before they play against each other. Thus, he is ‘hyped up’
wow i cant believe ur hating lebron because of some bad loses which is normal. even the spurs and mavs lost to bad teams.now i know why cleveland has the worst fans in the nba. maybe lebron is contemplating on playing on another team with better fans to appreciate his contributions! Cleveland is a piece of shit of a city and u cav is a fucking faggot! if ur a fan support and stick to ur team u fucking idiot!
Hunh…
I appreciate Boney so much more now.
we’ll take lebron .
you can have pape sow !
Roundie Henchman
I appreciate you too. Cavalier appreciates me also, he just doesn’t want to admit it.
To F’That, what you said is uncalled for. The Cavaliers are on the brink of greatness.. they’re only a PG, PF, SG, and C away from winning the Eastern Conference and perhaps the Finals.. you’ll see..
hey boney u forgot about the fans and the city!
See?
Now THAT was some quality derision!
Boney rules
Hey, at least Scoop Jackson is reading: Page 2 today. However, they do short you a link. Kind of messed up, but whatever.
For what it’s worth, the team seemed to play with more focus and intensity with Hughes in the line-up … grasping at straws, I know, but here is hoping his return sparks a solid run. Mike Brown coaches as if he is trying not to get fired rather than trying to win.
Scoop doesn’t read this site. It’s actually his son that has to sit down and read it to him. What a stooge. Scoop Jackson is the only person I rate higher on the idiot scale than Isiah
Well, F’That..
I can say one thing about the fans in Cleveland, as is the same with fans in Washington DC (my hometown) and fans in Detroit.. when your team is losing to a team that they should be beating, fans are going to boo. It’s hard enough to fork over $25+ for a ticket to a game, even harder to get people to sit in the seats to see the Knicks play… When you are able to coax people to see the Knicks play, they expect a win. It’s different when you’re playing a team that’s at your level or greater, when you’re the true underdog. Fans will support you even if you’re losing by 10, because they know that it’s a tough team you’re playing.
I’m not saying the fans in Cleveland are the best, because they’re by far the worst I’ve seen. But that shouldn’t make someone say that Cleveland doesn’t deserve a team and that their city is “shitty”.
God, I can’t believe I’m sorta sticking up for the Cavs.
Not sure how I feel about this Roundie thing yet.
Now if only one of the commenters only used 8 word sentences over and over in some vain attempt to be artistic we would KNOW that scoop reads Yay
Dood, you got F’ing robbed by Scoop, Cav! He didn’t credit you or anything.
I’ve always hated his writing and now he plagiarizes. I mean, with his writing style, you think he’d be robbing FreeDarko before YAYsports…
I think an all out attack should be made on Scoop. Like all of the posts should have some sort of a Scooping put in it. Or just get his picture and show him humping the rounding with a word blimp around it saying, “I shot Mamba”
Let me just say - I have no desire to be _that_ Roundie’s Henchman.
This is a travesty! A quick Ctrl+F finds absolutely no reference to the word ‘careful’, nor any grievance aired concerning a dearth of manipulative appendages! I find it despicable, an empty ill-conceived counterfeiting of a truly noble being.
It will take many a baby panda to cheer me up after this.
I actually quit watching sports after the past week.
But I miss you, Cav.
On a more serious note, the pseudo-callout is disturbing to me.
I mean, if he is going to lift the whole concept of the personification of the Roundie, why mention the existence of the website from which the idea originated, and then fail to give any sort of credit for the idea itself? Instead, he credits an unnamed web site for the coinage of the term ‘Orange Roundie’, then can’t actually link to the website or mention the website’s name without making it too obvious that the personification idea his entire article was based on was completely unoriginal.
On the other hand, this has a chance of increasing the usage of the term, which gives me a moderate amount of happiness.
Watch for “Who Killed the Viper With a Gun?” this February on ESPN.
I just read the scoop “column.” he draws my ire.
What a punk.
Also, what serious writer cares about the ball anymore? It’s a tired-ass issue.
I really dislike Scoop Jackson… almost as much as I dislike MoonDog (for you dummies, MoonDog is the Cavs’ mascot)..
I mean seriously, why is the Cavalier’s mascot a freakin’ dog?
HOLY CREPES - parker and longoria to get hitched.
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/30/people_milestones/main2218928.shtml
“oh my god, allef, the whole freaking movie is like the scene with the fish in it.” probably my favorite line from any movie this year…
why don’t they just hire you already??? worst one yet!!!!!
Boney, focus!
Your concentrated ire at this point should be solely targeted at Scoop Jackson.
There’s plenty of time later to discuss the irrationality of MoonDog.
And Pandas.
This is sincerely a travesty.
We need to get Captain Abbott on the case pronto.
Scoop Jackson will rue the day he fucked with the blogsquad.
I’m going to go ahead and unleash the Baby Panda’s on Scoop and see what happens. Scoop and I have a little bit of a history. By history, I mean I wrote him a strongly worded email when his first column came out asking him if he could really be that dumb. He did not reply.
Ha ha. Why doesn’t he just set-up one of those feed stealing dealies like that guy did last year?
Scoop is watching you right now.
I disliked Scoop long before he made reference (without link) to the roundie. I, myself, am not a fan of the roundie since he dislikes Chauncey Billups and his hobby of drinking Mr. Pibb (or was it Dr. Pepper?).
Back to Scoop..
Scoop is a fan of the YaySports.com/nba. He won’t admit it but he is.. heck, I won’t even admit that I have asked and received the friendship of one “The Cavalier” on MySpace. Some things you are just not truly proud of, and maybe he’s not proud that he’s addicted to the YaySports.com/nba like the rest of us…
one cannot fault this man if he has a problem…
Who the hell names their kid scoop?
Can we all agree to only refer to him as Scloop?
I just wrote to Scoop, verbatim:
Scoop, I emailed you when your first column came out and I thought you were a fraud. I told you I would keep my eye out for you. Now, you’ve not only gone and stolen The Roundie idea from a website, you didn’t even link to the site! You tried to play it off as if it was your idea, like a punk. Yeah, your street cred is blowin’ up by the second, dawg. Horrible, you should be fired. You did a second rate job as The Roundie, too
Cav made friggin creepy roundie videos for christ sakes.
The worst part about this whole incident is it forced me to actually read an entire Scoop Jackson piece.
Did you guys seriously read that whole thing? Painful . . .
OLE.
Didn’t Colin Cowherd do something similar? ESPN seems to have a “we don’t fully cite our sources” policy.
biting my tongue, biting my tongue
To boney: well cleveland is not detroit and they shouldnt act like one. Im just piss bec its still early in the season just a couple of losses. We know everything well be back to normal the jazz will still miss the playoffs. Dont be a bandwagoner
Scoop fathered Avery Johnson. True story.
Dude this is the biggest B.S. ever. Scoop is the biggest fraud ever. I don’t think he realizes what kind of trouble he just got himself into. Knowing Brian (aka The Cavalier), I have a feeling he is going to kill that guy on the internet every single day until he will never be able to get a job again.
I just sent an email to Scoop calling him the Jayson Blair of sports journalism.