The Cavalier is torn to pieces
Published by The Cavalier December 1st, 2006 in LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, Kobe Bryant, ESPN, Orange Roundie, Scoop Jackson
Between all the Scoop Jackson stuff, Kobe putting up 52 last night, Eva Longoria gaining the ability to scream “Tony Parker is my finacee!!!”, and a few other things, we’ve barely had time to contemplate the true ramifications of our vow to boycott the Cavaliers tonight.
It’s closing in on gametime, and we’re truely not sure if we can go through with it.
The task is easy enough - we’re not at home and the Tivo hasn’t been set yet. There are also errands to run this afternoon - we could simply go about our duties and miss the whole thing.
That said, we could just as easily go home and turn it on.
Undecided - that’s the best way to describe us at the moment. As such, let’s rehash this morning’s goings-on one more time, simply for clarity’s sake:
1) We don’t hate Scoop Jackson. By all accounts, he’s a great guy and well liked. We think he made an error in judgement. We’d just like to see it corrected.
2) This has nothing to do with “getting linked by ESPN” (which we couldn’t care less about), so the people arguing that we’ve been given credit (since the YAY reference was inserted into the article) are missing the point.
3) We’re not trying to set ourself up as some defender of the right of all bloggers everywhere or something.
4) All we want is the character name pulled off that column. That’s it. The concept he can steal all he wants - although we don’t think that’s cool either, it happens every day. We own “Orange Roundie” though - we have plans for “Orange Roundie”. None of those plans involve anyone thinking it came from Scoop Jackson.
More troubling than all four of those bullet-points is this “should we or shouldn’t we” concerning the Cavs-Hawks game.
We’re 65% on “not gonna watch” right now, but we don’t want to start sending bad karma Cleveland’s way. What a strange day all around, but no stranger than two Thursdays from now, which we’ve already forseen as being “really weird”.
So what if you don’t watch, and they win. And then tomorrow, you do watch, and they lose. Then you might begin to think that it’s actually you that’s the problem. You’ll never be able to watch a Cavs game comfortably again - you’ll always worry, in the back of your mind, that you’re jinxing them.
I think if you ever want to watch a a Cavs game again, you’d better watch tonight.
So what if you don’t watch, and they win. And then tomorrow, you do watch, and they lose. Then you might begin to think that it’s actually you that’s the problem. You’ll never be able to watch a Cavs game comfortably again - you’ll always worry, in the back of your mind, that you’re jinxing them.
I think if you ever want to watch and enjoy a Cavs game again, you’d better watch tonight.
Clearly I feel strongly about this. Sorry.
Two Thursdays? What is that, like Christmas or something? CRAP! TOO SOON!!!
Also, Ira Newble is back! 60 wins, here we come. I hope you’re not missing Newble Time.
Newble.
Pretty convenient that all this copyright stuff is blowing up at the same time Pistons take 1st over from the Cavs. Seriously though, I hope you get your due, I was loving the Orange Roundie.
Pretty convenient, Detroit Chris M.? I’d say VERY convenient. Cav and Scoop couldn’t have planned this better, now they’ve stolen all that fucking awesome Deeeetroit Basketball Thunder! Nobody will talk about the Pistons ever again.