Um.
Yeah.
This whole ALCS is becoming a bit too “Cleveland-y” for our tastes, and with the City of Boston Red Socks fans acting all “Boston-y”, ie obnoxious/entitled, we nearly became sick to our stomach last night.
So tonight is Game 7 – it’s pretty much anything can happen, right?
We’ve been reminded twice already about the time the City of Boston Red Socks threw Pedro Martinez out there for three innnings of relief work on short rest the last time these two teams were in a winner-take-all game, so we’re like all hating Josh Beckett this morning.
Are CLE’s aces just too young?* Sure seems that way, but then again, it could just be the Cleveland thing. We’re undecided on whether this collapse earns an official name or not – probably depends on how this Game 7 loss goes tonight.
If it’s a blow-out, it probably doesn’t get one. If CLE is way up, then the City of Boston Red Socks make a comeback (A microcosm of the entire series!), it probably gets one. (The Choke?)
Anyway, a quick NBA note. We’ve made the executive decision to forego NBA League Pass for the first time in 4 years. This is based on the non-offense of the Cavaliers, combined with their apathy of last season, when by the end of November, watching them became a task, rather than a pleasure.
It’s all pretty simple – we just don’t want to feel obligated to watch them if they’re not bringing it every night. (They’re also on national TV quite a bit.)
We do reserve the right to pick it up halfway through the season, or even the end of November, if LeBron and Crew are really going at it. We’ll depend on you to let us know what the real story is behind the team’s record – if you remember last season, nobody in the national media figured out they weren’t trying until later on in the season.
Besides all that, this site will be less NBA and more snake movie, as this becomes the official blog of Who Shot Mamba?. Things will be looking a little Roundier around here sooner rather than later.
Can you smell the re-design coming? It smells like angst-ridden synthetic leather!
NOTE: Just saw that super-religious and morally correct Indians pitcher Paul Byrd is an alleged HGHer. Awesome.
*When did Terry Pluto go to the Plain Dealer? Was this a big deal when it happened? We had no idea until this morning for whatever reason.
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we may be obnoxious and entitled, but at least we don’t wave around those stupid hankies.
According to nba.com the best block of last night was George Muresan of the Indiana Pacers. What?
ya, the whole Pluto thing was a big deal. The PD really promoted the hell out of it.
come on Westbrook….
I feel the exact same way about League Pass, 31 games are on National TV (assuming you have NBA TV). $160 for games against the Atlanta’s and Indiana’s, not to mention the HD games were practically non-existant last year. I think I’ll “pass.”
I have a very bad feeling about tonight. Game 7’s for any Cleveland sports team= not good.
I don’t fully understand the whole “ughh Cleveland fans are dumb idiot jerks who are poor and don’t work or shave because they get all enthusiastic at a baseball game and wave around towels” reaction we’re getting from Boston because of these towels. Are they really that bad? Isn’t it worse to have made a trade FOR Coco Crisp?
no because the player we traded for coco crisp was andy marte. also, the fans didn’t make the trade. the front office did.
the bottom line is that towels, hankies and other props are for expansion teams. fans of old time teams like the cleveland indians shouldn’t be using them.
It’s like how the Celtics would never have cheerleaders or dance teams. Some things you just don’t do. Boston knows what’s up – remember, they’re the most tortured sports city in history. Remember that one year they didn’t even win the Super Bowl?
Hankies? Hasn’t the towel waving thing been done about everywhere now? Sounds like a Boston fan jealous of Tribe-fever.
It was a good run – this team is too inconsistent to belong in the World Series yet. Boston earned it, and they certainly paid for it.
what’s wrong with towels?? I think it looks pretty cool on TV to see a whole stadium rocking it. Remember the Nets vs Detroit Pistons in game 3 4 back in the season before everyone got shipped out? Continental Arena (Izod Center now. ughh) was going NUTS, the towels made the environment in that place seem even more crazy than the game.
“*Don’t worry Cleveland-ites or Cleveland-ers, whatever you are…Carmona closes it out in Game 6.” – that prediction was brought to you by a Cubs fan. Probably the only team that has gone without a World Series longer than the Tribe.
Carmona is overrated, CC is overrated, CLE was in way over their heads, and now Sizemore gets knocked down a peg or two for not only being dubbed the “best” CF in the AL (how is it acceptable for a leadoff hitter to hit .277 and be called the best?) and Travis Hafner is officially on “his name has got to be on that HGH list” watch. I hate to see Boston win, but jerkoff CLE fans deserve their team getting stomped after chanting “Boston sucks” in games 3-5 only to gave BOS work their tricks all over the field on your boys.
yeah, those cleveland fans were real a–holes for, you know, supporting their home team and trying to make it hard for the visitors. like they were trying to give the indians some kinda “advantage” just because they were at “home.”
the nerve of them…
well it was a great series, i’ll say that much. it could have gone either way. i don’t see why everyone’s making a big deal out of that lofton play at third. its not like it was a one-run loss.
Yeah but the game being 3-3 would’ve changed the tone of things – you can’t really say what might have happened after that.
There’s a difference between supporting your team and being a total douche. You didn’t hear a “Cleveland sucks” chant in Boston, you didn’t even hear taunting until after Pedroia urinated all over Rafael Betancourt’s career.
that’s all you hear come out of CLE anymore… “yeah but”, “yeah but we beat Detroit”, “yeah but next year we’ll be back”, “yeah but, yeah but, yeah but”… A 3-3 score would have changed the tone of the game, but BOS always had the upper hand in the game.
I was under no impression (before/during/after) that CLE would win that game.
I jinxed Cleveland. My apologies.
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