LeBron James is bored
Published by The Cavalier November 1st, 2007 in NBA, LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Music, Tony Parker, France, Blogs, Who Shot Mamba?, Blog SuicideOn this, the official 2000th post of this YAYsports! NBA, we feel the need to make a list. But first, allow us to post a classic from the archives. (We’ll be doing this periodically for the next month or so - it’s important stuff, so study up.)
We hope you enjoyed that, because it gets ugly from here. REAL ugly.
Back to that celebratory 2000th post list. This list will encompass but one item, and it shall be of a current event, rather than one of historical significance.
The YAYsports! NBA List of Best Things We Didn’t Purchase in the Past Week-To-Ten Days
1) NBA League Pass
Yeah, we watched, then after the first half, occasionally glanced at the Cavaliers getting blown out by the Mavs last night, and it confirmed everything we’ve thought for well over a year now.
This team has no heart, no drive, and no soul. Deciding not to watch all of their games this season is already the best decision we’ve made, as stated, in the past week to ten days.
They play like they’ve got a built in excuse of “everyone thinks we’re going to suck, so if we do, it’s like okay for some strange reason”.
The team hits its Western road trip right here in the first two weeks of the season, so combine that with “preseason China trip” and “our foreign role players didn’t come to camp”…you’ve got a nice 2-8 record to start the season or something.
Then there’s the topper - continually stating there’s no excuses, which is like using all your excuses without saying it explicitly.
‘’We didn’t do anything right, we didn’t play hard and we didn’t execute,'’ James said. ‘’It’s the first game; hopefully we can put it behind us.'’
Coach Mike, blah blah blah…haven’t we written this post 400 times out of 2000 posts? (In all fairness, we didn’t write all of those posts - Jack Cobra, Jordi, and SML, and possibly others chipped in as well.)
Speaking of Jack (#56) and Jordi (#26), they’re both counted among the 100 Most Influential Sports Bloggers, compiled by this blog that’s been in existence since August.
Becky can confirm we’ve felt this way for some time, but this whole sports blog world is so incestuous and bizarre and…not to use a word we never use…icky.
No, we’re not knocking it because we’re not on the list, although we always fly under the radar on these things. Maybe it’s because we’re such an elitist jerk about knocking on the whole sportsblogging world. Maybe it’s because if you’re starting a sportsblog you better have something unique or different to bring to the table.
Maybe it’s because starting a blogspot blog, writing 3 posts, then emailing Deadspin 14 times a day asking for links is pathetic. Who knows?
Aren’t we cheery this morning? We better find something else to write about real quick-like, because the NBA isn’t gonna do it for us anymore.
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First you bash my movie, then you bash my website. I’m relevant dammit. Jeez.
To be honest though, I totally agree with you on the blogging thing. But anyway, OMG, I thought I would tell you I totally found pictures of Brady Quinn picking Erin Andrews’s nose and I sent it to Deadspin and I wanted to tell you! So check out my site. I also have a list of what sports personalities would be beer brands if such a comparison of unlike objects was relevant. You should swing by. And there are pics of hot chicks!
That’s why I abandoned the notion of my own sports blog, other people already do it, with more commitment and better effory, I don’t really have the drive for it, I work 11 billion hours per week, so why bother? You just become another voice in a room that’s too crowded as it is.
1) Effory is like the French version of effort
2) I still e-mail Deadspin 4,000 times a day to let them know I haven’t posted anything
When did I bash your website and movie?
Watching the Cavs game was like watching that rodent on Groundhog’s Day. I was really hoping the Cavalier would see good basketball, and we’d get another season of good writing.
Bummer.
“What if NBA teams were different kinds of pizza?”
Ugh, I HATE those pieces … David Cross talked about the comedy equivalent of that one time, some guy going on before him did the “what if ‘We Are The World’ was performed by the cast of ‘Friends’?” It’s definitively hack.
Maybe I’ll just start doing movie reviews. I could bring back the old Mary Hartz site.
do you really love/hate the NBA, or just the cavs???
A how-to-write-a-Bill-Simmons column primer would be both unique and helpful (I’m not overly fond of the guy but, so what, he’s got a niche, I still enjoy reading him when he’s not focusing on New England)
Cav, I thought you were inferring that I am not influential. I paid big bucks for #26 fair and square. And you should talk about my movie and other movies that are, you know, actually completed. That would be fair.
Would you have me put out an incomplete and/or inferior product?
Jordi’s movie is on VHS, so it’s irrelevant to anything that matters in this day in age.
(Insert joke about the relevancy of video of relations between myself and female person Boney cares about being on VHS.)
Ha.
wow, that new cavalier offense sure did look good last night… precise, crisp, and quite innovative really.
You have to admire how Shannon Brown can take over the offense and shortcut right to the turnover.
“Would you have me put out an incomplete and/or inferior product?”
I’ll refrain from commenting on the status of this site.
Jordi is definitely sipping the haterade.
Yeah, Brown could never handle the rock, just finish. Typical Spartan. Whither Mateen? And c’mon now Cav, you’ve got to be excited over the mega-trade thats about to go down. While I know it was baseless, that Kobe for Prince & Rip deal got a rise out of me. With the Bulls deal falling through, all bets seem off.
The New York Knicks (Holy Shit!) would definitely be a Pizza Hut ‘Meat Lovers’. Deep Dish. With a 2 liter of Wild Cherry Pepsi.
“Drop some English for my homie Tim Duncan”; nice work. Peja’s back, does that mean ‘down with the P’ sessions are coming?
Oh, and remember when I said (Frank asked this I think) that Afflalo wouldn’t get many mintues this year? He’s starting the season opener tonight. Rip is out due to “family”, Stuckey out with “hand”, Hunter with “age”, and Flip Murray out with “Saunders’ principle that I never start somebody named Flip”.
Larry seemed to be the only one hussling at the end, and everyone lays into him cause of his offense. 7 steals 0 turnovers, so his shots weren’t falling, neither were Lebrons.
Sad/funny Lebron starts the season with a 2.00 efficiency rating. Come on Cavs, learn some offense.
I 100% totally agree with ya, though I do want to point out the irony of you and Becky talking about how incestuous the sports blogging world is.