LeBron James is on Home Improvement
Published by The Cavalier January 20th, 2008 in NBA, LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, Music, NO/OKC Hornets, TV, Life Discussions, Good Ideas, YouTube
All word is that LeBron is having one of his best seasons ever, and that the Cavs are on the upswing suddenly.
Good for them - in another life, we would’ve been the happiest boy on the planet. Many of your emails are asking us why we’re not.
We probably do owe you an explanation of some sort - loyal reader Johnny Casino sent in this lasterday, which is a nice summary of what we’ve been receiving.
Dear The Cavalier,
It makes me sad that you are indifferent towards the Cavs this year. Their record notwithstanding, LeBron is having his best season so far. I know I don’t need to give stats. But the guy is leading the league in scoring, leading the league in 4th qtr.scoring ,has career highs in field goal %, rebounds and assists. All while playing less minutes per game than last year. I love blog resurrection, but you should embrace the Cavs if not just LeBron for the season he is having.
Signed,
The Tar Heel, The Red Sock, BDP, Hey Deer and Mary Hartz.
First of all, Johnny is clearly a LONG, LONG, LONG-TIME reader.
(Interesting notes - we sold that maryhartz.com domain for like $300 - whoever bought it never did anything with it.
We still think “Hey Deer” was a great and fun idea, it was just hard to keep up with that, and YAY, and Mary, AND JenWatch every single day. Ahhh…those were the days…when being a comedy-blog-mogul was a vivid vision.
And JenWatch was “lonelygirl115″ before lonelygirl115 existed. We totally wanted to do that as a video, but didn’t want to play the guy ourself, so we tested it as a text blog first and then burnt out.)
Anyway, back to Johnny’s comments re: the Cavaliers. We spent a lot of time searching for the day that changed everything, but realized it was a steady process that happened in the 2006-2007 campaign.
Honestly, if you really want to see the full arc of emotion, click on the “Cleveland Cavaliers” category, start in October 2006, and read all the way through last season.
A summary, and we apologize to those of you who were here for all of this. On November 1, 2006, in celebration of the beginning of the season, we made this:
On October 29, 2007 - this came out of our keyboard:
There was a great danger last season, and we said this as it was happening, that the apathy/malaise of LeBron could permanently damage our fandom if he kept that $#!t up.
We’ve mentioned this before - we have a fault (and it often works as a strength, actually) that people only get one chance with us.
We can’t help it - you mess up to a certain degree and we write you off. It’s not that we dislike you, or hold a grudge, or anything negative like that. Hell, we’ll consider you a friend and wish you the best life on Earth - we just refuse to invest anything emotionally or financially into you ever again.
You’ll note that we don’t really get fired up either way about the Cavs - we don’t dislike them or anything - we just no longer care.
It’s like a switch flips in our brain, and we don’t know how to flip it back. This, in the end, is what happened with LeBron James and us.
We believe it may be irreversible, which is a shame, considering he’s also tainted the Cavaliers franchise and the NBA as a whole - two of the great loves of our life, along with our Mommy, synthetic protein, and jardoes.
We encourage you to read the entirety of those posts over the course of a few days/weeks - the transition from raw, uncontrollable passion to complete ambivalence is fascinating.
By the way, while on the hunt for posts, we ran into this Vince Carter photoshop we did. We had no recollection of doing this, and it made us laugh.
So did this:
He’s like, “Where is the server? I crave nourishment…” The one comment there is great, also - “You’re freakin’ crazy.”
Almost all of these are funny also, although they let them run long sometimes. For some reason the Home Improvement one kills us.
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What are jardoes?
Tell me the Inflatable Ben ass-beating made the final cut.
I tell no plot points before their time!
That deer was such an asshole sometimes, but he did teach us all that it’s ok to love again
What if the Cavs get their $#!t together, and led by LeBron and Coach Mike win 17 NBA championships in a row? Wouldn’t you feel bad about not caring anymore?
Wow. Will the Allef series be bonus features on the WSM? DVD? Please ….
Maybe - there’s the other one where Muffy goes to Target. Also the “An American Roundie in America”, which isn’t online anymore. That’ll probably go on for sure, since it has the first appearance of the League of Roundie Henchmen on film.
I may have to rape you for a stripped down DVD with just the movie, and then a special edition one that’s loaded with assorted vital nonsense. There really is enough backstory and material for a feature-length documentary on the making of this thing.
What, no love for The Beard? C’mon! That guy was a legend. Not to mention his Carolina Panther cheerleader pics got the lawyers a-callin’.
But I can do one better. What about The Raider? I don’t even know if he actually ever posted anything on the site before getting fired. I actually technically don’t know that he actually ever existed actually. But if I had to guess, I would say perhaps.
Wow you’re right I forgot about those guys - I still hear from The Beard every now and then.
Inflatable Ben?? I somehow made the movie, this could be the proudest moment of my entire life. BTW nice alf reference, I had one of those talking plush dolls of him when I was a kid. Talk about annoying as hell…
“I may have to rape you”
Hopefully that is the last time a guy ever says that to me.
blog resurrection SUCKS. i liked blog suicide better. posts were .. well … posted more often during the blog suicide. this resurrection thing looks as if isiah thomas was in charge of it.
I’ve been busy.
Does anyone know of a site where I can find out about local birthday parties?
Boooorrrriiinnnggggg. Bring back Boney! And what ever happened to the League of Distinguished Barmitzfahed Scholarly Gentlemen from Arizona? Weren’t they supposed to be posting? Jeez, it makes me look forward to a Jordi post (oh yeah, he’s me. Stay tuned.)
yeah, bring back Boney.
I have emails Cav…. oh yes, I have emails.
If Yay is the once-proud Knicks, Boney is the Stephon Marbury to the Cav’s Isiah.
“If Yay is the once-proud Knicks, Boney is the Stephon Marbury to the Cav’s Isiah.”
in which case jack cobra was probably traded for sam “one man rumor mill” smith from the chicago tribune and you’ll follow soon. probably in exchange for bulls announcers johnny red kerr and that stacey king moron who keeps repeating “wooooow” like a retarded kid who’s just been told the earth is actually round and is moving.
know what else made me laugh, this picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10873913@N00/208515664/
lol, fall 2006