LeBron James is on Home Improvement

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.