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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,915
    Kilgore_Trout wrote:
    Indifference71 wrote:
    I still can't get over the ego of this jagoff. I really hope the Lebron/MJ comparisons stop here for good.
    :lol: wouldn't the ego thing just strengthen the comparison?


    Good point. I just still can't get over this one hour ESPN special to announce that youre leaving your hometown team. That's just a slap in the face to Cleveland. The guy has absolutely no class.
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    I just heard the Knicks used former employee Isiah Thomas to woo Lebron. What a stupid franchise to do that- didn't he get convicted for sexual harressment and doesn't he coach Florida International now?
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,570
    Stu Scott - and his one good eye - is all that is wrong with the culture of ESPN & sports.
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Stu Scott - and his one good eye - is all that is wrong with the culture of ESPN & sports.
    not to make light of physical deformities... but is that not the creepiest thing in the world??

    how did he make it on tv?? radio maybe... but tv??

    he must hate that everything is going 3-D...
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  • Backstop-440
    Backstop-440 Posts: 93
    norm wrote:
    ESPN's LeBron circus good for TV ratings, bad for sports media
    He later asked how James could explain this to Cleveland and what the major reason was for leaving the Cavaliers, and got James to give up the news that Erik Spoelstra will remain the Miami Heat coach (at least for now). As James answered Gray's questions, I'm sure I wasn't alone in thinking this: Any chance we could get a shot of the crowd's reaction in Miami or Cleveland?
    I was at a bar last night and roughly seventeen seconds after "South Beach" came out of his mouth everyone settled up their tabs, shrugged, and went home. A couple of people tried to work up a "fuck you, traitor" but no one was biting. The DJ tried to make a funny by playing "Hey hey hey, goodbye" on the PA but he got no reaction other than some stink-eyes and cut it off after a few seconds.

    Just another thing to add to the pile of Cleveland's sports troubles.
    "Money is no object," I said, "but I am on a budget."
  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    I have become an even bigger Cleveland fan in the last 24 hours.

    The more I think about it and read reactions, I am really sorry that LeBron didnt invest some of his serious dough into someone with some real sense, a life coach instead of an agent. I actually dont even recognize "life coach" as a profession usually, but in this case he needed someone to help him see things through.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Way to go Dan Gilbert!

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/09/ ... tml?hpt=C2

    Cavs owner's letter mocked for Comic Sans font
    By John D. Sutter, CNN

    Editor's note: NBA.com and CNN.com share the same parent company, Turner Broadcasting Services Inc.

    (CNN) -- Dear computer users: If you're ever going to write a fuming letter, think twice before setting the font to the oh-so-mockable Comic Sans.

    Take it from Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the NBA team that lost its star basketball player, LeBron James, on Thursday night.

    After Gilbert posted a rant -- in the cutesy Comic Sans typeface -- about James' departure on NBA.com, bloggers, newspaper writers and Twitter pundits lashed back with a collective message that essentially said this:

    Unless you're a fourth-grader, or being ironic, or the author of a comic book, or on vacation from the 1990s, never use that typeface.

    On Twitter, discussion of Gilbert's font choice briefly trumped the debate about James' move to the Miami Heat, according to the blog TechCrunch, which posted a screen grab of the trending topics from that messaging site.

    One of the blog's writers, MG Siegler, says the font faux pas is especially egregious given how much press Gilbert's letter is receiving.

    "Normally a staple among six-year olds and grandmothers, Gilbert for some reason decided to use the font to write what will undoubtedly be the most public message he will ever write," he writes. "And it's too bad, because the content of the message itself is quite good -- very juicy. Gilbert's use of quotes, capitalization, and bolded letters makes it very clear just how pissed off he is."

    Siegler calls Comic Sans "probably the worst font ever to grace the computer screen."

    Comic Sans is the brainchild of Vincent Connare, who created the font while working as a "typographic engineer" at Microsoft in the 1990s. There were primarily two ideas behind the font's origin: Microsoft wanted a font that was more "FUN" than the rest, and comic-book lettering hadn't transferred well from books to the computer screen.

    "There was a consistent style used in comics, which was quite unlike the style of lettering you see in newspaper cartoon strips," Connare writes on Microsoft's website dedicated to the font. "I also noticed that many people were inappropriately using drafting lettering in comic speech balloons."

    Since the '90s though, Comic Sans has become a mockery on the internet. A movement called "Ban Comic Sans" has been trying to kill the font.

    "The typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information," an introductory post on the site bancomicsans.com says.

    "These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built."

    In a CollegeHumor.com video about a fictional "font conference," a guy representing Comic Sans swoops into the final scene, dressed as a boyish superhero in a cape and tights, only to find that all of his friends have already been killed.

    "Y'all good? I'm gonna peace out. If anyone needs me, Comic Sans will be over here!" the character says before stepping out of the frame.

    Connare is apparently able to maintain a sense of humor about his creation.

    "If you love it, you don't know much about typography," he told The Wall Street Journal in 2009, before adding: "If you hate it, you really don't know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby."

    As for Gilbert, the Cavs' owner, the font choice may have served the purpose -- whether intended or not -- of getting his message out to the public.

    Stories about the fuming letter on the websites for The Washington Post, ESPN, CBS Sports and Time all mentioned Gilbert's choice of Comic Sans.

    "You see, he wrote in Comic Sans so that you would know he's serious," Matt Moore writes on a blog at CBSSports.com.

    On a Washington Post blog, Michael Lee writes that Comic Sans only adds to the "ridiculous nature of the evening" on Thursday.

    TechCrunch's Siegler, referring to the fonts made up mostly of symbols, said he will "await a LeBron response in Wingdings."
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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,570
    "If LeBron James is the future of sports, then I shudder for the future."

    Good read from Simmons...

    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... ons/100709

    Also, the analogy of Lebron being the 3rd man like Hogan being the 3rd man in the NWO is GENIUS.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H76DwHgOwpA
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    at least it gives me a team to hate in the nba again. its been a while.


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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Dan Gilbert has been fined 100K
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Newch91 wrote:
    Dan Gilbert has been fined 100K

    and who's gonna fine david stern for being an asshat?!
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    norm wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Dan Gilbert has been fined 100K

    and who's gonna fine david stern for being an asshat?!
    right?!? how can he stand idly by while his league turns into a fuckin joke and then hand out fines in the aftermath?? "the decision" never should have been allowed to happen... I'm sure stern's thought was "any publicity is good publicity" but NO

    are we allowed to impeach commissioners? :|
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    norm wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Dan Gilbert has been fined 100K

    and who's gonna fine david stern for being an asshat?!

    David Stern is a joke.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Kilgore_Trout wrote:
    norm wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Dan Gilbert has been fined 100K

    and who's gonna fine david stern for being an asshat?!
    right?!? how can he stand idly by while his league turns into a fuckin joke and then hand out fines in the aftermath?? "the decision" never should have been allowed to happen... I'm sure stern's thought was "any publicity is good publicity" but NO

    are we allowed to impeach commissioners? :|


    stern did say he the thought the tv show was a bad idea...didn't do anything about it but thought it was a bad idea...such a great leader :roll:
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    we won't even discuss all the backdoor free agent conversations that happened before july 1. close your eyes david, close your eyes.
    81 is now off the air

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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    81 wrote:
    we won't even discuss all the backdoor free agent conversations that happened before july 1. close your eyes david, close your eyes.

    csn philly showed a sixers/bulls game from 1987 last night. jordan had 49...but david wingate put up some solid numbers and the sixers won. love watching those old games. barkley was such a beast on the boards. you almost forget how quick he was for being so big. watching him and oakley go at it was pretty cool.

    THAT ladies and gentlemen was REAL basketball. back when the nba still mattered.
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Newch91 wrote:
    norm wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Dan Gilbert has been fined 100K

    and who's gonna fine david stern for being an asshat?!

    David Stern is a joke.

    Huge understatement.
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  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    Stern is pretty shady as a commish but he still blows Beavis Bettman and that pussyass MLB Milwaukee owner/commish out of the water
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    I don't know what worse...the three fuckateers or ESPN sucking their cock's constantly...asshats!
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    The Jeagler wrote:
    at least it gives me a team to hate in the nba again. its been a while.


    GO SIXERS.

    Been awhile? Where have you been the last few years? The Celtics have been in the finals. As a Sixers fan I will always hate the knicks and celtics equally.

    That being said, the NBA sucks balls

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