What you said……end of subject.

The other reason why we lost our home was due to the total joke that is the Obama banking and mortgage crisis bailout plan (otherwise known as a free loan to big banks and financial institutions with few, if any, strings attached that have anything to do with home mortgage holders). During the crisis our bank was bought out by a much bigger bank who in turn would not only refinance our property, but to add insult to injury called in the loan. With now needed credit scores almost as good as God’s, there were no other financial institutions who would lend us the money to pay the mortgage off.

Whatever the Cavs owner did or didn’t do is like a spit in the ocean when compared to how the current Administrationi has totally failed to step up to the plate. 60 Minutes on Sunday ran a piece that indicates we’re in for a second big mortgage crisis and likely resulting 2nd dip in the on going recession within the next 18 months too.

Anybody who’s down and out needs an escape now and then in order to be able to take their mind off of their troubles; pro sports offers such an escape, but not when the best player and hometown hero rudely kicks the stool out from under those who have been so supportive and loyal.

La Bum could have accepted more money in a sign and trade and not hurt the fans so badly and allowed them to move on without the drama hanging as to what he ultimately was or wasn’t going to do. Miami worked such a deal with Toronto for Bosh, and Chicago worked such a deal with Utah for Boozer too. What La Bum did simply lacked class.

One last thing… no, we’re not crying in our beer about losing our home because we were “upside down” anyways with a high monthly payment. Since then the property has dropped another $80,000 in value, and required over $75,000 put into it just to be able to sell it. To finance the additional $155,000 would have been financial suicide for us.

I think though that you’re being too hard on Cav’s fans. Cav’s fans from all that I’ve read worshiped La Bum and rolled out the red carpet for him, as you know it’s been decades upon decades since any sports team in Cleveland won any championship, so he was their best “great hope”.

I would like to think that all of the anger directed towards him is primarily over the shameless way that he pantsed Cavs fan after having led them to believe that there was a good chance that he would sign for more money than what the Heat or any other team was able to offer him under the NBACBA, then rubbed their noses in his decision with his circus like announcement (he did make a great clown under the big tent though, I’ll give Bozo James that much credit).

If I were a Cavs fan I’d be really ticked off too, because the Cavs bent over backwards and made roster decisions that they likely never would have otherwise made in an attempt to try an hasten the baking time needed for a legit championship run (Shaq being the obvious “reach” in that attempt).

So I view last nights return to Cleveland as being a kind of funeral venting on the part of the Cavs. Just like with the loss of a loved one, there has to be a grieving period and emotions let before the true healing can begin.

James “charity work/contributions” are I’m sure carefully managed by his agent and PR guy. He’s of course in the top income tax bracket and ANY agent who knows what they are doing will advise his client to take the tax shelter offered by charitable contributions. ANY PR guy worth their salt will also use those charitable contributions/work to maximize building his players public image too.

What impresses me is what Jay Cutler has quietly been doing. Cutler has been working with the impoverished in Kenya WAY under the radar. He didn’t even tell his teammates where he was going or doing, and hasn’t sought ANY publicity for doing so… it’s coming straight from his heart. That’s a lot different than carefully staged photo op’s at children’s hospitals if you ask me.

What though constitutes La Bum’s true character? Consider:

* Totally blindsided and played the loyal Cav’s fans and stages a shameful publicity stunt to sign with Miami and truly stick it in Cav’s fans faces;
* Continues to shrivel as the “go to” guy in crunch time. He ain’t no Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant in that regard, that’s for sure!;
* Travels with a “posse”, otherwise known as a bunch of opportunist leaches who are maintained to isolate him from being annoyed by such things as having a kid ask for his autograph (heaven forbid!); and
* Can’t man-up to face the anticipated booing and jeers upon his return to Cleveland by ducking the opening lineup into’s.

Ya, that’s a real high character guy all right!

Cleveland has moved on. We will forever boo him just like we will forever boo Art Modell. Writers that are not from the area don’t get that and publish articles that say otherwise. Read a paper from around here and try your hardest to find anything about Lebron (that wasn’t a nationally relevant topic going on for that day).

This is a story because LeBron did something, not Cleveland. Pay attention and stop repeating things you heard last December.

On another note, as a fan who watched him for years, he’s missing that same explosiveness. Sure, he’s still one of the most athletic players in the NBA, but he didn’t seem to have the same unstoppable game. Where he used to throw it down at the rim, now he’s laying it off of the glass (and missing more than he should).

How gutless can you get?