Friday Feedback
July 11, 2014 by Mike CasazzaWelcome to the Friday Feedback, which feels like it’s been here before. Here we are, in the middle of the summer and in the throes of desperation waiting for LeBron James to simply talk. And I use “we” liberally because so few of you and us actually care. But it’s clogging up our timelines and news feeds and cable programming.
(Aside: It’s remarkable what ESPN and its considerable cast sprinkled around the globe have done in filling a week with absolutely no news. None. It’s been mostly hollow, almost entirely inconsequential and very much the sort of things you and I could conjure up, up to and including today’s headline: Dan Gilbert’s Comic Sans letter is an issue! I love the live shots of a boring city or marina scene beneath words describing an anxious city on the brink. But damn if it hasn’t been thorough, even if it was a lot of putting something where there’s nothing and basically redefining the definition and use of “source.”)
Anyhow, across the board, from the sport to the spectacle, from the actors to the reporting, this isn’t my cup of tea. I have a distaste for a lot of it, but that whole Cleveland thing always gets me. So I side-eye it, watching it unfold, cynical as I may be. I even thought it was done yesterday, based on what I’d watched and what I’d learned from people who are around the story’s periphery. It was going to be Cleveland (he wouldn’t consider the Cavaliers unless he’d granted the fans and the owner forgiveness and embraced a willingness to go back), and that’s a pretty cool arc. A lot was going on unseen and behind the scenes and it would all come to the surface when he made the call.
Except it wasn’t happening. And it’s not. For now. So about 20 chanting fans are camped outside LeBron’s Akron house, never mind he’s in Miami on the way to Brazil. And there are four Rubber City cops there to keep things under wraps. Four! For 20! They’ll need armies from seven nations to control the riot when he picks the Heat. Again.
(No, seriously, he’s going back to Cleveland. I think. And then Mike Gansey will have revenge on Miami for the way that franchise derailed his playing career.)
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, know your audience.
netbros said:
“Our guys don’t have cars. Only a few.”
Unlike those dudes at Kentucky.
It’s good to be back.
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