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Cleveland Cavaliers owner on all the LeBron James rumors,

”The reason this thing is where it’s at,” Gilbert said, ”is that we’ve got a bunch of bored, East Coast sports writers who have nothing to do because the offseason is a few months away and the Olympics [hadn't] started yet.”

”The undertone to the whole thing that I wonder is, why him?” Gilbert said. ”Why not Dwyane Wade? Why not Chris Bosh? Why not whoever else is coming due?

”The only thing you can come up with is there are certain writers, or people who live on the East or West Coast, who think that Cleveland, Ohio, is not a good enough place for a superstar of LeBron’s caliber to spend his career.

”Despite the quality of the franchise, the quality of life in the Midwest, the fans — it’s a complete slap in the face from people who do not live in Cleveland, Ohio, to Cleveland, Ohio.

”That’s probably my biggest problem with the whole thing.”

He continued.

”If he were playing for the Lakers or the Knicks or the Nets or Miami, what they consider glamour teams, I don’t think there would be any of this talk. And the proof of it is there. Because there’s not talk of any of these other stars.”

I don’t know if these rumors are relegated to East Coast sportswriters, but they are very definitely bored.

“The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor — and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot.”

I guess I am not over this just yet.

(I am such a geek.)

I don’t know what you were expecting when you read that our basement is “finished.”  I have to say that while it may not be up to your standards, we have walls, and lights everywhere.  There is one big room with carpet, a bar and a fireplace.  That room covers about 1/3 of the basement.  If that isn’t considered “finished” then keep looking.

I am pretty realistic about the positives and negatives of my home, but don’t be a jerk.  The basement is finished.  Bottom line.

After inviting music bloggers to listen to six tracks of their upcoming album, the band has now gone around asking all those bloggers to remove reviews that they wrote after listening to the songs.

Wha wha what?

What, exactly, did Metallica think a bunch of music bloggers were going to do with their newfound ear candy?

UPDATE: Apparently, Metallica’s MANAGEMENT COMPANY hates bloggers. The boys of Metallica have “ear spanked” their management company and told all involved to post reviews as much as they would like.

I would get it if he was a contributor for Deadspin. I don’t think that we need to have the conversation reduced to attacks on the more well-established media websites like ESPN. After the Ohio State article, I emailed the ESPN ombudsman, Le Anne Schreiber, but she didn’t get enough response to make it a priority.

I assume Forde will eventually piss off a critical mass of people. I can’t wait.

Ferris Bueller is going to be pissed.

I wonder how a guy who writes about the most popular team in town can keep his job when so many of the fans seem to hate his guts (and his reporting?)

As MC said, it even comes with cool stick figures.