Comments on: The Decision and the Deal http://www.the-a-line.com/2010/07/the-decision-and-the-deal/ It is what it is, unless it is not Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: snakeman40 http://www.the-a-line.com/2010/07/the-decision-and-the-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 snakeman40 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:49:24 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1516#comment-1046 As probably the first one in the group you would think would have been watching LeEgo decide where he would "take his talents", let me say I never turned on the TV.  I got so sick of LeBitch and his runaway ego way before the announcement.  Yes, I still wanted him back with the Cavs, but by Thurs. p.m., I was also halfway hoping he (oops, sorry....I meant to say 'He') would sign elsewhere.  After becoming LeChoke in the playoffs AGAIN, I lost quite a bit of enthusiasm for Jesus Jr.  Reading some Cleveland boards has put a smile on my face, however.  Names flying everywhere like "Queen James", "LeLiar", "LeTraitor", and "Black Modell" (courtesy of Jason Whitlock) are among the most popular.  My favorite, however, had to be "LeHopeHeDiesInAPlaneCrash".  Did you see where the Cavs owner (who also owns Fatheads) put His fathead on sale (in a Cavs uniform) for $17.41 (down from $99.99) because that was the year Benedict Arnold was born.  Gotta love Gilbert for calling a spade a spade (pun intended).  Don't ask me about what a complete joke ESPN has become or Jesse Jackass for that matter.  My blood pressure is high enough as it is..... As probably the first one in the group you would think would have been watching LeEgo decide where he would “take his talents”, let me say I never turned on the TV.  I got so sick of LeBitch and his runaway ego way before the announcement.  Yes, I still wanted him back with the Cavs, but by Thurs. p.m., I was also halfway hoping he (oops, sorry….I meant to say ‘He’) would sign elsewhere.  After becoming LeChoke in the playoffs AGAIN, I lost quite a bit of enthusiasm for Jesus Jr.  Reading some Cleveland boards has put a smile on my face, however.  Names flying everywhere like “Queen James”, “LeLiar”, “LeTraitor”, and “Black Modell” (courtesy of Jason Whitlock) are among the most popular.  My favorite, however, had to be “LeHopeHeDiesInAPlaneCrash”.  Did you see where the Cavs owner (who also owns Fatheads) put His fathead on sale (in a Cavs uniform) for $17.41 (down from $99.99) because that was the year Benedict Arnold was born.  Gotta love Gilbert for calling a spade a spade (pun intended).  Don’t ask me about what a complete joke ESPN has become or Jesse Jackass for that matter.  My blood pressure is high enough as it is…..

]]> By: notahoo http://www.the-a-line.com/2010/07/the-decision-and-the-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 notahoo Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:35:56 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1516#comment-1045 Ironic isn't it that ESPN is owned by Mickey Mouse, Inc., and when it came time to disclose where LeBron would be playing this season, I didn't give a rat's a**. Ironic isn’t it that ESPN is owned by Mickey Mouse, Inc., and when it came time to disclose where LeBron would be playing this season, I didn’t give a rat’s a**.

]]> By: BobLee http://www.the-a-line.com/2010/07/the-decision-and-the-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-1044 BobLee Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:16:58 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1516#comment-1044 For all of us who say we did not watch or watched sporadically ..... There WERE millions who DID watch, and apparently actually "cared".   I was never afraid of Hokie Jim and The Clubhouse Guys; but "LeBron care-abouts" DO frighten me a bit. Nostradamus Quatrain #683 predicted this ..... also Revelations 9:24 BobLee For all of us who say we did not watch or watched sporadically ….. There WERE millions who DID watch, and apparently actually “cared”.
 
I was never afraid of Hokie Jim and The Clubhouse Guys; but “LeBron care-abouts” DO frighten me a bit.
Nostradamus Quatrain #683 predicted this ….. also Revelations 9:24
BobLee

]]> By: HokieJayBee http://www.the-a-line.com/2010/07/the-decision-and-the-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-1043 HokieJayBee Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:05:20 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1516#comment-1043 Excellent article as usual Jim, I truly enjoy your writing style. I actually had a couple friends over to watch the Decision, on what was the 8th day of gifts of Lebronica.  I lied, it was a Thursday night pizza and beer meeting for one of my fantasy football leagues to set our rules and name our keepers for the upcoming season.  And admittedly [shamefully], we watched Jim Gray come in second place with the worst interview of all time - to Jim Gray, for his interview of Pete Rose at the All-Star game a few years ago.  We all already knew it was Miami, because of the "leaks" that had already come out.  Ironically enough, those "leaks" were from other LebronSPN analysts, which didn't make sense for them to allow their employees to give up the secret prior to us watching their special......but there we sat, a sixer of Yuenglueng Lager deep each, transfixed on the Decision - all the while my DirecTV box and its phone line connection piping up viewership numbers to the Nielson Ratings. But I digress.  I wrote in today because your satire at the end of your post on the backness of the Canes brought back amazing memories of standing in the rain for 4 hours last year watching the Canes cry up and down Lane Stadium, claiming it was raindrops on their cheeks the whole time.  But it also made me think about something this year. I think we're past our prime as a program to be the "new guy" or the "upstart".  Granted we didn't win any crystal shaped football trophies yet, but I think we've firmly supplanted ourselves in the "powerhouse" category, or at least in the nationally consistently in the conversation category.  [Insert line here about X straight amount of 10 win seasons, praise coaching continuity].  So, while Miami [remember you can't plead uncontested to charges without the U] is backer than back.  And as Greg pointed out in comment #1, Butch and company are "back" [if you count his former Hurricane stardom] or are "upstart" if you count the fact that UNC football hasn't been relevant in, well, a long time.  And of course there's the team in Atlanta with the new fangled doo-hickey offense [read: old is new].  And, most of all, we open at FedEx with the true LebronSPN cinderella upstart program, Boise State.  It made me think a little bit about our football team's reputation nationally, where the same ACC LebronSPN writer can rate Ryan Williams as the third best player in the ACC but also rank him as a favorite in the Heisman race...... It just made me think that there's at least four games on our slate where we'll be televised, assumedly by LebronSPN, that we won't be "favored".  And here, I don't mean the money line or spread in Vegas, I mean "favored" by THE NETWORK and all its pundits leading up to the game.  And I can see four games this year where the week leading up to the game is eerily similar to that of the week before Miami last year, according to face time and LebronSPN blabber. All of which, echoing Greg again, I think is great for our team and our underdog/lunchpail mentality. Thoughts? Excellent article as usual Jim, I truly enjoy your writing style.

I actually had a couple friends over to watch the Decision, on what was the 8th day of gifts of Lebronica.  I lied, it was a Thursday night pizza and beer meeting for one of my fantasy football leagues to set our rules and name our keepers for the upcoming season.  And admittedly [shamefully], we watched Jim Gray come in second place with the worst interview of all time – to Jim Gray, for his interview of Pete Rose at the All-Star game a few years ago. 

We all already knew it was Miami, because of the “leaks” that had already come out.  Ironically enough, those “leaks” were from other LebronSPN analysts, which didn’t make sense for them to allow their employees to give up the secret prior to us watching their special……but there we sat, a sixer of Yuenglueng Lager deep each, transfixed on the Decision – all the while my DirecTV box and its phone line connection piping up viewership numbers to the Nielson Ratings.

But I digress.  I wrote in today because your satire at the end of your post on the backness of the Canes brought back amazing memories of standing in the rain for 4 hours last year watching the Canes cry up and down Lane Stadium, claiming it was raindrops on their cheeks the whole time.  But it also made me think about something this year.

I think we’re past our prime as a program to be the “new guy” or the “upstart”.  Granted we didn’t win any crystal shaped football trophies yet, but I think we’ve firmly supplanted ourselves in the “powerhouse” category, or at least in the nationally consistently in the conversation category.  [Insert line here about X straight amount of 10 win seasons, praise coaching continuity]. 

So, while Miami [remember you can't plead uncontested to charges without the U] is backer than back.  And as Greg pointed out in comment #1, Butch and company are “back” [if you count his former Hurricane stardom] or are “upstart” if you count the fact that UNC football hasn’t been relevant in, well, a long time.  And of course there’s the team in Atlanta with the new fangled doo-hickey offense [read: old is new].  And, most of all, we open at FedEx with the true LebronSPN cinderella upstart program, Boise State. 

It made me think a little bit about our football team’s reputation nationally, where the same ACC LebronSPN writer can rate Ryan Williams as the third best player in the ACC but also rank him as a favorite in the Heisman race……

It just made me think that there’s at least four games on our slate where we’ll be televised, assumedly by LebronSPN, that we won’t be “favored”.  And here, I don’t mean the money line or spread in Vegas, I mean “favored” by THE NETWORK and all its pundits leading up to the game.  And I can see four games this year where the week leading up to the game is eerily similar to that of the week before Miami last year, according to face time and LebronSPN blabber.

All of which, echoing Greg again, I think is great for our team and our underdog/lunchpail mentality.

Thoughts?

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