Playoff Tested
April 23, 2008Worst. Draft. Ever?
April 23, 2008Coincidentally, as Rock mentioned in this piece below, many writers are focusing on the physicality that is involved within the Cavs/Wizards series. And while it is typically the bloggers that are discredited due to their “opinions,” I direct your attention to Tom Knott of the Washington Times.
In his latest piece, titled “Oh, These Forces of Evil,” Knott breaks out the big guns.
[Mike] Brown is no different from most of Cleveland. Brown and Cleveland all fear that one day James will take his show to New York, Chicago, Boston or Los Angeles, and then the city slowly will recede into Lake Erie out of civic indifference.
LeBron leaving? No way. We haven’t heard that one before.
To quote a good friend of mine, “So, if I understand correctly, we don’t want LeBron James to get hurt for the fear that he may leave the city in three years?”
It’s this exact narrow-minded focus of Knott that is spread throughout the fans, and to a certain extent, the team. Mike Brown is getting animated on the sidelines because an opposing team has blatantly said that their plan was to pound on his player – and is doing so. How is it outlandish that the referees would call fouls in such cases?
Of course, when you get blown out by 30 in a playoff game, resorting back to pointing fingers is inherently easier than attempts at rectification. Tossing out allegations of “traveling” or the fact that the NBA is coddling their “icon” is a lot easier to write about than say, playing the best players at the most crucial of times or focusing on basketball instead of physical actions.
Oh, and one more thing. Andray Blatche will never get the same calls as someone like LeBron James. Blatche will be lucky if he ever gets calls on the same level as Rick James.
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6 Comments
The Washington Times is the biggest piece of trash out there. They can barely get reasonably literate people to write their national news, so its no surprise that their sports writers are ignorant assclowns. I’m sorry this is a little aggressive sounding, but living in the city where this paper resides, I get the enjoyment of having people try to talk to me about articles from the Wash-Times, after which I go brain dead for about 10 minutes.
Most of what I have read in the Wash-Post makes an attempt to analyze where the Wiz have gone wrong, whether it is Jordan’s gameplan, Agent 0’s ball hogging without production or what.
Then again, everything today was on the complete heartbreak of losing a game 7 in overtime after have your superstar tie the game at the last second during the regular period. But that’s hockey so who cares!
I’d like to second what Eli said about the Washington Times. Most Wizards fans don’t even find him credible.
I’m Rick James, b**ch!
Thank you both for the comments. I honestly don’t get to read the WT often, so that one definitely stood out from the sample. Each city has their own share of strong and not-so-strong writers, so it happens. I just don’t know if I can take another person filling up two pages of material based on non-gameplay activities…
Keep up the great work, Jake.
The Washington Times? Before this article came up, I had no idea they existed. But check out the guy who started it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon
Maybe the guy is just mad that he is writing for a cult leader and a no name newspaper
wow does Roger Brown write for the Washington Times under a pseudonym now?