While We’re Waiting… Jimmy Haslam as Batman, Tough Tribe Losses, and Cavalier Hope

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The Southern Knight: “Tell me again why Jimmy Haslam III should tread slowly in the name of continuity and stability? Really now. Why? To protect and serve up one of the stalest Sunday products in the league? Cleveland doesn’t just need a new sheriff in town. Cleveland needs Haslam to be Batman. Browns’ football is a crime right now.” [Bud Shaw/Plain Dealer]

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Even our anniversaries are painful: “Thirty years ago today, the Indians experienced one of the toughest losses in franchise history. It wasn’t an especially important game and ultimately it didn’t matter that much, but games don’t have to be especially important to have an ending that is especially painful.” [Chris Jaffe/Hardball Times]

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Some sweet gif files of some of Sunday’s plays, both good and bad [Dawgs by Nature]

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Hey, at least some hope still lies in the Wine and Gold: “I think this is the year the Cavs will start to make some sense. Not individual players per se, but the team as an entity. Two years after shoving the post-Lebron roster through a rice thresher, Chris Grant has assembled something that resembles a professional basketball team. Or at least the best college basketball team in the country. We’re finally going to see talent interact with talent. Kyrie Irving, already one of the twenty or thirty best players in the league, won’t seem so out of place. There are arguments to be made about how good the Cavs’ offseason acquisitions can be, but they’re already markedly better than Luke Harangody and Ryan Hollins. They have motor skills much more advanced than that of the average toddler and don’t handle the ball as if it were an irate lobster. They’re basketball players—they know how to make lay-ups and everything!—and Cavs fans will be treated to something like basketball.” [Colin McGowan/Cavs the Blog]

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Pure poetry: St. Urban and the Dragon [EDSBS]

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And finally, your Ohio State Buckeyes: “Clearly, this team is doing its best to remind us it only won six games a year ago and that adding a sprinkle of contributing freshmen and some new coaches simply isn’t enough to turn things around on a dime. It’s a process. And that process will sometimes prove unnerving. Still, the good news is that the team gets to try and work out the kinks following a win versus learning from a loss.” [Chris/Eleven Warriors]