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Anyone see Lebron on the news last night, That scum bucket said he'll be rooting for the Yankees over the Tribe.. I'm glad I don't watch that boring game or league he plays in. Just move to NY now.  
I agree.
The punk needs to show some hometown pride, or just keep quiet.
I am not surprised some don't get it.
My feeling is he wants to be the guy to bring a championship to Cleveland.
If he does....too bad it is in a sport a notch above soccer.
The NBA could take their thugs and rigged system, and fold it down tomorrow and I wouldn't care one bit.
Actually, I would be glad except for the fact hundreds of love children wouldn't get as much in support payments.
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Lebron said "Ohh you got that guy this week in FF 337. Slam it home baby. Thank God Drew Brees punk ass has a bye  !" And yeah I would say around 1/2 the people on this board are from outside Cleveland and love the Browns. They aren't bandwagon fans at all. As mentioned already I am a Maple Leaf Fan and don't even live in that country. I am deff not a bandwagon fan.
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He also said the Maryland terrapins suck. 
Then he ordered this because he wants his son to learn to play football....
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I am a Maple Leaf Fan and don't even live in that country. I am deff not a bandwagon fan.
Lots of the old timers like me became Leafs fans when there were only around two handfuls of NHL teams. The Cleveland Barons jersey were the same as the Leafs, Cleveland Arena was designed from Leafs Garden and of course Johnny Bower.
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He can root for whoever he wants to. I could care a less. go browns! go cavs! go tribe! 
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He can root for whoever he wants to. I could care a less.
go browns!
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me to, I just like getting a rise out of LeBron fans! Lebron fan doesn't equal a Cavs fan though.
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He can root for whoever he wants to. I could care a less.
go browns!
go cavs!
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me to, I just like getting a rise out of LeBron fans! Lebron fan doesn't equal a Cavs fan though.
Go Browns!!
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Go Tribe!
I'm a Cavs fan, and I could care less who he roots for, or any other Cav for that matter. As well I dont care who Indians players root for.
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Plus think about when he grew up. How many indians fans were not even baseball fans until about 89 or later? Or just when we lost in the world series?
I have to say the only reason (maybe) I am a lifelong Indians fan is because of the escalators in the Muni. (I can 't even remember exactly where in the world they were...I think they were two short ones side by side.)
Yep.
My next door neighbor and me used to go to games as his grandad liked to go. He would take us two and we would run around an totally empty stadium and ride the escalators until security chased us off. Then we'd go to another one. We almost never watched baseball just had fun. Then as I got older I started watching....and now I still watch the indians.
Many people forget just how bad we really were. It was pretty hard to be and actual Indians FAN. A lot of people rooted for the tribe I suppose just like I hope everyone does well in the special olympics. But actual Fans? That didn't happen till we got good.
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A lot of people rooted for the tribe I suppose just like I hope everyone does well in the special olympics
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Will someone please inform LeBron that I'm no longer a Cavs fan. I'm sure he will be as upset as I was to hear he is a Yankee fan.
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So many people choose to like the Yankees and I guarantee most of them did just because they were good.
Usually, that's a good reason to like a team...most people don't get behind a team because they suck...unless you're from Cleveland 
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I'm sure his New York Yankees hat is near his Jeff Gordon jacket as it hangs next to his Phoenix Mercury sweater in the same closet as his Colts autographed football and Houston Dynamo autographed soccer ball.
I just want at least one NBA Champion head band in there too within the next 3 years.
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Who cares? Just because he's playing in Cleveland, he's supposed to just give up his favorite teams? Believe it or not, he's probably been a Yankee fan longer than he's been a Cav. I don't have a problem with it at all (other than the fact that he should be a Sox fan )
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i really don't care who he roots for, just as long as he's scoring buckets for the wine and gold, and doing it for a long time
i do agree with peen, that if it were a perfect world, of course you'd want lebron to root for the tribe, and maybe a little bit of it is him wanting to be the guy who ends this drought...
i disagree with peen with the whole nba-thug image thing, i think that's a cliche that doesn't hold as much truth as people want to believe, for every ron artest or steven jackson, there are plenty more tim duncans, lebron james, steve nash, dirk nowitzkis, and dwyane wades...
and besides, above lebron liking the yankees, he is a devoted browns fan, which is the most important team in cleveland
i still lol at people who think he's going to new york? have you looked at that franchise? lolz
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<>....Are we going to go through this again? Who cares? ..<>
I know, it's crazy. Does it really matter who LeBron roots for?
I was listening to the talk radio shows this morning and some of the callers were truly laughable.
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It's that type of metallity of Cleveland fans that runs players OUT of Cleveland.
There are people on here calling him a scumbag, and a punk (I seriously doubt they would do it to his face), yet he just took the stepchild of Cleveland teams to the championship. Resigned to stay longer and vowed to bring a championship to the city.
Some people just are miserable people, and as they say, misery loves company
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It's that type of metallity of Cleveland fans that runs players OUT of Cleveland.
Don't agree with this at all. Lack of the big payday and crappy weather run players out. This town is an EASY to play for.
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Don't agree with this at all. Lack of the big payday and crappy weather run players out. This town is an EASY to play for.
Those are also contributing factors, by no means are the fans solely responsible for running players out of town. But they don't always help, and no, this is not an easy town to play for. This thread is all the evidence I need.
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Here is my take... there are fans out there who have been following these teams in excess of 40 years without a championship... they are frustrated. Then you get a 25 year old kid in here (pick your sport) and he's really good and playing hard but his team is getting booed.... Now he might SAY he understands the Cleveland fans and the desire to bring a championship here, but he really doesn't, there is no way he could..... players want 2 things first and foremost and I think with players, you can't always tell which comes first.. but they want the biggest paycheck possible and they want to play for a winning team... Cleveland (all sports) can promise neither of those....
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<>.......and crappy weather run players out...<>
When these pompous, over-paid athletes use this as an excuse for not playing for Cleveland teams, steam starts pouring out of my ears. If these wimps can't take rain and snow in their pristine lives, then by all means they should go play for teams in California and Florida. Put their little toes in the warm sand. I guess bad weather isn't found in New York, Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit...just Cleveland. Some of these fools should watch the weather channel before they sign with a team.
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He can root for whoever he wants to. I could care a less.
go browns!
go cavs!
go tribe!
me to, I just like getting a rise out of LeBron fans! Lebron fan doesn't equal a Cavs fan though.
Go Browns!!
Go Monsters!
Go Tribe!
That's what I kinda figured Hoop. And you're right, even the Cavs have bandwagon fans now thanks to LeBron. Because of my mom and dad, I've been a Cleveland sports fans since birth. That I can say will never change.
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get over it people. there are tons of people who live in C-town that don't root for Cleveland teams, that's life. Instead of dwelling on that, just think of how funny it will be when the Tribe is sweeping the Yanks and the Fox camera pans over to LBJ pouting with his diamond encrusted NY hat on 
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Here is my take... there are fans out there who have been following these teams in excess of 40 years without a championship... they are frustrated. Then you get a 25 year old kid in here (pick your sport) and he's really good and playing hard but his team is getting booed.... Now he might SAY he understands the Cleveland fans and the desire to bring a championship here, but he really doesn't, there is no way he could..... players want 2 things first and foremost and I think with players, you can't always tell which comes first.. but they want the biggest paycheck possible and they want to play for a winning team... Cleveland (all sports) can promise neither of those....
Good points. But can you blame said 25 year old kid for wanting to maximize his value and also not spend his entire career wallowing in mediocrity...I didn't think so.
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get over it people. there are tons of people who live in C-town that don't root for Cleveland teams, that's life.
Instead of dwelling on that, just think of how funny it will be when the Tribe is sweeping the Yanks and the Fox camera pans over to LBJ pouting with his diamond encrusted NY hat on
They better not pan over to him...he should be in training camp by then
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Good points. But can you blame said 25 year old kid for wanting to maximize his value and also not spend his entire career wallowing in mediocrity...I didn't think so.
I wouldnt blame anyone for trying to make more money, its the american dream.
I might be really pissed off if he left and I would surely boo him, but blame him? No, wouldnt do that.
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I wouldn't boo him. He's done more in 5 years for the Cavs than in the 30 something years of existence. Lebron has saved basketball in Cleveland, and I for one am grateful, because I've always been a Cavs fan and always will be...they represent my city.
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I wouldn't boo him. He's done more in 5 years for the Cavs than in the 30 something years of existence. Lebron has saved basketball in Cleveland, and I for one am grateful, because I've always been a Cavs fan and always will be...they represent my city.
I'd boo him.
Him leaving would kill basketball in Cleveland as quickly as he saved it.
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But can you blame said 25 year old kid for wanting to maximize his value and also not spend his entire career wallowing in mediocrity...
Nope... wouldn't even attempt to. and what you see most is the young guys going for the max contract, then it's the older (ringless) guys migrating to the winning teams in hopes of winning a championship...
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But can you blame said 25 year old kid for wanting to maximize his value and also not spend his entire career wallowing in mediocrity...
Nope... wouldn't even attempt to. and what you see most is the young guys going for the max contract, then it's the older (ringless) guys migrating to the winning teams in hopes of winning a championship...
Karl Malone, Gary Payton...I know, I know.
What these young guys don't realize yet, is that their max contract kills their teams chances of bringing in other talented players....so in essence Kobe is his own worst enemy! As was KG. I give him credit for trying to stick it out in Minnesota, but he should've restructured his contract, and maybe they could've been able to afford some more talent
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Him leaving would kill basketball in Cleveland as quickly as he saved it.
Not under the current rules. Let's face facts that the Cavs won't let him simply walk away, and he won't sign for any less than the max deal. That means it'll be a sign-and-trade of gargantuan proportions. The Cavs would likely get 1-2 very good players, and a few picks. It would damage Cleveland basketball, but the package they'd get in return would likely be enough to keep it alive, IMO.
As for the Yanks thing, who really cares? I have better things to do than worry what a basketball player I root for thinks about the MLB playoffs (or politics, or global warming, or Lindsay Lohan, etc.).
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I wouldn't boo him. He's done more in 5 years for the Cavs than in the 30 something years of existence. Lebron has saved basketball in Cleveland, and I for one am grateful, because I've always been a Cavs fan and always will be...they represent my city.
I'd boo him.
Him leaving would kill basketball in Cleveland as quickly as he saved it.
Maybe, maybe not, as now the team has marketing value...If we draft well, we may be able to replace him and or pick someone up in FA. Where before, it just wasn't going down
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As for the Yanks thing, who really cares? I have better things to do than worry what a basketball player I root for thinks about the MLB playoffs (or politics, or global warming, or Lindsay Lohan, etc.).
You know you want to know what he thinks Lindsay Lohan!
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I wouldn't boo him. He's done more in 5 years for the Cavs than in the 30 something years of existence. Lebron has saved basketball in Cleveland, and I for one am grateful, because I've always been a Cavs fan and always will be...they represent my city.
I agree, and im gratefull for the current experience that is going on, but id probably still give him a boo his first time back. I wouldnt boo him in public, outside of a bball game, but just like Ill say a little something to my opponent on the basketball ball court during the game but shake his hand after. He is a big boy, im sure he would understand.
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I wouldn't boo him. He's done more in 5 years for the Cavs than in the 30 something years of existence. Lebron has saved basketball in Cleveland, and I for one am grateful, because I've always been a Cavs fan and always will be...they represent my city.
I agree, and im gratefull for the current experience that is going on, but id probably still give him a boo his first time back. I wouldnt boo him in public, outside of a bball game, but just like Ill say a little something to my opponent on the basketball ball court during the game but shake his hand after. He is a big boy, im sure he would understand.
Oh I'm sure he'd expect it. I'm just saying I personally wouldn't boo him. I don't boo a whole lot, I just scream for my team
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Lebron probably isn't leaving cleveland any time soon...
the cavs will be able to offer him that 6yr 150m deal that he and dwyane wade will be eligible for in 3 years... and only the cavs can offer that money to lebron, it's the same structure that prevented the cavs from getting michael redd, milwaukee was allowed to offer 20m more
if for whatever reason, ownership or management falls apart, i wouldn't blame lebron for leaving, but i honestly don't see him
everyone talks about him playing in a bigger market, but he's already doing commercials in large markets, what lebron needs is to win to keep his global status up, and right now, the cavs give him that best chance
he took a very young team to the finals, nobody pointed that out, but it was true...
it's kind of funny, if they were new york boston or chicago, they would've pointed out how young that and upcoming that team was that went to the finals, but instead, they pointed out what was wrong with the team
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Lebron probably isn't leaving cleveland any time soon...
the cavs will be able to offer him that 6yr 150m deal that he and dwyane wade will be eligible for in 3 years... and only the cavs can offer that money to lebron, it's the same structure that prevented the cavs from getting michael redd, milwaukee was allowed to offer 20m more
if for whatever reason, ownership or management falls apart, i wouldn't blame lebron for leaving, but i honestly don't see him
everyone talks about him playing in a bigger market, but he's already doing commercials in large markets, what lebron needs is to win to keep his global status up, and right now, the cavs give him that best chance
he took a very young team to the finals, nobody pointed that out, but it was true...
it's kind of funny, if they were new york boston or chicago, they would've pointed out how young that and upcoming that team was that went to the finals, but instead, they pointed out what was wrong with the team
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