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June 16, 2009While We’re Waiting aims to be the round-up of the recent WFNY-esque information for your morning viewing. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email in the sidebar.
Charlie V? Shaq? How about adding Antawn Jamison to the mix: “The deal would essentially be a cost-cutting move for the Wizards, sending Antawn Jamison and filler (Mike James) to the Cavs for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic. Wallace seems likely to retire, and Pavlovic is on a non-guaranteed contract for next season. It’s not clear whether the Wizards would need to surrender the #5 pick. Jamison is attractive to the Cavs since he’s exactly the type of combo forward they were missing to match up with Orlando’s Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu.” [Draft Express via Cavalier Attitude]
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Looking at 2009-10: “As for the Magic, I have them as my championship favorites next year provided they can re-sign Turkoglu and the Cavs don’t make a move. Nelson coming back will be huge, and their only limiting factor-Dwight’s propensity not to assert himself as the best player on the floor-certainly doesn’t hurt them against the Cavs, whom he murdered. And there’s also the chance Dwight comes back with some simple post moves and goes into the 25-27 PPG range, although I wouldn’t bank on that.” [John Krolik/Cavs the Blog]
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The Seagulls are gettting more press than the actual baseball team: “So they poop on the home team, they can be scared off by explosions, and they show up mostly just to eat cheap and unhealthy snacks that they didn’t even pay for themselves. Are we sure those seagulls didn’t come from Philadelphia?” [Dan Steinberg/Sporting Blog]
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Deaf jokes are the new black: “The Cavaliers aren’t getting Shaq in a salary dump without prospects. The Suns will get other offers from teams with young alleged “talents.” They’ll at least be able to con their fans into thinking that type of player can become something down the line. The Cavs simply don’t have this bargaining chip. There aren’t enough hours in day to scour last year’s game film for some sweet J.J. Hickson action to sell the Suns (you’d have a better chance finding a sequence where Lance Allred stopped playing immediately after a whistle).” [Cursed Cleveland]
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“Ohio State University’s athletics programs generated the second-highest revenue total of any college in the nation during the 2007-08 school year, according to a report released Monday in Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal. The sister publication to Columbus Business First, citing Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act forms, found that Buckeye sports brought in $118 million in the school year ended June 2008, second only to the University of Texas at $120.3 million. Ohio State was one of only three college athletics programs during the school year to top the $100 million mark, the University of Florida coming in at third with $106 million.” [Columbus Biz Journals]
32 Comments
The only thing that might be an issue is his contract. But as a player, I like him a lot. With Z coming off the books next year, would that give us any flexibility?
Him = A.J.
haha, sporting blog brought the funny
Jamison > O’Neal
“haha, sporting blog brought the funny”
aside from the part where he called Cleveland a waste land…
I don’t see the Wizards making that deal. If they were going to do a salary dump, why wouldn’t they have done it in the midst of last season at the trade deadline? Instead, they told teams that Jamison was off-limits. The Wizards think they have something with Arenas-Butler-Jamison. Of course, as Cavs fans, we know exactly what they have – a team that can lose in the 1st round of the playoffs.
“aside from the part where he called Cleveland a waste land…”
I thought that was the funny part!
Really? Making fun of Lance Allred? Not cool Cursed Cleveland. Not cool at all.
1. Although this just gives his low-brow cheap-seat humor more play, the worsedcleveland.com deaf joke is pathetic. I’ll hang around my nephew and his friends if I am looking for juvenile humor. Scott, if there aren’t that many good links, don’t feel compelled to reach for humor. Less can me more.
2. I just don’t see Orlando being able to get Hedu. Pistons maybe? He’s a veteran who’d fit in with them.
3. I am sure there are other teams that have more to offer for Shaq, but maybe sending him out of the Western Conference is appealing to Kerr. That’s a plus in our favor.
“Really? Making fun of Lance Allred? Not cool Cursed Cleveland. Not cool at all.”
Not cool I agree, but extremely funny.
“I’ll hang around my nephew and his friends if I am looking for juvenile humor. Scott”
There are young kids in your family making caustic deaf jokes? Where’s the parenting?? Send them over to my site, we could use the hits.
Antawn Jamison is softer than hot butter. I see him play all the time here in DC and no way I want that dude unless we get another banger for the inside.
that really wasnt even that funny of a deaf joke. a funny deaf joke was the deaf kid at my high school who submitted his senior quote as “what?”.
“As for the Magic, I have them as my championship favorites next year provided they can re-sign Turkoglu and the Cavs don’t make a move.”
Why-questions abound. Why would they be favored over the Lakers (even with Nelson back)? Why would the Cavs not make a move? Why would Turkoglu stay? Why would you write a prediction based on such improbable happenings?
It is a culture of the offended. Life is too short to be offended by anything. Especially words. How can you be offended by words?
Clearly, you go for Jamison over Shaq in this situation. We’d, at least, have somebody to stay with Rashard now.
So the Magic will re-sign Turk and have 3 max deals (because he’s gonna get the max or close to it) plus Nelson’s contract, Pietrus’ full mid-level deal for 5 years, have to re-sign Gortat and still try to fill out the rest of their team with vet min salaries?
THEN, the Cavs aren’t going to make ANY moves at all. NOT sign a Matt Barnes or Trevor Ariza or Brandon Bass at the full mid-level for a few years, NOT make any type of trade, NOT try and move uo in the draft to get a player they like? NOT trade for Shaq, Jamison, Charlie V and RJ for Ben, Boobie, and Sasha?
Seems pretty damn unlikely.
p.s. If we can get the 5th pick AND Jamison. I think it’s a good deal. Ricky Rubio, TYREKE EVANS, Johnnie Flynn, James Harden, DeMar Rozan. Those are all guys who could help us immediately. AND we’d have the full mid-level still for a guy like Brandon Bass.
I’m not offended Craig. Really, I’m just shaking my head that I’m supposed to think that taking the least common denominator to get a stupid laugh is “funny”.
Come on, DP. Like you wouldn’t have laughed if Artie Lange or Howard Stern had said it? What about if a caller made a stupid joke on the Jim Rome show like that and he half kiddingly said, “Come on clones, disabilities are not show fodder.”
If the Cavs can pull this off by getting the 5th pick in the draft, and only losing wallace, sasha and their picks, then do it. As I see it now though, theres no need to make a trade until the draft comes along and the Cavs can determine whats available for them with their pick and possibly a FA. They may not need to spend Ben’s contract until the trade deadline’s up next season, and a better player is sitting there for the cavs to get.
How in the hell are we getting the 5th pick PLUS Jamison without giving up anybody of consequence? The Wizards aren’t stupid.
Craig:
I don’t listen to Howard Stern or Artie Lang, so I can’t say. And, coincidentally, there’s probably a reason that I don’t listen to those guys congruent with my response above.
Look, I’m not saying that I’m funny. My humor is basically ripping off funny lines from movies and the Simpsons.
@21: they might be. They did hitch their wagon to HABACHI!!
I however, am extremely funny and likeable. And educated. And I have an amazing kiester.
A funny deaf joke is like the one my deaf buddy Tom pulled at a house party. He turned the music up to 11 (these ones go to eleven…) and stood in front of the speakers. Another guy turned the music down and said “Tommy, what the hell are you doing, you’re deaf!”. To this, Tommy replied “Oh yea, I forgot – I’m drunk”.
oh c’mon… the deaf joke by cursed was funny!
offensive? maybe. but who cares… we’re too touchy lately! letterman’s had to apologize TWICE now for his joke about a-rod knocking up palin’s daughter. really?? like craig said, they’re just words people, no reason to huff and puff about it
Mendy,
The Letterman thing was about knocking up a 14 year old girl, that isn’t funny at all and he should apologize. Granted I doubt he knew it was that daughter and thought it was Bristol who was 18. But if I was the dad of the 14 year old girl, I would be freaking pissed at Letterman too. Our society acts like kids having sex is fun and cool, and it is neither. There is a line in humor you shouldn’t cross. Adults and sex with minors is definitely over that line.
Jeff, actually, the implied Letterman joke was about the fact that her 18 year old daughter already got knocked up once out of wedlock. Apparently, you missed the entire election. He has already said that he didn’t know ANY of her daughters was at the game.
NOW Todd and Sarah are protective of their daughters?
Just in time.
# 15 Craig Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am
It is a culture of the offended. Life is too short to be offended by anything. Especially words. How can you be offended by words?
1. Cursed.com has the right to make these jokes. I am cool with that. I can even “get” how some laugh -no sweat. I just tried to say I don’t come here for low-brow humor links. Maybe I should re-think that.
2. Call somebody in my family or one of my friends the n-bomb jokingly, then go with your “How can you be offended by words?” and see how sensible that reply works. You may see a difference… I don’t. Maybe my life experiences are different than yours.
3. Move it on…. Move it on…
I think you’re all missing the point here:
“This offends me.
As a Jew?
No, as a comedian.”
/Seinfeldededed
DP, I didn’t miss the entire election actually. As I am from Alaska, I will admit to being someone who at least likes Sarah Palin even if I don’t agree with everything she does.
Letterman can say he was referring to Bristol and didn’t know any of the daughters were with Sarah at the time, but right when it happened, that was the defense CBS came up with; that his writers got the daughter on the trip mixed up and he didn’t mean to say something about the 14 year old. That was their words not mine.
That was also the defense many other people on newscasts made, Alan Colmes said that, I think even the “reverend” Al Sharpton as well.
So yes DP, I did see the election, and I do know that Bristol got “knocked up” out of wedlock. That doesn’t make it funny.
And as I am sure you have made quite a few dumb decisions in your life, as have I, I don’t think sitting there on your high horse being sarcastic about something like that is the best course of action. It wasn’t funny and the family had the right to be angry. That shouldn’t even be debatable.
Should he be fired for it? Probably not, although Don Imus got fired and I don’t think he should have either. The difference is, it wasn’t cool or funny to make fun of black people, but a conservative woman from Alaska; freaking hilarious and totally fine apparently.
I didn’t say it was funny. I just don’t think the ire of Sarah Palin–after trotting her unwed underage pregnant daughter around on the campaign trail as a sign of “family values”–is justified, especially when there was an article I read where at least 8 or 9 WAY WORSE jokes about Palin and her family were made on various shows and SHE SAID NOTHING ABOUT IT. But that’s not really the point now.
I don’t know how this got turned around on me as being the one making sarcastic remarks. I was actually one of the ones who found the Allred joke to be “not funny”.