Byron Scott Reportedly Accepts Cavaliers Coaching Job
July 1, 2010Indians 3 Blue Jays 1: Proud Papa and The Pen Lead Tribe To Fourth Straight
July 1, 2010While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email at tips@waitingfornextyear.com
Another home run by Joe Po: “Yes, it sounds like it should be the greatest thing — being recruited. They’re showing you around, telling you how great you are, taking you to fancy restaurants, getting you front row tickets, surrounding you with beautiful people and all of that. And it’s all free!
Only here’s the thing: None of it is free. They’re not recruiting you because they love you. They’re recruiting you so you will go play for them, work for them, move your business there, move into the neighborhood, buy into their time share, invest in their product. It seems so obvious, but I don’t think it is obvious inside that recruiting bubble. In there, it can feel so real. And it isn’t. The harder they recruit you, the more they invest in your, the more they expect you to choose them. And if you spurn them, they probably will take it very personally. They probably will have a whole lot of bitterness. And bitter people don’t take thing well. And at that point, it might not seem like so much fun.
I think about this, of course, because of the seemingly never-ending LeBron James saga. Never ending? Heck it didn’t even officially START until today, and yet it feels like the the recruitment of LeBron has been going on roughly since the Whiskey Rebellion.” [Joe Posnanski]
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When discussing NBA Free Agency, Stephen Colbert suggests that the Knicks use their cap space to buy season tickets to the Lakers – “a really exciting team.” [Eric Freeman/The Baseline]
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“It’s often repeated that LeBron could never mean more than can mean if he stays home; That the best story for LeBron is Northeast Ohio; the story of the native son developing into the greatest basketball player or even athlete of a generation and leading the longest and worst suffering city in American sport to an NBA title and maybe more.” [Cleveland Frowns]
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Fritz Peterson’s son just found out that his dad is Fritz Peterson. [’64 and Counting]
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And finally, Cleveland Reboot is knocking out position by position breakdowns heading into 2010. Check out wide receivers here and tight ends here!
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Oh, and now that the Cavaliers have a head coach, let free agency commence!!
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17 Comments
Lol, the Colbert joke is fantastic.
Well done Donnie Walsh. You are going to totally whiff in free agency. Knicks fans should riot and tear MSG down after being sold on the fact that all of these terrible seasons were going to be worth it this summer. That getting rid of player, after player and pick after pick would ultimately result in hitting a home run this summer. Lol.
Good news for David Lee. Knicks will be so desperate to sign someone they’ll end up bringing him back about 3x more than he’s worth. Way to go David!!
I love how after all of the NYK hoopla over the last two years, it looks like they will be the biggest losers in all of this.
I mean, if we don’t keep LeBron, we’re pretty big FA losers as well – but at least we still won’t be the Knicks!
I don’t know what that means, but I love it.
I called LeBron a little after midnight to chat about the stock market, the weather, the oil spill, and the Supreme Court justice nomination, but he didn’t seem to want to talk.
I guess the guy isn’t taking any phone calls
@Rich, wow, that is so close to what the Cavs did to obtain LeBron in the first place. Surreal.
Best. Movie. Ever.
Posnanski’s post was great, although i would have interpreted the punch line to be about dealing with Jerry Krause or Jame Dolan once he’s locked in to a contract.
Knowing what we know about Lebron, I’m sure he has mixed feelings about having opened the box of Pandoras. He’s vacillated between pushing it further and trying to pull it back.
The only place there’s a chance he’ll be better off is Chicago, and even there, he’d be risking more than it’s worth. My fear is that by the time he’ll realize it, it will be too late.
LBJ needs to say to James Dolan, “Your Uncle Larry has run the Indians organization into the ground, what makes you any different?”
Yes swig, we were always moving multiple lottery picks for cap space. All the time. I remember it like it was yesterday when Dan Gilbert traded away all of our assets for cap space. Wait…you mean that didn’t happen?
I always figured that the “LeBron Lov’n Him Some LeBron” tour would be a trailing affair. The different teams coming to him to make their pitches seem somewhat anticlimactic, but I guess on the bright side he is looking to get it done with sooner rather than later.
I meant “traveling” affair…
@Rich,
Salary Cap? I don’t even know what this means…but I love it.
Shouldn’t “FA loser” be a WFNY edit?
Free Agent should be scensored?
The first time I read it, it came across as
“@$%#$&* – # loser”
Swig should win an award for longest dramatic pause.