The Cleveland Cavaliers are in the NBA Finals.

[wwolfe]

That's a sentence I thought I'd never be able to say. The nature of Cleveland sports is to break hearts in new and unexpected ways: hope may be the thing with feathers, but Cleveland sports fans know that things with feathers usually get plucked, roasted, and eaten - usually by teams from New York. So when Cleveland lost what should have been the

Comments

[thepouncer]

Isn't it horrible, being a fan of a perpetual disappointment? And then, wonderful when they manage to win? I love your descriptions of the games - I haven't been watching, having been beaten into apathy by a lifetime's worth of Bullets mediocrity. But it sounds stupendous, and you can always hope for the finals.

[thepouncer]

Also, today's Washington Post had a column by Michael Wilbon on what this run of victories means for Cleveland: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060502661.html

I thought of you :)

Thanks for the link.

[wwolfe]

That's an excellent article - he really summed up the feelings of native northeast Ohioans like me.