There's an NBA game tonight

I love Lebron James. Its taken me a while to realize that he's not Michael Jordan, but he's still young and I really didn't watch the NBA until Jordan had been in the league 6 or 7 years. The Jordan-like quality he does hold is me. Yes he holds me. I actually enjoy watching the NBA when he's on the court. I give it the same respect I give the other 2 major sports and make sure my wife keeps her babies quite so I can concentrate. I'm extremely excited about an NBA game for the first time in a while (I was mildly excited last Finals w/ the LA-Boston matchup). Lebron has gotten better every year and now he has his back to the wall facing elimination from a lower seed and the NBA championship slipping away. I hear everyone saying that Lebron needs to follow Kobe's lead last night and shoot less.... there's one problem... Lebron's teammates really aren't any good. Other than Mo Williams and maybe Z, they would all be bench players on many teams around the league. I will cede that Lebron really isn't much more than an average shooter, and give Lebron the advice I'm sure he's waiting on-line to hear. Take the ball every single time, and without getting a charge, run straight down Dwight Howard's face. I wouldn't even try to score so much just concentrate on getting Dwight Howard off his feet... then do the same thing when Howard leaves the game or fouls out, but this time just dunk the ball on the far inferior defender. If Lebron doesn't have at least 30 free throw attempts tonight... I'll be disappointed. If he shoots 9 times and the team loses, I will not watch him for 1 solid year. But I'm going to pull a Mo Williams and guarantee the CAVS win by 10 tonight.

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I was almost done writing what I thought would be a somewhat irrelevant article about steroids when MannyGate started. I was going to write something about the idea that Aroid took steroids in high school and in New York. Then I was going to say who cares, then answer my own question as follows: I do and every fan and young aspiring MLB wannabe should. Saying steroids aren’t a big deal anymore, or something we should quit talking about them is like saying that gloves aren’t a big deal. Why are there so many people saying it’s a sad day for baseball that a cheater, Manny, got caught? I diagnosed his personal health issue too… it’s called old age. The only medical conditions they give you a drug that restarts testosterone production for is your body needing, or your ego wanting more testosterone. I just wish baseball would quit saying how unfortunate it is that this happened and instead say how unfortunate it is that this guy cheated. In 1919 baseball did the unthinkable, not in banning elite players for life, but for giving absolute power to a commissioner to rule and oversee baseball for the best interest of the game. So why, is the darkest issue of baseball from 2002 is the most darkening issue in baseball in 2009 and likely to be in 2015? Why isn’t this absolute power being used for the best interest of the game? We all know this one. It’s the same reason why your dad got laid off his factory job six weeks before retirement. It’s called greed. However, it’s only 80% about money. The other 31% is pride, power, and the greedy desire to be respected by the masses. If Bud Selig had any sort of plan at all, you would have seen it by now. Sure, the 50 game suspension for a first offense will go a long way to prevent future use, but what about the integrity of the game that has been lost as a result of all this. Do we not deserve a refund for every game we paid to watch the best talent in the world, but because of steroids the best talent was often times sitting on the bench while a 39 year old roid raging Rafael Palmeiro played instead? I guess I just feel like we are all being hoodwinked by the biggest collusion of the commissioners, players, and owners ever. The only hopes we really have are the clean players, maybe the sports writers, and ourselves. Personally, I don’t want any of these guys to make the hall of fame. I hope you don’t either. I think we should blackball all these guys. Don’t believe there lies, boo them at the games, and don’t buy there memorabilia. Maybe there should be a steroid factor in the record books instead of asterisks. If you used steroids and hit 500 homeruns, then you now have 375 career home runs (no asterisk). If they can’t prove it some will get lucky, but lets put this behind us for real. Make a decision in the best interest of the game, make it preserve baseball’s righteous numbers and actually move on instead of waiting for people to forget it happened. I just ask baseball to do something significant, even if it hurts the game temporarily. Manny did more to hurt baseball with this than Pete Rose ever did, and all that’s really happening to him is the loss of one vacation home and he’ll end up with the 6th most homeruns all-time instead of the 5th. Can't we tar and feather just one guy? How unfortunate.