Last week, Joe Biden was at a fundraiser for Senate candidate Lee Fisher when he opened his big mouth. “LeBron James is coming back,” Biden said. Last night, LeBron James announced that some “privileged” kids were getting scholarships to the University of Phoenix so that they will get a bad education and also that he is going to play for the Miami Heat from now on. Now Ohioans are angry, and it’s not just the usual anger about their state being terrible and boring. But Joe Biden is not admitting he was wrong about LeBron. What?
“I never say anything I don’t mean. I sometimes say more than I should.”
Biden said more than he should? So is it a state secret that LeBron is coming back to Cleveland after all? Or can Biden see into the future and knows LeBron will come back to the Cavaliers after he has failed in Miami or when he is old and about to retire?
Also today some guy in The Atlantic said LeBron leaving will make Ohio a Teabagger state now because they are angry, and when you let anger consume you, you become a Teabagger. Looks like someone’s auditioning to be the next Dave Weigel. [LA Times/Atlantic]
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Also looks like someone watched 17 Again on the cable machine last night…
It’s wrong for someone to root for another human being that they should blow out their knee, right?
Wonkette, I am concerned. You continue to mock Joe Biden, even after he admitted to having extraordinary psychic powers. If you don’t keep quiet, he is going to invade you, psychically, and fill your brain with gaffes.
“When life gives you a lemons, make Meadowlark. Do-do-dooo-da-do-da-do dahhh-dooo-doobie-do…”
- Joe Biden, Power Forward, Washington Generals, 1960-1962
Justin Beiber will be very disappointed with this Blingee. Also, I’ll start caring about basketball when they start enforcing the traveling rules. (Not really, but since they’ll never enforce the traveling rules, I won’t ever have to care, so it works out).
Of course he’s coming back to Cleveland, he’s got to rescue his family.
Everyone eventually returns to Cleveland. That’s just basic archeology.
I’ve been to Cleveland. I gave me the impression of a land filled with doughy, pasty white people and a Denny’s on every corner. In Lebron’s defence, South Beach is going to look pretty good after that.
I was certain that link would go to Sully instead of “Joshua Green.” Was he on “Friends”?
Sarah Palin is actually a better running mate than Mo Williams.
Ugh; it seems like this basketball non-news has infested just about every place I visit online, and the non-rerun TV shows like Jon Stewart too, but at least the Wonkette was blissfully free of this story; now this place has been infected as well.
[re=614551]Sharkey[/re]: Cleveland: It’s very name means “stuck in this place”.
“Now Ohioans are angry, and it’s not just the usual anger about their state being terrible and boring.”
As one born and braised in Dayton, I must most strenuously objec— oh, you’re right mostly, actually.
If Hopey played Joe Biden one-on-one, Hopey would win.
Biden was not wrong.
Obsama is going to nationalize the NBA, and give the Cleveland Cavaliers…a fairly gay name if you know what I mean…a bailout of a hundred eleventy billion, and insist LeBron renegotiate.
This is great news for John McCain.
I was born and raised within Cuyahoga County. I would never return to the bayou of Ohiyou. What a hellhole, but there are much worse hellholes than that. They always lose. That town is dead to me, (except my sister who still lives there.)
I know, maybe we could get them a WNBA team as consolation. The Cleveland LeBrunettes, maybe that would mend some broken hearts, as they lose in the playoffs every year.
[re=614555]Cape Clod[/re]: That’s a good point. Let’s compare LeBron’s choices.
The Heat: Will Smith on a sugar white beach singing “Miami.”
The Cavs: Drew Carey waddling around potholes and trash singing “Cleveland Rocks.”
That’s a toughie.
Columbus is actually pretty awesome. And not just because I grew up there. Don’t tell anyone though, if everyone came down from Cleveland it would lose it’s awesome pretty quick.
But yeah, I assume you’ve all seen this and this.
Joe is right, libtards. LeBron will be back. He’ll just be wearing a visiting team’s jersey.
[re=614541]Mr Blifil[/re]: Yes, it’s wrong to wish Joe Biden blows out a knee. He should blow out his hair plugs; they’re more crucial to his game.
Fear is the path to the Tea Party. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to voting Republican. Voting Republican leads to suffering. I sense much fear in Ohio.
But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The Tea Party are they. Once you start down the Tea Party path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
[re=614574]edgydrifter[/re]: Fun fact: a local Ohio station parodied that song, and I’ve actually
been todriven through that little burg.Wait, isn’t the University of Phoenix a front for George Soros Communist/NAZI take over of the United States? Maybe Biden is on something here.
So, Glen Beck was right.
As a former long-time resident and some-time visitor to Cleveland, I am intimately familar with the various indignities and misfortunes of living there, though, fortunately, some of the memories have faded. But I can say with great confidence that this is just like the time when that other guy did something with some team and his buddy clearly missed the call and then everything went to hell and we were really pissed. And it is so so unfair.
[re=614577]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
A city reliant on filling a building 40 times a year. And Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should get a Weeping Eagle of some kind for Worst Cultural Institution Ever Brought Forward From Concept To Realization.
Joe Biden LITERALLY meant LeBron will be “back” to having a chance at an NBA title when he gets his ass out of Cleveland.
[re=614549]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Justin Beiber will be very disappointed with this Blingee.
Dood—–that’s not Justin Beiber; that’s Zac Efron in “High School Musical.”
I’d recommend:
1. a new prescription on your glass OR
2. a review of past issues of “Tiger Beat” magazine.
Perhaps both.
Ancillary Lesson: unruly bangs are dreamy.
[re=614607]JMP[/re]:
You’re going to upset a certain poster, what with the Dune references. Fear is le petite mort? No wonder the Bene Gesserits were so fucked up.
[re=614578]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]:
Joe’s your father, Luke. Embrace the Dark Side!
[re=614632]JackDempsey[/re]: More dreamy than male-pattern baldness? Unpossible.
the Miami Heat is now LeBronchitis Fever.
[re=614578]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Damn, you beat me to it!
[re=614607]JMP[/re]: Muad’Dib never lived in Ohio.
Radiotherapy; We don’t miss you.
[re=614619]Mr Blifil[/re]: Why Cleveland, anyway? There are a number of cities important for the early days of Rock, but Cleveland has absolutely nothing to do with it that I can think of.
[re=614626]Come here a minute[/re]: No, he literally meant that James would come back to Cleveland when whatever team he would end up signing with had an away game there.
Sigh…the term rock and roll was coined on Cleveland radio and about 100 other things blah, blah, blah, Want to take that from us too?
[re=614679]ida kutchakocov[/re]: allegro punkabilly
said now mama, said now,
where’s my shoes???
she said the’re walking up on
Rockside Road
GO!
[re=614632]JackDempsey[/re]: Thank God I’m not the only one who knows the difference between Justin Bieber and Zac Effron.
Do we have talk about Twilight now?
[re=614580]Simba B[/re]: Christ, I probably know you…
[re=614701]Thatcher[/re]: “Do we have talk about Twilight now?”
No way. My kids are 6 and 8.
These angsty shark/jet comictragedies don’t hit home until age 9.6, or a year later if you FF thru the commercials.
Two things I know about Cleveland:
1)Ghoulardi.
2)Howard the Duck.
Who the hell is LeBron James and Dave Wiegel? And wtf is Cleveland? Does anyone actually live there?
[re=614632]JackDempsey[/re]: That was in reference to all of Jack Stuef’s previous Blingees having Bieber in them, and him being bumped by Efron in this one. Just ’cause I’m mostly pop-culture illiterate doesn’t mean I can’t tell one nine-year-old with sideways bangs from another one.
[re=614563]GuyClinch[/re]: +1
Seriously, though… has anyone ever successfully escaped from Cleveland?
[re=614547]Extemporanus[/re]: Oh, good. Just good.
[re=614556]V572625694[/re]: Sullivan give shit about hoop? C’mon.
Also, too, being an old, and with only boy-children and the youngest 18, who is this Bieber or Beiber person (other than looking about 14)? If you indulge me with that, who is Zac Efron?
I mean, I can infer that they are entertainers, but is there any reason I should care?
[re=614619]Mr Blifil[/re]: No no, that award goes to Congress.
[rimshot]
sezme: C.C. Sabathia, Cliff Lee, Manny Ramirez, and untold others have escaped.
And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame belongs in Cleveland because. Just because.
Jim89048: Please, never mention Howard the Duck again.
[re=614982]crcombine[/re]: Who?, who?, who? etc. QED
Cleveland sounds like a shitty place. I don’t remember Chicago losing it’s mind when Jordan decided to watch grass grow in outdoor stadiums.
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