Three Words: Bug Off Irving

Ever since July 21 the shocked, rhetorical question, "Who wouldn't want to play with LeBron James?" has been asked. Only, it seems, Kyrie Irving.

To my knowledge, this serious, non-rhetorical mirror question has not been asked: "Who would want to play with Kryie Irving now? Only, it seems, Justise Winslow.

Not Dion Waiters! He had the pleasure, in Lake Mistake, and the two hardly ever passed each other the ball.

The question of who wants to play with Irving, and which team would want to try to incorporate him into its roster is a critically important one, it seems to me, for those teams making or contemplating making offers for Irving. For none is that question more important than Miami.

Kyrie Irving is not a "whale," he is not a superstar. And Miami is Team Happy right now. Pat Riley has kept the band that went 30-11 over the last half of last season together. I have never seen Riley so giddy about a set of players. He truly loves those guys is my distinct impression. Is Riley really going to break up the "7/11" combination of Dragic/Waiters and jeopardize all of the progress Waiters made by throwing him again together with Irving so that Irving again never throws Waiters the ball? That is immediately inserting the Irrationally Unhappy Man into the Irrationally Happy Team. Do not do that. Is Riley really going to include in a trade for Irving Wayne Ellington, the man Riley said it would "kill" him if he had lost to free agency?

Ira Winderman, the respected and longest-tenured Miami beat writer, has suggested more than once that Pat Riley is being blinded by irrational exuberance over Team Happy. I completely understand that sentiment and the smaller part of me darkly thinks he might be correct. The larger part of me however sees a unique--Not too strong a word, this Miami "Heat" team is the happiest in professional sports, the happiest pro team I have ever seen--team, happy and successful. And we have a rational sample size--Half an NBA season--of exuberant success and to see after another half a season if Riley's exuberance is irrational or rational. And we have a player for whom it is in no wise rational to break up Team Happy and its success. Irving is not Alonzo Mourning. Irving is not Shaquille O'Neill. Not LeBron James, not Kevin Durant. Irving is a very good offensive player, a ball-hog scoring machine and defensive liability who has tweety birds flying around his flat head. He is not the Miami "Heat" type. Do not do it, Pat Riley.

Trump Himself Wrote Lie for Junior to Tell

Junior's first story, that his meeting with the Russians was mainly about adoptions? Trump's staff did not provide that. De Facto wrote it himself. His staff were working on a mainly truthful statement for Junior, one that could not be easily refuted in order to nip the story in the bud. De Facto himself nixed that plan and wrote the lie himself.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller and team will be looking at that as another potential count in an indictment or articles of impeachment against Trump for attempted obstruction of justice. And more: Why has he attempted to obstruct justice so many times? What bedrock crime is he seeking to thwart inquiry into repeatedly? Treason. Trump is an agent of the Russian Federation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dictated-sons-misleading-statement-on-meeting-with-russian-lawyer/2017/07/31/04c94f96-73ae-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.f95dd62d7d94

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Prediction (based on NO inside information): Scaramucci AND Priebus out by Monday, Wayne Berman in as COS.

7:40 AM · Jul 28, 2017

FUCK

The Short Happy Life of Anthony Scaramucci

Man, you know who called this? Fucking Bill "Crystal Ball" Kristol, the guy who has been correct in one of his last 8,715 predictions. I got on his Twitter feed last week sometime and there he was tweeting that Scaramucci would be fired Monday, today. FUCK.

Little Tony Scars Whacked

Ten days. Wife cuckolded him and Trump fired him. Was it good for you, too? Don't know if he has merely been removed as White House communications director but will remain in administration or he was dismissed with extreme unction.

Trump Fires Little Tony Scars

Oh. The mayor of Nashville's 22 year-old son is dead of a drug overdose. It is going to be opiate-related, heroin and its substitute fentanyl, is the only drug that can kill experienced users instantaneously.

There is, of course, an opiate epidemic in America, that has been in the news for a few years now. My son's best friend since childhood, an experienced user, the son of a physician and nurse who did everything to get him off it, died last year of an overdose; fentanyl killed him so quickly he was found with the syringe still in his arm. And, a couple of weeks ago I was listening to NPR and the Palm Beach Florida county Medical Examiner said in an interview that he and his staff are simply overwhelmed with opiate overdose victims.

I don't know how or why this epidemic started. When I was a young person nobody used heroin. In my career in the criminal law I very rarely encountered a possession of heroin case. Until recently. I know fentanyl, more powerful by a factor, is the culprit but I do not know how this started. Max Barry, my son's friend, and thousands of other young people are now gone. Excruciatingly tragic.

7/29/75 (Updated)

Haven't thought about this anniversary in years but today, a full day at the office too, I did and a few times. Forty-four years ago--My GOD.--I met my first girlfriend, my first love and my first wife, the Unfortunate First Ex-Mrs Harris. We always marked this day moreso than our wedding day.

We all have times in our lives when we are at our best appearance. The summer of '74 was mine. I got a haircut (and to this day the best haircut I have ever had) for the first time in fucking nine months (serious), got contact lenses which replaced the queerest looking avaitor polarized glasses, was wearing a suit daily for the first time (legal intern), and was deeply sun-tanned which set off blue eyes. Like I said, the stars all aligned although I didn't have any idea.

Well, I'll tell ya...My future ex said a short time later that when she first saw me sitting outside the courthouse snack shop she literally was knocked off-stride. (I thought she had just slipped on her heels and side-stepped.) First and last time that ever happened, too, lol.*

Happy anniversary, darling!


*No. It happened to her again, poor thing. She is the only two-time victim. She kept in touch with me, would call me every few years, and on this latter occasion, maybe 25 years later, she called to say that she was bringing her daughter to town for her freshman year in college. She asked if I might want to have a drink after work and also meet her daughter. Sure!

Unfortunately this was another one of those occasions, this one lasting a few years rather than one halcyon summer, when I had improved my appearance, this time by working out regularly. I was also tanned and of course in a suit (after work). I met her in the lobby of the hotel, she was wearing casual travel jeans, she introduced me to her lovely daughter and this time, as she said "You've grown into quite the man." I did notice a change in her carriage.

The next year she came down again. She advised me of this in the usual manner. As did her husband. His voicemail advised me to cease and desist from another meet with his now-, my ex-, wife. He was quite clear in this. I sought the counsel of the Second Unfortunate Ex-Mrs Harris in the crisis, which tickled her to an unbecoming degree, and I got on the hot line to the man's now-, my ex-, wife and indicated a willingness, from prudence, to forego a second meet. I was pretty clear in this. My ex, his now, would hear nothing of it and so I agreed to have another, perhaps my last, drink with her.

I walked briskly through the hotel parking lot and lobby in zig-zag pattern and met her in the bar. This time she had forgone casual travel jeans for a spaghetti-strap dress and sandals. I patted my chest to make sure I had not forgotten my bullet-proof vest. There were only a couple or three normal, friendly arm/leg pats on the part of his now- my-ex and typically the bar had mirrors which provided rear views of the premises if an occasion presented. There was at the terminus of our imbibing one di rigueur invitation to see her accomodations in the hotel which I graciously, gently, tactfully declined citing the press of a previously-scheduled engagement with my funeral director. That was the last I saw or heard from her.

Ultimately, and the sooner the better, it will require our system and people to reject Trump and those surrounding him — who have already done so much to disgrace the offices they hold and undermine America’s standing in the world.

https://www.google.com/amp/foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/10/is-america-a-failing-state-trump-fires-comey-fbi/amp/

A government as bad its people

America looks like a country it has never been. [That is true.] Trump is a laughingstock in the best of circumstances, a disgrace based on his known behavior to date, and a threat to global order and security with each action he takes. He discredits the office he holds and the government he leads.

"The American people got what they voted for"-Sen. Marco Rubio

This activity is not lost on the rest of the world. They see an America unlike any they can recall and a leader who is clearly not fit for office. Said one diplomat from a close ally in this hemisphere, “We often have discussions at home as to whether Trump is crazy. We think he is. We have had experience with leaders like this in South America. But I never expected to see it in Washington.”

In a democracy, the fault is the people's

We have reached a moment of crisis in the history of American democracy.

...the majority party [is] oblivious to its responsibilities to its constituents and the Constitution of the United States. On a daily basis, Republicans watch their leader violate not only the traditions and standards of the high office he occupies, but through inaction they enable him to personally profit from the presidency, promote policies that benefit his cronies and his class to the detriment of the majority of the American people, and serially attack the principles on which the country was founded — from freedom of religion to the separation of powers.

United States of Failure

But worse, we are showing the telltale signs of a failing state. Our government has ceased to function.

America a Failing State

We have the tin-pot leader whose vanity knows no bounds. We have the rapacious family feathering their nests without regard for the law or common decency. We have utter disregard for values at home and abroad, the disdain for democracy, the hunger for constraining a free press, the admiration for thugs and strongmen worldwide.

We have all the makings of a banana republic.

Forced to Wear the Horns

Cuckolded by Blue and Black

The Republicuck Voter

Cuckold Rage

Little Tony Scars: Cuckold

He looks like Hollywood's idea of what a mafiosi looks like.

         -A colleague to me this afternoon.

Doesn't he, doesn't he?! Like, he overplayed the part at casting but the director was too stupid to see the lack of nuance. 

Who "acts" like that, tries too hard in that "role"? 

“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock."

Bannon, who called Kushner a cuck, trying to suck his own cock...like a cuckold would do!

Hmm.

Imitating Priebus:

"'Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ”

Cock-block: to prevent another male from fucking a woman by beating him to it. 

Mother-fucker's got a one-track mind!

Anthony Scaramucci’s wife files for divorce

Oh!

5'8" Little Tony Scars has been cuckolded! Cock-blocked!

WEAR THE HORNS! WEAR THE HORNS! WEAR THE HORNS!

The First Challenger for Trump

Congressman John Delaney, a three-term Democrat from Maryland, and one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has declared for the presidency in 2020. I have waited impatiently for some, ANY Demo to announce and expect a slew. I have no idea who John Delaney is and couldn't pick him out of a six-pack lineup with five refrigerators. For now, he has my whole-hearted support.

DPRK News Service @DPRK_News

Impotent Tortoise McConnell feebly prepares for Flatulent Ape Donald Trump's rage after Successful Uprising led by Elderly Idiot McCain.

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And lookee at that. There is news on Bugs. In order (I think):

1. Bugs made a video of his own self on the plane back from Asia singing a song, "I'm Coming Home," which was the title of LeBron "The King" James' 2014 article in Sports Illustrated announcing his return to Lake Mistake.

2. Dan "Comic Sans" Gilbert introduced new G.M. Kirby "Curbs" Altman to the media in a fake news conference where he insulted at the Indiana "Pacers", moments after, or before, describing Curbs' perfection as due to "personal relationships," pronounced Bugs' situation as "fluid," and the irreparable King-Bugs relationship as "overblown" fake news, and said he expects Bugs to report for training camp.

3. The "Cadavers" cannot reach Bugs. Can't get ahold of him! Can't tell him the date training camp starts! Either in Gilbert World or at MSG or anywhere.

4. Six, I think it is, teams have made formal offers to Devs Dan for Bugs, including the Miami "Heat" who reportedly offered Goran "The Dragon" Dragic and "No Justise No Peace" Winslow. The "Heat" quickly and publicly denied they had made any offer.

Priebus Goes Down

Reince "Reincey" Priebus, De Facto's Chief of Staff is de facto chief of staff no mo. Forced out by De Facto who wanted, typically, " a general,"  the same week as De Facto's new spokesman, Anthony "Tony Scars" Scaramucci, himself a forced replacement of Sean "Spicey" Spicer, shivved Reincey on a call to the "Fake" network-of-record CNN.

I'm ready for some mo Kyrie "Bed Bugs" Irving news.

"Skinny" Repeal Goes Down

All eyes on McCain: Right in front of McConnell, Maverick gives the thumbs down signal.

49-51, the impotent, cuckolded Russo-Republican Senate couldn't even get it up for a repeal of the individual mandate of Obamacare. Collins of LL Bean and Murkowski of Murmansk were joined by McCain who was actually stand-in for several other senators in need of political cover. No need for a landslide. "It's time to move on," said Leader McConnell (Deliverance). I don't know what that means.

Twitter in Trouble, Again

Man, that damn thing is so essential to news-aholics, every damn breaking story is reported first on Twitter, it's a shame.

The distress tweet was in their quarterly report. Advertising revenue down,--8%--it has gone down every year, they just cannot find a way to incorporate advertising on their platform; "zero growth" in users; the stock down 9% as a result. And this compared to Facebook: 70 million new users; 328 million users total to Facebook's 2 billion.

Very too bad. I "get" Twitter, understand its niche; believe the character limit virtually created a new medium, like the headline, perfect for hilarious one-liners and serious news scoops. Obviously, I "get" blogger; never got Facebook.

I don't know. The universe will be an emptier place without Fauxpelini. There is no report that Twitter is going to go under and disappear but capitalism does that. Like the shark capitalism forces companies into a binary choice: keep moving forward or die. It is insane that there is no place for a thing with 328,000,000 users. It's gotta be 340,000,000 next year, 350,000,000 the year after that. Always forward. Stasis is death.

Donald Trump’s Assault on Jeff Sessions

(Editorial Board formerly quasi-official New York Times)

Oh, puh-lease, Jeff Sessions is an "assault" victim we should feel sorry for? The earliest Senator to support the treasonous Russian puppet's candidacy? A racist, quasi-fascist like the rest of Trump's supporters? If that doesn't signal my feelings toward Sessions let me say that as I lie here in bed in my boxers and one of my neighbors pounded on my door and exclaimed, "Trump has set Sessions on fire outside your apartment door!" I would not be moved to get off my bed open my door, take my dick out of my boxers and piss on Sessions to extinguish the flames. You do NOT want to envision me doing that but it makes grossly apparent my point, I trust.

It is ugly what Trump has done, but everything Trump has done has been ugly, and doing ugly to Jeff Sessions is practically pretty in my eyes. As Marco Rubio said "The people got what they voted for in Trump." and Sessions was an early and prominent supporter. His reward was Attorney General. Enjoy it, General, has it been everything you had hoped?

I wish nothing but the utter ruin of Donald Trump, his family, his administration, and all of his supporters, and their families, and the way on this subject, Russia, is there any other?, I believe, is for the illegitimate Russian puppet and traitor to follow his instincts, to give in to his worst instincts, the only kind he has, to follow the advice of Republican cuckoldress Ann Coulter who advised De Facto to "be a man" and fire Sessions; and have his replacement, maybe that Russian female lawyer who met with cuckolded Kushner, who would then fire special counsel Bob Mueller and bring the constitutional crisis to a head. My guess is that would make Trump's impeachment a close, but not a sure, thing. If it failed Russian consolidation of rule over America 2.0 would tighten. It would be close but the cuckold is an impotent, insecure, fearful, cowardly creature and my guess is they would not impeach and convict and thus remove Trump. Not for being an American traitor, "a witting or unwitting tool of the Russian Federation," or for anything else. In that event, Marco Rubio's words apply too. Would there then be something like civil war? Oh, I doubt it. We, Democrats, real Americans--violence makes us squeamish, we dodged the draft in Vietnam; we don't own guns; our pens are mightier than our swords we tell ourselves because we are not and never have been swordsmen. We have our comfortable professional lives, we don't want to put any obstacles in the way of that promotion, or that raise, or getting our kids into the "best" schools, civil war is messy and we like predictable, predictable is best for our 401k's, what was that the French did with the Nazis, collaboration, Vichy or something? Could we do that? I think we could. Go along to get along. Maybe we could be like, what was that French guy, Sartre, we could keep our heads low and our bank accounts high and then if the Russians fuck up and we get the country back, hollowed out but still, at least we will have the buildings intact and can claim we too were victims and with our pens and our jobs and our investments, we at least survived. We survived, maybe prospered, but America is nothing to lose your common sense over. 

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I do have Trump Fatigue, I cannot write about anything related. And I now am self-disgusted over Kyrie Irving Fixation.

I need a break. Got to take stock of my life. Twenty-four hours. Unless something REALLY BIG happens I'm not writing anything for twenty-four hours from...now.

Kyrie Irving? I've written 15 million things on Kyrie Fucking Irving?

What am I doing?

At least according to Tim Reynolds, "the reputable Associated Press Heat and NBA writer," you can scratch Miami off Wojnarowski's list of a "more than a dozen" teams who are pursuing Kyrie Irving. Miami is "not interested," says Reynolds. Which is what I thought, and hoped. Even though Miami was one of Bugs' four preferred destinations.

Can we also write off San Antonio? Puh-lease, Irving is no more "a 'Spurs' guy" than he is "a 'Heat' guy." Greg Popovich and San Antone are not interested either.

Irving's list of four teams thus shows how out-of-touch his mind is. The idea of a list is irrelevant: he doesn't have a no-trade clause, Cleveland management can send him wherever they want. The other two teams on the list, Minnesota and New York, are rational landing spots; the "Knicks" are perfect in their similar muddledness.

Cleveland's best sportswriter, Bill Livingston, wrote that Irving's "ego" had gotten the best of his judgment. I disagree. Kyrie Irving is fragile, weak, mentally, his judgment bad. He constantly had to be propped up by LeBron James and David Griffin. He is afraid. Fear of LBJ leaving in 2018 was behind his trade request, not confidence, not ego. Fear interferes with good judgment, Irving has bad judgment. Irving's attributed reason for wanting to be traded is to be the lone star on a team. Then, good judgment would be to hope LBJ does leave in 2018; the "Cavaliers" undeniably would then be "his" team. 

Holy hell. James Conner, the inspirational former University of Pittsburgh tackle footballer, has not played a down in the NFL yet...yet the second best-selling NFL jersey at the nationwide Dick's Sporting Goods chain is...James Conner's. Behind only Tom Brady. HOLY hell.

Trump Fatigue

I was talking to my daughter over the weekend and she said she doesn't even read about Trump anymore. I didn't realize it at the time, but either do I. Just the headlines. I see the headlines, can't avoid those, but haven't read the articles. It's just a nightmare and they're just going to upset me.

Didn't realize at the time either but, haven't written anything about him either. "Why am I writing so much avout Kyrie Irving?" Trump fatigue.

Three Little Words: Bug Off Kyrie

Perhaps it was the head of the Cleveland Cavaliers' point guard that was flat, not Mother Earth...
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A loser without LeBron

Irving's biggest conspiracy is the one he is waging by his trade request against the concept of basketball, which involves sharing the ball and subordinating the ego.
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Why go back to the days when he proved he couldn't make a bad team a winner? That didn't happen until he played with LeBron James and learned from him.
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Irving would skip [championship contention] to be the biggest man in the Lollipop Guild in an Emerald City of his choosing, which makes him a sucker for more than conspiracy theories.
http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2017/07/kyrie_irving_and_his_runaway_e.html

A HEAT Guy

If you’ve followed the NBA long enough, you know there is a decent amount of conjecture about the Miami HEAT organization and what it takes to be successful with the team. When a player puts that jersey on, there are certain standards and benchmarks that must be met.

That has never been an issue for Wayne Ellington. “I just feel like I’m a HEAT guy."
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Just being able to get in that type of shape that’s the standard around here, and seeing those results for myself just allows me to elevate my game and I feel like I fit perfectly here.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nba.com/amp/heat/newsrecap/heat-guy

Now I, Benjamin Harris, could not have told you who Wayne Ellington was until, hmm, maybe March of this year. Still couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Of course I know now what an improvisational maestro he is. But I write now not of talent but of "culture", of "fit"..

Making Kyrie Irving-to-Heat happen would be personal triumph for Riley, who could use one

Pat Riley, if he can somehow make Kyrie Irving-to-the-Miami Heat happen, would remind those who’ve forgotten — and those who’ve begun to doubt it — that he is still an NBA rainmaker, a deal closer.

...

It stretches credulity...to think Riley would hear Irving would woo the Heat and not respond with an aggressive play to get him. Riley in his career always has craved star power, basked in its glow, and here is a four-time All-Star point guard just now coming into the meat of his prime at 25, a man who averaged 25.2 points last season and shot 40 percent on three-pointers.

...

Is Irving perfect?

Nope.

"A loser without LeBron"

           A pussy.

A cuckold

              Dumb

There are aspects to his game that might require some of that ballyhooed Heat “culture” to make better. He is a shoot-first point guard who would need to distribute more in Miami. He is not a great defensive player; that’s where coach Erik Spoelstra comes in.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/greg-cote/article163395868.html

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/greg-cote/article163395868.html#storylink=cpy

...and, I say, I will be one surprised mother-fucker if Miami takes even a half-hearted swing at Flat Earth. He does not seem like "A HEAT Guy" at all to me. So, unless I am very much mistaken, and disappointed, there will be no stormy weather in Miami. I'm satisfied. Toodle-Oo Bed Bugs.

Dan Gilbert apologizes for 'See Detroit like we do' ad, featuring all white people

"Detroit is about 83 percent black and 10 percent white..."

A-MAZ-ing.

The Enduring Monument to We're Not All That

9M-MRO, the quintessence of humankind's ineptitude, the sine qua non of failure, the permanent antitdote to hubris. The answer to Job: yeah, you could make exquisite creatures, but you couldn't find that.bl Sixteen months of searching by the best and the brightest of our species and we cannot find a big ol' lunbering passenger plane with 239 souls on board. Whenever we puff our chests and crow, we should remember this, the greatest embarrassment in modern man's history.

Kyrie Irving is a Big Fat Idiot

I have written in the past of the occasional angst that comes with writing a thing called Public Occurrences...But it has been a long time. I hardly wrote about sports at all in the early years. "Toy department." I got over that, BOY did I get over that. The subject of this post brought back that old time angst feeling. "No, I won't do it. I have my standards! But then I thought this sporting public occurrence kerfluffle was too easy to defeat and...Eh, in for a dime in for a dollar.

Kyrie "The Earth is Flat" Irving is one of the lowest-IQ personages on this round earth. There is nobody who considers M Irving other than a moron. The easily defeated kerfluffle today from Camp Moron is that LeBron James leaked the story of Bed Bugs telling DevsDan he wanted to be traded.

So: LeBron James leaked a story that Kyrie Irving did not want to play with LeBron James anymore.

What Dr. Johnson once said is equally applicable to M Irving, "He is not merely stupid. He is the cause of stupidity in others."

What Mr. Justice Holmes wrote in upholding forced sterilization, "Three generations of embeciles are enough" is applicable to one generation of M Irving and his "camp."

America Does Not Work Anymore

Twelve hours, t-w-e-l-v-e hours, after my alarm went off this morning I am at my destination. A less than two hour flight was delayed four and one-half hours. On arrival it took the airport and airline another hour and a half to deliver our baggage. If I had started driving at 6:00 a.m. I would have arrived in less time than it took to fly: 11:08-12:00.

Is it an international call to God? I don't know if he's on my plan. Not an 800 number, right, of course not. Why did He do this to me? Ech, so many reasons.

Thunder and lightening :( 45 minute delay.

I feel like the Tin Man. I need 3-in-1 all over my body.

WE'RE BOARDING!

She's sitting with FOUR others of her kind. All but her have big heads, severe expressions, short hair. Eh, she's not pretty. Not troll-like just not pretty. Such a feminine figure and hair though. Tall, thin, red-pedicure (which I like), Mary Tyler Moore-length hair.

THE GOD AND THE SAINT WENT THROUGH THE GANGWAY OR WHATEVER!

Another, different, God-like personage appears. On His phone too (?) What's his number, can you give me his number?

On the flight up she was with her partner. She's sans partner now. Maybe they broke up. 

There's an Ideal on the flight. On the flight up, too. But she plays on the other team.

Hi. Is God available or is he still preaching? If you could get through to him and just casually mention that I'm still here and my back is getting stiff.

I saw a pilot, who I took for God, and then a flight attendant, a saint I guess, but God then left after making a phone call...Which, I didn't think was a promising "sign," you know?

That was quick! Thank you. That praying shit really works? Damn. Now, we may not have to stop to refuel. Thank you. Which God? I will not abuse His favors, only in emergencies.

Now, the part matches and we will board in two hours. Could you pray for me?...It being Sunday and everything...If not, fine.

Then they found a replacement hydraulic pump but have to match serial numbers. If the numbers match we could board in 1-1/2 hours. I decide to stay.

So I left the gate and went to the ticket counter. I could rent a car, drive two hours to another airport and catch a 3:20 flight. What to do, what to do...

Mine's good. My non-stop flight is delayed for want of a hydraulic pump. If a replacement is found we have to make a stop to refuel.

How is your Sunday?

Hi. 

The Pendulum Swings

The unanimous reaction yesterday from basketball cognoscenti and idiot bloggers alike to Kyrie Irving's trade request was shock and bemusement. Inevitably, inevitably, right? today there are some Blame_Kyrie_on_James who say that Irving--Une momento, I want to get this quote just right.--that Irving "has become proactive in controlling his own career arc", that arc control is the legacy of LeBron James to players like Kyrie, "the best players on the planet," "the modern basketball superstar", those "open to big ideas and big visions...", those who aren't "chasing a market as much as an environment"; that with "a dozen-plus teams...in hot pursuit" Irving is already bending his career arc to His will and validating His "vision."

It becomes our disagreeable duty now to record that this alluring, dream-like, counter-narrating, swinging pendulum has not been grabbed by all hands, no not at all, that it was the instant and is the considered, enduring  opinion of these non-dreamers, of these non-hallucinating humbugs, of those who construct mirthful memes, that if M Kyrie Irving is amongst those who are "the best players on the planet" the question "Which planet?" nags and begs; that to ascribe to M Irving LeBron James-like "vision" because Irving is "open to big ideas and big visions" like the earth being flat, it is the opinion of these better sorts that those are two incongruous types of vision, the one congruous with arc bending, the other perhaps congruous with correction by remedial education, perhaps with a lobotomy of the frontal lobes, that "blind as a bed bug" rather captures the type vision we ascribe to he who we have nicknamed Bed Bugs; that we read doubtfully--but with deference to our better--that there are "a dozen-plus" Dan Gilberts and James Dolans in unreasoning, breathless, wallet-opening "hot pursuit" of Bed Bugs even as we are mindful of the adage "a fool and his money are soon parted"; that be that as it may Devil Dan will find one fool at least for M Irving, that we can think of no more likely provider of the desired moolah, the "environment," the "big ideas and big visions," than garden caretaker Dolan, and that be that as it may wherever M Kyrie Irving lands he will disappear from memory into mockery and irrelevance as surely as if he fell off the face of the earth. Or stayed in Cleveland.

 CLEVELAND, Ohio -- So Kyrie Irving doesn't want to play with LeBron James?

Three trips to the NBA Finals and set up for a fourth?

That's not enough for Irving?
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It's been a long time since I've encountered a star player so removed from reality when it comes to looking at his place in the NBA.
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Consider this: Irving averaged more shots (19.7) than James (18.2) in the regular season.
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Or how about this?

In the NBA Finals, Irving averaged 25 shots a game...James took 23.

It feels as if I've been writing sports since someone put a peach basket up on a barn, and I've never encountered a story quite like this.
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I'd trade him.
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It's time for him to go.
http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/index.ssf/2017/07/cleveland_cavaliers_must_trade.html

Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh

Just gonna leave this here ... Cavs with Kyrie Irving ON, LeBron James OFF last season: -120 in 635 minutes.

SportsPickle @sportspickle

Kyrie Irving believes Earth is flat and he doesn't want to play with LeBron James. Kyrie Irving might be the dumbest person who ever lived.5:17 PM · Jul 21, 2017

Ben Axelrod @BenAxelrod

If Kyrie Irving wants to know what it’s like to be the focal point of an team, might I recommend watching the 2011-14 Cavaliers.5:39 PM · Jul 21, 2017