I feel as if I’ve been infected with the same virus of futility that has hit me before.
He admits it there. He's reinfected with the futility bug that has infected Cleveland people for 30 years.
I charge Terry Pluto with being an irresponsible sports pencil. Of all Cleveland sports pencils, he is most responsible for perpetuating the soul of Cleveland, victimhood. He is a serial killer of a city's sports soul. But look, I'm often wrong and always certain--even when I'm wrong. I see this so clearly, I believe it so completely. But this is his self-bio at cleveland.com:
He doesn't look like a Salieri, he looks like a nice old man.
I'm grateful to my readers who have read me for decades. I'm the author of more than 30 books, [I have authored 30 less than that]. a winner of the National Headliner Award as the nation's best sports columnist in 2020 and best sports writer in 2024. I was the runner-up in 2022. [I'm one of the ten best bloggers in all of Mid-Beach Miami Beach (probably (maybe)).] My degree is secondary education, taught social studies for 6 months at Lincoln-West High to become state certified. Having spent 65 of my 68 years in NE Ohio, I know Cleveland sports and Cleveland sports fans. [That's the problem!] I began going to games at the old Cleveland Muni Stadium and the old Cleveland Arena. My father delivered the Plain Dealer. While at CSU [Cleveland State, I assume] , I worked at the old Cleveland Press part time covering high school sports. I'm extremely grateful and blessed to cover sports in my home town.
That is extremely impressive. But yet...He is infected and he knows it and its a serious thing he has. And he passes it on. He's the Typhoid Mary of Victimland, the Vector Zero for this virus. My verdict is a resounding guilty as charged beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt of spreading the infection of futility. His extremely impressive awards and accolades pale to me before his crimes against Cleveland people.