Say no to LeBron and his merry band of mercs.

  While my Bulls hopefully attempt to gain a strangle hold of their series with Atlanta,
I find myself holding my collective nose as I watch Miami and Boston in game 3
of their series.  Flipping the old mental coin, I put my rooting interest behind Boston.
This in spite of the fact that all things Boston make me nauseous beyond belief.
This is probably due to the fact that ESPN is intent on hijacking  every major market
OUTSIDE of Boston and forcing feeding us Red Sox baseball whenever possible.
Speak of the devil, ESPN just ran an ad for.....drum roll.... Red Sox versus Twins.
Back on point....... I hate Miami so much that I have been forced to root for the Celtics
in this second round NBA playoff series.  Yes, I hate Miami.  I hate the culture of
greed and self importance that Miami represents.  Perhaps my collective psyche is still
stinging from the con job that Dwayne Wade perpetrated on the city he
professed to love during last years free agency period.

  As a person, I believe in one credo; say what you do and do what you say.
If there's one thing that I hate in this life, it's a phony and or a  false prophet.
To me, Dwayne Wade is a bit of both.  Is it a shock then that Wade
was in cahoots with Lebron James, someone with as less integrity as him.  I know
what you're thinking.  Why, you're just another hater who doesn't understand
the money first attitude of the modern athlete.  Oh no, I understand it.
How could I not?  This is my era.  I call it the age of Paul Cicero.  Oh, you're a
small market and you wanna keep me without breaking the bank.... f*** you, pay me.
It wasn't the pursuit of NBA riches that soured me and everyone else on Lebron and
it wasn't white America rising up against a spoiled African American athlete
with an obvious ethics problem.  In my world, if you don't plan on sticking around;
you man up and you SAY that you're leaving.  This isn't an issue about a spoiled athlete
who virtually gutted a franchise due to his lack of personal ethics.  It's an issue about
LeBron James creating a false illusion in Cleveland that they actually had a chance to
retain his services.  With one phone call or one press conference, he could've saved
his image AND the fate  of the Cavaliers in the short term.  Instead, he had Cleveland
waiting there for him.  And they waited.... and they waited.....
And while LeBron knew all along where he was  going and potential face saving
free agents came off the board.... Cleveland waited.  This folks, is why I hate Miami.
This is why I hope that James and Wade never attain the grail that they're seeking.
If they do, it's a victory for greed.  If they do, it's a victory for individualism.