April 2011
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My thoughts on Joe Tait
I haven’t listened to Joe Tait call a full basketball game in years.
I got cable and DVR and kids and listening to games on the radio stopped making sense.
There was also a time in my life when I didn’t have cable and DVR and kids and I was just discovering basketball. Joe Tait was my teacher.
I fell in love with the game and the Cavaliers in 1989 when I was 9 years old and sat with...
March 2011
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Ohio State athletic department asks Cleveland fans...
In an unexpected move, the Ohio State athletic department has issued a press release asking fans of Cleveland sports teams to “no longer take any interest in Ohio State teams or players.”
The move comes just days after Ohio State was upset in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament by the Kentucky Wildcats and in the midst of an evolving scandal involving head...
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Why hasn't anyone written my unauthorized...
Justin Bieber has an unauthorized biography.
I do not.
This is why I generally consider my life a failure.
It’s not so much that I’m not a teen singing sensation living the high life of sold out arena concerts, junior high groupies and the ability to appear on iCarly whenever I want. Aside from the sold out arena concerts, most of that would lead to me needing to go door-to-door to...
February 2011
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My $7 toaster investment was not a wise one
About this time last year, my wife and I set out with tax refund in hand to purchase a new toaster. Something had happened to our old toaster - I don’t remember what. Let’s say it was some kind of explosion.
We went to Wal-Mart. My feelings about Wal-Mart are perfectly clear. But we got sucked in by the low, low prices and we were driving by a Wal-Mart when we decided to make our...
January 2011
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My dentist thinks I'm a kid
People don’t hate the dentist because of the drills and the scrapers and the trying to answer questions with a bunch of junk jammed in their mouths.
OK. They kind of hate the dentist for those reasons.
But the reason people really hate the dentist is because they treat you like you’re 12. Everything’s a lecture. You’re not flossing enough. You’re not brushing six...
'Man v. Food' is teaching my son about the world
Man v. Food is an outstanding show, and my 3-year-old son agrees. Except for one episode where Adam Richman goes to Baltimore and eats crabs. Long story short, Ethan sees, in one scene, buckets of crabs alive and well. In the next scene, those same crabs are being eaten.
Ethan: Daddy, what happened to the crabs?
Me: They got cooked.
Ethan: But what happened to the crabs?
Me: They got cooked.
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My son hates pants
I just saw the following Facebook status update from my wife:
“Ethan comes home from school every day and immediately takes off his coat, hat, gloves pants and socks. Most of his day is spent pantless.
In a usual week, he spends somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 hours and 20 minutes a week at school. That’s four three-hour and five-minute long days spent coloring, playing with...
August 2010
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Glory on the hardwood
I accomplished the following two things when I played basketball on my school’s Parks and Rec team during the three seasons of fourth through sixth grade:
I got a rebound once and successfully dribbled the ball all the way to halfcourt before giving it to our point guard and hiding in the corner.
Scored a career total of six points, including a four point outburst in one game. It could...
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If Target were crack, I'd be addicted to crack
I went to Target three times in the span of 22 hours last weekend. Target was closed for 10 of those 24 hours or I might have gone more.
I needed a new desk chair, so I went to a Target where a lot of other people must have needed desk chairs because they didn’t have any in stock that I wanted. Then I went to OfficeMax which was a dumb idea because OfficeMax isn’t Target, but luckily...
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Jimmy McNulty is dreamy and nine more things about...
I’m watching The Wire in two- and three-episode spurts. It’s a Netflix thing.
Netflix is a win-win, really. I get movies without getting in my car and driving the mind-numbing two minutes up the road and I also help keep the US Postal Service relevant. In fact, forget win-win. That’s downright patriotic.
I started watching The Wire because I work in sports and it seemed like...
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My mom is trying to kill her cat
True story.
He’s a small orange cat that never quite grew into a full-fledged cat’s body and has a bum leg. He was hit by a car before my parents adopted him. He survived the car but probably won’t survive my mother.
My dad said he would perform the act, though admittedly I’ve never had him pegged as the assassin type. Then again, he also wasn’t playing first-person...