The Decision

Dap dap salute to all wasting time reading this idiots opinion on this today. The World Cup has come to a close with Spain on top of the soccer world for the next 4 years. After watching Ghana choke away a victory in the quarterfinals after beating the U.S., it hammered home the fact that the U.S. missed a golden opportunity to elevate soccer in this country. When you ONLY have that opportunity once every 4 years...you can't assign a value to no capitalizing on it. Anyway, we all saw (or at least heard) about "The Decision" that Lebron made in going to Miami last week. I'll rant on this for a moment diffusing a couple of opinions from both sides of the equation. If you're tired of the Lebronomy at this point you may want to skip over the next paragraph.

The options he was considering were the Clippers, Bulls, Knicks, Heat, and Cavs. Considering winning is what he said his main angle was, the Clippers were immediately out as nobody goes their unless they are drafted or hoping to advance their Hollywood career (hey Baron Davis). He essentially had to leave the Cavs once the big name free agents stated they would not come to Cleveland or signed elsewhere. The Knicks I feel was Miami-lite in that they had a scoring big man in place (Amare) and would potentially add another star the following year such as Tony Parker or Carmelo. With that said he chose Miami who now is considered the Eastern Conference favorite or at least top 2 contender. I personally think Chicago would have been the more ready made choice if he wanted as close to a guarantee of winning as possible. That was the only team that could both afford him and provide him with a team that had either all star or above average players at every position except for his once they signed Carlos Boozer. He chose south beach (by the way, there is NO stadium in south beach so whatever talent he is taking there will surely be a pay per view exclusive) with his boys. I'm not faulting him for that.

I do fault him for the hour long special if he knew he was leaving Cleveland. I gave him the benefit of the doubt thinking he would use that platform to throw himself at their mercy for leaving. I realized at the end of the special he should have just tweeted "South Beach".

I did like that he went full Rickey Henderson and started referring to himself as Lebron James. He is getting an unfair rap that he couldn't win by himself like the other greats so he had to go get help. "MJ would never have joined the Pistons". Well, Lebron wasn't losing to the Heat/Raptors. He was losing to everybody else so he joined forces to take on the Lakers and Celtics of the NBA. Plus Jordan wasn't exactly friends with Isaiah, as evident by his non inclusion in the original dream team in 1992 thanks to Jordan's disapproval. As I recall the Lakers/Celtics of yesterdecade (not a word) and today as well as the Bulls of the 90's had a top dog and at LEAST 1 to 2 other sure fire or borderline hall of famers on the roster. Lebron has always been a distributor of the ball by nature. Can you blame him for wanting to dish to Bosh/Wade over Delonte "I swear those aren't your mom's shoes?" West and something called an Anderson Varejo?

I would, however, suggest he sell his house in Akron and move every sibling/cousin/aunt/etc... out of town IMMEDIATELY. Those fans were NOT happy. I was thinking nobody went from being loved to hated in less time than Lebron until Bill Simmons drew the ironic parallel to what happened with him to what happened in this vid(mad I didn't think of it first...i can take credit for editing tho)


Just a word of advice, if you're in foul ball territory, get off the phone or invest in a headset.


Since I'm handing out advice. If you're fighting someone that means to do you harm. Don't make it easy for them.


Speaking of fighting(I'm on a roll with segways!), have you ever seen a fight between grown men where you would laugh for 3 minutes before trying to break it up?