lol a Cubs organization mocking someone about not winning championships?!?!?!? oh the ironing!
LOL, I missed the first quarter.
LeBron is a simple case of tremendous talent and little discipline. It's too bad that at 26 James still hasn't realized that no matter how good he is, there are still many, many people around him he could listen to and be better for it.
I doubt we'll ever see anyone as great as Jordan again - ballers with roughly comparable talent (like James, or Kobe) will continue to go straight to the NBA after being Gods walking amongst mere mortals in high school, and never learn the discipline you get in the NCAA. Remove Dean Smith from Jordan's life and you're likely left with another great player, not the greatest to ever play the game.
I watched the 30 on 30 show about Jordan's time with baseball last night. Holy Crap! All I remember is how dreadful he was in the regular season, but didn't know how by the final month, then in the AA fall league, he had increased his BA by 50 points up to .252. His number, in the end, weren't that bad. It only took him 5 months to learn how to hit the curve, lay off bad pitches, take advantage or hanging changeups and such.
The guy was simply amazing. The strike is what essentially sent him back to to the NBA (thank God), but most of those around him, including the White Sox scouts that had earlier dismissed him, saw Jordan at that point as becoming a truly successful player in MLB. craziness.
I'm pretty sure there will never be anyone like Jordan.
I saw that too (btw, was that a rerun, or was that the first time they showed that?)
I was a pretty young when that happened, and I also only remembered articles about him not being able to hit curveballs. After I watched the show I was really impressed. The guy was obviously just an unreal athlete.
BTW, I did not know that Terry Francona was his manager, how wild is that? Even as a Yankee fan I like Francona, just seems like a real good guy.
LeBron is a simple case of tremendous talent and little discipline. It's too bad that at 26 James still hasn't realized that no matter how good he is, there are still many, many people around him he could listen to and be better for it.
I doubt we'll ever see anyone as great as Jordan again - ballers with roughly comparable talent (like James, or Kobe) will continue to go straight to the NBA after being Gods walking amongst mere mortals in high school, and never learn the discipline you get in the NCAA. Remove Dean Smith from Jordan's life and you're likely left with another great player, not the greatest to ever play the game.
ATOT discussing the something that is extremely hated and the thread blowing up?
CALL ME SHOCKED!!!
QueBert actually hit it on the head ... LBJ is screwed regardless. even if he wins people will hate on him so hard because "he couldnt do it on his own" when in reality, the way the NBA is now a days, NO team can win with only 1 star on the team, and he had absolutely no help in cleveland.
i didn't give a shit who won the finals because I had no stake in either team, but I was hoping Miami would win because I wanted to see what all of the haters would have come up with to hate on Lebron if he won. I mean him getting hated on now that they lost, that was painfully obvious what would be said. but i was extremely curious to see the reactions of the haters if he had won a ring...
Heh. Yeh, I was going to post that. It's my local minor leauge baseball team.
What do the Sedin twins and Lebron James have in common?
Seriously, I can't think of anything... white twins from Scandanavia, black non-twin from Cleveland, hockey, basketball...
damn... there must be something???
They're rich, famous, and probably live a life most people could only dream about? They do this simply by playing a game. Not sure, but this might cause some people to be jealous of them.
Yup, that must be it. Nothing else. :biggrin: