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| Save us, Johnny! |
If you haven't heard, Cleveland has the luckiest
unlucky fanbase in the entire sports universe.
The Cavaliers just came off winning
their third draft lottery in four years, while the Browns became a national
story for non-criminal
reasons thanks to the whirlwind arrival of Johnny Manziel. The Indians got
into the action, too, sweeping the division-leading Tigers in what may have
been a season-saving series.
The Tribe's balk-off
win on Wednesday afternoon put a cap on what's been an uplifting couple of
weeks for Cleveland sports; one of those pockets of air that occasionally
bubble up from the ocean of despair all three of our teams have been inhabiting
more or less since May 2010.
The last two weeks certainly have
given fans some much needed hope and optimism, and that's great. I was happy
and surprised as anyone when the Cavs overcame
astronomical odds to snatch the top spot in a draft where a nutless monkey could
heave dung at a scouting report and still find franchise-changing talent.
And yet...it's difficult for me to
get super pumped about prospects, draft picks and the ever popular if-comes
that win-starved Clevelanders have been hanging their hopes on for too many
years.
It's not that I'm wary of the
sports universe coming into back into balance through some terrible reversal - though
Josh
Gordon's most recent troubles seem to point to some mischievous god messing
with us - it's just that I'm in "show-me mode" when it comes to my
excitement level with our teams.