A quick note to the Number 1 Animal Controller (#1 in your heart & program & football jersey) Shannon.
As some of you might know Shay is not only a star controller of Cavalier dogs, but is a standout wide receiver (with a tight end) for the Cleveland Fusion woman's football team. Recently she was hurt while punishing some poor d-back. She suffered some damage to her rotator cuff and was under the knife getting things fixed up.
So best wishes on a full and speedy recovery to a great football player and friend. I expect her to be keeping me in line this fall, so she will need to be back to 100% asap.
And now with an earlier-than-hoped-for summer in full session, I am all about the floats and baton-twirling action that a good parade provides. And when I do parades, I certainly can't sit still on the side of the boulevard and fetch candy. I need to be in the middle of the action...middle of the road....if not the grand marshall.
I typically reject authority, so the allure of playing in the street after years of being told not to, is just to much to resist.
You get the picture. I do the parade circuit. I love it. And when better to hit a parade than the non-official kickoff of the summer parade season....Memorial Day.
So this Monday bright and early I will wake up Ahmaad and make him drive me over to South Euclid for their big Memorial Day Extravaganza. I think this is the fifth year I will be somewhere in line doing my beauty-queen wave to the great people of South Euclid.
I usually rollerblade during parades, just so I can hit both sides of the street without falling behind (and I like to make Slider look lazy as he rides on the back of a flatbed truck). If you ever wondered why he's so fat and round....it's mostly because he rides in parades. From there it's a slippery slope to a size 86 waist.
Slider....start by walking, mix in a salad, drink more water and pretty soon you will be thin and sexy, just like your basketball counterpart in Cleveland.
See you on the parade route....I will be the thin one.
Watch LBJ and the Cavs punch their ticket to the ECF
Hang out with the Scream Team
Spell things with Ahmaad
Post-game party at any place that has an adjective and an animal in it's name
The official Cavaliers Playoff Watch Party presented by Bud Light for
Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals - the Cavaliers vs. Boston
Celtics - will take place at Quicken Loans Arena on Sunday, May 18th.
The best part about it...Tickets are FREE and will be available starting at noon on Saturday, May 17th at the Quicken Loans Arena Box Office and on Ticketmaster.com/gocavs (a
$1.00 per ticket service fee and a $1.75 handling fee will apply to
online orders through Ticketmaster). There is an 8 ticket limit per
person while supplies last, and fans must be 18 and older to obtain a
ticket. (I cut and paste this from another blog, so my apologies for leaving in all the crap about service fees....totally not my writing style).
Don't miss this chance to see the best damn basketball team in the whole damn NBA on the biggest TV screen this side of my basement at the Q.
I will be there doing whatever it is I do.
Ahmaad will be there spelling stuff.
The Scream Team will be there shaking their groove thangs.
Ryz will be there picking low hanging fruit.
Come to think of it, I am totally paying that neighbor kid to clean the gutters.
The Boston experiment of mortgaging your future for a title run ends Sunday. Didn't Danny Ainge see the mortgage crisis coming?
See you at the Q.
Moondog There can only be one....and it's not Lucky.
If you are looking for a directon to aim your scorn, here is one.
Last night that red-haired backup to the backup to the backup power forward Brian Scalabrine decided it would be okay to lay a hand on the dog during pre-game.
Well here is the rule Mr. BS, for furture reference: It's not.
You want to dress in jeans and a sports coat and not tuck your shirt in that's entirely your business....but you want to touch the dog.....well that's mine, and you don't want any of this.
I think Mr. BS was actually making sure that I wasn't in a place that Kevin Garnett wanted to walk to (the basketball stantion) so he was clearing a path.
First of all....is that really what you do now when you are not dressing and being the 12th man in a 8 man rotation for the C's? You clear areas of the court from dogs before the game for KG. That's sad and uncalled for.
Secondly. Tuck in your shirt, sit down, stay on the bench and mind your own business.
I am going to ask that Lance Allred slaps Lucky around pregame so LeBron has a good spot to high five Damon Jones near the court. At least Lance would have the good taste to tuck his shirt in before manhandling the Celtics quasi-mascot.
Cavs in Six. Maybe in the offseason you can shop for longer shirts that tuck into your jeans and learn some dog ettiquette.
