The boys and I had a partial season ticket package and made the long ride out to the old Richfield Coliseum to see the Cleveland Cavaliers play back before the turn of the century. It was a fun thing to do with the boys a couple times a month.
But I haven't liked pro basketball for a long, long time. And I have even more reason to hate it. Carlos Boozer, who has played for a couple of years, making just under a million bucks a year to, let's be honest, play a game, and his agent begged to be released from the third year of his contract with the Cavaliers, earning the same amount, and worked out a deal with the Cavaliers that if he were released from the third year of the contract, he would sign a new contract with the Cavaliers and earn over $40 million for the next six years.
The owner of the Cavaliers agreed and actually shook hands on this deal ... something he has done for many years in other business arenas, the old-fashioned way to do busi9ness, where honor is important.
Sweet deal. But this is the 21st Century. Honor? What's that? We have a president of this country who, setting an example, has welched on many a deal. We have a vice-president, who could be president at any time, who, when in private business, ran a company that kicked back money to Nigerian officials and who now regularly deceives the American public.
The Cavaliers released Carlos Boozer from his contract. Boozer signed a new 6-year contract ... with another team ... for 68 million dollars.
Now, in legal circles, that's called FRAUD. I leave you all to your own thoughts about what it's called in non-legal circles.
Posted by Bill at July 10, 2004 06:39 AMAhhh...pro sports is so messed up now. I enjoyed it more watching the Braves in the 70s and 80s when they lost all the time, just because it seemed more real. I do like minor league baseball though. We have so much fun at the Barons (AA) games here.
Posted by: TW at July 10, 2004 04:51 PM