Over at AOL Fanhouse, there's an argument that since LeBron James sat out yesterday's game to rest for the playoffs, he should reimburse the fans in Cleveland by taking his $192,437 game check, and dividing it evenly amongst the 20,562 Cleveland fans that watched the LeBron-less Cavs yesterday.
↵(...Yes, really...)
↵The lunacy peaks here:
↵↵↵Joe Hardhat, who paid a day's wage three months ago to buy two good seats so his son could see his first Cavs game Sunday, deserves better treatment than this.
↵
It's arrogance at the NBA's worst.
Joe Hardhat! Who's Joe Hardhat, you ask? He's everyone, buddy. And he's damn sure not a progressive like LeBron James and Mike Brown. A distant cousin to Joe the Plumber, and drinking buddy of Joe Sixpack, you'd assume.
↵(Here's a good rule of thumb for sanctimonious people everywhere: don't name your son "Joe," because there's a good chance that one day you'll get really worked up and use your son's name as a rhetorical stand-in for blue collar Americans, bolstering your inevitably inane argument, while unwittingly belittling your son's entire existence at the same time. So name your son Jack, or something.)
↵As for Potvak's Skip Bayless impersonation, I'll say only this: if LeBron has to pay back his game check, then fair is fair. The Knicks need to reimburse their fans for the past decade. Think of Joey Lunchpail in Brooklyn!