Has any city in the last 40 years been punched in the stomach more than...

New Orleans, too. First Katrina, now this oil spill...

 

I'm biased because I once lived in Cleveland, but I would say that city has taken more stomach punchings than it's Rust Belt compadre because it's had more times when it thought it might be turning things around, when Detroit has just been on a long fall.

For instance, the Flats was the liveliest entertainment district in the city when I lived there, a triumph of turning around an area best known as a great place to watch the Cuyahoga River catch on fire. I was out one night and saw Frank Thomas, Reggie Miller, Albert Belle and Charles Barkley all in the same bar at the same time. (That was the night Barkley got arrested at another bar for a fight with another patron.) Now, in the words of that famous viral video, it looks like a Scooby Doo ghost town.

 

Gotta agree here. Lebron dropped a tripple double on the Celtics, and even then the Cavs never seemed in the game. If his point in taking Game 6 off was indeed to send a message, well, message sent. Let's see what they do about it.

 

Yeah, if you're not talking sports, it's Detroit by a mile.

 

But why were so many NBA analysts talking about the Cavs as if they were a good team, as if they had a quality cast and bench.
I look at that team and I see the same thing I saw when they lost in the finals (2007?): bad to mediocre team with a great player. If you plug another great player into that roster, such as Bryant, it's a 40 win team.

 

I'll go out on a limb and say I'm not the first person to think this.

 

I believe Cleveland has the 2nd longest streak of a city not to win a sports championship in the big 4--baseball, basketball, hockey, football.

Last won one in 1964, barely getting edged out by San Diego, who won an AFL championship with the Chargers earlier that year.

I think Toronto is next in line with the Leafs in 67.

 

Didn't the Jays beat the Phillies in the World Series?

 

The Braves and the Phillies.