Benny The Jet;1788423 wrote:I've only been around Cleveland sports and media my whole life so I legitimately don't know...are all major sports market's media this way? Seems like Cleveland's sports media is awful at digging at stupid stuff, trying to make a story out of nothing, or calling for a coach's/player's benching/firing when things aren't going the way they want.
It seems that if there's an ongoing negative "hit-getting" narrative, sports media tends to jump over it whenever they can. In MLB, I've noticed that a lot with the Pirates after they started getting good. Like the Indians, they're a small-market team with an owner who won't spend big $$$ because they can't afford to get caught in bidding wars for guys like David Price. Instead, they focus on the draft and sign lower price guys to be role players or reclamation projects. So, you can count on every year, the same fucks going full-Iggy on how much of a shame it is that the team is "resting on its laurels" because they didn't blow all their budget on one particular big-name player in the winter or trade every single good prospect to rent a couple stars in the fall. Gets sort of annoying after a while because a blind man can see the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation they're setting up so they can keep the pot of negativity stirring indefinitely.
You guys are triple-damned as far as that shit goes. Indians are like the Pirates with the low budget; Browns have been a mess for ages and the Cavs are championship caliber, but with LeBron's drama queen tendencies, you get this nonstop "cryptic tweets, what's up with team chemistry" shit that just has to be so damn annoying to sift through. As an outsider to that, it sometimes feels (at least from reading posts here) that your media is so caught up in the "Cleveland is CURSED!" narrative that they go out of their way to turn up any stone possible to reinforce that.
