Josh Benner

Tag: Cleveland

  • What Jim Thome can teach us about strengths and weaknesses

    Like any Cleveland Indians fan growing up in the 90s, Jim Thome is one of my all time favorite baseball players. Always had a good reputation as being friendly, a slugger, wore high socks like he was playing in the 30s. What wasn’t there to love? This past weekend, Thome was enshrined in baseball’s Hall…

  • Life lessons from baseball

      Tomorrow is opening day of the 2018 Major League Baseball season. Between opening day and the end of the season in early November, more than 2,430 games will be played. Baseball’s regular season is the longest in American professional sports, nearly doubling the 82 games NBA and NHL seasons. I think about the baseball…

  • LeBron’s historic finals: greatest player of all time

    No one thought Cleveland would win this series. Golden State had had the winningest season of all time. They had won last year. Cleveland was overmatched, didn’t have the depth. It was the best player in the game (Steph Curry) vs LeBron, who’s past his prime, a shadow of his former greatness. And the series…

  • The greatness of LeBron

    I wish we would be as critical of our president as we are of LeBron James. LeBron gets criticism for having the wrong facial expression. Nevermind the fact that he lead BOTH teams in scoring, rebounds, and assists. And nevermind he had one of the worst supporting casts in NBA final history up against one…

  • Happy Cavs fans, and the people angered by the fact that forgiveness exists

    I see some people who are being critical of Cavs fans. Was there a lot of anger and frustration after the decision? Of course. Just like there is a lot of anger in Miami as we see Heat fans burning his jerseys. But you better believe they would welcome him back. Are the Cavs fans…