Will Lebron James & Co. fill condos?

[spellbound]

I think the Onion had the best take on all this (it's much funnier if you're a sports fan that gets all the references)...

CLEVELAND—Shocked Cleveland residents stared silently Thursday as workers tried for the 11th consecutive day to dismantle the massive black-and-white "We Are All Witnesses" LeBron James mural hanging from the downtown area's Landmark Office Tower.

Friday morning, as was the case the previous morning and the morning before that, Clevelanders awoke to find the iconic, 10-story-tall image of James—his arms fully extended after tossing his signature talcum powder into the air—completely intact, dominating the city's skyline as if it had never even been touched.

In the week since James' announcement that he would join the Miami Heat, Cleveland city officials and citizens alike have attempted to tear down, shred, deface, and even burn the image from the wall only to find it back in place the next day.

No one has reported observing the mural's reappearance.

"We can't escape it," said 42-year-old Clevelander Mark Hoffman, who along with 300 other local Cavaliers fans watched as the mural was ripped into thousands of pieces and buried under two tons of dirt in Riverside Cemetery Wednesday evening. "The next morning it was there. Just…there. It's always there. Hovering over us like some sort of demon."

"We are all witnesses," a visibly traumatized Hoffman mumbled while swaying back and forth, his eyes engaged in a removed, distant stare. "We are all witnesses. We are all witnesses. We are all witnesses."

As the city becomes increasingly disturbed and agitated, sources confirmed that the banner's sinister hold on the metropolis appears to be growing in strength. The image, they say, somehow becomes clearer and more ominous each time it reappears, intensifying the utter hopelessness and betrayal citizens have felt ever since James held a nationally broadcast television special to announce that he was leaving his home state in search of an NBA title with the Heat.

The banner's resilience has reportedly taken on almost supernatural properties: On Tuesday city officials removed it panel by panel, only to find an identical mural hanging directly behind it. On Wednesday, not only did the banner reappear after being loaded onto a chartered one-way flight to Siberia, but the LeBron James depicted in the new banner was wearing a Heat jersey and holding two NBA Championship trophies in his outstretched hands.

"I walked up to the banner with a ladder and a rented power sprayer and painted it over about halfway," 36-year-old Luke Denton said. "I took a two-minute break to get some water, and when I looked up, the paint had disappeared. As if I'd never even done it."

"And I could have sworn that LeBron's face was staring right at me," Denton added. "He had this demented grin that I'll never forget. Why does he want to torture us? Why?"

Though the hated billboard is said to typically reappear as James' haunting likeness, some have seen other disturbing images. Last Thursday when the mural was attached to four 1,000-pound weights and forcibly sunk in the Cuyahoga River, commuters driving into the city reported seeing in its place a 10-story-tall photograph of John Elway leading Denver to victory over the Browns in the 1987 AFC Championship game. Others saw a still image of Michael Jordan jumping into the air and pumping his fist after his game-winning shot over Craig Ehlo. Many pedestrians, meanwhile, reported seeing a 100-foot banner of Earnest Byner's 1988 fumble on the three-yard line.

An attempt to demolish the building altogether proved futile, as it was mysteriously replaced the following day by the completely new 15-story Art Modell Public Library.

"I would like to assure the citizens of Cleveland that we are doing everything in our power to rid our city of the LeBron James mural," Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson said Thursday, adding that a priest from Bulgaria would be brought to the city next week to exorcise the banner. "That being said, if you gouge your eyes out like I did, you can't see the image."

"However," Jackson continued, "on the very threshold of audibility, you can still hear LeBron's voice repeating, 'This fall, I am going to take my talents to South Beach.'"

As of press time, nobody outside the Cleveland area had seen the mural once since it was originally taken down last Sunday

[victorino08]

what kind of poll is this???!!! aren't the condos occupy around 60% to 70%, I don't recall the exact number but I know for a fact most of the people who live in the condos are in their late 20s and early 30s and the MAJORITY rent, which retail stores and restaurants prefer due to less payment on living on a household and more spending on shopping, going out, etcetera...
Only a non-native or ignorant will think that.

[VisionMIA]

Originally Posted by spellbound

"I would like to assure the citizens of Cleveland that we are doing everything in our power to rid our city of the LeBron James mural," Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson said Thursday, adding that a priest from Bulgaria would be brought to the city next week to exorcise the banner. "That being said, if you gouge your eyes out like I did, you can't see the image."

"However," Jackson continued, "on the very threshold of audibility, you can still hear LeBron's voice repeating, 'This fall, I am going to take my talents to South Beach.'"

This is hilarious! Good post Spell!

[Endeavor305]

[clean_polo]

"2010 All-Star Game Dwyane Wade Assist To LeBron James"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMA9L...eature=related

"Chris Bosh putback dunk in 2010 All-Star Game" which happened to be shot by LeBron James.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Yihj0V2Dg

"Dwyane Wade off the backboard dunk All-Star Game 2010"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr-li...eature=related

These videos give me chills just to know all 3 of these guys are on one team now.

[miamitovegas]

Originally Posted by theEmbarcadero

Considering it is a given that the AAA will sell out every home game and be an "event" for years to come---I was wondering what the Miami SSC gang thinks about the economic impact of this big free agency coup, to downtown Miami?

Specifically...will more condos be sold, more skyscrapers built, more mass transit finished?

Any impact on other teams like the Marlins. Dolphins...the U?

I welcome your thoughts. I sure hope this can spark another boom..!!

Are you for real man?

Seriously???

[miamitovegas]

This just in.............the city of Miami has immersed itself in an economic boom after signing free agent LeBron James.

There are new plans for downtown construction, and an elevated train that will run through the entire city appropriately named "the L train" for the city's new basketball phenom.

After the L train connects all major quadrants of the city, there will be a tourist attraction built just behind AAA in the waters of Biscayne Bay called Atlantis of Miami. You heard right, a tunnel leading down into a city under the sea!

All these things made possible by the Ohio native bringing his good fortune to "the magic city". All developers of newly announced high rise projects are paying King James for his name as there will be 2 1,000 footers side by side known as James Financial Center. A majestic duo that will rival our nation's former World Trade Center.

Also, many fortune 500 companies are announcing their relocation to the Magic City to join Carnival Cruise Lines and Bacardi Rum in South Florida. "Hey, LeBron is here" said one CEO who just announced plans to move his blue chip company to Miami. In a city which for years has known no corporate presence at all, the relocations of big company corporate headquarters are creating a corporate hub in Miami that will rival Dallas and Atlanta.

"These companies, and the thousands of jobs they create will need office space, and I'm here to fill that need", said one well known Miami developer planning on building a tower 1,150 feet with a rotating restaurant on the top floor where the most influential power-brokers in the world will dine and cement future development deals in Miami that will make the whole world jealous.

This is why I'm glad I'm leaving Miami. You people pleasure yourselves to ridiculous fantasies like this and the first post is the perfect example. Do people have unusual imaginations here from being born under the influence of cocaine, or are they just plain dumb from lack of education?

[victorino08]

this guy...lol HAHAHAHAHA JAJAJAJ lmao
i mean i never seen him posting before and now he is EXPLODING!!! with new comments wow, this guy sounds like a person you bully at high school and finally explodes and starts shooting with an AK-47, going around the cafeteria and and classrooms untill finally the police arrives (QuantumX). lmaoooo

[miamitovegas]

You know you loved it.

You were probably frantically looking for your bottle of lotion as you started reading it, just like most other people in here would.

[Endeavor305]

I know people that have homes in Vegas and Miami and none of them prefer Vegas over Miami.

[miamitovegas]

Originally Posted by Endeavor305

I know people that have homes in Vegas and Miami and none of them prefer Vegas over Miami.

What does that have to do with the absolute ridiculous theme of this thread? Absolutely nothing! This is Miami SSC personified. You are a liar. You know MULTIPLE people with homes in both locations huh? Isn't that something!

Check the other thread. I gave you an award that is well deserved and earned.

[miamitovegas]

This is 4 pages of disbelief to me. Can people really be this...........I don't even know the word for it.

[clean_polo]

Originally Posted by miamitovegas

This is 4 pages of disbelief to me. Can people really be this...........I don't even know the word for it.

While Miami is getting LeBron James, what's Las Vegas getting? Oh wait....Las Vegas doesn't have any professional sports teams because of the future gambling problems that would be associated with...I guess you can call Las Vegas a "city".

[massp88]

Originally Posted by clean_polo

While Miami is getting LeBron James, what's Las Vegas getting? Oh wait....Las Vegas doesn't have any professional sports teams because of the future gambling problems that would be associated with...I guess you can call Las Vegas a "city".

Why are you turning this into a Miami vs. Las Vegas thread? Seattle only has 2 major pro sports teams, does that make it less of a city than say Cleveland who has 3? Or Detroit that has 4?

Originally Posted by Endeavor305

I know people that have homes in Vegas and Miami and none of them prefer Vegas over Miami.

What's your point? Does that make Miami better than Las Vegas because some of your friends have that opinion?

[gixxer1000]

Originally Posted by massp88

Why are you turning this into a Miami vs. Las Vegas thread? Seattle only has 2 major pro sports teams, does that make it less of a city than say Cleveland who has 3? Or Detroit that has 4?



What's your point? Does that make Miami better than Las Vegas because some of your friends have that opinion?

I think its obvious what there point is. Different people like different things and most people here are OK with that. But to discredit Miami while you moving to a place like Las Vegas seems a little silly when the negative things you are pointing out about Miami are even worse in Las Vegas.

If you don't like Miami because of the traffic it would be silly to move to DC where the traffic is worse.

I do agree the thread has gone off topic. But I think that's due to MiamitoVegas posting nonsense in several threads so at this point people are just responding to him and not in a way that relates to the thread. He's trolling and they fell for the bait.

[clean_polo]

Exactly gixxer, I find it hilarious that this guy is putting down Miami but acting like Las Vegas is some heavenly utopia. Tell you the truth, Las Vegas probably has more problems than Miami.

[spellbound]

Originally Posted by clean_polo

Exactly gixxer, I find it hilarious that this guy is putting down Miami but acting like Las Vegas is some heavenly utopia. Tell you the truth, Las Vegas probably has more problems than Miami.

I think if we're totally honest, there isn't any utopian city. How could there be unless it completely dovetailed with each and every personal desire we had? For me, that would probably entail some combination of an affordable Manhattan with an English-speaking Rome and a Miami where the leaves changed color and it snowed every year. Doesn't exist.

That's why (to me) any kind of "city versus city" stuff inevitably winds up being asinine. All that matters is how content you are in one place at a point in time---and that is subject to change as well.

Just my own perspective, but as I grow older I find myself less "married" to a location and simply wanting to see (and think about living in) more of the world. Miami is the deepest attachment---Philly is where I spend most of my time---but if I had the money to do it I'd probably have an apartment on three continents and be trying to figure out how to spend a week on the Moon.

I think we just get one brief visit on this planet---and should do everything we can to see as much of it as possible.

[theEmbarcadero]

Originally Posted by spellbound

I think if we're totally honest, there isn't any utopian city. How could there be unless it completely dovetailed with each and every personal desire we had? For me, that would probably entail some combination of an affordable Manhattan with an English-speaking Rome and a Miami where the leaves changed color and it snowed every year. Doesn't exist.

That's why (to me) any kind of "city versus city" stuff inevitably winds up being asinine. All that matters is how content you are in one place at a point in time---and that is subject to change as well.

Just my own perspective, but as I grow older I find myself less "married" to a location and simply wanting to see (and think about living in) more of the world. Miami is the deepest attachment---Philly is where I spend most of my time---but if I had the money to do it I'd probably have an apartment on three continents and be trying to figure out how to spend a week on the Moon.

I think we just get one brief visit on this planet---and should do everything we can to see as much of it as possible.

So...? Does this mean u will FINALLY concede in your vain attempts to argue that Enid is a better city than Opa-Locka?

[spellbound]

Originally Posted by theEmbarcadero

So...? Does this mean u will FINALLY concede in your vain attempts to argue that Enid is a better city than Opa-Locka?

The Queen Wheat City takes a backseat to nobody!

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by victorino08

this guy...lol HAHAHAHAHA JAJAJAJ lmao
i mean i never seen him posting before and now he is EXPLODING!!! with new comments wow, this guy sounds like a person you bully at high school and finally explodes and starts shooting with an AK-47, going around the cafeteria and and classrooms untill finally the police arrives (QuantumX). lmaoooo

Damn right!