Battle For Ohio
As long as I can remember, we woke up on Sunday mornings to my brother Andy watching four hours of Sportscenter on ESPN followed by the Sports Reporters, then hosted by eponymous Dick Schapp. It was his religion.
And it still is. A couple months ago, he and his friend George started a blog on all Ohio sports; they cover everything…and some random things with George taking Cincinnati/Columbus and Andy generally railing against anything sports related going on in Cleveland.
In spite of myself (and I’m partial because we’re related), I think Andy’s posts are hilarious (he writes under the pen name pacmanxu if you’re looking). He really knows sports, I think. But the true voice of hilarity just drips with irony coated in heartbreak: He is a life-long Clevelander beaten down by decades of teams that are either out-and-out losers (most recently, all of our teams except the Cavs) or so-close-but-not-quite (i.e The Indians during the 90s). Every sentence, so angry. Every word dripping with cynicism and disgust at the present sad state of things. He is Cleveland in all of these posts and I just can’t get enough.
I’m not sure my enthusiasm will extend beyond my family. But he does present a good argument and his pictures in the posts are just beyond cleverly used. Check it out. If not for the Cleveland sports, than for a different take on my own *brand* of cynicism. It might, in fact, be a Pacyna family trait.
