So the NFL, the cash cow of all sports leagues, claim that every owner is losing money.

Sure they are.

They're losing money because they're only getting $21.4 Billion per year in TV contracts. That means each of the 32 owners only gets $668,750,000. From TV alone. Before they sell a ticket, or a hot dog, or a t-shirt. How can they feed their kids?

If the owners can manage to lose money when their payrolls are about $100 million and they're getting almost 7 times that amount just from TV, then something tells me they're really bad business men. Or they're lying. *GASP* The NFL? Lie? Sacrilegious! Everyone loves the NFL. They'd never do anything to hurt us. I can sleep soundly at night knowing that the NFL is protecting my house from burglars.

Give me a break. The NFL is full of crap and if the owners want to kill their golden goose then I can only hope that no one ever watches a game again.

So now that the Cavs are again out of the playoffs, what do they need to do in order to get to the promised land?

Do they need new players? Maybe, but let's start with other types of changes.

First they need to run the offense through the point guard and not through LeBron James. When LeBron brings the ball up the court then the rest of the team just stands around and doesn't know what to do. When the point guard brings it up, suddenly the team springs to life and there's movement.

Second, they need to practice their free throws. If they could hit 80% instead of 70% they'd average 4 more points per game. That's huge, and is easy enough to do.

Third, LeBron needs to realize the type of player that he is. He's the guy that needs to attack, attack, attack. He needs to go hard to the rim. Too often he settles for fall away jumpers and out of control three pointers. Someone with his kind of physical abilities needs to be going to the hoop about 15 times per game.

Finally, they need to address the roster. They have adequate depth, but they don't have a guy that can take a double team and take some pressure off of LeBron.

Look at yesterday's game. LeBron scored 44 points, but what do you remember? You remember the misses. The bad three pointer at the end of the game. The missed layup. The missed free throws. The failure to stop the Celtics at critical times.

It's unfortunate too because LeBron hit 50% of his shots, but you don't remember that. You remember the misses early in the series and not the makes at the end of the series.

We're going to one of our favorite pizza places tonight... Angelo's in Lakewood.

The pizza is great. Whenever we go to the west side (west siiiiiiiiiiiiide) of Cleveland we eat there. I'm really looking forward to it.

We're heading to that side of town to renew the leases for the tenants living in Lindsay's old house. It's a duplex and up and down are both renewing, so that was a nice load off of our mind. They take really good care of the place too so we're happy that they're staying.

Hopefully the Cavs don't spoil the night. Come on! Play a whole game. I want to enjoy my pizza!

The Cavs blew it last night, but the Indians pitchers are playing out of their mind. Today the Indians pitcher gave up an unearned run. It was the first run of any kind that a starter had given up in over 5 games.

Now the offense just needs to get on track and it appears that the team could live up to their potential. Travis Hafner is struggling mightily. Sizemore has been solid. Jhonny Peralta needs to hit better. David Delucci has been a pleasant surprise and may have locked up a starting spot in left field. Victor Martinez has hitting well, but where has his power gone?

Of course, the pitchers aren't going to go throughout the remainder of the season with an ERA of 1.0. It just seems like they've turned a corner. Hopefully the Tigers continue to struggle and the Indians can run away with the division. It usually doesn't work out that way for the Tribe, but we'll see...

Cavs have a big lead. Check.

LeBron off to a good start. Check.

Cavs blow a big lead. Check.

Rarely are they able to put together a complete game. They have no idea how to step on a teams throat when they have them down. How can you have a 14 point lead and end up losing by 20? Granted, they're only down 12 (84-72) as I write this, but it's just a little prediction of mine.

Ah... I feel refreshed. I finally got a bunch of sleep that I've been missing. Yes, It's 5:41 AM, but I've already been up for about a hour. I guess that's what happens when you go to bed at 7:00 PM.

One of the most exciting nights of my life is about to conclude...

I got home from work and had some cereal for dinner -- it was awesome.

After "dinner" I helped Lindsay mulch some trees.

I've kept my eyes open for long enough now... it's almost 7:00 and I'm going to bed.

So much to say. So little motivation to say it.

Here's a quick run down of thoughts...

The Indians are playing like poop and are only a game out. That's good.

The Cavs finally put together a complete game and whipped the Celtics. LeBron is not shooting well though. That's bad.

We transplanted the trees that were along the fence line to be along the driveway. That will help hide our neighbors unkempt lawn. That's good.

We saw Juno over the weekend. It has some laugh out loud moments and overall was pretty good. I saw Cars too. It was also pretty good.

Max is on two more pills. If there is a pill out there for a disease \ infection \ allergy, then Max is on it. I'm beginning to think that the best option out there is to have the worlds first bubble dog.

The Cavs blew it big time last night. They had the perfect opportunity to go up 1-0 on the Celtics in the East Semi's. Even though they lost, it's possible to take some positive things away from it. They stayed close, and still could've pulled it out in the end, with LeBron having one of the worst games of his career. If he can get back on a more normal track, they could win. The down side of that though is that they're not going to be able to hold Ray Allen scoreless again and Paul Pierce to another game like the had.

So the question is this: will LeBron's increase more than offset Pierce's and Allen's increases? I'm not so sure, but that's why they play the games.

Our stock (PCP) was up over $11 per share today at some point. It finished up $8.20. I'll take it.

It's close to where it needs to be for us to sell again, and let me tell you, that would be great.

How great? Well, I'd finally be able to build Palm Tim (kind of like this) on Lake Erie.