33 Comments:
Blogger Dooj said...
I like this one the best

h/t Ball Don't Lie

Blogger Lord Kerrance said...
Some of these are OK ("Quitness", for one). Most of them are as clever as shirts with stuff like "I miss my ex, but my aim is improving", "Help, I've fallen and I can't reach my beer", "Top ten reasons fishing/bowling/golfing/hunting is better than sex", etc. That is to say, not very.

Blogger Preveen said...
There really IS money left to be made in Cleveland coz of Lebron. :)

Anonymous Matt said...
It's rather fitting that I just got 'revenge game' as the bawful word of the day.


wv: impti - Even if the Cavaliers win the revenge game, their fans will still feel a little impti inside.

Anonymous Anonymous said...
I'm voting for shirt #2.

Blogger AnacondaHL said...
BTW, there was some discussion about getting sick of the reaction people were having to this whole situation in our last thread. I just now listened to the Bill Simmons podcast with Dan LeBatard, and it is hilarious how many dumb arguments Bill keeps making and how Dan is the voice of reason. Yes, Dan LeBatard.

So anyways, this here is probably the best reaction yet to the new Miami Heat.
Part 1
Part 2

Blogger Knockitdownagain said...
Well, I guess the answer is no, given the choice nobody will live in Cleveland for five years for an extra 30 million dollars. Hell, I could have told you that.

Blogger Siddarth Sharma said...
Prior to checking the link, Dan LeBatard seemed like another Le joke, LeBastard.

Blogger Andrei said...
Kahn follows up his giveaway of Jefferson by signing another point guard: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5379753

Anonymous Nick said...
i stumbled across this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veRILndTuuo

the first 2-3 minutes talk about the lebron decision--and the rest is hilarious. i don't even know how to begin to describe it, but here goes

1) the chick is rather attractive
2) she may actually spend more time following the nba than doing her nails, and consequently has some insight
3) interspersed with the in depth analysis are such choice quotes as "i call him [pau gasol] the gooseman because he looks like a goose, and when he gets fouled he flops his arms up like a duck. so i call him the gooseman"

i don't want to ruin it, but watch the whole thing and i'd be surprised if you are disappointed

Blogger Dan B. said...
Okay, Quitness just made me laugh harder than it should have.

Well, it's not quite Marquis Daniels' diamond-encrusted-head necklace, but it's still pretty ridiculous: a diamond-studded pendant in the shape of a LeBron James jersey.

Blogger chris said...
OT: Clutch the Bear getting some newsprint!

Anonymous kazam92 said...
Dan Lebetard is fucking awesome. I wasn't too fond of the guy but his reaction vid and pwning simmons did it for me

Anonymous AK Dave said...
GIVE IT TO ME AGAIN!!!!11!1!

ONE!! MORE!! TIIMMMEEEE!!!!!

That made my day :)

Blogger lordhenry said...
"lordhenry -- I'm sorry to disappoint you. Seriously."

You don't have to apologize, man, it's your blog! But I do appreciate it. Besides, you more than made up for it here:

"His "The Decision" special was the single biggest, meanest, most cruel bitchslaps to a fan base I've ever seen. It was like televising a rape. I hated it."

In everything everyone has said, nobody has said "televising a rape" but if they had, they would've been spot-on. awesome.

And of course today's T-shirt montage. I miss the bastardly side of Bawful, and here it is in all it's glory.

I will also say I'm sorry if I'm responsible for us getting a Leshirt montage instead of "pickup diaries" today, and also for dragging this thing out longer than it should be.

My only quibble left is---The Celtics are done? Really? People said that all last year too. Unless this is an insidious attempt at a reverse stat curse.......

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Anonymous Mico said...
Bawful
just a head's up

When I visit the site, there are plenty of moments when It would load the front page and then suddenly flash/redirected to a blank page while waiting for a site called .b.scorecardresearch.com to load

i'm not sure if you are being hijacked by an ad, or if it is on my end, but it only happens for this website...

here's some research done on my end:
http://www.bloggernews.net/122771

the comments at around july 13 seems to fall with what's happening to your site.

Blogger Vladamir said...
BAwful-

you have some sort of hack going on- if i don't stop the page from loading in the first 2 seconds it tries to send me to a "scorecard" site that never loads.

Anonymous Czernobog said...
Number 2 is the best, but I love that the last one is in comic-sans.

Anonymous Geert said...
"He brings a great deal of leadership and knowledge." Like Boston didn't have enough veteran presence. If they didn't need óne thing it's that, isn't it? I don't know, they should spent their money elsewhere, like, just saying, young athletic talents.

Anonymous Armand_a said...
I've seen a better version of the second shirt saying "LeBron might have gone south but LeBron's mom is riding West!"

Blogger Preveen said...
Idle thought. Wonder if James will make it to the All-Star game via fan voting the next time around. Would certainly be interesting to see how far the voting numbers changed. Highest vote getter last year, right?

Anonymous Ivan Teoh said...
James will still get way a lot of votes cause the international community as a whole isn't affected by his move.

You just see how celebrated he is on the east side of the world.

Sure they'll vote for him still unless he breaks a leg or becomes disabled.

Blogger AnacondaHL said...
Mico, et al. - Thanks for looking into the issue. I had looked at the template and script but couldn't identify the issue, but it looks like the problem's been found.

Taking a look at Mozilla Support, it looks like it's a combined issue with how Firefox 3.6.6 is resolving this crappy tracker script.

In conclusion, if you're running Firefox without NoScript addon u r a tard. Do NOT visit their website, do NOT use that shitty opt-out feature.

Anonymous Anonymous said...
LeBatard's been almost unbearable about the whole thing except for his occasional admission that Miami's fanbase doesn't deserve this.

People have a right to be upset at Lebron. For both what he did to Cleveland and for forfeiting his shot at transcendent greatness. That he doesn't get that is amazing. That he keeps saying that LeBron's actions were unselfish and putting winning above everything else are comical. People don't like what Lebron did because it seems like he's looking to get cheap championships. Jeff Van Gundy had a great quote about the struggle to obtain a championship is part of the glory of winning that championship. These guys are seeking to avoid the struggle and just cash in. That's not unselfish even though they're forfeiting a few million dollars that they'll probably make up anyway.

Blogger gordon gartrelle said...
I feel for anguished Cleveland sports fans, and I am OK with them ripping Lebron for disloyalty (despite how stupid that argument is). And the Delonte thing is hilarious for everyone but Lebron.

The rest of this hate is bullshit, though. Cleveland fans not only tolerated and enabled Lebron's ego; they actively reveled in it. They loved that "greatness," however manufactured, was associated with their shitty city.

And now, because he decided to leave, he's always been a loser? GTFOH.

He's the same player/egomaniac he was last week, when the whole city was begging him to stay. What does it say about Cleveland that the fans and the owner were so invested in a so-called loser who supposedly quit on the team and has no killer instinct?

And everybody needs to get off their high horse about the ESPN special. It was a freakshow.

The only thing worse than trying to justify a freakshow by a concern for the participants (Lebron's Boys & Girls Club donation) is condemning a freakshow while watching through your fingers. If you watched it, then STFU.

This sanctimonious bullshit is a big part of what's wrong with sports fandom.

Anonymous AK Dave said...
If you watched it, then STFU.

YEAH.

Oh, and I've totally started referring to my bowel movements as "taking my talents to South Beach." Thanks to whomever posted that the other day...

Blogger Clarence said...
nice t-shirt u have there. wish to have 1 myself

Anonymous Anonymous said...
these t-shirts look like they were designed in Cleveland and by the owner of the Cavs.

Anonymous JKain said...
I like this one best: http://gvartwork.myshopify.com/products/lebron-the-lyin-king-t-shirt

but "you can head south,but your mom is riding West"- isn't that bad of a...punchline too (with disturbing inner-eye-image-bonus)

Blogger Unknown said...
Well, I guess the answer is no, given the choice nobody will live in Cleveland for five years for an extra 30 million dollars. Hell, I could have told you that.

Funny Teeshirts

Anonymous Strendy said...
The 2nd T-shirt is hilarious! I wan't to get one of those where are these available can you give the exact link from zazzle?
T-Shirts Online

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