OK. Just so we're clear here, the same Cleavland, Ohio bred superstar who refused to take off his Yankees hat at a nationally televised Indians game (citing life-long fan loyalty), has just signed a Brand & Marketing deal making Fenway Sports Group his sole global representative. (If you don't follow baseball, Fenway Park is the home of the Boston Red Sox, and Shrek).
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If you gave any self-respecting Yankee fan the choice between getting AIDS and shaking Curt Shilling's hand, he'd watch the Tom Hanks film "Philadelphia" at least three times and fall sleep on the decision to HBO's 1992 Dream Team documentary before you got your answer.
The kid cares about the town that created the hype around his talent about as much as I care about what happens to (insert any member of the "Sex In The City" cast here) in a dark alley after popping a Yao Ming-sized handful of rufilin.
Michael Jordan cheated on his wife more than Kobe (at least as far as records show), but his image and public conduct were that of a role model. He went through the best and worst of times in the public eye, but not once was his manhood questioned. The "Be Like Mike" era was golden and rightly so. Even this moron could tell you that the strength of Lebron's character doesn't even register on the same scale.
With that said, in the unlikely event that I raise a child under these social conditions and he says he wants to grow up to "...be like Lebron," that will be the day that I follow in the footsteps of Jayson Williams' former limo driver.
-Spitz
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