Letter from the Editor: LeBron james
Dear Mr. James,
As a non-partisan observer in the entire debacle of your free agency I have a request to make of you. Stay in Cleveland. I doubt you will listen to me, seeing as we’ve never met and I know very little about your situation or what is going through your head but I write to you on behalf of the American consciousness. America needs a hero Mr. James. I’m asking you to step up and act the part you’ve already been cast into.
I don’t have any allegiance to any team, I don’t live in Cleveland, I’ve never even been to Ohio and I couldn’t care less about any of the other teams you’re entertaining plans of joining. Rather, I write to you as a sports fan who has watched player after player drift aimlessly from team to team, desperately seeking something, be it money, fame, a coach they like, or, as in your case, a championship. And I have to say, if you leave, you’ll never earn a championship. To earn a championship, you need to stay in Cleveland. You need to stay with your home team. Otherwise you’ll be gambling with the love and adoration of fans, of small children who will watch you leave Ohio for the last time, kids who have now grown up watching you play for the Cavaliers, for their hometown, and now sit, staring at their televisions asking why? Wondering if their hometown wasn’t good enough for you, if they, as your fans, were not good enough for you.
They need a hero, Mr. James. They need a man who’s willing to stay and fight and be a man. They need you Mr. James, America needs you. Stay and be a hero. Leave and hope that your new team wins, or else you’ll be seen as a fool, a media clown. Win and fans will refuse to give you the credit you so rightly deserve. You deserve that championship. You deserve to win that championship, to earn that championship and Cleveland, deserves it as well.
But, like I said Mr. James, I don’t’ know you, and I don’t know anything about your reasons for leaving Cleveland. If I’m wrong, and you do in fact have completely valid reasons for leaving Cleveland for Miami or wherever else you may end up, then forgive a poor romantic his ravings.
But, if I’m right, if the entire sports entertainment industry is right about your reasons, then I beg of you Mr. James, on behalf of all the children looking for a man to look up to, on behalf of old men who have been waiting for the ray of hope you provide that their home team just might win a championship before they die, and on behalf of those men who have played, learned, sweat and bled along side you- stay in Cleveland.
I, along with the rest of the country, await your response tomorrow.