"Unbloggable"?

Dan Steinberg of the DC Sports Blog asked if the Wizards might become as "unbloggable as the Cavs."

How are the Cavaliers "unbloggable"?

The Cavs have some interesting personalities to discuss, and their organization is good enough to 'believe,' but flawed enough to fantasize massive changes. 

LeBron is (usually) too PC and controlled to give you good quotes, but can still produce some excellent material. His game, his ambitions (right-minded or misguided efforts to become a "mogul," for example) and the stranglehold he has over the organization top-to-bottom all provide excellent talking points. Players sometimes take pot-shots at him on and off the court, and so do fans and the media. He's so good that people are in a hurry to dismiss him as 'not as good as Michael Jordan,' though that may only hold up for so long.

Cleveland has a ton of consummate professionals on our team, too, with strange personality quirks and history. Zydrunas Ilgauskas is the witty, soft-spoken gentle giant of the squad. Player-coach Eric Snow spends more time working on Delonte West's game than his own. Wally Szczerbiak is desperately trying to relive his glory days at Miami (OH). Joe Smith finally gets to experience the second round. Ben Wallace needs to prove that he isn't irrelevant. Cleveland's resident loudmouth, Damon Jones, is seriously struggling with his diminished role.

Danny Ferry was himself the product of one of the worst trades in Cleveland history, but has tried to shake things up. How is an 11-player deadline deal three-quarters the way through the season "unbloggable"? No one thinks he's perfect, for sure, but that lends to more good discussion. What could have or should have been. Ferry also leaves us with a team that keeps Cleveland fans going and believing. 

The owner Dan Gilbert is one of the quirkiest and most innovative people in the business world. He's interesting in his own right, but more so because he'll invest whatever it takes to get a ring, from a $25 million practice facility (Cleveland Clinic Courts) to a multi-million dollar home locker room renovation or exorbitant luxury taxes on the payroll. He even stole the Detroit PA announcer and the TV play-by-play guy when he came here. He's Mark Cuban without a blog.

Are the Cavs not bloggable because they don't do ridiculous things like call out one of the best players in the league? Or maybe declare in the media their wish to play a certain team because they're 'soft'? Or fan the fire by calling the most dominant player on the other team a 'crybaby'?

Why don't captains Butler and Jamison have better control of their team? They're two stalwart, professional personalities and excellent basketball players – But if they can't reel in the stupidity of Stevenson or the ridiculous comments of Gilbert, are they doing their duties as captains? Why don't approximately 28 or 29 other teams in the league have these persistant problems? Jamison said that the comments through the mass media were 'beneath him,' and he was right. He just didn't exude the authority to convince his team that the trash-talking through the media was beneath them, too.

Three things would make the Cavs "unbloggable."

1) Lack of controversy.

2) A depressingly bad team, with no history or future.

3) No fan base to read the posts.

But the Cavs have controversy (hello, penultimate regular-season game against the Sixers, the entire Washington series or the massive trade). The Cavs have a pretty good team with a history (complete with our own disappointing one-sided 'rivalry') and a future. And Cleveland breeds sports fans, for lack of passion about anything else connected to the city.

So, really, what did he mean by unbloggable? LeBron and Z have control of the team, and they'll be playing into the second round (at least) for as long as James is in Cleveland. 

Isn't discussing the games, the on-court action on the 50-by-94 rectangle in the middle of the arena, the main event to blogging? And the Cavs create great fodder on the floor, even for opposing bloggers.

I can guarantee, at this moment it is much more fun to be a Cleveland writer than a Wizards blogger. The Cavs fans are still discussing the ongoing season … And that's what it's all about.

Dan is a gifted writer, but I whole-heartedly disagree with him on this one.