Your Miami Heat were thoroughly thumped in Denver Thursday night 104-93 and it was never close. This is the first game one Miami has lost in this playoff series. The Heat set an unenviable record by attempting a mere two free throws in an NBA finals game, an unmatched record of free-throw finals futility (giving rise to a classic Rumpole alliterative roll).
Denver, playing in its first NBA Finals ever, set the tone by taking Miami out of the game early.
Things are looking grim for all ten of you season-long die-hard Miami Heat fans. For the rest of you front-running phonies, there's always Ocean Drive, the new Spiderman Movie, Sexy Fish, and the Dolphins pre-season OTAs.
JOE CAROLLO TRIAL:
DOM, who spends his days off watching federal trials for fun, scooped us on his blog and reported that the federal jury found Joey C liable for the tune of 60 M I L L I O N dollars in the civil lawsuit that generated some buzz when Carollo's lawyers were held in contempt for snapping photos in federal court.
Team Carollo summary: Lost; gobsmacked with an 8 digit verdict north of 50 million; held in contempt; facing a two-year ban on handling cases in the SDFL.
All in all, not the kind of trial you put on your webpage.
19 comments:
Finally Joe gets what he has coming to him. Sometimes we all have to say no to prospective clients like Joe, Donald Trump etc. They just bring you down with them.
Hey, hey, what's with all this shade and schadenfreude you're casting on the Heat? This team barely made the playoffs, and promptly took out three of the top teams in the East (OK, 2 1/2, the Knicks aren't that good). They are facing the top team in the West and totally playing with house money. And, thanks to the Sixers mismanagement, you have Jimmy Butler. So, relax and enjoy the ride. Go Heat.
It should be interesting to see how Judge Smith sidesteps his rather embarrassing action to the photo seen round the world but only after the judge disclosed it and made such a big deal of it. While judicial security is no trivial matter, the back corner of a courtroom during a recess is not exactly the interior of a tabernacle.
You know an REGJB OG/Legend (which Mr Troyer is ) is about the only one I would let get away with a comment like that.
Lol you think that verdict will stick?
Miami has the Heat.
A team that’s ez to beat
They bounce the ball on the court
Like a lawyer chasing a tort
They shoot airballs
And miss threes
Their fans never show
Cause when you’re talking Miami
The Heat really blow
Time to show up at Carollo's house with a writ, a sheriff and a box truck soon immediately after the judgment.
Took me so long to get to work today. The road was blocked by all the people jumping off the bandwagon. Such a front running town.
Carollo's lawyers played it smart. Scorched earth litigation tactics. Bill to the max and for the max. And when you lose, appeal, appeal, and triple the billings. Guess what? The City of Miami is picking up the tab. The onerous sanction will be reversed. You would think they took a picture of the combination to the Fort Knox vault Then again, after spending every day and most nights and weekends locked in a room with Carollo, two years in absentia might be welcomed.
No one, not Rumpole, not 206pm, not a single person I have ever heard on the subject has ever made a reasonable defense of fan loyalty. For fuck's sake people, the NBA and its franchises are a for-profit business that provides a service (entertainment). Why would anyone patronize a service provider whose product doesn't deliver? So yes, if the Heat, or the Bulls, or the Warriors, or whoever else, fields an entertaining product, I will consume it. And if they don't...I will spend my time and money elsewhere.
You’ve never been a fan invested in a franchise. Too bad for you. To follow a team for a lifetime and watch them while they have that one miracle year where they win it all when no one thought they could - well , you’ll never know. Sorry. But it can be magical. I do agree sports has become more about money and less about the fans. But remember before free agency most players had do have second jobs in the off season - I’m not against second jobs. But it’s not like the owners didn’t have the money. I just read that one year Joe DiMaggio asked for a raise and the Yankee owner at the time went public and said 25 thousand and not a button more. The fans and media turned against him.
Take pro football. Average career is less than five years and can leave the players with a lifetime of disabilities. We cheer for the big hits. I’m ok with paying for a ticket so they can be taken care off.
Rumpo missed the cinco de Shumie party.
Anything being planned for the fourth ?
Shumie Indy fiesta ? Something ?
Rump the NJ task force has an eyewitness to the Bevalaqua murder. You gonna represent Tony if they pinch him ?
Rumpole — will you be commenting on our Florida Panthers?
Yes. So far a great Game. 2-2. Nice goal for panthers on the face off at the end of the second period really enjoyable game.
Bow ties are for appeals lawyers not trial lawyers.
Rumpole:
You say, "You’ve never been a fan invested in a franchise." Indeed, I do not own stock in those businesses. And unless you do, what you are describing is a sucker's proposition, and reminiscent of what abused spouses say ("but he loves me so much, he took me to the nicest restaurant after" she says with a black eye). Don't get me wrong, I am such a sucker for the Dolphins and have been since my first game as a child in the Orange Bowl. But we have to admit what's going on. Having been taken as suckers by one business or another does not make us superior or put us in a position to ridicule the consumers that have behaved more rationally - it just makes us suckers. Frankly, I envy the bandwagon fans. And, as a "true Dolphins fan" but only a "bandwagon Heat fan," I can tell you that being a bandwagon fan is much healthier.
Sandy D'Alemeberte was one of the finest trial lawyers ever to set foot int a courtroom, and he frequently wore bow ties.
Sandy rarely tried cases to a jury. I challenge 5:58 to name a few jury trials( even 1) that Sandy was first chair.
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