On a night when the Peoria Chiefs minor league baseball club is planning on honoring the great Chicago Bulls teams of the 1990′s, the club has announced it will also be participating in a giveaway to all fans in attendance that night—an authentic, one-of-a-kind, LeBron James 2011 NBA Championship Replica Ring, just like the non-existent one King James wears with pride.
See, it’s funny because everyone will get one of these rings—which will be a big, fat pile of nothing, the same thing LeBron received for coming up short against the 2011 NBA champion Dallas Mavericks. In a way it kind of makes sense, what with the team honoring the Michael Jordan led Bulls of the 90′s, a team that the current version of the Miami Heat are striving to emulate. But still, isn’t it just another excuse to pile on LeBron James?
But wait, it gets better (or worse, depending on your particular point of view). In addition to the LeBron James 2011 NBA Championship replica ring for all fans at the game, the team is looking into whether or not they can skip the fourth inning, as a way to honor James and his habit of taking off the fourth quarter of every game in this year’s finals.
And you thought the ring idea was a bit much.
Lame or not? I say lame, seeing that this is Peoria and not a Cleveland-based franchise pulling this stunt. Plus, anyone else find it just a bit ironical that a minor league affiliate of the Cubs, a team that hasn’t won a World Series in 103 years (and counting), is busting on a guy because he didn’t win a championship in his first year with Miami?
See, it’s funny because everyone will get one of these rings—which will be a big, fat pile of nothing, the same thing LeBron received for coming up short against the 2011 NBA champion Dallas Mavericks. In a way it kind of makes sense, what with the team honoring the Michael Jordan led Bulls of the 90′s, a team that the current version of the Miami Heat are striving to emulate. But still, isn’t it just another excuse to pile on LeBron James?
But wait, it gets better (or worse, depending on your particular point of view). In addition to the LeBron James 2011 NBA Championship replica ring for all fans at the game, the team is looking into whether or not they can skip the fourth inning, as a way to honor James and his habit of taking off the fourth quarter of every game in this year’s finals.
And you thought the ring idea was a bit much.
Lame or not? I say lame, seeing that this is Peoria and not a Cleveland-based franchise pulling this stunt. Plus, anyone else find it just a bit ironical that a minor league affiliate of the Cubs, a team that hasn’t won a World Series in 103 years (and counting), is busting on a guy because he didn’t win a championship in his first year with Miami?
