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“As a Jew, I need Israel. More precisely: I can live as a Jew outside Israel but not without Israel.” - Elie Weisel

Cleveland, OH
Joined November 2009
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Brett Zelman
7 years
We're gonna need a bigger box.
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10 years
Kyrie Irving standing on a box to take the new Big 3 photo with LeBron and Love http://t.co/AnPkmW3Gch
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@chrislhayes Listen to what DeWine said today. Ohio Deparment of Health estimated could be as many as 100,000 cases in the state. Can’t believe this isn’t the leading headline everywhere.
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2 years
Obviously the win is the biggest thing but second is Yankees bullpen is totally taxed while Tito avoided pitching Stephan, Karinchak and Clase tonight. Cherry on top.
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8 years
@realDonaldTrump Donald. Please go away forever. No one really likes you.
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11 months
Cavs Twitter: Cavs need wings and shooting Koby: Gets arguably best wing shooter and stretch 4 shooter on the market Cavs Twitter: Ugh, bad move
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4 years
@chrislhayes also first governor to shut down schools. And our official case number is only 5! The difference is staggering but actions definitely seem like someone who knows there’s tons more cases. The Cleveland Clinic can now test patients on their own so hopefully we get more numbers soon
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1 year
@DawgsWillHunt @DraftExpress Ya Darius Garland is really struggling. Great point
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2 years
@rivercat11838 @naibef7 Don’t come in with facts to take away from batshit conspiracies
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4 years
@addysbaird He has four young daughters. Maybe now is not the time.
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6 years
@historyball @jaketapper You forgot twitter user, MAGAPatriot2020America
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3 years
@ChrisFedor This is a weird tweet man. Edwards has had games of 28, 20, 21, 22 and 18 in his last 8 games. Not sure what the point of the negativity is
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2 years
@p_artham @JamalCollier @kpelton Ya the fact that he’s 19 today has nothing to do with the fact they’re saying. I think that’s what makes it confusing
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6 years
Magic really wasted maybe the last year of LeBron’s prime so he could hold on to the Summer League MVP. If this happened in Cleveland, Gilbert and Altman would be getting absolutely destroyed.
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6 years
@AJDelgado13 @KatyTurNBC He wrote the inauguration speech, right? That was one of the worst speeches in American history.
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@Matt79213 @DawgsWillHunt @DraftExpress Garland was TERRIBLE his rookie year
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1 year
@auntieebeee @vintagexpost @WrittenByHanna It’s literally the only dialogue in the trailer, clearly talking about the age gap. Did you watch it?
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7 years
@realDonaldTrump stop tweeting, release your taxes, and act like an adult. You're a man child cry baby and about to be president. Grow up.
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2 months
@ItsSpover @Tony_Pesta @kaleenicolexo The whole team used to do it. But I think the rest of them kind of gave up on it. Not Allen.
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4 years
@chrislhayes DeWine is on top of this thing and handling it like every state should. Careful planning. Listening to experts and getting out of the way. I don’t agree with him on anything politically but that’s irrelevant now. If he was leading the country we’d be 100x better off
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@TheSteinLine Well it’s not stealth anymore, Marc.
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7 years
@m_drinnenberg #pleaselikemysport is the saddest of all the twitters. PS, Blake's having surgery.
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2 years
This is for real - Myles Straw has a .127 OBP in August. How he’s still playing basically everyday is mind boggling
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5 years
@im_ricky_216 @cavs It does matter. When it has rarely been done before, it is news, no matter if you think it is or not.
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@hellofatboy513 @BillSimmons He coached Isaiah Thomas
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2 years
@BSimp603 @JasonLukehart That’s probably why he doesn’t like Barstool
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7 years
@FernandoASosa2 curious but why would you expect more professionalism? He's running the country exactly like he ran his campaign.
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JR Smith - Skipped college, starter on NBA Champion, career earnings in the NBA after this contract around $100 million, 15 years in league, 12th all time in 3s made Doug Gottlieb - 4 years playing college basketball, 0 years in NBA, 0 career $ in NBA.
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JR Smith, always been crazy talented, missing some little things in his game. I think those things would have been fixed had he played at North Carolina. We skip steps, we rush the process, and this is the usual result
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9 years
These last two This American Life episodes are must-listen.
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1 year
@BrooklynNetcast I thought you guys were just being homers with all your Claxton love but he kicked the Cavs and Jarrett Allen’s ass tonight, coming from a Cavs fan. KD and Kyrie were obviously on fire with Warren too but Claxton was the difference to me
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5 years
@nev_catalyst @NCoelius @DaddySports @BuzzFeedBen @andylassner Huh? What other stories about Trump have proven to be wrong?
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8 years
@ThirdEyeBlind sounds like you guys knew what you were doing. Just an alternative idea: playing slow motion over and over again.
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4 years
DeWine: “ALL OHIO BARS AND RESTAURANTS TO CLOSE STARTING AT 9 PM TONIGHT. CARRYOUT AND DELIVERY STILL OK.” First state in the nation to do this
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2 months
Maybe they have it out for him because he tried to shove Evan Mobley into the front row?
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Cavs have it out for Mo Wagner as a team. First Garland tries to give him some shoulder after the foul by Mo, then Okoro gets the tech for unnecessary roughness.
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2 years
@ReallyDanWeiner @ColeyHarvey I also hope the Yankees fans appreciate that he almost never played again after his injury last year. Was his celebration over the top? Sure. But the guy almost had it all taken away last year
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7 years
Thought this was worth sharing. KD talking about Kyrie on Simmons' podcast
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6 years
@DieHardLALfan @Giveit2urMAMBA As a lifelong Cavs fan I’d say that your rant is mostly very wrong and he’s gonna win a lot of games for you. But if you’re expecting him to play defense in the regular season, well, I hate to break it to you, but....not happening
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6 years
@SLAMonline So by that logic, does Scottie think Robert Horry was better than him?
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8 years
@evetSAnderson @IsaiahCrowell34 lol yeah those colors are so prestigious.
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3 years
The Garland article that @ChrisFedor wrote is very good but this quote from Cavs assistant coach J.J. Outlaw is amazing. How in the world does Steve Blake make this quote?!?
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Brett Zelman
4 years
@emamadden @ChrisMurphyCT I have this exact concern. I guess there are loans for businesses to use to keep these employees employed. But we can’t rely on this which is why the $1,200 should be recurring monthly during the crisis
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9 years
@AP please use nuance. Say "Ohio votes against monopolization and corporate takeover of marijuana."
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Brett Zelman
9 months
Jose Ramirez - 130 OPS+ Yainer Diaz - 132 OPS+ Nolan Jones - 131 OPS+ Will Benson - 129 OPS+ And now Caminero called up. What a disaster. Let’s throw Yandy’s 150+ in there too
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6 years
Lol JR was shirtless at the Browns game. Cleveland legend.
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7 years
@DanWoikeSports lol wut. Not a Clippers fan and I can see that was CLEARLY accidental.
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Brett Zelman
6 years
If Love is out, this closing lineup should absolutely start next game. Hill-JR-Korver-LBJ-Nance.
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Brett Zelman
8 years
On Sportscenter, @mcten just said the Cavs are looking at veterans like Norris Cole, Mario Chalmers, David West and Luis Scola.
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8 years
@realDonaldTrump delete your campaign.
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11 months
@DonKenobiMusic Ya 6’7 is all that matters, they got really far with Cedi and Lamar last year lol. Completely meaningless.
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2 years
@spkrts @JeffPassan Next time you pitch in an MLB All-Star Game, you can decide whether to celebrate or not. Until then, maybe don’t tweet.
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4 years
@raising_hill @magi_jay I’d normally agree with this but....not sure anyone should be putting themselves in a spot to potentially have to go to the hospital right now. Even if the chances of it happening are very low
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5 years
@jonplee @getnickwright Not speaking to Nick in general but just curious as to what’s nonsense about this take?
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Brett Zelman
1 year
@AWeleba @HoopMixOnly He literally went to watch him in college. Probably the only player he ever went out of his way to go see in college. So ya, he knew he was special lol clown
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Brett Zelman
7 months
@mattdpearce You know he’s talking about photographers that came into Israel with Hamas on 10/7? Take this down Matt. It’s grossly misunderstanding his tweet.
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6 years
@NateDuncanNBA Yeah, paying a perennial All-Star well below the max is bad. Nice take.
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2 years
Just very strange to call up top-100 prospects and have them sit on the bench 6 times a week. Not sure how Freeman or Jones ever get into a rhythm playing once a week.
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2 years
I’ll never understand why the Guardians took a contact hitting righty middle infielder with reverse splits and made him the platoon first basemen against LHP when he can’t hit lefties and can’t play first base
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7 years
@20committee False equivalencies make for bad tweets
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7 years
The idea that Cleveland isn’t now a basketball town is wrong. I believe majority of people under 40 care about the Cavs more than the Browns
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5 years
@joethomas73 Start with your terrible take about how Garrett needs to apologize to Rudolph. Yes, he did the worst action in the fight but Rudolph was clearly the initiator.
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1 year
@AnthonyIrwinLA Watch him here too
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4 years
@ddale8 @joshtpm I made a list of 79 people that are experts or reporting on it.
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@SportsBoyTony Cmon man how many games were they healthy for since then? First Garland then Lauri and LeVert then Mobley and Allen out. Calling it a collapse is really over the top.
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7 years
@JoeNBC Joe, just check the number of likes Sopan gets vs. you on this issue. No one believes your bullshit anymore.
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4 years
@Ejconer @HPbasketball No way. I know people (for obvious reasons) haven’t watched the Cavs the last couple years but Tristan is an exceptional role player. Much better than Theis. Although I do like Theis
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6 years
Can we not make this a referendum on the Cavs flaws? Yes, they’re far from a complete team and have a lot of issues but this is only about the Warriors. They’re the most talented team ever assembled and everything is easy for them. Nothing to do with the Cavs.
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8 years
It was pretty historic when you became the 1st team ever to lose up 3-1 in the Finals.
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Draymond Green to @AlexKennedyNBA : "We’re trying to ... do things that will be remembered in this league forever"
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2 years
@Morelife240 @TheNBACentral @AhnFireDigital That’s not how the NBA works. Teams let players shoot at their courts whenever they want
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2 years
@JLEWFifty Hold this L dude
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8 years
I mean that Kyrie shot is like top 3 in NBA history right?
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2 years
Guardians with the most complicated deadline in a long time. Can easily win the division but with their rotation and pen, not a real postseason threat. 40 man roster crunch. Really good prospects who could get moved or need to eventually be called up.
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@ComplexSneakers Me: Kith UBs. Her: Breds
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@SopanDeb No way man. Right wing media’s made up nonsense cannot be normalized. It’ll feed right into making up more stories just for a reaction
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2 years
@cdixon25 @ColeyHarvey I also hope the Yankees fans appreciate that he almost never played again after his injury last year. Was his celebration over the top? Sure. But the guy almost had it all taken away.
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6 years
@GottliebShow It’s Love’s third concussion since 2016 Finals. This is a bad tweet.
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3 years
Very here for this Cedi revival. Guy has been awesome almost all year and a huge key to their success, especially since Love and Markannen went out
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6 years
Windhorst said on @ESPNCleveland that the Cavs have told Love, George Hill and Korver to be ready to come back to Cleveland and they are not planning on trading them.
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@GlennMunoz6 @Buster_ESPN Niebla may be the best pitching mind in all of baseball
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2 years
@g_e_anderson @TrishTheMiddle @Jeopardy This is possibly the worst take I’ve ever seen on twitter. Amy is better than any player just like Ken, James, Matt and a few others. But if you’re watching Jeopardy to see who wins, you’re doing it wrong. The whole point of the show is to play along at home
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7 years
LeBron just compared people who voted for Trump to the Blazers drafting Sam Bowie over MJ!
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3 years
@SarahTheHaider Marginalized communities, parents, those who have lost people to COVID, and New York Times TikTok reporters, ya know? The four major categories of exhausted people.
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1 year
@getnickwright Lol there’s just no possible world where 56 games of Steph is better than 68 games of Donovan. They had almost exact numbers, the Cavs were a far superior team and there’s just no logical argument for Steph if you look at just this year. What a terrible take.
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@SportsBoyTony Grant Williams is not a better shooter than Strus in any world. A shooter who gets up 9 3s per 36 and shoots 38 percent over a 2 year sample is far superior to one that shoots 40 percent but only takes 5 3s per 36. Also, one guy contributed to a Finals run and one got benched.
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2 years
One of the toughest games in the NBA is the first game home after a long trip on the opposite coast. And the Cavs just played one that included 6 in 9 nights and ended on a B2B. To have their first game back on just 1 day off and at 3 pm is just cruel scheduling
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6 years
@DieHardLALfan @Giveit2urMAMBA He’ll make some good defensive plays every now and again. Some nice chase down blocks. But game to game, play to play, the effort just won’t be there. He’s not closing out on a corner 3 in a game in February against Sacramento. Sorry.
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@deboerdeboss @Dschrempf Cloth masks. Everyone knew this a long time ago and smart people wear surgical or N95
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2 years
Bradley Zimmer is now 2 for 18 with 12 strikeouts in Spring Training. First I was ok with him being a backup outfielder. But now I think he needs to be DFA’d. Will help the roster crunch and open up opportunities for young guys.
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7 years
@BillSimmons LOL keep telling yourself that. You’ll get that superstar eventually.
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3 years
This is pretty bizarre. It’s been known for months and months that outdoor transmission is basically nonexistent
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1 year
I can’t believe Lamar and Cedi came off the bench before Okoro this half. Just some insane thinking from JB there
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1 year
@bendreyfuss Refrigerating peanut butter is bizarre
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6 years
@NateDuncanNBA The way the East is looking right now? Yes. I think his game will age pretty well as he doesn’t rely on his athleticism that much.
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4 years
@KBHeff @SceneSallard Honestly an understatement. If any place has a chance of curving this, it’s Ohio because of his and his teams actions. And they’re rightfully worrying about/enacting to help with the financial burden too
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8 years
@AsraNomani tone? JFC. You think tone matters to people seeing their brothers and sisters shot dead in the street? Wake the fuck up.
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2 years
@unruly876GAD @jackfrank_jjf That’s called whataboutism and is a shitty fucking thing to do when you’re referring to anti semitism
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Brett Zelman
6 years
Man this guy sucks
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He threw a damn alley oop to himself off the backboard, in a game. Now in a cast. Forgive me for being skeptical.
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Solomon Hill: 4-52 Evan Turner: 4-70 Evan Fournier: 5-85 JR:
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