Actually, that game was Cavs 148, Heat 80.

Way to get in a Nazi reference and a Mexican border-crossing joke in the same post. It's like Fox News decided to take over Basketbawful for a day. Brace yourself for the inevitable reader outrage/backlash, Raza.

I'd like to point out, because it is not clear , and because I attended the game, the worst blowout in history was a Cavs victory over the Heat.

(Let me clarify that comment as it doesn't read the way it sounded in my head when I wrote it:

The post was funny, as always. But Nazi jokes are polarizing and so are Border-Crossing jokes aimed at latino players. Some people might get pissy as a result. )

That Cavs record-setting game over the Heat in 1991 was cool for one other reason - Every single Cav had at least 1 reb, 1 ast, and 5 pts. Except for Hot Rod Williams who did not have an assist.

Yes AK Dave, this post was brought to you by Bill O'Reilly ;0)

@AK Dave: You forgot the "lesbian haircut."

Raza, there are certain areas that are avoided like the plague by anybody looking for a public audience. Well, unless you are Ann Coulter and searching for a very select audience. Old Matt "Bawful" McHale would skirt close to the edge with his "man love" stuff, but I don't think anybody really minded that. Implied without actually saying. You know what I'm saying? Not that I'm saying, I'm just saying.

You're good. But smarten up a bit.

To those who thought some of the jokes were offensive, I truly apologize.

I will make sure to avoid those topics in the future.

> "there are certain areas that are avoided like the plague by anybody looking for a public audience"

Let's see what Weird Al has to say about that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rqc0s_CV70

Just missing a border crossing joke.

That was great Raza :D Oh wait I'm Spanish! And I lived in Germany for 6 months and I liked it! And I'm also a lesbian in a man's body!

I'M VERY ANGRILY PISSED OFFFFFFF

"Oh boy, looks like Adelman has been reading Mein Kampf again"

LOOOOOOOOOOL

I love the Mike Brown quote. Just close enough to the truth to make you think "Did he really say that?

For what it's worth, I don't see anything wrong with the jokes. Certainly not offensive, though the Ginobili one was meh. Adelman and Mein Kampf was money though. Of course there is a line but I don't think it got crossed here.

Looks like you upset the powerful Illegal Immigrant Nazis with Lesbian Haircuts lobby. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes.

I don't have a thin skin, so I don't care unless it gets really ugly. I'm also a straight white man, so it's easy for me to not care.

I'm just saying that race and gay jokes have to be handled very, very carefully. We just got a Latino just crossing the border joke. What's next, watermelon? Fried chicken? You think that won't piss some people off? Aren't those just stereotypes about a different ethnic group? What makes those potential jokes offensive while the border crossing joke isn't?

So when I see somebody heading further down a slippery slope, I give them a friendly heads up so they can think about the point on the slope they want to stake out as "no further." Doing so was meant as a friendly gesture. No need for anybody to get defensive about it.

For what it's worth, the founder of this site clearly thought about it, and carefully stayed on one side of a line he had settled on. McHale's a smart dude, and he won't wreck a potential commentariat career by such stuff. Since you're temporarily borrowing his blog, you might want to think about it, too.

Another point: you've set up a Facebook page, and I promptly joined it. Then you made a latino and gay joke in the same post, and I promptly unjoined it. In the digital age where one's activities are public, a professional can't afford stupid associations. I'm sure the comments were just meant in fun, but who of us with real careers can afford the wrong person to look in at the wrong time? And so it goes. Think it through. It's not howI or you or a fanboy thinks about the joke, it is how it will be perceived by others. You thereby choose the breadth of your audience.