The sports equivalent of the kiss of death was delivered to Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry this week. New owner Tom Ricketts wanted him to know where he stood in time for the mid-summer classic, of course. The Cubs have one All-Star, Hendry’s centerpiece of last offseason, Marlon Byrd. Outside he and Carlos Silva (whom everyone who’d seen el hipopótamo pitch the past two seasons assumed to be dead weight), no one else on the $145 million roster deserved consideration.

So everyone in Miami now loves LeBron. Everyone in Cleveland hates him. What’s left of the rest of us who appreciated his skill, but never boarded the USS Mint? Perhaps it’s just me, but these shenanigans have turned me sour on a man to whom I previously had no emotional reaction. Really? An hour special on ESPN is required to break the hearts of everyone in a town who has grown up loving you? An [...]