Good day, this is Ian (cosmowanda522) with basketball on my mind.  And it's more than just basketball; it's Cleveland Cavaliers basketball; more than that, it's Eastern Conference Champion Cleveland Cavaliers basketball.  Tonight I attended the baseball game at Jacobs Field between the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians.  The Tigers won, 9-5, and their fans showed up, and they definitely have great support for their team.  But on my mind, the baseball game was on the backburner; all I could think of was game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Detroit Pistons and the Cleveland Cavaliers next door at Quicken Loans Arena.  There was a lot of energy between the Q and the Jake, and I sure felt it.  I thought for a second that I was going to run into Charles Barkley when going from the walkway (which starts at Tower City and ends at the Q) to the ballpark.  And listening to the legendary Joe Tait calling the Cavaliers-Pistons game really piqued my interest more and more as the C.A.V.S. kept going away from the Pistons and the Pistons were starting to get teed off, especially the acerbic Rasheed Wallace.  I'm so happy for the C.A.V.S. making the NBA finals, I wish I was 15 years younger!  15 years before was their last ECF appearance, where they fell to Jordan and the Bulls.  And 16 years before that, there was the Miracle of Richfield, with a roll of toilet paper being thrown and fans storming the floor, and screaming so loudly that the sounds of the organ were being drowned out.  But now, the C.A.V.S. will face Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan, along with the rest of a truly international team known as the San Antonio Spurs.  The way I see it, it should be an even series, unless someone on one team keeps losing their temper; for if we've learned anything from the 2007 NBA Playoffs, it's that if you lose your temper, chances are, you'll lose the series.  So both the Cavaliers and the Spurs have to keep their cool (and not get distracted by the Pussycat Dolls).  As for DEEEE-troit Basket-ball... I guess it's about one man: Flip Saunders continues to be, like, the basketball equivalent to football's Marty Schottenheimer and baseball's Gene Mauch.  They were all lifetime victims of... THE HUMP.  And why did it always have to happen to them?  Why?  But I digress.

That's it from me, and if you're a Cavaliers fan, RISE UP if you haven't done so yet, and don't forget to tune into the NBA Finals, only on ABC.  This is Ian signing off.  Come on C.A.V.S.... Make it Happen!