I may be stoned for saying this, but...

The back-up quarterback on your favorite NFL team....

The white guys on the North Carolina basketball team (not named Zeller)...

Rudy....

Any Junior Varsity team...

The last players off the bench in any sport at any level...

What do all of these have in common? At least two things: 1) they probably suck (in perspective to their surroundings) at their respective sport and 2) we don't boo them.

No, you don't boo players who suck.  It's just mean.  They know they're probably not very good, so what good would booing do?  In fact, most of these players are cheered.  It's kind of a back-handed complimentary cheer, but a cheer nonetheless.  If, say for instance, on of those UNC kids makes a 3?  The crowd goes insane- the game doesn't mean anything at that point, so the 3-pointer isn't of significance, but they cheer anyway.  You overreact to the achievements of these players, because they're important to the chemistry on the team (you've gotta have your Mark Madsen and Brian Scallibrini on every team).  But one thing you don't do, is boo them.

Your football team is having a terrible season.  The back-up gets sent in during the second quarter.  What do we do as fans?  We cheer... loudly.. like a savior has come to take your team to the top.  At that moment, we usually choose to overlook the fact that there's probably a reason he was a back-up on a losing team- he's not very good.  You don't boo the back-up.  You boo the starter, who gets paid more money than he deserves, who was the starter for a reason- he's probably pretty good.

You don't root against the guys who suck.  They're the David's of every story.  It's mean, and distasteful.  You root against players and teams who are good.  You root passionately against players who are really, really good.  You might go as far as to say that you, mistakenly, "hate" a great player.  Why?  Because they don't play on your team, and they've probably made your team look bad at some point.  Do you see where I'm going with this?

I might be stoned by civilians in my home state, but it needs to be said.

This has to stop.  You're all making of us (Ohioans/Clevelanders) sound and look stupid.  It's okay to root against him, he deserves that.  But we all know that LeBron James doesn't suck.  You might think he decisions suck (pun intended), but his basketball playing ability does not.  Do you actually watch the games?  Does South Beach steal the ability of players like Rogue?  No.  LeBron didn't go from a two-time MVP to a player who sucks.  All of this nonsense about him sucking needs to stop.  "He can't finish" is done.  You've watched the playoffs.  You saw what he did in Boston and Chicago.  He can close.

You can look at the series so far in the finals and say he hasn't done much. You're not watching the game.  He was 0-4 last night in the 4th quarter, but also had 4 assists (equivalent to at least 8 points for you math wizzes) and held Jason Terry scoreless.  LeBron, unfortunately, has the ability to control the game without scoring a single point.  He can do it by distributing and by locking down the other team's best scorer.

I know, I know.  The Decision sucked... and it was really stupid.  We all wanted him to stay, and he didn't, we've gotta move on.  All of his PR moves are actually really, really dumb.  You can say his acting sucks, his press conferences suck, his commercials suck (they do), his shoes suck (they really do), but you can't say he sucks... at least not at basketball.  You can try to justify it all you want, about how it's Wade's team, and that he doesn't have the killer mentality... that doesn't mean he all of a sudden forgot how to play basketball.  All of your arguments against his basketball ability have been disproved.  It's okay.

We boo him because he's great and because he doesn't play for us anymore.  He deserves to be booed.  Many great players are booed.  The Yankees have like 27 World Series wins, and they're booed, quite frequently.  Why?  Because they suck?  No, but we like it when they fail.

But don't try to argue to people about his ability, you're making Ohio look bad.  We've got enough on our plate right now, we don't need to look like idiots too, if we haven't already.

You can say it sucks- the possibility of LeBron winning a championship- because it does.... but he doesn't.  I'm sorry, but it's true.