That’s awesome.
I’d still prefer being on the ground, getting sweaty with 1.3 million dear friends and watching people eat poop apparently, but watching the festivities from the sky like this would have been pretty damn cool. Love the woman’s “Jesusssss!” as they turned the corner to look at East 9th. I’ve had that same reaction for about, oh, six days now.
Check out our Parade Game Tape, as well as our Fan Reaction Compilation if you haven’t already.
1.3 million friends gathered in downtown Cleveland yesterday to celebrate the city’s first championship in 52 years. We had people scaling buildings, hanging and falling from buildings, people eating poop (allegedly), JR reenacting the Lion King, Kyrie doing the Running Man, and LeBron swearing up a storm.
Let’s look at the game tape
Maybe the best championship parade picture of all time?
TURN THE FUCK UP
Dan Gilbert apparently doesn’t know who Steph Curry is
Up close and personal with The King
https://twitter.com/SalvoPancakes/status/745998859709595648
Let’s check in on how JR Smith’s parade went:
Coolest moment ever. JR Smith holds up a kid in the middle of the parade. Of course someone added the Lion King soundtrack to it.
https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/745688886064517120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Who needs a shirt when you have a ring? Not JR
According to the Internet, JR took a fans phone, snapped this picture AND wrote this caption. Legend.
He’s got my vote
A couple buddies got some butt tattoos
Hipster Tito dropped a nuke on the idiot pundits
MGK performed in front of over a million people and swung from traffic lights
The streets were packed
https://twitter.com/jack_bondy/status/745970122326740992
Needed to cool off a little
I’d suggest sunscreen for next year’s parade
Lotta people in trees yesterday
Kevin Love hasn’t taken that championship belt off for 3 days
Oh, and he also brought SI Swimsuit model Kate Bock along with him
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
The Other King
I’m pretty sure Mo Williams danced through the entire parade
https://twitter.com/StantialJr/status/745961758389592064
The Mall and Lil Kev
A guy climbed a tree
Tristan had squirt guns on his float
Get that weak stuff outta here
Fuck up some commas
Kyrie greeted the crowd with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind
Then he busted out a quick Running Man Challenge
A girl dropped from the Heinen’s building and was caught by the people
https://twitter.com/Soccer5Ryan/status/745677636156940288
And now for the overhead shots
https://twitter.com/DustinFox37/status/745659762696658944
https://twitter.com/DustinFox37/status/745748424729956353
https://twitter.com/DustinFox37/status/745700107400650752
https://twitter.com/DustinFox37/status/745689551813881856
This guy wasn’t missing this parade no matter what
A fan may or may have eaten a little poop. No one knows if it was actually poop. Could have been mud. Yep, that’s it. A fan ate some mud. Big deal.
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/746059543579340800
The Free Stamp turned into a giant chair
Here’s a view from the free stamp (via Reddit)
Tristan Thompson verbally posterized Draymond Green
Channing Frye was a little sauced and he had the mic drop of the day
Champs
Here’s LeBron’s entire uncensored speech
So I rather enjoyed June 2016.
An undefeated calendar month at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario has the Tribe’s home record up to 23-12 on the year, their overall record eleven games over .500 and in first place in the AL Central by three games. For context, they posted one of the worst home records in baseball last season of 39-41. This is good.
Corey Kluber and Trevor Bauer threw back-to-back complete games to end the month, allowing one run total between them. Bauer pitched 38.2 innings in June, the most of any Indians starter by almost 10. He allowed 8 earned runs, a .181 opponent batting average and just a single home run. His 38 strikeouts, 0.23 HR/9, 1.86 ERA and 1.5 WAR were all the best among Indians starters. This is good.
The starting pitching staff as a whole led all of Major League baseball in June innings with 143.1, 15 more than the second place Cubs. Their 135 strikeouts, 43 earned runs allowed, 3 complete games, 17.8 K/BB%, .218 opponent batting average, 1.05 WHIP, 2.70 ERA, 3.48 xFIP were all the best in the American League. This is good.
The Indians will close out the first half the week of July 4th with three games against Detroit and four against the Yankees, all at home. We’re 6-0 against Detroit this year, and the Yankees are currently a game below .500 and are 16-21 on the road this season. This is good.
Abraham Almonte can potentially return to the team from his suspension on July 3rd. Buster Olney reported this week that the Indians have told teams they will have some money to blow at the trade deadline. Terry Francona said Roberto Perez, who is recovering from surgery to repair a broken thumb in May, was “probably ahead of schedule” as of last Friday, and has started a throwing program and doing some catching drills. This is good.
The Cleveland Indians are in first place heading into July without Michael Brantley.
This is great.
KEEP THE CHIEF
Bottlegate 