The Legend AMA

[The Legend]

You're in a warehouse. You're naked and lying on the floor. Your family is watching through a one-way window. They can see you. You can't see them. Big Show takes a shit on your thighs while Rosie O'Donnell dumps a bucket of her used tampons into the doo doo. The whole time Nasty Boy Brian Knobbs pisses in your belly button and Barbra Walters pukes on your neck.

Would you participate in this for 500 million dollars? If not, what's your price? If so, what's the lowest amount of money that you'd accept?


Put the following ten wrestlers in order of preference: Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Daniel Bryan, Ric Flair, The Undertaker, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, The Rock, Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin.

I don't even want to think about the amount of money that would take. Maybe a billion dollars.

1 Shawn Michaels
2 Hulk Hogan
3 Undertaker
4 Randy Savage
5 Bret Hart
6 Roddy Piper
7 Daniel Bryan
8 Steve Austin
9 Rock
10 Ric Flair

For me there's a definite split between the first 6 and the last 4 as far as personal preference goes.

[The Legend]

What was your hardest moment as a Cleveland sports fan (besides The Decision or losing the Browns to Baltimore, to keep things interesting)?

Truthfully, this is an easy question if you eliminate the Move. The Decision isn't even #2 on my list.

The most painful sport memory for me is the 1997 World Series. To be just two outs from seeing Cleveland win a world championship for the first time in my life - something I'm still waiting for almost 20 years later - and have a closer that was nearly automatic in Jose Mesa on the mound was the first time and only time I could really taste the championship. Mesa had saved 101 games over three seasons to just 11 blown saves. That was truly painful.

How that mid-90's Indians team never won a championship is still baffling to me.

What are your thoughts on Randy Lerner?

Do you want my purely emotional answer or my measured response? I'll give you my measured response. Randy Lerner is a man that made a promise to his dying father and didn't want to break that promise. Because of that he hung on to doing something his heart was never in for a decade (Al Lerner made him promise the Browns would stay in the family for at least 10 years). His heart was in the right place when it comes to that promise, but because he didn't have a passion for the NFL, the neglect and abandonment of the Cleveland Browns for a decade is something the franchise has not and may never recover from.