He dazzles you with his daily links. And now he takes things a step further by becoming the first RandBall commenter to win the coveted COW by not only nominating himself but sending in a post to back it up. Ladies and others, Fasolamatt:

I nominate myself for COW, and here it is: The soundtrack for today’s COW entry can be found by clicking here. You will find my forecast for the McLovins this season repeated multiple times in the comments of this blog: 8-74, the worst record ever for an NBA regular season. It’s time to do to this team what the NBA did when the Cleveland Cavaliers were rotten in the early 80’s: force a sale and start over. Let’s review: Ted Stepien bought the Cavaliers in 1980, four years after the Miracle of Richfield had brought the franchise to respectability. By 1983, the team had changed coaches half a dozen times, traded away eight draft picks (four #1s), and went through a season where they used 23 different players. Stepien was forced to sell to George and Gordon Gund in 1983, and the team was awarded four compensatory first round draft picks as part of the sale. We won’t get into Stepien’s other problems, including the firing of Joe Tait (the best basketball announcer on radio, period), moving them to a weak radio frequency you couldn’t hear in most of the metro (ring a bell?), the change from the funky “C’mon Cavs” to the inane “Teddy Bear Polka” for a fight song, and yeah, I’ve only skimmed the surface. Glen Taylor and Kevin McHale have run the Timberwolves into the ground, forfeiting draft picks, signing guys to lousy contracts (ask a Cavs fan about Scott Wedman and Jerome Whitehead, and compare to any number of similar Wolves deals). They even have a lousy arena deal (compare to the Cavaliers barn in Richfield, Ohio (think, oh, Elk River). My solution: the Wild sell to Craig Leipold, a hockey guy from Racine, Wis., who owned the Nashville Predators until recently. The Wild ownership group buys the Wolves, moves them to St. Paul, extracts a couple of one below the lottery picks from the NBA, and hires someone who has no previous association with the Boston Celtics to run the basketball operations side. Sell Target Center to some megachurch operator who can fill the place on Sundays. It’s time to act, David Stern. Until then, the trip to Target Center will probably have to be for an awesome halftime show.

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