Welcome to The North Shore Exclusive.

First off, welcome to THE North Shore Exclusive. On this blog there will be many postings for which you can find 1 perspective of the many that exist here in the beautiful North Shore of Cleveland Ohio. Sports are a part of the culture here in cleveland. Before I get started, the main thing that must be addressed first is the mentality of a Cleveland Sports Fan. I assume if you are reading this, you either are a Cleveland Sports Fan, or you want to rub salt in our collective wounds. I am here to abolish that type of mentality. In Cleveland he have witnessed some of the best (Jim Brown, Lebron James, the return of the Cleveland Browns, the resurgent Cleveland Indians of the 1990's, The Buckeyes 2003 National Championship, Thad Matta's Recruiting, etc.) and some of the worst (Art Modell, The Fumble, The Drive, Jose Mesa, Shawn Kemp's bloat, Jeff Garcia, The 2007 National Championship, etc.). Many Cleveland Fans have become accustomed to losing. To me, that just doesn't fly. We have to start to hold our teams and their owners, coaches, and players to higher expectations. Its time for us as Cleveland Sports fans to turn these feelings of anger/sadness/disgust and turn them into creative avenues to express our opinion. A lot of people have said that the Cleveland Fans and Media are responsible for the losing mentality that currently exists here. Let me extinguish those flames by reminding everybody who was buying tickets when Bill "Hoodie" Bellichick, Chris Palmer, Butch Davis, and the current Browns were losing games. Who was it that was buying tickets to the gund to see the Cavaliers from 1998 until 2003? Who was packing the Jake for records in the mid 1990's and still attending a decent amount of games during the regression? That would be us, the fans. If you have given up, I ask you to swallow the pain and try and help bury this losing mentality. Write letters to the newspapers, Blogs, and participate in Sports talk...not only at the water cooler or with the family, but on media outlets. We can prove that even though our teams have been mediocre...they are OUR teams and we will be fans until the end.