Yo, it's a Times Yours podcast, I'm Spike.

Today on the show, Scott Rab, S. Choirwriter, and author of the new book, Horror of Akron.

What's up, man?

I like doing this stuff, and I just think we have such a cute little story for you and me.

I think we do too.

We have a cute little story in that, as you are a, to put it simply, a LeBron James Hader,

and I am a LeBron James lover, that you were blasting him on Twitter, and I just,

incessantly, blasted you back until you responded to me.

And look at us here.

It's like the Hatfields and the McCoys.

And that's a good thing.

I mean, people go, oh, it's only sports.

But the truth is, there's not much left in this country that could ever bring us together,

you know, as a city or just two guys.

And with rare exceptions, it doesn't have to be some kind of pure hatred or irony.

You know what I mean?

It sounds cliched, but it's a beautiful thing about sports.

It is that the passion that sports invokes, there are a few things left anymore.

I think just because the world has become so segmented and we're so involved in so many different things,

that there are a few things as universal as how we feel about sports.

You know?

I've gotten, and I've earned some stuff, you know, with the LeBron, especially the Twitter stuff.

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