With the NBA playoffs underway, the Cavs have gone public with their slogan for the year, “One Goal™.” The laudable message of focus and unity beats last season’s “Rise Up.” To us, it sounded OK, but not great — is one goal really enough to take a team all the way? But what do we know? So we reached out to two experts on goals, achievements and impressions.
Dr. Mary Jen Meerdink — an executive coach, thinking partner,
management consultant and head of Cleveland’s Dr. K. Kay Potetz &
Associates — responds via e-mail: “The Cavs’ slogan, ‘One Goal,’
communicates not only a general sense of urgency and excitement about
winning, but also, for anyone who hears it, it immediately evokes the
concrete image of the awaiting basket at the end of the championship
court.
“Everyone ‘gets’ it. In this way, whatever a given individual’s
contribution may be toward that end (i.e., as player, coach, fan,
sponsor), they can each connect their efforts to that clear, ultimate
endpoint. So, although ‘One Goal’ may sound broad, it evokes a powerful
shared vision to which everyone connected to the Cavs can feel a way
their contributions are connected in a meaningful way to that final
outcome.”
A marketing guy gave “One Goal” a mixed review.
“It’s a good tagline,” says Gerard Dominick, managing principal of
Akron’s G-Designs and Marketing. “But I’d have had something tied more
with Cleveland. They won the homefield advantage by having the best
record in the NBA. I would have had ‘The Cavaliers: Bring It Home,’
which has that team effort, but also ties in with Cleveland.”
So the verdict is split. A good tiebreaker will be a championship
win, which will officially make the slogan prophetic and immortal …
until the Browns brings the city a fresh wave of disappointment.
— D.X. Ferris
OFF-MESSAGE ALREADY?
Big surprise: Mayor Frank Jackson announced Saturday that he’ll be
fishing for Term No. 2 this year. Old Silver went public at noon when
he opened his new campaign HQ at 3590 Carnegie.
Who else is even out there to challenge? According to media reports,
we’ve now got a field of minnows surrounding the whale: radio host
Kimberly Brown, attorney Mike Nelson, maintenance man Ricky Pittman,
former councilman Norbert Dennerll and marketing rep Laverne Jones
Gore.
But Jackson might have some trouble getting the word out online for
now. Go to frankjacksonformayor.com and see
why. (Who’s this Iris cutie, Daddy Frank?)
It sure looks like a preemptive strike against his web potential,
since a Google search brings up that website before Jackson’s actual
site at mayorfrankjackson.com.
An e-mail to Jackson’s new campaign on Monday morning, and messages
left with his hotline, went unanswered by press time on Tuesday
afternoon. With nearly a million on hand to campaign, who cares about
service? — Dan Harkins
GRANDMA WAS RIGHT —
IT’S SATAN’S MUSIC!
It turns out that holding those Rock Hall inductions here a few
weeks ago may not have been so good for the city after all, seeing as
it played right into the clawed hands of the diabolically cloaked New
World Order. Witness a new video documentary, The Sun at
Midnight, by Austin-based Texe Marrs, a retired USAF officer, a
former assistant professor of aerospace-weapons studies, president of
Living Truth Ministries and evangelical broadcaster.
In his book Mysterious Monuments, Marrs exposes secret Da
Vinci Code-type messages of a demonic nature, boldly graven in
plain sight via pagan symbols, monstrous statues and Lovecraftian
designs in assorted worldwide monuments and government-sanctioned
edifices. Such accursed stones and obelisks attack Biblical values and
decency at places like the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.,
Rockefeller Center, the Capitol … and Cedar Point. Sandusky,
according to Marrs’ logic, is an entire city laid out in the form of a
Freemason square-and-compass. It is also home to Cedar Fair, a company
whose flagship theme park has the world’s largest wooden roller
coaster, known as “The Beast,” which runs three six-car trains, making
a numerical 666.
Just as bad in the Marrs-ian chronicles is the propagation of
pyramid-shaped buildings across the world in recent years. He names
many in The Sun at Midnight, including the crystal pyramid of
the Louvre (made famous in The DaVinci Code), a pyramid erected
by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, the Luxor hotel/casino in Las
Vegas, a pyramid-shaped skylight on the U.S. Mint … and sinister
architect I.M. (Illuminati Minion?) Pei’s design for the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum.
“Satanic leaders are well aware of the Luciferian intent of the
pyramids, and this is why this design is so immensely popular among the
wealthy, elite buildings for today’s Illuminati global network,” writes
Marrs. Pyramid structures, he claims, represent both womb and phallic
symbols of paganism, preparing the oblivious masses for a coming “cold,
cruel Kingdom of Evil.” Not to mention a dimensional gateway for Gozer
to transform into a giant sloar.
We tried to get an answer from the Rock Hall: Are they guilty of an
insidious end-times conspiracy by depraved underground secret
societies? And would this mean a special discount in Rock Hall
admission fees? But no response has been received. More evidence of a
cover-up? — Charles Cassady Jr.
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This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2009.
