All I want for Cleveland is … one good thing. Just one.
A Cavs championship. Or better, a contract that keeps LeBron here for a few more years.
Or a playoff berth for the Browns or Indians. It doesn’t have to be all-inclusive. Either/or is fine.
I don’t take pride in the fact that this is the place to come when a chimpanzee tears your face apart. I don’t mean any disrespect to the Cleveland Clinic. It’s just a little carnie.
It’s notoriety, like lake-effect snow, a river that burned 40 years ago and serial murderer. Jeffrey Dahmer was already too close to home, and now there’s the awful house on Imperial Avenue. You can have your decades of notoriety; I’d rather have one good thing.
Like settling the medical-mart design issues and getting shovels in the ground. Or some small biomed startup here in town mounting the world stage with a fantastic discovery that reshapes treatment of some dread disease.
Or the report card for Cleveland City Schools rising to “continuous improvement.” Or unemployment dropping below the state average.
Or a decision that the 2018 World Cup Soccer Tournament will be played in U.S. cities, Cleveland among them.
I don’t want it all. I’m not hard to please. All I want for Cleveland is one good thing.

— Bob Rosenbaum quoted in All I Want for Cleveland…