Cleveland Cavaliers

The Cavaliers beat the Celtics, 113-100, at Quicken Loans Arena on Sunday afternoon.

(Mark Duncan, Associated Press)

If you can't beat 'em, rip 'em ... I guess.

The Celtics are a scrappy, overachieving team that have run into a buzzsaw in the Cavaliers in the opening round of the playoffs. There's not a lot to talk about in this series, really, especially if you're covering the Celtics. So what's a columnist like Dan Shaughnessy to do on the morning of Game 2? Write a condescending column ripping Cleveland (and confetti dropping):

Update: County Executive Armond Budish responds to Shaughnessy's column.

Thanks, Dan. Glad things are going so well for you over there. We "folks" can't claim that kind of success. But what do you think of our city as a whole?

Yikes. Shaughnessy does claim in his column that he "loves this city," but he has a funny way of showing it.

Look, Dan, no one's going to sit here and pretend Cleveland is perfect, but come on, this column is lazy at best. Clearly Shaughnessy hasn't visited the new Heinen's.

Wonder if @Dan_Shaughnessy bothered to do a single minute of research before that hack job he put out on Cleveland. Sloppy journalism. — Brandon Castel (@BCastOhio) April 21, 2015

By the way, how many people in Boston really care about this? Why write it in the first place?

I JUST REALIZED WE'RE DOING THAT CLEVELAND THING WHERE SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING BAD ABOUT US AND WE FEED THE TROLLS AND SCREAM ABOUT IT ASAP. — sportsyelling (@sportsyelling) April 21, 2015

Oh. Right. There's that. But there's also an unspoken rule around here:

Don't worry, though, Boston, we can still all be friends.

Hating Boston because of Shaughnessy is like hating Australia because it has a weird indigenous tapeworm — Will Gibson (@wjcgibson) April 21, 2015

One other question: since when is a $3 PBR a bad thing?

No worries, Dan. Come on back to Cleveland in June, pull up on a patio with an ice cold tall boy and we'll let you see why Cleveland isn't really so bad.