Happy Thanksgiving Cleveland fans!  Nothing like Turkey Day ... a day that revolves around watching football and eating all day.  And it officially marks the start of the holiday season.  To get us in the mood bright and early here at TCF, Brian McPeek has penned a column telling us some of the things he's thankful for as a Cleveland sports fan.  Have a happy and safe holiday everyone!

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We here at The Cleveland Fan have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.  Continued growth, great play from the teams we cover, a great group of contributors who are also all great guys ... and the privelege of being affiliated with the nation's hottest handicapper, Mike "Lead" Piper.  What he has done in six weeks here has been nothing sort of amazing.  Lead has just one losing weekend all season, and it was a 2-3 week.  And he's gone 4-1 each of the last two weeks.  Lead has another five plays for us today.  One Friday game and four for Saturday.

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In case you missed it, the Plain Dealer ran one of the more ridiculous columns I've ever seen in my life this past Friday when Michigan native and Dallas transplant Jodie Valade compiled a list of her 15 biggest villains in Cleveland sports history.  The list (which is linked inside) is an absolute joke, and further evidence of just how out of touch the Plain Dealer is with the majority of sports fans in this town.  In Gary's latest, he exposes the list and says that it's pieces like this that help explain why the PD continues to lose thousands of subscribers year over year.

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You knew it was only a matter of time before Hiko chimed in on the writers strike.  And with several friends in the Writer's Guild, Hiko seriously considered going on strike as well as a show of solidarity for his disgruntled bretheren.  But fret not Hiko fans, instead of striking his writing, he's decided to go on strike against Hollywood in general.  Hiko hits on that, as well as a number of other topics in this week's version of "Moot Points".

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