The Greatest Third Term Ever!

No sarcastic tone here, except which to say that it should depress anyone to see a mayor stooping this low to attract an NBA free agent, even if that free agent is King James:

On Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg released his own appeal to Mr. James: a 49-second pitch in which he cited Clyde Frazier and Willis Reed and beseeched Mr. James to “come write the next chapter in N.Y.C. basketball history.”

The somewhat stilted video — the mayor looks as if he has never held, let alone shot, a basketball before — is part of a media blitz that will eventually include a Facebook page, a live Twitter feed, professionally silk-screened “C’mon LeBron” T-shirts, digital messages in Times Square (and in taxicabs), even fan kits available for download on the Internet.

And that’s what we got rid of term limits for.

Please LeBron, stay in Cleveland . . . at least there they’ll give a fuck about you.