Mike Polk Jr. has some thoughts about the latest news on Cleveland's sports facilities

While the Browns are considering moving out of downtown, the Cavaliers have unveiled plans for a sparkling new training facility on the riverfront. Mike Polk, Jr. has thoughts:

This week, Cleveland Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam said they're exploring the idea of moving the team to Brook Park, and they reject the very notion that the threat to leave downtown might be a negotiating tactic intended to help secure the billion dollars in public funding the team is seeking to renovate the current venue. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt.

But they say that "timing is everything," and if I were a betting man, I'd wager that when the Haslams said that on Monday, they were not aware that on Tuesday, the Cavaliers and their team owner would be unveiling renderings of the club's new world-class training facility. It's a massive complex they say will be a boon for the city, and it will be entirely privately funded by Dan Gilbert's company in partnership with Cleveland Clinic.

And you know the Haslams were like, "Hey, Dan! We're trying to negotiate here. You couldn't have waited a week or two before publicly reminding everyone that billionaire sports team owners are capable of financing their own infrastructure? Not cool!"

The Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center (which is already in desperate need of a concise nickname) will be a 210,000-square-foot facility located in the shadow of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, with the intention of serving both the Cavs and the public on multiple wellness fronts. And while I don't really know what that means, I'm on board, because I'm all for development of my downtown that I don't personally have to pay for.

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