Pronk Needs You!

I spent the weekend in Philadelphia attending the Philadelphia Folk Festival (my other hobby besides following Cleveland sports is maintaining a folk radio station.  If you want to read about my experiences there, try my other blog.) 

Apparently, while I was gone, the Indians managed to somehow take two of three from the Angels and not have the bullpen completely implode once.  The bullpen did, however, completely implode during the last two games of the Baltimore series, both losses, stopping the Tribe’s win streak at 5.

In other news, Matt LaPorta got beaned at the Olympics in what was clearly a dangerously bad display of sportsmanship by the Chinese team.  Apparently he has a mild concussion.  There’s no word on how available he will be for the rest of the games.

Pronk has not only taken batting practice, but appeared in Buffalo last night, helping the Bisons win by going 2 for 3 with a double.  Pronk talks after the game (video file).

The Browns got pummeled by the Giants last night.  The score is deceiving.  If the starters had been left in, it might have finished something like 52-10.  After taking a 30-3 lead, the Giants were on cruise control.  I thought the brown pants actually looked pretty good, but we might want to mothball them based on their inauspicious debut.  Derek Anderson’s concussion in the preseason is troubling, as is the just plain awful performance turned in by the defense, featuring penalty after penalty.  We should start calling the secondary the Charcoal Crew because they were burned so often.