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Entries from September 2008

Better than Mediocre, with a Brouhaha Thrown In For Good Measure

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

When we last left the Tribe, they had just swept the Twinkies, and were about to start a three-game set with the Motor City Kitties.  Since then, we’ve seen the following: The Indians swept a dispirited Motor City Kitties team. More bad blood between the MCK and the Tribe.  In Game 2 of the series, [...]

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Hello, Columbus

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the Columbus Clippers have signed a four-year agreement with the Cleveland Indians to serve as their AAA franchise. Buffalo, it appears, will be the new AAA home of the Mets, not the Blue Jays as many have speculated.

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Don’t Let the Broom Hit You on the Way Out, There, Twinkies!

September 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

After mailing it in over the weekend against the Royals, the Indians showed some interest in baseball again to start the week, sweeping the contending Twinkies. Series summary: Scott Lewis is good.  Or major league batters have not seen enough of the soft-tossing lefty to figure him out.  Or a combination of both.  He pitched [...]

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Lost Weekend

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Indians – Terrible.  Lost 3 out of 4 to the Royals.  Quick recap of the horror show: Sunday – Sowers leaves early and the bullpen gets bombed.  For completely unfathomable reasons, Eddie Moo was the first guy out of the bullpen.  Four runs later, inexplicably, the next guy out is Juan Rincon.  Betancourt would later [...]

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Tags: Cleveland Browns · Cleveland Indians · Ohio State

Pronk’s Return

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Pronk made his return from three months on the disabled list a victorious one, and Jeremy Sowers pitched his best game of the year as the Indians beat the Orioles 6-1 last night. Pronk singled in his first two at-bats and drew an intentional walk, finishing 2 for 4 with a strikeout and a walk. [...]

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My Sports Weekend

September 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Saturday afternoon – My wife is a graduate of Adrian College, in Adrian, Michigan and they were in town to play football at Capital University.  As an Otterbein graduate, I don’t need much coercion to go somewhere and root against Capital, so we went to the game and watched Adrian look unorganized and uncreative on [...]

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Tags: Cleveland Browns · Cleveland Indians · Columbus Crew · Free Andy Marte · Pronk

So long, Buffalo. Hello, Columbus?

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The Indians formally announced yesterday that they have severed their player development contract (PDC) with the Buffalo Bison.  Although it has not been officially announced, it is expected that the Columbus Clippers will announce shortly that they have severed their player development contract with the Washington Nationals.  It will then likely follow that sometime between [...]

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Twenty!

September 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

One of the great clichés in all of sports is that sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make.  Cliff Lee, whom many Tribe fans would have traded in the off-season for a Charlie Spikes baseball card, a bag of balls and a couple good fungo bats, won his twentieth game last night  [...]

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Tags: Cleveland Indians · Free Andy Marte · Pronk