Pronk Needs You!

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 get pummelled, but not as badly as Tom Mastny.  Bannister has shaky first but then rolls.  Indians 3, Royals 13.
• Saturday game 2: Brian Bullington started and gave up 6 in 4.3 innings.  Mark Teahen went deep TWICE.  Indians waste Garko home run and lose to Robinson Tejeda.  Indians pitching so bad that Ryan Shealy looked like a major league hitter, going 4 for 5.  Indians 4, Royals 8
• Saturday game 1: Carmona gives up 7.  Greinke looks like Greinke.  Indians lose 8-3.
• Friday: Cliff Lee wins #22.  Not seriously challenged.  Indians 3, Royals 1.

Browns – Well, the good news is that they didn’t suck nearly as badly as they did in Week 1.  The bad news is that they lost to the !!@#$!@#$%! Pittsburgh Steelers for the 10th time in a row, this time 10-6.  The wind was gusting up to 50 mph and it took both teams out of their general offensive game plans, but the Browns were clearly more affected, making stupid penalties that led to Pittsburgh’s only touchdown.  Once again, Romeo Crennel chose to kick a meaningless field goal late.  His team got the ball back this time, unlike last week, but not with enough time for the offense to do something.  Clock management was also a problem on the last drive of the first half, where they squandered time and then threw a late interception that precluded them kicking a field goal.  Romeo, dude, get your head in the game.  You too,  Braylon Edwards – if you’re half as great as you think you are, then you would catch the damn ball.  Winslow catches everything thrown at him – be like Winslow. 

Buckeyes – No Beanie, no offense.  We all suspected after the Ohio University game that the Buckeyes might be looking ahead.  Now, I think we all realize that they only have a couple guys who are top-rank talent and that a really good, really big, really fast team will light them up like a Christmas tree.  Every time.  Pryor, C Wells, Lauranitis, Freeman.  That may be just about it for top-rank talent on this current team.  The line was porous, Boeckman looked like a deer caught in headlights and consistently made poor decisions.  The offense looked like they paid more attention when Pryor was in the game.  USC certainly played a little more tentatively on defense with Pryor in the game.    Boeckman has clearly lost the confidence of everyone on this team, with the possible exception of Tressel.  Bottom line:  Men of Troy 35, Boys of Ohio 3.  And it really wasn’t even THAT close.

Chez Woodsmeister – Power out as of about 5:30 p.m. yesterday.  AEP says that power might not be restored in all parts of its service area for up to a week.  At least there’s power at work.