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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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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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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 [...]

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Yesterday was a big day in Cleveland sports, as all three major franchises made transactions. The big news was the trade that reshaped the Cavaliers, who traded their spare parts and overpaid veterans for two other teams’ spare parts and overpaid veterans. The Cavs gave up Drew Gooden, Larry Hughes, Cedric Simmons, Shannon Brown, Ira [...]

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Quarterback controversy? What quarterback controversy? The Cleveland Browns played inspired football yesterday, at least on offense, and beat the Cincinnati Bengals 51-45, behind 5 touchdown passes from Derek Anderson and 215 yards rushing from Jamal Lewis. The offensive line looked like it had actually received an overhaul in the offseason and the defense made just [...]

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I’ve been telling people for weeks that any optimism on behalf of Browns fan is misplaced. It’s extremely disheartening to have been proven right in such a brutal fashion. Some thoughts. This team was beaten 2 minutes into the game after that sorry punt attempt. How does your team break down so completely that you [...]

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