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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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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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The Indians extended their win streak to 10 last night, extending their pwnership of Justin Verlander in a 9-7 victory.  Kelly Shoppach and Shin Soo Choo each hit a two-run homer and Fausto Carmona pitched just well enough to win.  The Indians tacked on two bonus runs in the 9th, which proved to be needed [...]

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Andy Marte is free!!  ESPN is reporting that Casey Blake has been traded to the Dodgers for two prospects:

Carlos Santana is a 22-year-old catcher who has been beating the high A California League like a rented mule, with a line of .323 / .431 / /563 with 14 home runs and a staggering 88 runs and [...]

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Well, at least they are here in EDT-land. 
The Indians played their last 10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time start of the season.  (Unless they would make the playoffs as a wild-card and get matched up against the Angels of Somewhere Vaguely Between Los Angeles and San Diego and Near Disney.   I kid.  Of course they’ve played their [...]

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Last night, the Indians

Lost to Barry Zito, who was charged with 1 run (but really, he left a guy on base who was let in by a reliever, so, really, despite what the box score says, we didn’t score on Barry Zito)
Were passed by the KC Royals in the standings, and are now in last [...]

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When last we left the Indians, on June 7, they’d just returned from Texas, they had beaten Detroit in the first game of their series, and well, it looked like any moment they could turn it around, with a weak NL West interleague schedule coming up.
The Indians have proceeded to go 7-9 over the intervening [...]

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“The wind, the wind brings me cards from ArgentinaIt brings scarves from finer ladiesAnd the scent of the gardeniasWon’t sleep or rest or sit itself beside meIf I run out, there’s no one that could hide meAnd I know that I’ll regret itBut I think I’m gonna let it in”
“The Wind” by Nathan, from Key [...]

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When we last left our intrepid Tribesmen, they were heading to Kansas City for some baseball and some barbecue.
At least, we can only hope they all got some good barbecue, because the baseball was pretty sad. The quick recap:

Friday - Andy Marte and Casey Blake both play. Andy Marte extends his hitting streak to 4 [...]

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Andy Marte played Tuesday. The Indians won, increasing the Indians’ record when Andy Marte plays to 10-3. Marte got a hit, a double high off the left centerfield wall. Casey Blake did not play.
Andy Marte and Casey Blake both played on Wednesday. The Indians lost. Andy Marte got a hit, increasing his average to .156 [...]

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