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Asdrubel Cabrera, the Tribe’s “Shortstop of the Future” is looking more and more like the “Second Baseman of Today.” All he did yesterday was get a clutch two-out 9th inning hit to send the game into bonus baseball. The day before he made a totally sick play where he fielded a wicked hop groundball and [...]

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Coming into last night’s game agains the Kansas City Royals, things were looking pretty good for the Tribe. They had their ace, CC Sabathia, on the mound. They had a 2.5 game lead on the Tigers, after winning two exciting games in Detroit with some clutch hitting and some solid pitching. Zack Greinke, once the [...]

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Q. How are the 2007 Cleveland Indians like the movie Beerfest? A. Both wasted a lot of great pitchers with very little to show for it. The more things change, the more they stay the same. I go away to Northern Michigan to relax with my wife’s family, and the Indians are still wasting great [...]

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“Oh, the pain, the pain” – Dr. Smith, “Lost in Space” White Sox 6, Indians 4 in 13 innings. Ouch. That one hurt. I turned the game off when it went into extras, but I saw Betancourt groove a fastball to Jermaine Dye to send the game into extras and blow yet another win for [...]

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Jake Westbrook was dealin’ last night, retiring 23 of 24 hitters in one stretch after getting touched up for a single run in the first inning, and the Indians scored just enough runs to beat the White Sox 2-1. Westbrook went 8 solid innings, giving up 2 hits and striking out 5. Grady Sizemore had [...]

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“Age and Treachery will overcome Youth and Skill” — popular T-shirt The Indians’ version of Age and Treachery, Paul Byrd, bamboozled the Minnesota Twins on 4 hits to pitch a complete game shutout, using only 99 pitches to go the distance. The Twinkies were completely off-balance all night, grounding out weakly and popping out. The [...]

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Whatever Elvis this team may have achieved by beating Johan Santana is now gone after pissing away two games to the Twins against pitchers they should have beaten like a rented mule. The Twins play in a Hideous Abomination of a ballpark that squashes the life out of everything that is good and right about [...]

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It was Grady Sizemore’s 25th birthday, so Eric Wedge gave him a present – a start at DH instead of centerfield. Sizemore responded by going 2 for 3, driving in the game’s first two runs, helping to spark the Indians to a 5-0 win. Jake Westbrook, Rafael Perez and Edward Mujica combines for the shutout. [...]

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Last night: ugly 9-6 loss to the Rangers, 10 innings. Blame: plenty to go around. Rafael Betancourt, usually reliable, gave up the tying runs. Jensen Lewis was awful in the 10th, throwing the ball around the park and making bad decisions. Paul Byrd was pretty bad but held on through sheer guts and guile longer [...]

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