Pronk Needs You!

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.
Sowers went [...]

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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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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 not [...]

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Travis Hafner has not been with the team for the last few days due to a “family emergency,” and yesterday the news was announced that his father, Terry, had passed away.  Terry Hafner was a familiar figure to any Indians fan who has watched the team play on TV in the Metrodome, as he often attended [...]

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Courtesy of the Onion:
Congress Debates Merits Of New Catchphrase

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Sorry, crimestoppers, but real life has kept me from posting regarding the last two games until now. If only I could find some way to get myself paid for doing this. Anyway, today is a travel day for the Tribe, as they come back from a dramatic 2-4 West Coast swing, having split the last [...]

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West Coast bats silent.Paul Byrd hits wall very hard.Pronk hits late home run.

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Thoughts on the ALCS Game 4:

Who knew that Paul Byrd was such a big game pitcher? All he does is throw strike 1, then strike 2, and then make you swing at his pitch. It’s Pitching 101, and the old guy can do it through the lineup twice. It’s age and treachery overcoming youth and [...]

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If you grew up watching Superhost on Channel 43 in Cleveland, or Mystery Science Theatre 3000, then you probably remember the Gamera movies. Gamera was a giant turtle who primarily wanted to be left alone, but occasionally, Gamera was called out of the deeps to save Japan from a mutant monster from outer space and [...]

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