Pronk Needs You!

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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After the Indians got shutout 1-0 on Tuesday night, wasting a great pitching performance from CC Sabathia, the Red Sox returned the favor on Wednesday night, wasting a great pitching performance from Josh Beckett and running themselvs out of innings twice on their way to allowing the Indians to shut them out 1-0. Victor Martinez [...]

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The Tribe got outlucked by the Red Sox last night, 1-0, wasting a fine pitching effort from CC Sabathia. The Red Sox lone run was scored on two bloop hits, and Matsuzaka had the Tribe helping him out by swinging at bad pitches all game. The Indians appear to be pressing at the plate in [...]

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The Indians ended the first half of the season by generally playing pretty crappy baseball. Thursday: Tigers 12, Indians 3. CC stunk. Verlander didn’t. Enough said. Friday: Blue Jays 8, Indians 6. Cliff Lee stunk. So did Halladay, but much less than Cliff Lee. Saturday: Indians 9, Blue Jays 4: Carmona pitched well. The Indians [...]

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At least for one evening, the Pronk Mojo was workin’, as the Indians staged a mighty displya of Pronkitude with a dramatic come from behind rally for 5 runs in the 9th to beat the A’s last night 8-5. With the two outs, Pronk smashed a two-run linedrive double in the right centerfield gap to [...]

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Bad weekend for the Tribe, as they lose 2 of 3 to the lowly Washington Nationals, a team that Detroit beat like a dirty rug 3 of 3. In the process, they slip out of first place, either 1 or 2 games out pending the Sunday night Atlanta-Detroit game. The good news of the weekend [...]

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Insight on Pronk from the Diatriber: http://clevelandtribeblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/paging-pronk.html More speculation on the lack of Pronkitude from Jim Ingraham, theorizing that it’s his contract situation that is causing him not to drive balls like he used to: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18506700&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46370&rfi=6 It’s also worth noting that Atlantis has returned to Earth. I’d like to think that Pronk’s missing Mojo had [...]

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Pronkwatch: 1/4, 1 run, 1 BB, 1K Mojo Watch: Places where Pronk’s Mojo is not: Chile Marietta, Georgia India’s drunk rats In a garden gnome Perhaps Pronk might find his Mojo here.

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Indians 10, Phillies 1. Pronk sits against lefty ace Cole Hamels, who gets sliced, diced and made into julienne fries like a potato in a Vegematic by a suddenly potent Tribe offense. Josh Barfield drives in 3 from the #2 hole and Grady Sizemore steals 2 bases. The only other important note – the hit [...]

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Pronk received a day off yesterday as the Indians swatted the Braves 5-2 behind sinkerballer Fausto Carmona. How bad is it going for you when you have to receive a day off from DH-ing? Anyway, here at Pronk Needs You, we hope that the day off gave Pronk an opportunity to actively search for his [...]

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