Waaaaaaay back in 2007, I said I was retiring the tag “Hopeless Cleveland Sports” from Uncle Crappy. I made the decision based on a sudden rash of tolerable performance by the Cavs and the Indians and a draft by the Browns that included now-certain Hall of Famer Joe Thomas. It got even better later that… Read More hopeful cleveland sports.
The first thing: The other thing: Can we just stop the season now and have a Cleveland Indians-Pittsburgh Pirates World Series?
He struck out 15 in his first start. He was 17 years old. He willingly enlisted in the Navy at the start of World War II. He was the first Major Leaguer to do so, and he gave up four years of his prime to do it. In the off seasons, he led baseball barnstorming… Read More 75. van meter heater.
The World Series begins tonight, and yeah, I’ve noticed who the Game 1 starting pitchers are: I was half-heartedly following the Dodgers at the outset of baseball’s postseason, on account of the fact that their roster is lousy with ex-Indians: Jim Thome, Ronnie Belliard, Casey Blake and Manny Ramirez all helped L.A. make it to… Read More play ball.
So I promised a while back that I wasn’t going to write about the Indians until they reached .500 for the season. I can see by now that my pledge would mean not writing about them at all this summer, and I couldn’t really get away with that. Could I? Should I? A brutal combination… Read More not what i expected.
It’s so nice today that I’m having a very hard time maintaining any kind of focus whatsoever. So? You get bullets. * I’d like to thank everyone for their overwhelming support of me in what will be known from this point forward as The Great Lulu’s Fiasco Of 2009. Just about everyone I heard from… Read More want to go NOW.
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