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Anybody got high expectations for Indians newest spring training invitee Tomo Ohka?

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Posted by bigdawg1254 on 12/05/08 at 1:06PM

Whats the sound birds make?…..CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!!! Dolan. you had your childhood dream of owning the indians happen, now sell the team dammit!

Posted by birdietrucki on 12/05/08 at 1:08PM

Nobody will be able to afford to go see the losers play anyway. So who cares if they acquired a no name pitcher. I’ll bet they start to harvest their few good players like Grady Sizemore and Cliff Lee. The Dolans are cheap skates and we will never have a winning baseball team in Cleveland with them as owners.

Posted by indians75959 on 12/05/08 at 1:16PM

ss15, IGNORANTER? YOU MUST BE AN IGNORANTER HILLBILLY FOR EVEN USING THAT EXPRESSION! ON THE SHELL SHOCKING SIGNING, HELL BOB FELLER COULD WIN MORE THAN 5 GAMES OUT OF 20!! I AGREE WITH HUGETRIBEFAN,HELL EVEN THE WRITERS WERE EMBARRASED TO PUT THEIR NAMES ON THE ARTICLE! LET US KNOW WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY. PLEASE MY EYES OR BRAIN CAN’T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS BULL SH—!!

by Pronktastic on Dec 5, 2008 1:51 PM EST reply actions  

Forgive me if i don’t actually read your whole post there.

by PatBordersHelmet on Dec 5, 2008 2:01 PM EST up reply actions  

I wouldn’t expect anyone to have the stamina to get through it in one sitting.

by Pronktastic on Dec 5, 2008 2:36 PM EST up reply actions  

i just did

Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.

by Gradyforpresident on Dec 5, 2008 2:58 PM EST up reply actions  

I read about 1/3 of the words, randomly skipping around. I think I got the idea.

by dgcambridge on Dec 5, 2008 4:55 PM EST up reply actions  

I started to black out when I got to “ignoranter.”

by Pronk33 on Dec 5, 2008 9:29 PM EST up reply actions  

I refuse to read this. In fact, FLAG.

People just don’t understand the different meanings behind different moves. Like everything has to win a championship.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Dec 5, 2008 3:22 PM EST up reply actions  

Check out one of the “writers” over at Dugout Central:

Complains about Jason Tyner
Complains about Jorge Valendia
Complains about Sal Fasano

I take him to task in the last two. I must admit .. I enjoy reading his articles because they invariably prove to be completely wrong in the long run.

Like this one bemoaning the Blanton trade/

by Toxicadam on Dec 5, 2008 3:46 PM EST up reply actions  

In fairness, I pretty much blew a gasket when we called up Tyner too.

I seem to recall advocating a little for Blanton, too, and not finding much support for the idea.

by Jay on Dec 5, 2008 11:44 PM EST up reply actions  

I recall not supporting that idea, although I’m not sure if I ever voiced it.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Dec 6, 2008 1:50 AM EST up reply actions  

Come on, its comedy. Just read it with the right midnset. Lots a ignoranting going on…

by JK in CBus on Dec 5, 2008 4:56 PM EST up reply actions  

This is a party foul, Pronktastic. Just because you lived among a leper colony for a few hours, doesn’t mean you get to wipe all of our faces into your soiled garments.

by Toxicadam on Dec 5, 2008 3:33 PM EST up reply actions  

Bad form, I agree. I must admit that I have a severe masochistic streak when it comes to cleveland.com

by Pronktastic on Dec 5, 2008 4:29 PM EST up reply actions  

I thought it was pretty funny.

by Jay on Dec 5, 2008 11:37 PM EST up reply actions  

This is an honest question: Has any LGTer ever gone in to the cleveland.com forums and tried to rationally, patiently deconstruct every idiotic comment in a thread? I’m curious to know the results from this kind of exercise.

I think I can do it. As in, I think I can summon the patience and temprament required to go back and forth with those folks. Recently I exhausted more than six thousand words going back and forth via email with an uber-Catholic friend who declared that abortion is worse than nuclear war. I’m not saying this to get political; I’m merely pointing out that when many others would throw their hands up, I come back for more. (Eventually that exchange ended with me making no progress and her making no progress, but that’s to be expected).

Anyway, should I do it?

by tabler84 on Dec 6, 2008 4:36 PM EST up reply actions  

trying not to work on the book?

Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.

by Gradyforpresident on Dec 6, 2008 4:39 PM EST up reply actions  

You’re mad! No one can survive that kind of stress on the mind. You’ll never come out alive. Don’t do it, you’ve got too much to live for…

by PatBordersHelmet on Dec 6, 2008 4:50 PM EST up reply actions  

No. What I have done is find one or two rational people there and personally invite them to come here instead.

by Jay on Dec 6, 2008 7:15 PM EST up reply actions  

Hmm, maybe it is folly. This morning I see that, in a Cavs thread, one poster made the glaringly obviously sarcastic comment that if the Cavs lose 17 of their next 20, they’ll be a .500 team and no longer much good. The forum went ballistic, convinced he was serious. Click here for the awesomeness.

by tabler84 on Dec 7, 2008 9:00 AM EST up reply actions  

That was hilarious. Someone needs to invite that guy/gal over here, assuming he/she’s also a Tribe fan.

by Jay on Dec 7, 2008 11:48 AM EST up reply actions  

“which clearly is not an elite team”

Just awesome.

by Jay on Dec 7, 2008 11:49 AM EST up reply actions  

Good find. I never have the patience to read those comments, that was hilarious.

Il faut d'abord durer.

by CU Adam on Dec 7, 2008 1:53 PM EST up reply actions  

I hate those people.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Dec 7, 2008 7:07 PM EST up reply actions  

alright, I’m actually gonna click. I’d better not be let down.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Dec 8, 2008 2:42 PM EST up reply actions  

Snowfall, I have never seen a more idiotic comment

Snowfall your defeatest additude is sad

Snowfall’s stupid

Snowfall’s comment might be the DUMBEST comment I have ever read in a sports forum

Enough about Snowfall, he is an idiot

Snowfall’s comment = absurd

Snowfall, just melt away into nothing you loser

Snowfall, I feel sorry for you dude. You are missing some great basketball

Hey snowfall, were you born an a-hole, or is it something you practiced at

Snowfall…. Ya know if the sun goes out tomorrow we will all die

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Dec 8, 2008 2:45 PM EST up reply actions  

Potential long reliever/spot starter? Next season’s Scott Elarton replacement? Guy whose name is an anagram for “atom hook”. “moat hook” and “am hoot ok”? AAA roster filler? He’s going to pitch in somebody’s minor league system next year, why not ours?

by woodsmeister on Dec 5, 2008 2:12 PM EST reply actions  

I like Kazoo At Hokum…gotta be a good pitcher!

by cclemens31 on Dec 5, 2008 2:29 PM EST up reply actions  

I think Ohka would be known as “depth” with previous ML experience. :-)

The "cream of the crop" doesn't always rise to the top.

by indiansfan on Dec 5, 2008 9:46 PM EST up reply actions  

Well, I’ve heard of him.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Dec 5, 2008 2:38 PM EST reply actions  

I think he makes a fine replacement for Bullington.

by Jay on Dec 5, 2008 2:40 PM EST reply actions   1 recs

I think you’d make a fine replacement for Bullington.

by FredOx on Dec 5, 2008 2:44 PM EST up reply actions  

I’m disappointed that his early numbers with the Yokohoma BayStars don’t seem to include any holocene slaughters.

by still ill on Dec 5, 2008 2:44 PM EST reply actions  

Some Ohka background from 2006 from our friends at MLBTR

by DixonCayne on Dec 5, 2008 5:30 PM EST reply actions  

We’ve got to keep pace with the Red Sox.

Helium Watch: Chuck Lofgren, OF

by jhon on Dec 5, 2008 5:49 PM EST reply actions  

Aw crap, the Tazawa image got pulled.

Helium Watch: Chuck Lofgren, OF

by jhon on Dec 5, 2008 6:55 PM EST up reply actions  

I really hate Firefox. It’s acting weird these days. Maybe it’s time to give Safari another chance.

Helium Watch: Chuck Lofgren, OF

by jhon on Dec 6, 2008 12:12 AM EST up reply actions  

No sooner do I write that then my browser unexpectedly quits. Every internet provider I’ve ever had has let me down, as have most of the machines that I’ve used.

I’m happy with my 15" Power Book G4, the internet in general.

I’d like to give a shout out to: Wikipedia, LGT, Baseball Reference, Amazon.com, MLB.com, All Music Guide, Google’s search engine and a variety of Google Apps, for being reliably good.

Helium Watch: Chuck Lofgren, OF

by jhon on Dec 6, 2008 12:21 AM EST up reply actions  

LGT is Grady Sizemore, but lately Firefox has been Jason Davis.

Helium Watch: Chuck Lofgren, OF

by jhon on Dec 6, 2008 12:22 AM EST up reply actions  

You really feel the LGT site software is among the better and more reliable sites out there?

by Jay on Dec 6, 2008 12:41 AM EST up reply actions  

i’m not sure if this is my browser (I usually use Safari) or the LGT site, but all that speed the site had when v2.0 was first released seems to be slowly going away. I often find pages waiting either for ads to load or some sort of google analytics file to load before LGT pages become navigable. Not the most annoying thing in the world, but could be better.

by APV on Dec 6, 2008 8:24 AM EST up reply actions  

Agreed. Some fanposts threads have hung up interminably for me.

by NickFantana on Dec 6, 2008 11:52 AM EST up reply actions  

Yeah, for whatever reason the ads sometimes take forever to load and prevent me from Z-ing until they’re done. I can scroll down, and read things, but that’s so…. primitive…

Actually SBN is the only place I’ve encountered the magical Z function, which is my favorite thing about it, interface-wise.

by Logodaedalus on Dec 6, 2008 12:32 PM EST up reply actions  

I have that problem too. Then there’s the times it shows like “40 new” and I click and the yellow isn’t there, preventing me from Z’ing, and me saying F it, I’m not manually looking for new ones.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Dec 6, 2008 12:42 PM EST up reply actions  

sometimes, even after everything’s done loading, it has decided that i can’t z through things. So yeah, i just f it then and pretend nothing important was said.

by APV on Dec 6, 2008 2:26 PM EST up reply actions  

yep

Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.

by Gradyforpresident on Dec 6, 2008 4:05 PM EST up reply actions  

Yea that happens too, but usually after clicking in random spots, it’ll start to Z.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Dec 6, 2008 4:05 PM EST up reply actions  

or rather, Z will start to work.

The no-yellow problem is actually rather infrequent. I remember where I was the last time it happened, as I was really bored. But I don’t remember what thread it was.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Dec 6, 2008 4:07 PM EST up reply actions  

The “no Z” problem is usually a matter of the right frame not being “active” in your browser. If you wait until it’s done loading and then just click once anywhere in the main story text, usually “Z” will snap to life.

by Jay on Dec 6, 2008 7:17 PM EST up reply actions  

I don’t have Z problems.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Dec 7, 2008 8:21 AM EST up reply actions  

But you do appear to have become French….

by Logodaedalus on Dec 7, 2008 12:20 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Now go away or I shall taunt you a sec-aund time.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Dec 7, 2008 7:07 PM EST up reply actions  

boooooooo

Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.

by Gradyforpresident on Dec 7, 2008 7:51 PM EST up reply actions  

Flashblock is the key plugin. Instead of displaying the crap Flash movies that are plastered all over and are 99% ads, it displays a nice little block with the flash logo inside it. Simply click the ‘F’ to load the movie. I makes pages load SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much faster.

Don't be stupid. PUT IN MELOAN.

by gte619n on Dec 8, 2008 1:17 PM EST up reply actions  

There’s no way Athletics Nation could offer any software that would be worth exchanging it for…

by Logodaedalus on Dec 6, 2008 12:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Google Chrome, baby.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Dec 6, 2008 1:51 AM EST up reply actions  

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