Most depressing sentence of the day?
Jensen Lewis pitched the ninth for his fourth consecutive save. It's the most consecutive saves by a Tribe reliever this year.
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By JoeBo? I can’t think of anyone else who it could possibly be.
by PatBordersHelmet on Aug 21, 2008 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions
This one was pretty good:
Jhonny Peralta: “I like track and field. I liked watching Usain Bolt win the 100 and 200 meters. That’s how I think I look in my mind when I’m stealing a base.”
Steel Nick
by nickjs21 on Aug 21, 2008 11:14 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
Hey, Hoynsie!: Your first paragraph makes no sense:
Franklin Gutierrez was waiting all season for this at-bat. All-Star closer Joakim Soria spent the same amount of time trying to avoid them.
Huh???
How much of a look will Jen-Lew get as CL next spring?
by JulioBernazard on Aug 21, 2008 11:21 AM EDT reply actions
Oh, and to answer your question, a decent shot assuming we don’t sign K-Rod. Signing Fuentes could complicate things.
If we don’t sign anyone I don’t think it will matter since Jon “my middle name begs for some kind of bank nickname” Meloan will step in as closer by 2010. That’s my guy. /Pine.
Steel Nick
I’m guessing we won’t be able to sign K-Rod. He’s gonna want some major cheeze.
by JulioBernazard on Aug 21, 2008 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Depends how he does down the stretch.
The real test of a closer, beyond sheer effectiveness, is the ability to come in the day after a blown save and be just as confident as the day before the blown save.
This is a depressing statement looking backwards, but why do that? Isn’t this an encouraging statement looking forward.
Clearly a ‘glass half full’ sort of attitude.
(Personally, I look at the glass as about to fall on the floor, shatter, and ruin the rug.)
"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.
by Harry Doyle on Aug 21, 2008 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Depressing statement of the day part 2-
Gil Meche has retired 17 in a row.
Guess it doesn’t matter since we won in dramatic fashion with home runs by 2 guys that have had their ups and downs. Sometimes, you just need a strong finish to the season to forget a horribly disappointing first half. Let’s just hope the Twins or the Pale Hose don’t make it to the World Series.
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. - Robert S. Wieder
I hate them because they always seem to overachieve when on paper I look at them and think they suck. I hate the Twins because they have, in my opinion, the worst ballpark in baseball. I also hate them because of Doug Mientkiewicz in the late 90’s and some of his annoying quotes.
by Roger Dorn on Aug 21, 2008 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I hate them because they’re built to play on concrete. I hate them because they bunt, and brag about their bunting. I hate them because they have an apparently inexhaustible supply of guys who throw 98 and refuse to trade any of them for offense even in the face of overwhelming need. I hate them because they think they’re better than us — not this season, but period. I hate them because they’re pretty boys. I hate them because THREE. STRAIGHT. BUNTS.
It’s hard to top the ChiSox for irritating fans — though living nearer to Detroit than most of you, I can tell you Tigers fans are miiiiighty cocky — but I enjoy the Kenny / Ozzie saga from a distance. The Sox are fun-hate for me. But the Twins, as an organization, have no redeeming qualities that I’ve come across. It’s a black hole of baseball entertainment, where all that is good and holy about sunshine and baseball and home runs is sucked agonizingly away.
God, I hate the Twins.
by fleerdon on Aug 22, 2008 12:24 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Not that I don’t hate the Twins, but in fairness, they did trade Garza for Delmon Young, and they got a nice little upgrade at shortstop in the bargain.
That’s a start. Next, they can take full swings at the baseball like grown men.
by fleerdon on Aug 23, 2008 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
the Twins look downright cuddly next to most of the rest of the American League. i used to hate the Twins because for a while it seemed like CC hated them. but that was before i realized how much i hate all the other teams.
My order of dislike in the AL Central (from most to least) goes:
1a) White Sox
1b) Twins
3) Detroit
4) KC
If I had ten hate points for the AL Central, I would distribute them like this:
Chicago: 4, Minnesota 3, Detroit 3, KC 0.
I like the city. After Buddy Bell left, and with Grudzelaniak hurt, and Sweeney and Ibanez gone, they’re a pretty good patsy team. I like Teahen and Soria and Greinke and Butler and Gordon. I even like Esteban German—he grounds out at the most opportune moments. Buck seems to have reverted to form, i.e. he never gets a hit, as he should.
If I had eleven hate points, I would assign one to KC, just for Jimmy Gobble’s name.
I’ll go 4,3,2,1 with Detroit getting the 3.
Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.
I think we need to organize a hate poll on here. Like ESPN does with the “rank these ten great sports feats” or whatever, and aggregate the results to find out who the most hated teams are at LGT.
Burn on, big river, burn on...
by Turkmenbashi on Aug 22, 2008 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions
I passionately hate both of those teams, but seriously. One non-playoff season and we forgive the Yanks for everything?
Yanks are probably my #2, just slightly ahead of the White Sox and Twins. I also hate the A’s and the Angels.
I think I hate the Red Sox more now, just because the fair-weather fans appear to have shifted their completely arbitrary allegiance to Boston, at least around here. That or there is an immense Massachusetts expatriate community in Richmond of which I was heretofore blissfully unaware.
I saw a friend of mine that I hadn’t seen in quite some time at the bar last night. He was wearing a Red Sox (faded) cap. “I didn’t know you were a fan,” I said in as seething a voice as I could muster. He said he wasn’t until they got good. Just came right out and said it.
Oh boy.
Steel Nick
seeing things like that really kills old friends, doesn’t it?
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 22, 2008 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I complete agree. At least the Yankees KNOW they’re the richest, we-will-sign-your-star-player-in-free-agency team out there. Boston fans still have this “woe is us” demeanor like I should feel sorry for them.
jerks.
If you need me, I'll be senselessly rooting for Sizemore 40/40 for the remainder of 2008.
many i know think that they aren’t that bad and just try to parley anti-yankee sentiment into neutral feelings towards the red sox but i hate them all anyway
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 22, 2008 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s about it. I despise Detroit’s management philosophy, but our guys all seem to like their guys pretty well, so that only goes so far.
by fleerdon on Aug 22, 2008 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions
The current Tigers team I don’t like. But I actually didn’t mind their team from about 2 years ago. I just can’t stand the Sox or Twins.
Hello jerseywahoo,
While I wouldn’t be too thrilled with either of them in the WS (I’d rather have TB or the Angels, with the Rays my first choice), I wouldn’t mind the Twins so much. The White Sox would be harder to stomach for me, but I’d prefer either of them to the Yankees or Red Sox.
In fact, I hope the Twins and White Sox both get in – that way, barring a major collapse by TB, both the Red Sox and Yankees will be staying home this winter – wouldn’t that be nice? Heck, the last time there was a postseason without at least one of those teams in it was before Jacobs/Progressive Field opened (1993, I believe).
Just my 2 cents – no offense.
The "cream of the crop" doesn't always rise to the top.
I don’t find that depressing. I find it to be progress.
Truth is, our bigger problem has been lack of save opportunities — too many games blown open before the 9th.
Sub question: Who hates us? The White Sox fans I’ve known are much more vehemently anti-Twins than they are anti-Indians, and the Tigers fans I run into have against us is more ill-will from the 90s than it is organization-wide hatred. What’s the Tribe-hating contingent? Baltimore? Anaheim? Boston? Any NL teams besides the Reds?
by fleerdon on Aug 22, 2008 3:02 PM EDT reply actions
If I were a Seattle fan, I’d hate the Indians for the 95 playoffs, for Omar, and for Richie Sexson (indirectly, anyway).
People don’t hate the Browns, Indians or Cavs. But, the Buckeyes, a team that’s played in the national title game 3 times recently, that’s the team they hate.
I don’t think other fans even care about our Indians.
I never exhaled.
Actually I know many Steelers fans that hate the Browns
And many ChiSox fans really dislike us as well, probably moreso than Minny or Detroit.
Very true, the Steeler rivalry has been therre. I don’t know why White Sox fans would hate our team any more than any other Central team, except KC. And that’s only because KC presents no threat in challenging for the division.
I never exhaled.
Maybe the White Sox fans don’t like the Tribe because they actually had some pretty decent teams in the 90s that we crushed like so many used aluminum pop cans.
Andy Marte is free at last! Now, if only he could hit a breaking ball...
by woodsmeister on Aug 23, 2008 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions
I think DC area fans hate the Cavs (or LeBron anyway). They got pretty nasty during last year’s playoffs, anyway. I have the impression that Detroit fans are similar. Hatred seems to have to do with big payrolls and or being successful and or with a specific history of some kind. Why don’t people hate the Rays (who have always been horrible?). Because they’ve always been horrible and irrelevant. That may explain why the Indians don’t get people too agitated. It’s been a long time since they won a title, and the fans that might hate us (Red Sox Nation) have a team that keeps beating us (so we get pitied, not hated).
I don’t want to stir up this debate, but do want to point out that the SI poll that is the basis for most people’s view that Native Americans don’t care has been much criticized and the authors of the article reporting on it have consistently refused to release their methodology. Other studies have found very different results: here’s one from the late 90s by a John Carroll professor, for example http://www.aistm.org/fr.2002.of.polls.htm
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