Hoynes never misses the chance to yuck it up to his irrational readers beliefs.

Hoynes never misses a chance to mention how bad the team is this year.

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I’m still not over his 2007 “highlights” that featured at least as many negatives as positives.

Cleveland Indians’ rebuilding process not as massive as many believe, says Paul Hoynes

There’s actually a link there to substantiate that this comes from Paul Hoynes, who has done everything in his power to convince anyone who is willing to read him of the exact opposite all season long.

This is a pretty good assessment. In Bad: Don’t forget Hafner. In the Good: I don’t think you need the word potential in front of asset.

I’d add on the positive side Rafael Perez showing signs of being a useful pitcher again. On the negative, Trevor Crowe is playing regularly (and pretty badly, as expected).

I think the season would qualify as a “nightmare” if we get to the end of the year and don’t have the feeling that we’ve seen a core of young players who will be the basis for a contending club two or three years from now. I’m not there yet — LaPorta and Brantley, in particular, have to show more. Not to mention the rotation…

Our record on Aug. 2 for the past three seasons:

2010: 44-61
2009: 44-61
2008: 48-61

The difference is that, as you point out, I think everyone’s expectations were much lower this year than the previous two. I thought there was a good possibility we would be much worse this year than in 2009.