Teammates chip in to book private flight for Hannahan
Evidently, Hannahan's wife had a difficult pregnancy and the child was born months premature and under three pounds.
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I don’t care if we gave up 22 hits, tonight. I love this team.
"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter
by Denver Tribe Fan on Aug 17, 2011 1:51 AM EDT reply actions 10 recs
It was still last night here when I posted that.
"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter
by Denver Tribe Fan on Aug 17, 2011 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Wahoo will have twin towers instead of the feather.
by JulioBernazard on Aug 18, 2011 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
Such a likeable team. Would be so much fun to see these guys in the postseason, because they’d be playing with house money and they’d know it. They’d be loose. The Hannahan story indicates that they know there are more important things than baseball, and they’ve overachieved. So easy to fall for this group of players.
The other thing worth noting is that it’s not like the Indians are full of guys who are making a lot more than Jack Hannahan. A whole lot of those guys are making major league minimum. Masterson is making slightly less than Hannahan, according to Cot’s.
@grantgw - sports and Cleveland and Columbus stuff
And Sizemore the other half.
Or Dolan, but #Dolanizchepe.
by callmrplow on Aug 17, 2011 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
How exactly would that work with just a few minutes before he boarded the plane? “Here, let me give you my credit card # over the phone.” or “I’ll wire some over to you via PayPal or Western Union”
Could give some money to Hannahan retroactively
Lou Marson fan. Jason Donald advocate.
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 19, 2011 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions
My opinion of this: Why can’t you people just shut up? What is the point of micro-analyzing facts that we don’t even know, other than to crap on a feel-good story about the club without offering a single fact?
by Jay on Aug 19, 2011 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
didn’t you start this micro-analyzing?
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway
by notthatnoise on Aug 19, 2011 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
No. I said “one would hope” two guys who were on the scene at the time, and who make the most money, would have made appropriately large contributions.
Pretty sure Sizemore wasn’t there.
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway
by notthatnoise on Aug 22, 2011 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I know this is fish-in-a-barrel territory, and I don’t know why I even checked, but I saw that Hoynes finally got on board with this story this morning (a story he should have gotten himself) and I wondered if any of the comments would lay into Dolan for being too cheap to pay for Hannahan’s plane. Not surprisingly, comment number 3:
Does anyone else think it’s odd that Dolan or the organization didn’t step up and pay for him to be with his family? Make your players pay instead of having the organization expense this? Really?
He was admonished by the next few posters, but I didn’t read any further.
Those guys …. they’re not my kinda guys…
My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts.
Great story.
And weird things stick out to me like Masterson passing around a hat; figuratively, or did these guys dump in wads of cash or I.O.U.s?
“Look, see this? That’s from Pronk, ten thou. Might wanna hang onto that one.”
You are reading my signature.
by rolub on Aug 17, 2011 9:18 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I was wondering about that too. I was picturing these guys sitting in the dugout with a bunch of cash in their pockets.
by sandyalomarfan on Aug 17, 2011 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I think I read a story once where Manny who had been traveling on a road trip with the Tribe at the time had lost his luggage one day and was pretty nonchalant about it, then upon it showing up had it, went through it with a couple of organization guys at hand and had multiple paychecks sitting inside of it worth “big money”. I’m forgetting some details of the story, but I believe it was used by Mike Hargrove to show how Manny was such a good hitter because he never got upset about anything outside of baseball, had no distractions going on, and just a pure hitter to an extreme degree.
the story I recall was him instructing a player valet to grab something out of his glovebox, and it was just stuffed with his paychecks in the $70k range, each.
but as i search online, you find multiple versions of it… $10k in cash in the glovebox, $40k in cash, the Indians called him because he had not cashed 5 consecutive paychecks. However it happened, it’s probably grown exponentially since the first-hand account.
You are reading my signature.
I worked in the vault for the Cubs for a few years (my buddies still do). Players used to come down and cash checks. Kyle Farnsworth would come down every single Friday when there was a game and cash a check for like $25,000. It was INSANE. Moises Alou once wanted over $100,000.
Several players on visiting teams (I seem to remember the Pirates were notorious) bounced checks a few times. I have to imagine those were awesome phone calls for our manager to make.
Il faut d'abord durer.
I hope you washed your hands after taking Alou’s check
by AllenSmith on Aug 19, 2011 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
ew
"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter
by Denver Tribe Fan on Aug 19, 2011 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I am touched by this story. It makes me proud to be a fan of this team. Shapiro was always big on getting players with good charactepr. He seems to have succeeded.
by Harry Doyle on Aug 17, 2011 1:25 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I am touched by this story. It makes me proud to be a fan of this team. Shapiro was always big on getting players with good character He seems to have succeeded.
by Harry Doyle on Aug 17, 2011 1:57 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
It’s sad that I’ve had to condition myself to not get emotionally attached to the players, and particularly what they do off the field, lest I get irrational when tough roster decisions have to be made.
Perhaps Antonetti should have given him the best gift of all, unlimited amount of time to spend with his wife and new child?
On the lighter side of things, I’m all for humility and not tooting your own horn, but why is this story not front and center on Indians.com? This is PR magic.
It’s a very nice story, but it deals explicitly with the money the players make and how they can afford to do things most fans with average incomes can’t do (even if it’s their other well-off friends/co-workers chipping in to do so).
Not saying I feel this way, but it definitely could be perceived as such.
Agreed. these beat guys spend so much time figuring out how to pander to the idiots who read them that they are oblivious to genuinely good stories. Castro would’ve been all over that. Also surprised Pluto didn’t know about it. Seems right up his alley.
My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts.
The beat guys don’t write for Indians.com.
by JulioBernazard on Aug 18, 2011 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions
It looks like Bastian covered the story and posted it in the wee hours of this morning (just beating Hoynes, I guess?). It’s the 2nd headline, just below last night’s game encapsulation. At least Bastian has the excuse of not being in Boston when this occurred; if my memory serves me, he was off that series and joined the team in Texas. I actually think he did a great job building on portions of the story the first three major pieces didn’t cover, like the supposed hat being passed around. As he describes it,
…a group of players began to surround them[selves] by the computer in the cramped visitors’ clubhouse at Fenway Park. Masterson was there, along with Shin-Soo Choo, Travis Hafner, Chad Durbin and Austin Kearns….From each corner of the clubhouse, veterans and rookies alike pitched in money in order to cover the costs of a private jet.
I think the reason why everyone sat on it was that it wasn’t a sure thing that the baby would survive.
Here’s what Bastian said:
MLBastian Jordan Bastian
@CLE_Hide Situation surrounding Hannahan’s son was serious at time of his birth. I chose not to write details in case something went wrong.
Love how the team pulls for each other, but I think the FO should have stepped in instead. Just my opinion though.
Bastian said that Louisville Slugger sent Jack a tiny replica of one of his own bats, but this one has the baby’s name on it. Very classy of LS as well.
This story is slowly making its rounds to more and more people. A couple of people on my FB just posted it today.
Hoynsie says it is a full-sized bat.
by JulioBernazard on Aug 19, 2011 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
I personally know a guy that was arrested with Dykstra a few months ago.
Matt LaPorta is the bane of my existence.
I used to work side by side with the guy. Nice enough fella, though not the sharpest or tacks. He had only in been in the LA area for like 3-4 months and somehow got tangled up with Lenny doing the car thing. Quite the rapid descent.
Matt LaPorta is the bane of my existence.
speaking of multiple arrests, bankruptcy, and indecent exposure, did anyone read the Grantland piece on Ric Flair?
Thanks for the heads up
I like ex-Phillies prospects.
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 26, 2011 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
BABIP fluke? I think Hannahan’s offense is the opposite of his defense, but I’ve got to hand it to him: he has swung the bat well lately. Now, will he ever hit another HR?
Hanna’s raking lately. I like seeing him in the lineup more than Chiz right now.
by JulioBernazard on Aug 26, 2011 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions
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