Bernie was unprepared for Sabathia.

It's funny, we never got to see C.C. talk very much in all those years. He says all the right things here, and you get a small sense of why Shapiro has always raved about Sabathia as a person.

LaPorta video from ProspectTube.

Yeah, this made me tear up. 

Sigh.

The Indians have 7 games in the next 7 days, 4 against division rivals. We're 8.5 games out of 1st place. We just lost one of our more reliable starting pitchers to Tommy John. The future is in doubt. Action is needed.

Crisp/Shields brawl

For everyone else who was as confused as I was by the "Mr. Lee Lyrics" post ... and it's definitely not too early to start getting psyched up for tomorrow's game ... if only to wipe out the memory of today's.

Travis Pronkn' Hafner needs to start Pronkn' Hitting

I got a good laugh out of these and thought I should share. There's others on youtube in the Hardball Made Easy series with Zambrano, Hawpe, and Ethier. Gary C!

How do you guys feel about the A's moving to Fremont. Ok, I don't care. But I do like seeing how these guys feel.