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FEATURED COLUMNS
Sorry Columbus, But the Blue Jackets Are Your Problem Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman made headlines over the weekend by going public with his desire to bring an NBA team to Ohio’s capital city. That’s all well and good and understandable. Franklin County recently purchased Nationwide Arena and the county needs people in the building, especially since the main tenant, the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, are an afterthought in the town. The question is where would this team come from? According to The Plain Dealer, NBA vice president of communications Tim ... Read more Thomas Moore | Wednesday, May 16 |
Tribe Game Vault: 4/19/80. Super Joe Charboneau- A Legend is Born By now, the excitement was building. 60,000-plus Indians fans had converged upon Cleveland Stadium; the mountain of concrete and bricks looked and sounded great when it was mostly full. During games like the one on the following day- a Sunday, no less- the feel from the 60,000-plus empty seats was more like that of a huge, cold, damp old ... Read more Greg Popelka | Wednesday, May 16 |
Morning Rundown: Lowe-r Than You Possibly Thought The Indians first move this offseason? Heck, the first move of the entire offseason? It was the acquisition of Derek Lowe. The first trade may just have been one of the best trades that any team made and it hadn't been any clearer than on Tuesday afternoon. May 15th, 2012 Cleveland Indians - 5 Minnesota Twins - 0 W: Derek Lowe (6-1) L: Jason Marquis (2-3) [BOXSCORE] No really, stop. It's likely most of the people patting Antonetti on the back are ones who mocked him. Not necessarily calling it a bad ... Read more Nino Colla | Wednesday, May 16 |
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Successful poker players may lose many small pots and still be totally happy, for their goal is to win the occasional big ones. The same thinking comes naturally in football. When the Browns are in a fourth down, moving all in, in the meaning of going for it, is worthwhile only if the odds for success are good enough. In most other cases, it's probably wiser to just fold the hand, as in punting the ball away. In the same way, winning or losing a single yard means nothing as long as they manage to get a first down.
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Jackets Remove "Interim" Tag, Name Richards Coach As the final four teams slug it out for NHL immortality, work continues in Columbus in preparation for the 2012-2013 season. A major step in the process was finalized this week as the Blue Jackets removed the interim tag from Todd Richards’s title and officially named him the sixth head coach in franchise history. Richards has just 205 games of ... Read more Adam Burke | Wednesday, May 16 |
Fools Gold or The Real Thing? We all have our calendars, even if we don’t look at them on a regular basis; we all know that it’s mid-May. For most intents and purposes, it’s far too early to think about late September while we wait for what the summer of 2012 has to offer. For the second year in a row, Cleveland Indians fans should try ... Read more River Burns | Tuesday, May 15 |
Morning Rundown: Gomez Pitches to Win, Choo Heroics Still Needed I'm going to be straight up honest with you guys. I fell asleep. I didn't have the physical energy to sit up in a chair, so I made the mistake of laying down. I fell asleep. I fell asleep only to wake up to see Ryan Doumit do what he did. And I was so deprived of energy, I rolled ... Read more Nino Colla | Tuesday, May 15 |
A Taylor Made Defense There aren’t really that many nice things to say about the 2011 Cleveland Browns, but a conversation about the performance of one Phillip Taylor could be a pleasant one for Browns fans. Sure, we’ve all had our moments of frustration with the big guy from Baylor, especially an enroachment call at Baltimore in December. Personally, I did not even know ... Read more River Burns | Monday, May 14 |
Michael Stanley, Throwing Up in Public, and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man How many times in the past 50 years has a Cleveland team ended a run through the playoffs with its followers feeling heartbroken and emotionally disemboweled? Don’t answer that. No matter what the expectations are going into the postseason, Cleveland teams have an amazing tendency to come in just under them - and usually piss you off along the way. Not 20 years ... Read more Jonathan Knight | Sunday, May 13 |
Living in the Now on A Lazy Sunday On the day in which we all (hopefully) properly appreciate our Mothers and Wives, maybe it’s time to appreciate what’s happening with this Indians’ team and attempt to live in the “now” instead of overanalyzing the past (admittedly guilty here) or waiting impatiently for that other shoe to drop. It is nearly mid-May and this Indians’ team is once again ... Read more Paul Cousineau | Sunday, May 13 |
Around the Farm: May 14 Going around the farm today, we take a look at the top prospect in the organization in Francisco Lindor, as well as the best mustache in the organization in Eric Berger. I'll tell you what Matt LaPorta's 10th HR of the season means, as well as the fastest player in the system, a catcher-turned-1B, a super-utilityman and ... Read more Al Ciammiachella | Sunday, May 13 |
We're Off to See the Wizard No matter which team gets the lucky bounce on May 30th and wins the NBA lottery, fans will be quick to put on a tinfoil hat and scream "conspiracy." If the Bobcats get selected, they will say that it is because David Stern wants to improve a struggling team and to get people in the Time Warner Cable Arena. If ... Read more Demetri Inembolidis | Saturday, May 12 |
View from the Porch: An Experiment in Failure Baseball is a combination of sciences. It’s a game made up of angles and formulas, psyches and confidence, and experiments. Players experiment with new things all the time. A change in mechanics, a heavier bat, a different timing mechanism in the batter’s box. Managers experiment as well. They change up the batting order. They use a different guy in the ... Read more Adam Burke | Saturday, May 12 |
Patience Is Great, But We Need Hope, Too Patience is the companion of wisdom – St. Augustine If you are going to be a fan of Cleveland’s sports teams, you need more than a fair share of patience. While we are not at the exact front of the line for the generation of fans who have never witnessed a championship, we are very, very near it, as the gray hair ... Read more Thomas Moore | Friday, May 11 |
Morning Rundown: Tribe Clobbers Beckett, Lowe Cruises Little worried there weren't you? After those final two games against the White Sox, you got a little nervous that maybe the steam was running out. Perhaps the start was a fluke and now they would falter. But just as quickly as that looked to be happening, the Indians got to go on the road and face the fabulous enigma ... Read more Nino Colla | Friday, May 11 |
Out of Bounds, Episode XIX: Hookers and Booze! A few years ago, I’m in the car with one of the sales leaders of an ex-company of mine, and somehow the conversation turns to prostitution. This company had a notoriously aggressive sales culture, and as such most of the sales force wasn’t exactly what you would call “choir boys”. This guy was no exception. He confronts me aggressively and directly ... Read more Lars Hancock | Friday, May 11 |
A Fun Evening at the Ballpark for a Great Cause
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Opposite Field #10: Bryson, Bryce & Bryan Price
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In Search of a Marketing Strategy
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