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  • Rich Swerbinsky

    Nino Colla ( @TheTribeDaily ) enjoyed watching the #Tribe trounce King Felix last night: http://t.co/QEnVfJJG

    about 8 hours ago

  • Rich Swerbinsky

    RT @CoachWells: This is great stuff @TheClevelandFan: Paul Cousineau ( @thediatribe ) w/ his mid-weekly & insightful look at the Tri ...

    about 9 hours ago

  • Rich Swerbinsky

    Paul Cousineau ( @thediatribe ) with his mid-weekly and insightful look at the Tribe: http://t.co/AgYtGyAO

    about 10 hours ago

  • Rich Swerbinsky

    As soon as the Twins finish them off, #Indians (21-16) about to go up three games on the second place Tigers (18-19).

    about 21 hours ago

  • Rich Swerbinsky

    To me, "Joe Fan" in this town just doesn't care as much about pro sports. Cause of Browns rudderless suck, LeQuit leaving, Indians payroll.

    about 21 hours ago

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FEATURED COLUMNS

How to Get a Pro Sports Team Without Really Trying

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I’d always thought getting a professional sports team these days was an incredibly complicated process that required years of strategic thinking and planning coinciding with perfect timing and more than a little good luck. Apparently not in our state capital. Last week, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman rose up confidently and declared, “Excuse me...yes, we’d like a National Basketball Association team, please,” as if asking for another round of breadsticks at the Olive Garden. See? It’s easy. For as silly and self-destructive as the NBA ... Read more

Jonathan Knight | Thursday, May 17

Morning Rundown: It's Good to Beat the King

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I think the most frustrating part about watching Ubaldo pitch is the fact that he shows us those flashes. Those flashes that not only make us think he can do it, but suggest that maybe there's something coming up. May 16th, 2012 Seattle Mariners - 3 Cleveland Indians - 9 W: Ubaldo Jimenez (4-3) L: Felix Herndandez (3-3) [BOXSCORE] You can't exactly count six innings, three runs, five hits, two walks as having arrived to that point where he's going to be Ubaldo Jimenez again. I mean this is not ... Read more

Nino Colla | Thursday, May 17

Tomahawks From the Top

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As we all say thank goodness for the Twins (who are now 73-125 since they got swept out of the 2010 ALDS) to save us from ourselves after the close to the Red Sox series that had everyone running to the 480 bridge while echoing the chorus that “THIS TEAM CAN’T HIT LHP” narrative with the brilliant inclusion of Batting Average vs. LHP as the provided “proof”, it’s time to dispel some inaccuracies, use some comparisons, and look to the ... Read more

Paul Cousineau | Thursday, May 17

Sorry Columbus, But the Blue Jackets Are Your Problem

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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

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Using a Poker Strategy in Football

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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Tribe Game Vault: 4/19/80. Super Joe Charboneau- A Legend is Born

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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

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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. ... Read more

Nino Colla | Wednesday, May 16

Jackets Remove "Interim" Tag, Name Richards Coach

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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