Month: June 2005 (Page 8 of 9)

Sigh. Faced with the perfect opportunity to place themselves squarely in the middle of the AL Central race, the Indians instead find themselves 11.5 games out of first after losing to the White Sox 6-5 Saturday night. Victor Martinez continues to turn around his season, belting his fourth home run in his last six games, but it’s impossible to get excited about individual performances with the Indians slipping further and further out of contention.

I guess we just have to accept this garbage, because Wedge and ShapIRO refuse to do anything about it. The “Boone and Blake” show. How wonderful. Day in and day out, Wedge keeps putting them in and day in and day out, they keep screwing this team over. And for those of you who will ask, “If not Boone, who will play third?” WHO CARES?! You could get ANYBODY to bat higher than .150. Fifty-three games into the season is not a slump. Then there’s Dolan — “We’ll get free agents when fans starting coming to games….” Great. Does Wal-Mart say, “We’ll get good products when people start coming to our stores.” Of course not. And don’t give me this small market crap. This market, which includes Akron/Canton/Toledo/Youngstown, is NOT a small market. It’s a mid-market, and these idiots know it. I am not spending a DIME to see bums like Boone and Blake. This team and organization absolutely disgust me. I feel like it’s 1981 all over again — mediocre, if not bad, team, mediocre front office, and cheap owner who strangles the region by hanging on to a team he simply cannot afford, which clearly shows on the field.

So much for making up ground on the White Sox. The Indians lost the first game of this weekend’s big series in Chicago 6-4 Friday night. Coco Crisp had another big game, homering for the second-straight night and driving in three runs, but Jake Westbrook allowed four runs in the first and two more in the fifth to fall to 2-8 on the season. After evening out at .500 against Minnesota, the Indians have lost three-straight and, unless they can pull it together for these final two games of the series, they’re in danger of falling out of the Central race.

Somehow, some way, Ryan Ludwick cleared waivers and was optioned to AAA, the Indians announced today. Mark Shapiro should consider himself very lucky, because nobody expected Ludwick to make it through waivers. It’s too bad the team already activated Coco Crisp, though, considering Crisp was brought back a couple weeks earlier than the team really wanted to. You just hope he doesn’t reinjure the thumb.