The Cleveland Indians and Mr. Dolan, as I stated consistently for the past few weeks, will suffer from trying to find that “steal” when signing pitchers. The never got a true number one starter. C.C. Sabathia is a solid number two pitcher and may be a number one a couple years down the road.
The lose of Bob Howry and still using Bob Wickman as our closer will hurt the Tribe as this long season continues. Howry was “automatic” for two innings and Wicky did have luck and talent on his side last year. Cleveland has a very good offense, but I don’t believe they can continually out score their opponents to win games.
It’s still early in the season, but I think our magician GM Mark Shapiro needs to start making some calls and shore up this very mediocre pitching staff.
Author: Bob (Page 26 of 39)
The Ohio State University made its first bad decision of the 2006 football season. The Buckeyes announced that they were officially going to change their football jerseys next year. The school is going to remove the gray from the uniform and lengthen the sleeves. This may sound like no big deal, but Ohio State is about tradition and colors. They even have a couple fight songs that echo the scarlet and gray colors.
The announcement of this change was met with outrage and anger from Buckeye nation. The Columbus Dispatch reporting receiving more feedback than any other web site question posted. The superstitious people believe that when something is going well, don’t change it.
The Ohio State Buckeyes football team and Coach Jim Tressel have provided more “big game” highlights than most college teams over the past few years. The Buckeyes always support a strong schedule and play “that team up North” at the end of each year. The spring practices started last week and everyone is pointing at Ohio State to make a run at the national championship.
The defensive is rebuilding and offense is loaded, which is the total opposite of every year Coach Tressel has been leading the Buckeyes. If Ohio State plans to play for all the marbles, they will have to win two of the toughest games in the country. I know baseball season has just begun, but you can’t help but get excited about the Buckeyes schedule next year.
Cleveland is a very strong city when it comes to supporting professional sports, but even the die hard cities have some issues with how teams are managed. The Cleveland Indians and their ownership are still attempting to renew the fan base they had in the mid 90’s. The Tribe was averaging around 3 million fans a year.
Terry Pluto gives an interesting perspective on why Cleveland is still struggling to raise the attendance numbers. I personally think the Dolan’s are still too “cheap” on the salaries and Mark Shapiro has done an excellent PR job with the fans and players. The Indians organization needs to understand that big money players bring fans. We recently signed some young talented players to long term deals. The benefits to this won’t be seen for at least a couple years.
LeBron James is moving up the charts on many writers’ lists for MVP. I believe the last two weeks of the season are going to be critical for James to win the covenant award. The Cavaliers will have to decide on whether to rest James to prepare for the first round of the playoffs or let his young legs carry him to his first of many MVP’s.
I believe it’s important for Mike Brown and the Cavaliers to close out the season strong and play every game to the end. This is a young team that is not playoff tested. LeBron and company will need all the confidence they have now for their playoff run.
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