Another Tribe win. Another White Sox lost. Cue historic choke stories.
Author: Tim Russo (Page 73 of 89)
I have been resisting Tribe playoff mode for a while, mainly because I knew that the moment I got into it, I would not be able to stop paying attention, no matter how tired I am.
As I write this, the Tribe is up somewhat safely on the Royals, 9-6, middle of the 8th. Normal human beings would go to sleep right now. Not me. I’m afraid I’m going to be losing a lot of sleep in the coming weeks.
How many sports blogs you know cover Oprah? None? There’s one now. Damn straight!
Oprah was her lovable, head-waggin’ self, saying about all the money, the posse, all the cousins who come out of the woodwork, “I worry ’bout you!” asking Lebron about all the “girls standin’ outside the game with their panties on their heads…” Lebron was at his clean cut, good guy best. Lebron’s mom, and his girlfriend Savannah (who he’s dated for more than 3 years – how on earth can that thing last?!?!) were in the audience, and he was ready with the right answer to that one. “I seen ’em! But my mom taught me right from wrong.”
On the whole being the best basktball player of all time thing….Cavs management take note.
“I think long term, in basketball, the ultimate goal is to win the NBA championship,” Lebron says. “I got to. I have to. My life won’t be satisfied without winning an NBA championship.”
Kid’s got the money. Got the fame. Got the girls with the panties on their heads. He ain’t goin’ nowhere if he thinks Cleveland is where he’ll win that championship. That’s the challenge for Gilbert, Ferry, et. al.
Tony Grossi details the Browns aversion to the running game.
Through two games, they have thrown 75 times and run 41. That 65-to-35 ratio is not abnormally high — Baltimore is throwing a whopping 74 percent of the time — but it is higher than you would expect.
I’m a little worried about this. The offensive line has proven solid in pass blocking, are they just not measuring up on run blocking? Not sure I see that…their first half performances with Reuben Droughns have been pretty good.
The absolute pummelling the Tribe put on the White Sox last night makes the world feel right again. Jayson Stark at ESPN is banging the MVP drum for Hafner, who was simply dominating last night, with two homers and 5 RBIs.
This week, on the South Side of Chicago, in the biggest series of the Cleveland Indians’ season, Travis Hafner had himself the kind of September series that MVPs are made of. Four home runs — at least one in every game of the series. Seven extra-base hits altogether. And 10 RBI. In 12 at-bats that might have changed the course of events for both the Indians and that White Sox team they were playing for those three nights.
And after a one-day hiatus, Jay Marriotti at the Chicago Sun Times is hilariously back in choke mode.
After a one-night breather, Choke Job Theater returned to the South Side. Media watchdog A.J. Pierzynski wants to know why we speak of the Sox in such harsh terms, saying, “It would be nice to open a newspaper one day and see someone write an article that this team is still good and still has a chance.” Well, I was thinking about it until the Wheezinators managed no runs and five singles off someone named Scott Elarton while Travis Hafner and the Indians — I repeat, the most complete team in the American League — were mashing baseballs long and far over the outfield fence.
Wheezinators. Hysterical.
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