C.C. Sabathia was dominant last night. A month ago, I would have questioned putting him into a playoff rotation. Now, he’s back to being an ace. The PD does a good job of laying out just how good Tribe pitching is right now. Great timing.
Who would be in your playoff rotation?
Danny Ferry is looking a lot better as GM than he did as a player. Landing Damon Jones was a very iffy prospect last week. Michael Finley went to San Antonio, Jones seemed likely to stay put in Miami. Ferry got him anyway. Nice. Listening to Kenny Roda on WKNR right now, Bryan Winters of the Akron Beacon Journal speculates that Jones will likely start at point guard. Makes sense to me, too.
The Cavs are now almost the exact opposite of the team they were last year. Now the Cavs are a major three point threat AS A TEAM, with the addition of Jones & Donyell Marshall. Last year, they didn’t have a jump shot outside of Lebron. Last year, our front line was solid. This year, their big man situation is a problem, with Verajao down for a while, no Tractor Trailer, and Drew Gooden still, kind of, a work in progress.
Three games against Oakland, three against Minnesota. In that period, the Yankees play a 3-game home series against Boston. Big week ahead. Could make or break the playoff chase.
Or not.
I admit…I’m a Browns fan first. And I’m one of those underappreciative Indians fans who people wonder why aren’t we getting excited about the Tribe’s playoff chase. So I decided I’d write a Tribe piece or two today, and wandered across the PD’s TribeTracker blog, by a guy named Joey Morona. Guess what.
It hasn’t been updated since last Friday. Call me crazy, Joey, but if you’re tracking the Tribe with a blog, during a playoff chase, you don’t disappear for FIVE DAYS, even if it is a holiday weekend, and especially if you are, as Joey is, senior sports producer at Cleveland.com since 1998. Maybe those PD bloggers have a union contract. They don’t really blog all that much.
The writing of PD sports columnists is often so bizarre my head hurts reading it. Bud Shaw’s column today on the Browns QB situation reads like he’s got some cliche generator on his computer, which he lets run all night, but the program has a glitch, so every cliche comes out garbled and making no sense.
I guess he’s arguing in favor of Dilfer over Frye, but he’s so busy throwing cliches at you, it’s impossible to tell what the hell his angle is. He cites stats in support of Dilfer that are so depressing, Dilfer should wonder, “with friends like Shaw, who needs enemies?” I’ll give you just one.
Dilfer following Garcia is like having the programming slot after Jerry Springer gets off the air. You can’t help but look classy.
High praise indeed. Or not. I can’t tell.
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