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Here’s a scary stat

After leaving the bases loaded in the 11th inning tonight, the Tribe is now 0-for-their-last-23 with runners in scoring position on this homestand.

Even if they make the playoffs, they need to pull their heads out of their friggin’ asses, because this won’t get it done in the postseason, now matter how well the starters are pitching.

Victor Martinez is a stud

This game is still very much in the air (11th inning), but Victor is about the only dependable guy in the lineup right now, and he’s been the only one coming up with big hits consistently these last couple of weeks. Grady’s struggling, Peralta looks lost at the plate and Hafner is hot and cold.

Keep it up, Victor! Please….

Roger Brown at it again?

The prospect of a good QB controversy overcomes Roger Brown.

Have the Browns been quietly giving backup quarterback Charlie Frye extra study work to digest during this bye week – as starting QB Trent Dilfer continues to heal from the battering he took last Sunday against Indianapolis? Hmmm.

Hmm, indeed. Note the utter absence of any sourcing. It’s a complete rumor, perhaps even started by Brown himself. Can’t really tell. Frye might be getting more homework because, well, it’s a bye week. Or not. Who the hell knows? Scene Magazine did a good story on Brown a few weeks ago, noting that rumors are his stock in trade.

Ah, the rumors. Columns like Brown’s are built on secondhand stories and anonymous sources. Speculating about upcoming moves or who doesn’t like whom in the clubhouse is Brown’s job. Yet the accuracy of what he peddles has long been open to debate, even among Plain Dealer colleagues. If there is one criticism of Brown that is troubling, it is this: He makes things up.

The PD already reported on Tuesday that Trent Dilfer is fine. Why is Roger Brown stoking the embers of a cooling QB controversy? Is he just making this shit up?

Cleveland NPR does sports talk

WCPN jumps on the Tribe bandwagon, and like all things NPR, it has to be somewhat intellectual. They had a sports psychologist on who works with the Browns and Indians. Interesting exchange.

Some old timer called in to argue, like every curmudgeon who thinks all young people are a bunch of fools, that Grady Sizemore was more interested in his appearance with sunglasses out in center field than catching the fly ball he dropped in the KC game. That he should have worn eye black, and how typical it is of this “younger generation” that he was instead wearing designer sunglasses.

What. Ever.

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