May 23, 2013

While We’re Waiting… Browns Lose Again, Sabathia ALCS MVP, Tribe Names New Skipper

October 26, 2009 by 26 Comments

While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email in the sidebar.

kamerion wimbleyTerry Pluto asks an interesting question: “I ask myself who is having a good year other than Wimbley? Rogers made a bigger impact last season. He probably has just been above average, but not close to his Pro Bowl form. The other linemen and linebackers seem to care and hustle, but they don’t make big plays. Against the Packers, the Browns had one tackle for loss, one quarterback hit and no sacks. Unless the Browns improve against the run, they have no chance of even being respectable.” [Pluto/Cleveland PD]

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Fantastic. Why Not: “Sabathia was picked MVP of the American League championship series after two dominant performances in the Yankees’ six-game victory over the Los Angeles Angels. The Yankees wrapped up the ALCS with a 5-2 victory in Game 6 Sunday night, meaning the 28-year-old Sabathia’s next start will be a tantalizing one — he’ll oppose former Cleveland teammate and Cy Young winner Cliff Lee when New York plays Philadelphia on Wednesday night in the first World Series game at the new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium.” [AP Story]

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Meanwhile, we got Acta: “He’s the right guy for the job as long as everyone realizes he’s not coming in to win the division next year.” [Kurkjian/ESPN]

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Acta’s first job, assembling a staff: “Getting a read on him and making a snap judgment about whether he’s the right man for the job borders on folly, but some clues about him and his strategies should begin to emerge with the first order of business – naming a coaching staff.” [Paul C./DiaTribe]

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How about something positive. The Buckeyes looked decent this weekend at least: “Looks like everyone got what they wanted Saturday in OSU’s 38-7 walk over an inept Minnesota Saturday. The fans got to see Pryor take a step in the right direction with his second 200/100 game of his career.” [Jason/Eleven Warriors]

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  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com DP Diesel

    Wait, so the Yankees are going to start CC on two days’ rest? That should work out well.

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/ Rick

    CC didn’t pitch last night, Andy P. did.

  • oribiasi

    First we get Man-genius, fired from the Jets. The Jets, people.

    Then we get Acta, fired from the Nationals. The Nationals, everyone.

    Why do we keep getting managers/coaches from teams that sort of suck who were fired? Doesn’t this worry anyone?

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com Denny

    Yea DP it was Andy Pettite stare-down intensity to the max last night. Also, hyperbole.

  • Du

    This is the epitome of Cleveland sports:

    1) We hire the former manager of the worst team in baseball

    2) The two best teams in baseball have OUR former Cy Young winning pitchers starting in game one of the World Series.

    Irony at its best people.

    I am so glad that I live in Cleveland as now I can start introducing my 2-year old son to all this sports misery!!!

  • Tron

    The Browns are so bad, I thought my eyes were going to start bleeding. Also, I agree with oribiasi, i’m tired of cast off leaders from not so great programs. Why the hell can’t we hire a 2nd in command from a successful team? Roenicke would have been a nice try. Dolan was so cheap he couldn’t even fly the guy in for a face to face? They had to phone interview him? That’s pathetic.

  • MrCleaveland

    Fans are too hard on the Buckeyes. After all, they did . . .

    1. win a championship

    2. IN OUR LIFETIME!

    What other teams around here can say that? I’m good with the Bucks for another 30, 40 years.

  • Isis

    First off-re-read Oribiasi @#3-the man is dead on target.

    Browns Weekly Second Round Tracker/Mangini Coaching Adjustments
    (combined to lessen the absurdity):

    Brian Robiskie: Grade-0 catches/0 yards. Scan round two and get yourself sick. Up and down the round-check it out.
    Note: Brian Hartline caught 2 passes/76 yards yesterday for the Dolphins, Hartline was drafted in round 5-who do you think got better value??

    Mohammed Massaquoi: Grade-1 catch/22 yards. At least one drop.
    Extremely inconsistent in every aspect of the game. Is this another Quincy Morgan or eventually a #2 wideout??

    David Veikune: Grade-PATHETIC. This man can’t get is XXX of the bench with DQJ out. He plays both OLB/ILB and can’t sniff time, at the expense of undersized Maiava and Ohio Northern FA special teamer Trusnick. Inexcusable-you DON”T pick second rounders to be projects, you pick them in the 5th round. The players that were passed…..sickening.

    Gameday coaching and adjustments:

    Pathetic/abysmal/embarrassing/absurd………is this a trend YET? No excuse win or lose to play without competiveness on your home field……end of freakin’ story.

  • oribiasi

    @ Du — I have always told my girlfriend that if we get married and have children I will tell them that they can be a fan of baseball, just not the Indians. A football lover, just not a Browns fan, etc., etc. Why let them have any more reason(s) for being depressed in this corrupt town?

    @ Tron — Right! It makes me sick, all the money that man has and he can’t afford a plane ticket? I have never met this Acta individual, and I don’t know his style/etc., but I know the team’s record he used to coach for and somehow, someway, it was worse than ours. So why why why….

  • oribiasi

    @ Isis — thanks, brah, for the backup. I am getting so tired of this, really. It is worriesome and I question the vision of these owners.

  • Isis

    Here’s all you need to know about Acta:

    Talk about a DISTURBING trend-in his three years with the Nationals his winning percentage went thusly:

    2007-.440
    2008-.360
    2009-.299

    Fired and hired ala Mangini and Lerner. With that resume? Who the heck cares how many languages he speaks, get a coach to speak to the Latin players. What a freakin’ joke. Stand up and take a stand THIS TIME, unlike most of you did with Mangini. This is Shapiro’s MO to a “T”. Instead of taking the time to interview the real candidates he jumped on this stiff-Houston was only offering a 2 year deal but Dolan/Shapetti crapped out.

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com DP Diesel

    YEA, NOT SEEING ANY SPORTS FOR FOUR DAYS!!

    Please forward the “WFNY Dunce Award” to DP at…

  • Lars

    at least you didn’t have to watch the Jackets stink up the joint… the net should’ve been empty, it would’ve saved time.

  • MrCleaveland

    @3 and 8

    Front offices are in a no-win (so to speak) situation. Fans complain:

    1. If your team hires a retread with a losing record

    AND

    2. If your team hires a guy who doesn’t have any managing/head coaching experience

    Hey, folks, there aren’t any good managers/coaches with winning records who are sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring. They’ve all got sweet gigs on TV. You can only hire who’s available.

  • Lars

    As for Acta… whatever, he’s a baseball manager. As long as he doesn’t sit guys like LaPorta for guys like Dellucci… he’s fine.

    I’m not going to hold his Washington declining record against him as that was a talentless team with nothing to build on… at least here he’s inheriting some decent prospects but one god awful rotation.

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com DP Diesel

    The point with Mangini of “no one else wanted this guy, why were we in a hurry?” is/was valid.

    But then to turn it around and complain that we jumped on Acta while “Houston was *only* offering two years?”

    sniff-sniff-sniff

    Smells like hypocrisy.

  • oribiasi

    @ MrCleaveland — I am not in a position to speak with authority, but I am thinking there must be a manager not currently coaching in the MLB with a winning record under his belt. And, by winning, I mean somewhere above the .500 mark, which in three years Acta has not been able to come up with.

    Hargrove? :(

  • Sisi

    I *love* the Acta hiring! Man, it’s going to be great to have somebody in the dugout that can really communicate with all the fantastic young latin players in our system!

    Also, Eric Mangini deserves at least one full season before the media and fans start crapping all over him. The roster he inherited was a complete mess. And although he made some questionable draft picks, you can’t argue that he doesn’t at least have a plan for the future, unlike Phil Savage. Book it!

    Wow, I just love talking Cleveland sports in a positive and non-pointlessly-argumentative manner with you guys. Double Book It!!!

  • jcm

    Delonte West’s wife filed a domestic violence complaint against him. His issues seem to be getting worse, not better. I love the guy, so I really, really hope he’s not a woman beater. I can’t root for men who do that.

  • MrCleaveland

    @17

    O, I stil think managing is overrated. Players win and players lose. All managers basically manage the same–by the book.

    I think the only big difference is how managers handle personalities and people.

    One exception to this is Wedge, who’s making out of the daily line-up was pathetic. I’ll bet he actually was directly responsible for losing games for us.

  • MrCleaveland

    @18

    Good one!

  • Anthony

    33 hours until “Come On, Cavs!”

  • oribiasi

    @ Mr.Cleaveland — I agree, the lineup was not very well thought out. Thing is this: if you were getting some roofing work done, and one of the companies asking for the contract has only been able to do a good job 30-40% of the time, would you hire them on, or wait for something better, seeing as you had a few months to decide, i.e., the Indians.

    Do managers matter? I honestly think so; a lot of these guys they coach have been playing baseball for 15-20 years, on a very high level, and with that much raw talent I think you really need a solid, steady and intelligent individual to get the most out of them. And, to keep them in line.

  • Mark

    Scared about Acta… but Belichick didn’t do so well at his first head coaching gig and he seems to be handling it pretty well in New England.

  • Alex

    @Isis

    Didn’t your watch list also originally include Mack? I believe it did. Seems like he’s doing ok. And no more calls for Beanie, even after his first and only (so far) decent game?

    Everyone can rejoice in AT LEAST (but perhaps only) one thing: it’s almost Tuesday. It’s almost time for the city’s decent franchise to begin for real.

  • enginerd

    In the name of Larry Nance, how did the Cavs become known as Cleveland’s only decent franchise? What a difference 10 years makes…