Indians’ Attendance Grows With Team Success
May 20, 2011Ezequiel! Tribe rallies from four down to beat Reds on Carrera bunt single
May 21, 2011While 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 at tips@waitingfornextyear.com.
Our own TD discusses if it is danger time for the Indians, “It has been said that you can’t truly judge a team until 40 games minimum. Others say they go by the holidays as checkpoints in a season. Next week is the first one – Memorial Day. I truly believe this Indians team is for real. However, there is some cause for concern. With the way this team is constructed, injuries could be a real issue if they pop up at the wrong time. I hate to say it, but that time could be sooner rather than later, if not now.” [TD/Still WFNY]
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Want to learn a little more about the newest Tribe hero and the rest of the Clippers? “Carrera has some pop to his pull-side so he is simply not a slap hitter, but he mostly concentrates on working counts and putting the ball in play all over the field. As a defender he is arguably the best outfielder in the Indians system, including the big leagues. He is exceptional at making both the routine and diving plays, takes good angles and routes to balls, and with his plus speed really covers a lot of ground.” [Tony/IPI]
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Enes Kanter is making headlines once again, skipping interviews with a few NBA teams, “Kanter’s Gambit here is pretty clear: He wants to force these teams to pass on him so that he can end up with a city and franchise he likes. It’s a strategy Ricky Rubio employed in 2008 with poor results — the Minnesota Timberwolves picked him and he has spent the last two years in Spain. Kanter can do much the same and possibly even avoid Rubio’s state of limbo. Because he’s not currently tied to any team, Kanter can choose to spend another year away from professional basketball and reenter the draft next season.” [Ball Don’t Lie]
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David O’Leary at Stepien Rules gives an early look at who some of the lottery teams are looking at with their draft selections, “If Kanter falls to four; we’ll gobble him up. If not, look for us to take serious looks at Vesely, Valanciunas and maybe even Leonard. Two mocks I’ve seen have us taking Alec Burks or Brandon Knight. Of the two, I’d leaning towards Burks but Knight is very intriguing on so many levels.” [Stepien Rules]
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Finally, Orlando Cabrera missed Thursday night’s game as he returned to his home in South Carolina to obtain his U.S. citizenship, “The bureaucratic process of naturalization takes months, but becoming a citizen requires years of preparation. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Indians manager Manny Acta knows what Cabrera has been going through. Acta became a U.S. citizen in 1999.” [Big League Stew]
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There was an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal about how it appears that 50 games is the true barometer for predicting a team’s success.
I touch on it here http://tinyurl.com/3ms2l4m and the actual WSJ article is here http://tinyurl.com/3gy4m7h
After last night’s game, anything seems possible with the Tribe right now.
stern needs to get a handle on this pronto.
his 32 franchisees are serving a product: pro basketball. the standard of that product should be somewhat uniform whether you’re consuming basketball in nyc or la or milwaukee or cleveland. basketball players wishing to play within the nba must therefore accept that they will be assigned to one of 32 franchises and that this is how it is. if you don’t like it, Enes, no one is stopping you from playing pro ball on another continent or in preparing/serving french fries in georgetown.
i am not interested in the ‘freedom of movement’ arguments from players. when they gained (and accepted) revenue sharing from the nba, it was because they are not just employees — they are the product. having fought for and gained this indispensible role as ‘product,’ they must have some baseline standards to ensure the product is decent at all franchise locations.
if the players dont like this arrangement, then perhaps the NBA should contract into an 8 team league (NYC, LA, MIA, DC, BOS, SF.. and Honolulu and Barcelona) and the players union can accept the commensurate loss of revenue and roster slots.
Greatest Baseball-Reference page. I especially love the listed positions.
http://img269.imageshack.us/i/carreraa.png/
Exactly which team did kanter decline to interview with? Chad Ford refuted the claim about the Jazz sayin he would meet with them all day today. And why should a top 5 pick interview with the bottom 20? Mountains out of sawdust, not even molehills
He skipped out on interviews with Toronto, Milwaukee, and Utah. I heard that Washington is his top choice but Cleveland looks like his 2nd favorite.
@5 oh. well in that case, carry on. nothing to see here.