Maybe Josh Gordon really really gets it now. We’ll see.
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September 27, 2014
I welcomed back my friend Joe Petrich from the Cleveland band Something Involving a Monkey to discuss the 2014 Cleveland Indians. Joe is a brilliant guitarist and musician, but he also is about as knowledgable a Cleveland Indians fan that I know.
We discussed the following…
- Chris Antonetti and his future with the Indians
- Expectations and whether the Indians met them for 2014
- The job that Terry Francona did
- Corey Kluber’s phenomenal year
- Michael Brantley
- Jason Kipnis’ struggles
- The signing of Nick Swisher
Dog Fashion Disco, Something Involving a Monkey, 3rd World Leader and more live at the Agora.
Click here for the flyer to get into the show on October 4th for free!
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As you watch the Indians struggle to score any runs at all each day after they signed absolutely no one other than David Murphy to the yearly cheap-o failure contract, and as you think back to the way they cut 12 game winner Aaron Harang in order to save 1% on their payroll (and who would have allowed them to start Salazar in the minors or Carrasco in the bullpen) and made no attempt to resign 15 game winner Scott Kazmir (who went to Oakland, a team not known for big spending), the only thing anyone should think about this Indians season is that management didn’t even make the minimum effort to win this year. And if they had, we can now see they would likely have been able to secure the wildcard, if not the outright division title.
The Cleveland Indians: cutting off their nose to spite their face since for 15 years now.
You can be one of the apologists like the right Rev. Terry Pluto and just be happy to be playing “meaningful” games in September, or you can be outraged that their habit of treating nickels like manhole covers has cost them a chance to be playing October baseball for the second year in a row.
And if we hear yet again this offseason how our young arms and the return to health of Nick Swisher will make us contenders next year, then shame on anyone who buys a ticket and enables the Tribe’s excuses and below minimum investment in winning.
“Aaron Harang in order to save 1% on their payroll (and who would have allowed them to start Salazar in the minors or Carrasco in the bullpen)”
This is nonsense. The team chose Salazar and Carrasco as better starters than Harang, which ended up being the right call.
I know, 85 wins in this town is pathetic, somehow. Above average records in this town are boring and deserve last place attendance. Glad to have you supporting the team.
It was such a right call that Carrasco and Salazar both had to removed from the rotation, spending half the season banished to the bullpen and the minors after helping the Tribe get off to a terrible start from which they could not recover.
And while Carrasco finally got it together enough to be excellent in the second half, Harang still ended the season with a WAR that was triple that of Salazar.
Glad the Tribe has fans like you to enable them.
Jeez, your “right call” nonsense is even dumber than I thought. Looking at Salazar and Carrasco’s first two months is bad enough, but Harang blew Salazar away all season, and especially in September when Salazar was a punching bag, while Harang was in his best form. The difference between making the playoffs and not was the decision to cut Aaron Harang and force Salazar and Carrasco into the rotation.
You and the Indians deserve each other.
I’m not going to keep you from getting all hot and bothered over Aaron Harang. Enjoy the offseason. In light of recent developments, I’m not going to bother getting into a personal attack pissing contest. Maybe next time.
Yes, I can understand why you would consider it a personal attack that “because I said so” is not considered a valid set of data.