Cleveland Indians

[JimSorgi]

I've seen this story before. The Tigers will catch them in the final weeks of the season. There may even be a 1 game playoff. Then one of those two will get swept in the ALDS.

When have you seen that story?

The future, duh

[TruffleShuffle]

I've seen this story before. The Tigers will catch them in the final weeks of the season. There may even be a 1 game playoff. Then one of those two will get swept in the ALDS.

When have you seen that story?

The future, duh

 

i was going to post a pic of the sports almanac from back to the future here, but it only goes through 2000 #-o

[TruffleShuffle]

the indians should call up jason kipnis and his .292/.368/.500/.868 line and shift orlando cabrera (.263/.293/.339/.632) to a utility role.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I dont want to see the Indians win the world series for simple petty reasoning. Since our near miss in 2003, 7 of the last 8 series winner has been either another long suffering franchise, or one known for failure: Red Sox('04, '07) Phillies('08), Giants('10), a bitter rival Cardinals('06) or both White Sox ('05). We need someone to share in our misery.

 

If the Indians were to win the world series, the 2nd longest world series drought would either be 52 years shorter than the Cubs (if you count expansion teams who've never won - the Senator/Ranger franchise), or 71 years shorter (if you are counting only teams that have won the title before - the Pirates)

 

Seriously, the Indians win and this is what the longest droughts would look like:

 

Cubs - 103 years

Pirates - 32 years

Orioles - 28 years

Tigers - 27 years

etc etc etc

 

Also, no its call Progressive Field now

 

All those expansion teams, Brewers, Astros, Senators/Rangers, and Mariners, have to be at least 40 years by now, if that makes us feel any better, which it doesnt. Aside from the Mariners, all of these teams have at least been to the series at least. In either case, I dont see this being the Indians year. Even if that awful division lets them into the playoffs, I cant see them making it past the 1st round.

[17 Seconds]

Who's going to catch them? At this point, it would take an absolutely epic collapse for anyone other than the Tigers to catch them (and, no, the Royals don't count as "anyone" - Call me back in about a year and a half), and the Tigers would have to significantly pick up their play to catch the Indians playing .500 the rest of the year.

 

It's not so much how well the Indians have been playing, as much as how horrible the two teams which were supposed to compete for the division title have been playing. If either were playing just a little worse than expected and were hovering 5 or 6 games behind the Indians, I wouldn't be saying the Indians had it in the bag.

 

But, as it is, "the Indians have it in the bag."

 

lead is already down to 1.5 games

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Silence! It's in the bag.

[Guest]

Lead is gone. Detroit now leads the division by a game.

[Bote McBoteface]

More or less in the bag.

[imb]

its a big bag

[TruffleShuffle]

http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c_id=cle&content_id=17546135&topic_id=8879220

 

asdrubal cabrera's home run originally ruled a single then changed to a home run (i think it was originally ruled a single - no idea what signal the 1b ump is making though). anyway, the angle they show at about 1:10 is definitive, but before seeing that, the way you can tell it went over the fence is the reaction of the woman whose knee got drilled by the ball (it bounced back onto the field like it had hit the top of the wall). she'll have a nice bruise in the morning.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

no idea what signal the 1b ump is making though

He had his arm up to indicate it was a fair ball then did the "safe" sign to indicate the ball was in play.

[ChiCubs23]

I think it was a big mistake for the Indians to mortgage their future for a 2 year pitcher, regardless of how they are waxing it.