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Cleveland Indians (2011 Season)

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pronk is slowly becoming laporta type useless. by the by, laporta has as many hr's as pronk this year. if it wasn't for one unreal stretch at the plate, pronk and laporta would be about even in every statistical metric. whatever hafner was on, he needs to start taking it again.
 
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buckeyemania11;1971773; said:
Asdrubal draws a bases loaded walk to make it 4-2
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This team has to lead the league in bases loaded bb...

tsteele316;1971780; said:
pronk is slowly becoming laporta type useless. by the by, laporta has as many hr's as pronk this year. if it wasn't for one unreal stretch at the plate, pronk and laporta would be about even in every statistical metric. whatever hafner was on, he needs to start taking it again.
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I was saying that last week. He has completely disappeared since that walk off HR, what, six weeks ago? I think we know what we have in him...a guy who is still capable of being a productive player for brief stretches, but totally unsustainable over any significant period. In essence, a platoon-DH.
 
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A little late, but a good story nonetheless.

According to Yahoo’s Big League Stew writer, David Brown, it turns out that this Indians team is more of a “team” than any of us thought. As many of you probably know, Jack Hannahan’s, Jenny, wife gave birth to a little boy while the Indians were in Boston. What you may not know is that Jenny went into labor three months early. So, while Hannahan was playing in a game, his agent was scrambling to get Hannahan a flight back to Cleveland.

It didn’t look like he would make it in time to see his son actually being born unless he wanted to spend $35,000 on a private flight. He was resigned to the fact that he would just arrive the next morning. Justin Masterson didn’t like that plan so he got all the Indians players in the locker room to pitch in to get Hannahan home just in time to see his son’s birth. Hannahan actually got to the hospital 15 minutes before John Joseph Hannahan V was born. At just 2 pounds, 11 ounces, he was placed in the NICU and is doing fine.
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http://didthetribewinlastnight.com/2011/08/18/quick-hits-notebook-tribe-helps-their-mate/#more-912

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110817&content_id=23352386&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
 
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y0yoyoin;1971840; said:
kipnis to the [censored]ing DL...valbuena is back up...cant say i care to see him...as long as acta pulls donald from the #2 spot i will be happy
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keep Valbuena OUT of the lineup as much as possible please.......Luis The Terrible sucks at all fashions of the game
 
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great article on kipnis

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/stor...indians-rookie-jason-kipnis-grown-controversy
And yet he is home. Back in Chicago for this three-game series, not far from suburban Northbrook where he grew up, the moment also cries out for reflection as family and friends sit outside in the stands, ready to root on his new team with or without him in the lineup.
Earlier this year, Jason's father, Mark, was cleared of all charges in connection with the fraud conviction of former media baron Conrad Black, for whose company he served as general counsel. Even total exoneration, however, could not wipe out the years of hardship and heartache.
Jason was at Kentucky during some of the worst of it, arriving in Lexington after surprisingly little interest in him out of Glenbrook North High School, where he played football and was the conference MVP in baseball during his senior year of 2005.
"We always tried to push a Plan B, because what little boy doesn't want to be a major leaguer when they grow up," Jason's mother, Kay Kipnis, said. "The chances are, what, a fraction of one percent? [We told him] 'It's OK to think about another career. You can still be a major leaguer and be done at 28.'"
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