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Indians Tidbits (2007 Season)

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Canton

Underdogs ... again: But Indians don?t mind the role of spoiler
Thursday, October 11, 2007
By Andy Call
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

CLEVELAND The Indians are getting used to the underdog role.

In fact, in some ways, they?re beginning to like it.

?I absolutely think we feed off that,? veteran right-hander Paul Byrd said Wednesday as the Indians prepared to work out at Jacobs Field. ?It means something to you when the other team is supposed to win and you don?t get a lot of credit. We?ll just have to go there and try to upset them, I guess.?

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MJ

Sabathia-Carmona factor a big one for Francona
JIM INGRAHAM, Morning Journal Writer
10/11/2007




BOSTON -- Let's just say that C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Carmona, the Indians' two 19-game winners, have gotten Boston manager Terry Francona's attention.


''People don't realize what a good athlete and what a great kid C.C. is,'' Francona said. ''Obviously we're not rooting for him, but anyone who knows him knows what a great kid he is. What we need to do, though, is drive his pitch count up the way the Yankees did.''

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MJ

Staff has Indians feeling good about chances
By DAVID S. GLASIER, Journal Register News Service
10/11/2007




CLEVELAND -- Indians pitching coach Carl Willis has reason to be pleased as the Indians prepare to face Boston in the American League Championship Series.


Starting pitchers C.C. Sabathia and Paul Byrd posted victories in the American League Division Series as the Indians sent the Yankees packing in four games. Fausto Carmona pitched well in Game 2, but did not get the decision in an extra-inning victory.

Sabathia will get the start in Game 1 of the ALCS, scheduled for 7:10 p.m. tomorrow at Fenway Park.

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Dispatch

Indians can learn from stress test in New York

Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:56 AM
By Scott Priestle


The Columbus Dispatch
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Mark DuncanAssociated Press
Indians third baseman Casey Blake plays catch in the rain during a short workout in Jacobs Field.



CLEVELAND -- Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner is not one for sightseeing, even in a city as lively as New York. He had extra reason to stay inside last weekend, when the Indians were in town to play the Yankees in an American League divisional series.

"When the games were over, you were mentally drained," he said. "There's so much riding on every pitch. I always looked at all the off days during the playoffs and thought, 'Why do you need all those?' Now I know why."

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Yahoo!


Shapiro knew the direction

By Tim Brown, Yahoo! Sports

October 10, 2007

BOSTON ? There were always those stretches of highway, those uncomforting signposts warning him to go back, to reconsider.
Mark Shapiro might have too, had it not taken so long to smooth and pave that road, had it not made so much sense then, had he not believed so much in it now.
And, still?
Those 94 losses in 2003. The fall to fourth place in 2006, just when everyone seemed to be getting it. First the bullpen would go bad and then the defense, then it would all fit and almost nobody would show up at the downtown ballpark.
"There definitely were a lot of nights that drive home was a long drive," he said, "and you question it."
On the night the Cleveland Indians would return to the American League championship series after a decade away, eliminating the New York Yankees and setting the game's cornerstone franchise afire, Shapiro killed an hour watching batting practice from the visitors' dugout at Yankee Stadium.
He has been general manager of the Indians since late 2001, when John Hart left for Texas. Since then, the Indians have had their moments of hope and pain, of good baseball and bad. But, there had been nothing like clearing out Yankee Stadium on the second Monday of October, nothing like putting a team on the field over four games that was not only better than the Yankees, but significantly better.

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ABJ

Staying calm among ALCS storm is key for Indians Sabathia, Sizemore calm jitters in ALDS
Published on Friday, Oct 12, 2007

BOSTON: C.C. Sabathia said his first pitch in Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the New York Yankees flew out of his hand at 96 miles per hour.
Too fast, Sabathia said, an odd-sounding thing for a pitcher to say.
''I was excited,'' Sabathia said Thursday. ''It was just one of those deals.''
In center field, Grady Sizemore watched anxiously.
''I think for a lot of us that first inning was probably a little nerve-racking,'' Sizemore said.



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ABJ

Lifelong Tribe fan having some fun Paul Dolan revisits misty Fenway
By Sheldon Ocker Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Friday, Oct 12, 2007
BOSTON: Not every team owner behaves like a feudal lord overseeing his serfs. To put it another way, not every owner is George Steinbrenner.
It would be difficult to imagine Indians owner Larry Dolan or his son Paul, the club's president, issuing dictums from the royal suite at Jacobs Field, as has Steinbrenner from his office in Yankee Stadium.
For one thing, there is no royal suite at Jacobs Field, though ownership does have its privileges, and the Dolans have a perfectly comfortable loge with excellent sight lines to the field.



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ABJ

ndians notebook Wedge learns to be lenient Sabathia says manager lets players do things that he used to protest
By Sheldon Ocker Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Friday, Oct 12, 2007
BOSTON: Has Eric Wedge changed? And is it for the better?
Ask C.C. Sabathia about the Indians' manager, he said, ''Over the years, I'd say he's changed. He's more lenient, I guess. He lets us get away with a little more as we got older.
''When we were a younger club, he was on us all the time about little things, and over the years, he's learned to kind of back off and just let us play.''


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CPD

A mature C.C. Sabathia has grown into the role of Indians pitching ace


Friday, October 12, 2007Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Yogi Berra, noted baseball philosopher, once said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Funny guy, Yogi.
C.C. Sabathia was robbed at gunpoint in a Cleveland hotel room late in the evening of May 16, 2002 by former Cleveland State basketball players Damon Stringer and Jamaal Harris after a night of partying. The next morning, he stared at Yogi's fork through bloodshot eyes. No laughter could be heard.


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CPD

Boston, Cleveland share a history of curses when it comes to baseball


Friday, October 12, 2007Bill Lubinger
Plain Dealer Reporter
Cleveland struck down baseball's Evil Em pire when it disposed of the Yanks. Next stands another Goliath.
Boston boasts a whole "Red Sox Nation" of fans. Cleveland is merely a North Coast, defended by a scrappy militia of Canadian Soldiers.
Moneywise -- the game's real cleanup hitter -- Boston, the nouveau New York, buys star players at will. For Cleveland, it's like standing behind Bill Gates at the checkout line, clutching food stamps.


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CPD

C.C. Sabathia, Josh Beckett make ALCS opener a battle of aces for Indians, Red Sox

Cy who? Sabathia, Beckett set for Fenway showdown
Friday, October 12, 2007Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Boston -- The Indians played catch and ran sprints in left field Thursday afternoon at Fenway Park under the cover of a cold swirling mist that blew in from the Atlantic Ocean. They couldn't hit because the field was covered.
If it is possible for a team to reach the American League Championship Series cloaked in anonymity -- as several Indians have suggested -- this was a perfect setting.
Manager Eric Wedge is not one to make such a suggestion. Favorite or underdog, cloaked or uncloaked, it doesn't matter to him. All he knows is that once Boston's Josh Beckett throws the first pitch tonight to Grady Sizemore in Game 1 of the ALCS, the race to reach the World Series is on.




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CPD

Indians' Grady Sizemore is a top concern for Red Sox starter Josh Beckett


Friday, October 12, 2007
INDIANS INSIDER
Beckett's top Game 1 task? Defusing Sizemore


Boston- Josh Beckett, Boston's Game 1 starter tonight at Fenway Park, says a good way to beat the Indians is keeping leadoff hitter Grady Sizemore off base.




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CPD

INDIANS-RED SOX PLAYOFF HISTORY


Friday, October 12, 2007
The Indians and Red Sox have met three times in the postseason - four if the one-game playoff in 1948 is included. Here is a capsule look:
Oct. 4, 1948,
at Fenway Park




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CPD

Red Sox woes are no match for the misery of the Indians, says columnist Terry Pluto


Friday, October 12, 2007
The Indians once had a pitcher named Bob Lacey, whose idea of how to lose weight was to drive to the ballpark with the windows rolled up, the heat on full blast -- in August.
They had another pitcher named Juan Eichelberger who refused to sit next to a window on an airplane. Why? Because he thought he'd catch a cold in his pitching arm.
They had a catcher named Jerry Willard who was told by the trainer to "gargle with salt and lukewarm water" for his sore throat.




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