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Indians Tidbits (2007 Season)

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Jacobs Field celebration or trip to Boston?


CLEVELAND -- It takes a big man to own up to failure, and there's been no shortage of accountability in the American League Championship Series.
Red Sox starter Curt Schilling made the most noteworthy mea culpa, dropping by the interview room unannounced Saturday night in Boston and ripping himself for coming up small in a big game. Schilling's personal catharsis regarding his Game 2 performance came a night after Cleveland ace C.C. Sabathia chided himself for a failure to challenge hitters and pitch with the requisite aggressiveness in Game 1.
For the record, that's 316 career victories and 525 pounds worth of humility.

In this case, the schedule favors Sabathia. He's next in line to pitch, so he's got the pole position for redemption.

With the Indians leading Boston 3-1 in the ALCS, Sabathia has a chance to kick off a celebration at Jacobs Field and send the Indians to their first World Series since Jim Thome, Matt Williams and David Justice were pounding opponents into submission in 1997.

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We shall see but the weather forecast for game time is not promising.

I just don't understand MLB. What's with all the off days and why do they start the playoffs games so late? I know they're looking at the West Coast audience but if they want to get kids involved in baseball and not soccer why are they starting the East Coast games late. A kid that goes to the game probably won't get home to 1 a.m. I don't know maybe their stamina is better today than it was when I was a kid.
 
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BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News ? Tribe Replaces Red Sox as America?s Team


Tribe Replaces Red Sox as America?s Team
by Randy Shaw? Oct. 18? 2007

The Boston Red Sox? long quest to win their first World Series title since 1918 captivated the nation. Although the team's failures prior to the 1970's were due to inept management and a racist refusal to use many African-American players, the Red Sox came to symbolize all those who had tried repeatedly for a goal and yet failed; the team was even equated with the mythical Sisyphus, forever fated push a boulder up a hill only to have it fall back down just before reaching the top. But the Red Sox won the title in 2004, and now face a team with its own claim to mythical futility: the Cleveland Indians. The Indians cannot match the Red Sox in the number of prominent author/fans waxing poetic about the team?s fortunes (see Stephen King and John Updike), but Cleveland?s history since it last won the World Series in 1948 is even more tortured. The Indians now have an historic opportunity to change their city?s destiny, and the nation should rally behind them.
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This makes me so happy - I love that I get to cheer for the Tribe to cheer against the sox.

ESPN - Game 5 starts: Beckett for Sox, his ex for anthem - MLB

Indians say choice of Game 5 singer 'coincidence'

Teams have been known to go to extraordinary lengths to get an edge. But the Cleveland Indians swear Thursday night's choice of pre-game singer is not a piece of gamesmanship.

Danielle Peck, a country music singer who also happened to date Red Sox ace pitcher Josh Beckett, will sing the national anthem and "God Bless America" at tonight's Game 5 in Cleveland. Beckett is scheduled to start the game for Boston.

"It's an incredible coincidence. Honestly," said Indians spokesman Bob DiBiasio.

Taylor Swift was supposed to be the Game 5 vocalist, but when she couldn't attend, DiBiasio said a country music booker recommended the up-and-coming Peck. She is from Coshocton and her single "I Don't" is a hit.

"She's from Ohio. Her entire family are Indians fans. We did not know anything about her connections to Beckett. The next day, we find out the rest of the story," said DiBiasio of Peck. "How are we supposed to know who Josh Beckett dates?"

With a victory tonight, the Indians would close out the Red Sox and clinch their first spot in the World Series since 1997.
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First two outs, no problem for Beckett...

Walks Gutierrez... McCarver insists on continuing to babble like the airmail he put over Franklins head was a purpose pitch... but... he missed badly 3 times in that at bat...

And Just grooved an 0-2 to Blake that he fouled back... Beckett's stuff is wicked... but... the command is still iffy.

Hmmm... Gets Blake...

Well... grab a beer kids... I think Becket and CC probably are going to have their way for a few innings.
 
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AKAKBUCK said:
First two outs, no problem for Beckett...

Walks Gutierrez... McCarver insists on continuing to babble like the airmail he put over Franklins head was a purpose pitch... but... he missed badly 3 times in that at bat...

And Just grooved an 0-2 to Blake that he fouled back... Beckett's stuff is wicked... but... the command is still iffy.

Hmmm... Gets Blake...

Well... grab a beer kids... I think Becket and CC probably are going to have their way for a few innings.
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that [the consistent babbling for 5 pitches about the first pitch] was unbelievable

he wasn't going for Gutz head, he wasn't trying to back him off the plate, the Indians aren't worrying about it...the pitch simply got away

CC seems to be getting squeezed on a few pitches, but it's probably just by bias :biggrin:
 
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