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Indians Tidbits (2007 Season)

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OSUBasketballJunkie;819749; said:
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INDIANS INSIDER
Choo hears boos for wrong reason


Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Minneapolis -- Outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, promoted to the big leagues Monday by the Indians, has heard boos before.
Last week, the boos took on a disturbing tone. When Class AAA Buffalo, the Indians' top farm club, played in Toledo, fans apparently associated him with Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 of his schoolmates before killing himself April 16.
"Some fans said bad things," said Choo before Monday's game. "It's pretty close to my name. My name is spelled Choo, and his name is Cho."
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WTF is wrong with people? Are people that ignorant? Yeah, he's the guy that did the shooting, he's playing right field today for Buffalo. Or hey, his name sounds the same, maybe he is a relative, let's boo him. How pathetic.
 
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redskinbucksfan;819757; said:
It's nice to see a couple of wins, and it's early, but there are some unsettling things with this team.

1) When Blake plays first, the entire infield sans Victor is basically batting under .200
2) These guys have the foot speed of a beer league softball team
3) These guys could take defensive lessons from a beer league softball team
4) Beer league softball teams hit far better with runners on base
5) There are a couple of definite holes in the bullpen (although they did a nice job yesterday)
6) Andy Marte is overmatched at this level
7) If Peralta ever sees a pitch that is not a low and away breaking ball, shame on the AL
8) Trot Nixon is being held together by duct tape and superglue
9) Too many K's
10) No plus throwing arms in the OF

The good:
1) No one has run away with the division out of the gates like the last 2 years
2) Travis Hafner is terrifying at the plate
3) No one is more fun to watch than Grady Sizemore
4) Bewtween the weather and the lack of true home games, the hitting should turn around
5) Based on ability to make soft tossing lefties look like Warren Spahn, I'm damn glad Sowers and Cliff Lee play for us. They'd go 8-o with a 1.47 ERA against us if they were Royals
6) KC is good enough to be a thorn in the rest of the division's side, not just ours
7) Starting pitching looks good, especially since Lee is coming back
8) CC looks like a bona fide ace so far
9) I've got a good feeling that Cleveland fans will love Barfield by the end of the season
10) Young players with experience mean a few guys could be entering thier primes simultaneously.
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Excellent points.

Big Papa;820214; said:
WTF is wrong with people? Are people that ignorant? Yeah, he's the guy that did the shooting, he's playing right field today for Buffalo. Or hey, his name sounds the same, maybe he is a relative, let's boo him. How pathetic.
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I agree. It reminds me when I was in the Navy during the Gulf War. There was a report on the Washington DC news that this guy named Saddam Hussein was getting crank calls in the middle of the night and being harrassed. No matter that the guy was from Morrocco and had nothing to do with invading Kuwait. Unless of course the dictator Sadam was working at an North African food market in Washington DC :roll1:
 
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ABJ

Tribe's Carmona trumps Twins' ace

Young righty outduels Santana to complete sweep

By Sheldon Ocker

Beacon Journal sportswriter

MINNEAPOLIS - Fausto Carmona is causing trouble again.
Last year, he created untold hardship for his team and his bosses by getting beat up as a rookie closer. Now, he has Indians manager Eric Wedge and General Manager Mark Shapiro burning the midnight oil, trying to figure out what to do with him.
Why? Because he is pitching far too well to be dispatched to the minors. Tuesday night, Carmona scuttled the Minnesota Twins' attack for 7 2/3 innings, allowing six hits and two walks and the Indians swept the two-game series with a 5-3 win at the Metrodome.

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ABJ

Notebook

Westbrook and Sowers do more than pitch

Both starters also help defense with their fielding

By Sheldon Ocker

Beacon Journal sportswriter

MINNEAPOLIS - The late Birdie Tebbetts, former Indians manager and one of the more sage observers of baseball, used to say that few starting pitchers would become consistent winners without fielding their position.
Jake Westbrook and Jeremy Sowers know how to use their gloves for more than hiding the ball from the hitter. Both Tribe starters make the defense stronger.
Sowers helped extricate himself from a jam in Monday's 12-inning win over the Minnesota Twins by stabbing a sharply-hit ground ball to his right and starting a double play.

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Canton

Carmona ends long drought with win
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
By Andy Call
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

MINNEAPOLIS Of course, Fausto Carmona was smiling. When a pitcher waits more than a year between victories, he learns to savor them.

"You can see his confidence growing," first baseman Ryan Garko said of Carmona, who outpitched Twins ace Johan Santana on Tuesday to lift the Indians to a 5-3 victory over Minnesota. "I'm sure he understands how big this was for his team."

Carmona allowed two runs in 72/3 innings as the Indians swept the two-game set and took over first place in the American League Central Division. He won his big-league debut April 15 last year but had lost all 11 decisions since.

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Canton

TRIBE NOTEBOOK: Hafner's advice is helping Garko
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
TRIBE NOTEBOOK
ANDY CALL

MINNEAPOLIS Ryan Garko says he enjoys picking Travis Hafner's brain on the subject of hitting. Hafner says he doesn't mind.

"Picking my brain doesn't take too long," Hafner joked.

Garko, where the subject of clutch hitting is concerned, appears to be a pretty good listener. His three-run home run in the ninth inning Sunday gave Cleveland a 6-4 victory at Tampa Bay. His 12th-inning RBI single a day later scored the go-ahead run in a 7-3 victory at Minnesota.

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NFBuck said:
Fucking Borowski.:mad1:
I seriously hope one of the young guys can slide into the closers role before too long because teams aren't generally that successful when the closer has an ERA approaching 10.00.
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frustrating yes, but still, another win for the Tribe!

Cabrera was nasty, 5 K's in 2 innings. Definitely need to see more of him out of the bullpen.

Minn loses to KC and the ChiSox lose to Detroit. Good day for Cleveland in the end.
 
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OHSportsFan9;821724; said:
Cabrera was nasty, 5 K's in 2 innings. Definitely need to see more of him out of the bullpen.
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Cabrera has some of the nastiest stuff I've seen. He's up there with K-Rod as far as ability goes. In 10.2 innings, he's allowed ZERO runs on FOUR hits and 3 walks while K'ing 15. They need to look at him as a possible replacement for Borowski soon. There was talk of it before last year after looking good down the stretch in '05, but he struggled to put it all together. He seems to have gained some maturity and has looked flat out dominant.
 
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NFBuck;821728; said:
Cabrera has some of the nastiest stuff I've seen. He's up there with K-Rod as far as ability goes. In 10.2 innings, he's allowed ZERO runs on FOUR hits and 3 walks while K'ing 15. They need to look at him as a possible replacement for Borowski soon. There was talk of it before last year after looking good down the stretch in '05, but he struggled to put it all together. He seems to have gained some maturity and has looked flat out dominant.
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borowski had a high era in florida last year for the first half of the season as well. it was painfully obvious before he even stepped on the mound that texas would score in the 9th.

the only problem with putting cabrera in the closer's spot is that he is one of the few bullpen guys that can go more than one inning effectively. betancourt is a scrub. hernandez is old, and is much better in one inning situations. mastny can, but he's better at one inning ventures as well.

To be 11-7 playing in such shitty conditions, against a pretty tough opening schedule, with the offense being as anemic as it's been is not bad at all.

what will really be a shame is to watch carmona get sent back to buffalo after throwing so well in 2 straight starts.
 
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