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Indians Tidbits (2009 season)

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this team is just painful to watch

Rookie pitcher pitches the best game of his career and leaves the game after the 8th with a 5-0 lead

and the pigeon coop of course comes in and jerks off to make it to 5-4 and load the bases with 2 outs and barely survive

Kerry Wood is no better than Joe Borowski was......
 
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buckeyemania11;1487539; said:
this team is just painful to watch

Rookie pitcher pitches the best game of his career and leaves the game after the 8th with a 5-0 lead

and the pigeon coop of course comes in and jerks off to make it to 5-4 and load the bases with 2 outs and barely survive

Kerry Wood is no better than Joe Borowski was......
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statistically, in save situations he's worse.
 
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Honestly, I expected them to blow it after the lead off HR...no joke. Absolutely, the worst bullpen I have ever seen in my time watching baseball. Honestly, I've seen high school bullpens be ten times more reliable then this pice of shit pigeon coup. I'm actually surprised that Wood didn't walk in the game tying run.

In all though, it was a great outing by Huff. Let's see if the kid can string a few of those together. Grady was back to his old self in the first half of the ballgame..that was good to see. But this team still sucks something awful...
 
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buckeyemania11;1487539; said:
this team is just painful to watch

Rookie pitcher pitches the best game of his career and leaves the game after the 8th with a 5-0 lead

and the pigeon coop of course comes in and jerks off to make it to 5-4 and load the bases with 2 outs and barely survive

Kerry Wood is no better than Joe Borowski was......
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I was thinking the same thing...beat me to it. Brings to mind the Jeff Reardon era of baseball where he racked up like 25-30 saves and an ERA of over 5 in the late 80s early 90s. Ain't gonna get far with that in this day and age.
 
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Cleveland.com

Cleveland Indians morning news roundup
by Starting Blocks/Plain Dealer
Wednesday June 24, 2009, 8:55 AM

The Pittsburgh faithful are surprised that the attendance for the Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates game on Tuesday at PNC Park drew the smallest crowd in the 21-game, 13-year history of their regular-season meetings (19,109).

Surprised? Really?

The Indians are in last place and they came into the game on a six-game losing streak. The Pirates are also unattractive (just like the city of Pittsburgh). They sit in last place in the National League's Central Division.

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I certainly don't think that I would be rushing Carmona back any time soon. I think he needs to stay down there for a little bit longer.

Cleveland.com

Indians Insider: Fausto Carmona's banishment to Goodyear, Ariz. could end soon
by Paul Hoynes/Plain Dealer Reporter
Wednesday June 24, 2009, 12:02 AM

PITTSBURGH -- In the latest installment in letters from the edge, Fausto Carmona's banishment to the Arizona desert could end later this week in a start for one of the Indians' minor-league clubs.

The Indians optioned Carmona, their No. 2 starter, to Goodyear, Ariz., on June 5 because they had no way of fixing his delivery or head in a competitive big-league setting. On Saturday, he threw a four-inning game against some of the Indians' extended-spring minor-leaguers.

"He threw 69 pitchers," said pitching coach Carl Willis. "His stuff was good. He topped out at 93 mph. He had quality sink, was more on the plate and had a consistent pace to his work from pitch to pitch."

Carmona showed the same kind of stuff in his bullpen sessions before getting optioned to the Arizona Rookie League, but once the game started, his control and focus vanished.

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Excellent summarization by Terry Pluto:(

Cleveland.com

Terry Pluto: Tribe making it tough for fans to follow team
by Terry Pluto/Plain Dealer Columnist
Tuesday June 23, 2009, 11:37 PM

This might not end up being the worst Indian summer since the turn of the new century, but it could be the saddest in a long time for those who love the Tribe.

The hardcore are finding it hard to hang on to a team that has underachieved, a team that is offering no hope or plan to fix this season and at least set up something promising for 2010.

Heading into Tuesday night, Class AAA Columbus was sinking in its own six-game losing streak (like the parent club in Cleveland), and the Clippers had lost 10-of-12. O'Brien and other fans might not know that record. But they realize there is no pitching in Columbus prepared to bolster a staff that has walked more batters than anyone in the American League.

Fans have been writing about seven years of General Manager Mark Shapiro and Manager Eric Wedge, and how there has been one trip to the playoffs. They have mentioned that respected baseball people such as ESPN's Peter Gammons have picked the Tribe to win the Central several times in the past few years, only to see this team struggle for the third time in the past four summers.

As Larry Beers e-mailed: "With regard to Wedge, if my boss told me to grind every day, I'd probably work [and play] the way the Indians do." The fact that the Tribe has a massive public relations problem with Wedge is not the sole reason to fire the manager. But the fact that so many young players have regressed the past few years -- Fausto Carmona, Ben Francisco, Raffy Perez, Jensen Lewis, Kelly Shoppach, Josh Barfield and Jeremy Sowers -- should sound an alarm.

Don't blame the coaching staff for all of those declines. But another fact is that Asdrubal Cabrera and Shin-Soo Choo are the only two younger players who have been in the system for a few seasons to show progress this year.

The Indians admire the Twins, who have had only two managers in 24 years. But Ron Gardenhire has won the AL Central four times in eight years, the most recent being 2006. He missed the postseason in a one-game playoff in 2008.

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This even makes it uglier than I thought it was
 
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well looks like Pavano has fell completely back to earth

he loaded the bases with no outs and then gave up a hit to the pitcher to make it 1-0 Pittsburgh and they still have the bases loaded with no outs

managed "only" to give up 3, 2 IP 7 H 3 ER BB and 55 pitches
 
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