slanchreport.com - 6/19/2009
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Despite the prognosticators predicting a good season from the Cleveland Indians, someone in their marketing staff knew that wasn’t going to be the case because, for the third time in less than a week, the Indians have ANOTHER awesome giveaway for their fans. First it was the Shin-Soo ...
However Beautiful the Strategy
letsgotribe.com 6/22/2009 — The season is over. We've had some dreadful luck, but a reversal of fortune by itself couldn't change the commanding position our rivals cumulatively hold over us. We're five games behind Chicago and no better than they are, in terms of runs ...
The Indians Make the Best Bobbleheads!
slanchreport.com 6/15/2009 — Fans who have gone to the Indians/Cardinals series this weekend have been the lucky recipients of some of the best promotions yet this season. First there was the Shin-Soo Choo 80s bobblehead , and now, as promised, an even better one; a Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn bobblehead.
The ...
Indians Swept Again
deepleftfield.com 6/22/2009 — In what was somewhat less painful than the first two losses against Chicago, the Indians were shut down by an unknown pitcher by the name of Randy Wells. Wells recorded his first career win on Sunday, go figure.
This should come as no surprise after the Indians blew two late leads in Chi-town ...
Indians Fall to Sox Again
deepleftfield.com 7/9/2009 — In news that should surprise no Indians fan, Cleveland was shut down by Chicago 5-1. The loss is Cleveland’s 17th over their last 22 games. Chicago, in the meantime, is now 44-40, a mere two games behind Detroit for the division lead. Contrary to Cleveland’s downfall, the White Sox ...
Head v. Heart
clevelandtribeblog.blogspot.com 6/16/2009 — As the Indians season rolls on and the calendar keeps flipping, a dichotomy has emerged within me in terms of how I am viewing this evolving 2009 season. On one hand (call it my head), I see an eminently flawed team, now trying to overcome injury and stick around long enough to make their ...
Breaking up is hard to do
bfloblog.wnymedia.net 5/21/2009 — I went to my first professional baseball game when I was eight years old. My best-friends Dad lived in Cleveland at the time, so our Dad’s decided to take us boys on a trip to see the Indians one weekend.
I have the most vivid memories of ...
Break in the Waves
clevelandtribeblog.blogspot.com 5/27/2009 — When the Indians began their rebuilding phase in earnest in late June of 2002, trading Bartolo Colon to the Montreal Expos for a slew of prospects, Indians’ GM Mark Shapiro talked up the idea of hitting the fast-forward button on the rebuilding process, attempting to shorten the usual length ...
Holding Onto The Ladder
clevelandtribeblog.blogspot.com 6/10/2009 — Is anyone else finding themselves going from soaring highs to abysmal lows with this Indians’ team from day to day, with very little in-between ground? After a solid win in which the team puts it all together, the thought process enters my mind that the eminently winnable AL Central looks ...
Indians Attendance Issues??
waitingfornextyear.com 5/2/2009 — For the loyal followers of the Cleveland Indians, there has been a troubling trend for the 2009 edition of the Tribe. Over the last several years the Indians have ranked in the bottom third of the league in attendance, but nothing is quite close to the struggles they have witnessed thus far this ...
Lazy Sunday Trying to Tread Water
clevelandtribeblog.blogspot.com 6/7/2009 — One step forward and two steps back is certainly not the way to make up ground in a race, but the Indians find themselves once again simply trying to tread water in an increasingly winnable AL Central…just maybe not winnable for them the way that injuries have forced their complementary ...