September 4, 20222 yr they lost credibility with me after the Sabathia and Lee trades. Lee had multiple years left on his contract. it took years for me to take them seriously again
September 12, 20222 yr In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), HOLA in Painesville is hosting a fundraiser on Sept. 22 featuring the career of 1950's Cleveland I-⚾----s great Bobby Avila. Apparently later in life Avila became the mayor of his hometown of Veracruz, Mexico and served in the Mexican legislature. Who knew he was also known as "Beto?" (Where have I heard that name before?🤔) http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
September 13, 20222 yr This has been an exhausting season. No matter what, we just can't shake Chicago and Minnesota comfortably. Also, how the F U Cream Korn are the Angels this bad this year? 61-80??? Even King Trout's average is off a bit.
September 15, 20222 yr I was only a couple of months away from buying the Lakewood condo I still live in today....yet 20 years from getting married and having a life-changing family. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 19, 20222 yr I'm glad they are changing to a balanced schedule next season, although it has been an advantage for Cleveland to beat up on the Royals and Tigers over the last several years (and Twins this year). Edited September 19, 20222 yr by LibertyBlvd
September 20, 20222 yr welp the guards are in a great spot four games up at this late point. there are road trips starting tomorrow with 3 with the white sox, then 3 with the rangers, then its home to end the season for 3 with the rays and a very weird 6 final games with the royals. the royals cant be happy about that. so the central is the guardians for the taking — another great francona season. tomorrow should be interesting with civale. i might try to watch somewhere if i can so we can see how his recent arm swelling issues are doing.
September 20, 20222 yr 1 hour ago, mrnyc said: welp the guards are in a great spot four games up at this late point. there are road trips starting tomorrow with 3 with the white sox, then 3 with the rangers, then its home to end the season for 3 with the rays and a very weird 6 final games with the royals. the royals cant be happy about that. so the central is the guardians for the taking — another great francona season. tomorrow should be interesting with civale. i might try to watch somewhere if i can so we can see how his recent arm swelling issues are doing. If we win 1 out of 3 with the white Sox we will own the tie breaker meaning we are effectively 3 games up. If we win 2 or 3 games essentially we will have the playoffs in the bag barring a Browns-like collapse.
September 20, 20222 yr 58 minutes ago, cle_guy90 said: If we win 1 out of 3 with the white Sox we will own the tie breaker meaning we are effectively 3 games up. If we win 2 or 3 games essentially we will have the playoffs in the bag barring a Browns-like collapse. STOP! 🤣
September 20, 20222 yr 1 hour ago, cle_guy90 said: If we win 1 out of 3 with the white Sox we will own the tie breaker meaning we are effectively 3 games up. If we win 2 or 3 games essentially we will have the playoffs in the bag barring a Browns-like collapse. Yep. Just one win in this series will take 3 off the magic number. Astonishing that we’re playing meaning baseball at this stage of the season. So many people figured we’d be a 90-odd losses team and even I thought 80 wins would be a good season. They’ve been so much fun to watch. I’ve already been to around 30 games, which is as many as I usually see in a whole season. My hovercraft is full of eels
September 20, 20222 yr Love meaningful mid-September baseball and this is the most meaningful series of the season for sure. Let’s go Guards!
September 21, 20222 yr Huge win last night against the White Sox. Just one more in the series should just about help tie up the division. Even if we lose the next two, it’s still a huge hole for Chicago and would take an amazing run by them, combined with a real bad slump by Cleveland, for them to get into first. Earlier this summer I booked a combo business and pleasure trip out of town for mid-October, not thinking for a minute that we’d be in the postseason. I now see that I’ll miss the entire ALDS if we make it through the Wild Card. Given the Wild Card round would be played entirely at Progressive Field, I’m starting to regret that trip. My hovercraft is full of eels
September 22, 20222 yr Kwan is definitely up there for Rookie of the Year.... but Rodriguez has got to be favorite. Quite a few good rookies this season.
September 22, 20222 yr 9 hours ago, TBideon said: Kwan is definitely up there for Rookie of the Year.... but Rodriguez has got to be favorite. Quite a few good rookies this season. Rodriguez is a lock. Offensive numbers are emphasized due to the importance of fantasy ball. Likewise Judge will get MVP though it really should be Ohtani.
September 22, 20222 yr 10 minutes ago, E Rocc said: Rodriguez is a lock. Offensive numbers are emphasized due to the importance of fantasy ball. Likewise Judge will get MVP though it really should be Ohtani. Judge is most likely going to win the triple crown and hit the most HRs in AL history. Ohtani is doing admittedly impressive stuff for a sub .500 team, but one is clearly more valuable than the other.
September 22, 20222 yr After the Browns debacle I’m too hesitant to say the Guardians are in the playoffs even though 538 has them at 99.2% odds. We know what even 99.9% can bring. That said I do like our chances.
September 22, 20222 yr Ohtani is a once in a multi-generation player and, theoretically, should win the MVP every year if he can somewhat maintain his offense and pitching pace. We've never seen a player like him in our lifetimes - who do you compare him to, Babe Ruth? - but perhaps he'll start a new era of two-way players. However, it's got to be Judge this year. 60 home runs in the post-PED (yeah right) MLB, leads the league in almost EVERY offensive stat (Ramirez on top for doubles!), Yankees on pace for 99 wins, plus the media attention/good feels. Definitely Judge. Edited September 22, 20222 yr by TBideon
September 22, 20222 yr 4 hours ago, Ineffable_Matt said: Judge is most likely going to win the triple crown and hit the most HRs in AL history. Ohtani is doing admittedly impressive stuff for a sub .500 team, but one is clearly more valuable than the other. What's his ERA though?
September 22, 20222 yr 2 hours ago, E Rocc said: What's his ERA though? Let me preface this by saying I think Ohtani is incredible, and I don't think enough of us appreciate just truly how special he is... Having said that - if you're working as a pitcher and a hitter to contribute to your team and they still don't make the playoffs... I get why that could actually be a knock against him.
September 23, 20222 yr 21 hours ago, YABO713 said: Let me preface this by saying I think Ohtani is incredible, and I don't think enough of us appreciate just truly how special he is... Having said that - if you're working as a pitcher and a hitter to contribute to your team and they still don't make the playoffs... I get why that could actually be a knock against him. A starting pitcher throws at most 20% of the time, a hitter won't even get 10% of his team's at bats. He's on my CBS Sportsline half-dynasty, they have him as the 13th ranked player overall as a hitter and 35th overall as a pitcher. Edited September 23, 20222 yr by E Rocc
September 23, 20222 yr Its the most valuable player award, not the most unique. Take Ohtani off the angels and... not much changes. Take Judge off the yankees they probably arent in the playoffs.
September 23, 20222 yr Cheers to the Guardians, RTA, and the City of Cleveland for making a story like this possible.
September 23, 20222 yr Should be a fun weekend. First time playing Texas all season, and they are the drizzling sh*ts.
September 23, 20222 yr espn story — How the Guardians turned the AL Central race into a one-team sprint more: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34642999/how-guardians-took-control-al-central-division-race
September 24, 20222 yr 22 hours ago, carnevalem said: Cheers to the Guardians, RTA, and the City of Cleveland for making a story like this possible. Amazing story. Thank you for posting. This made my morning. Awesome job supporting the Guardians, Peter - thank you, thank you, thank you. Love stories like this - we need more of them. Go Peter, go Cleveland, Go Guardians - GO AMERICA!!! This is who we are
September 24, 20222 yr Twins eliminated last night. Ohtani for the win, of course. 203 K, 2.47 era now. And an RBI single too. I don't know... maybe I'm having second thoughts of Judge for MVP.
September 26, 20222 yr Crazy to think that we were tied for the division on Sept 5th, now we’ve won it with 10 games to spare. 18-3 in our last 21. My hovercraft is full of eels
September 26, 20222 yr big congrats to skipper terry francona the legend and the hustling guardians who have really stepped it up the past month and who clinched the central with steven kwan’s epic night: https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/34665082
September 26, 20222 yr On 9/24/2022 at 9:44 AM, TBideon said: I don't know... maybe I'm having second thoughts of Judge for MVP. Nobody cares. Go Guards! Edited September 26, 20222 yr by Clefan98
September 26, 20222 yr On 9/24/2022 at 9:44 AM, TBideon said: Twins eliminated last night. Ohtani for the win, of course. 203 K, 2.47 era now. And an RBI single too. I don't know... maybe I'm having second thoughts of Judge for MVP. Ohtani is a once in a generation talent for sure. The Babe Ruth of this generation.
September 26, 20222 yr On 4/9/2022 at 9:58 PM, CleveFan said: Get ready for a long frustrating baseball season, I’m afraid, Guardians fans - looks like we’ll have some excellent pitching but very very little hitting. Thank you for the reverse jinx! Go Guards! Will be nice to see the park filled at the corner of Ontario and Carnegie!
September 26, 20222 yr Congrats Guards! An amazing unpredictable story - it would be equally amazing to see them win this first round in the playoffs! Go CLE!
September 26, 20222 yr On 9/23/2022 at 8:57 AM, Ineffable_Matt said: Its the most valuable player award, not the most unique. Take Ohtani off the angels and... not much changes. Take Judge off the yankees they probably arent in the playoffs. and take judge off the juice and ... 🤣
September 29, 20222 yr going into the weekend guardians chat — along w/atl-mets: https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/34686789
September 30, 20222 yr espn end of season power rankings: 8. Cleveland Guardians Record: 87-68 Previous ranking: 11 You may recall that all season in the power rankings commentary, we lamented how no one in the AL Central seemed able to take control of a division that was oh-so-winnable. In September, the Guardians silenced that lament. On Sept. 4, Cleveland lost to the Mariners, dropping it into a first-place tie with Minnesota. A week later, the Guardians were up by 2½ games. On Sept. 18, the lead was still just 3½ games. By Sept. 25, the lead had bulged to 10 games. Talk about getting hot at just the right time. The final margin is as yet unknown, but during the wild-card era, when the Guardians/Indians have won, they have really won. This will be the 11th first-place Cleveland team since 1995. The smallest margin of a division win has been six games (1997 and 2001). The average margin has been 13.3 games. -- Doolittle more: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34678450/mlb-power-rankings-week-25-where-every-team-stands-playoffs
October 7, 20222 yr the espners take: Everything you need for the 2022 MLB playoffs: Odds, strengths (and weaknesses) and how far all 12 teams will go They should be around next week, but after that ... Cleveland Guardians No. 3 seed | 91-70 | AL Central champs Wild-card opponent: Rays (55.5% chance of advancing) World Series odds: 2.9% | Caesars odds: +3500 Predicted date of their last game: Oct. 15 How they could stay around longer: The Guardians have drawn comparisons to the 2014-15 Royals for their style of play: Contact hitting, speed, defense ... and a dominant bullpen. Emmanuel Clase is as good as any closer this side of Edwin Diaz and the top three setup relievers in front of him -- James Karinchak, Trevor Stephanand lefty Sam Hentges -- have all been outstanding. They're hard to hit, they strike batters out and all four are stingy with the home run. The pen has been even better since the beginning of July, with the second-best ERA in the majors behind the Dodgers. Get a lead through five or six and the Guardians almost always hold it. October baseball has become more and more about the bullpens and Cleveland can match up with any team. -- Schoenfield How the Guardians found their groove Cleveland started the season with baseball's youngest roster and finished it with a division title. Jesse Rogers » What could send them home before you finish reading this: Lack of power. The Guardians have the fewest home runs of the playoff teams and you win in the playoffs by hitting home runs. Don't buy that? In last year's postseason, the team that hit more home runs went 25-2-10 -- that's 25 wins, two losses and 10 games where the teams hit the same number. No, the Royals didn't hit a lot of home runs in 2014 or 2015, but they did hit them in the playoffs (and that was an era with fewer home runs in general). It certainly would be fun to see the Guardians scratch and claw their way to the World Series, but more likely they'll have to power up. -- Schoenfield One thing they do that could take down the Astros: The only American League team that put the ball in play more often than the Astros was the Guardians -- by a pretty sizable margin. Cleveland also stole the third-most bases in the majors and led the sport in going first to third on a single. Putting the ball in play and running the bases both effectively and aggressively is the Guardians' recipe for success in October, not just against the Astros but against everyone. The Astros are the second-best defensive team in the postseason field, according to outs above average. But Martin Maldonado was below league average in caught-stealing percentage this season. The Guardians need to get on base and they need to run -- and just hope the series doesn't turn into a slugfest. -- Gonzalez more: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34730926/2022-mlb-playoff-preview-world-series-odds-matchup-keys
October 7, 20222 yr This doesn't suck 😉 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 7, 20222 yr I’ve got tickets for the series, I’ve cleared my work calendar for this afternoon and am now contemplating if it’s too early for a beer… Let’s go Guards!! My hovercraft is full of eels
October 7, 20222 yr 2 minutes ago, roman totale XVII said: I’ve got tickets for the series, I’ve cleared my work calendar for this afternoon and am now contemplating if it’s too early for a beer… Let’s go Guards!! You should have been drinking for a while now!
October 7, 20222 yr that epic, thunderous, well earned salute 👍 https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/34747391
October 7, 20222 yr Oh man, I fee bad for the bitter fans who stopped following the team for whatever dumb reason over the years. And to think some of the best prospects aren't even due till next year...
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