January 13, 200817 yr OUR VIEW: Call it Progressive Field, The Jake, anything else, just win a World Series 01/12/2008 Progressive Field. Pro-gres-sive Field. That's a mouthful compared to The Jake. Twice as many syllables. Even the former formal name, Jacobs Field, rolls off the tongue more easily than Progressive Field... Full story at http://www.morningjournal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19191991&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46368&rfi=6
January 18, 200817 yr Bye bye Jake. Live feed of sign dismantling :-( (get over there with your cameras): http://www.cleveland.com/wkyc/video/index.ssf?/wkyc/video/wkycclip.ssf?stream2
January 18, 200817 yr ^^At the museum of racial tolerance. Oh wait, 3231 had it right, sorry. LMAO...You've been on a role this last week!
January 25, 200817 yr From USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-01-24-4225941133_x.htm Sabathia on Cleveland: "This has been my second home" Posted 39m ago By Tom Withers, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND — C.C. Sabathia has known only one team in his baseball career, and he can't imagine ever leaving it. And the Cleveland Indians can't conceive seeing him go. Sabathia, the AL's reigning Cy Young winner back in town Thursday night to receive another award, said he's hoping his agents and the ballclub can finalize a multiyear contract to keep him in Cleveland.....
January 29, 200817 yr Cleveland Indians minor-league outfielder Trevor Crowe still a top prospect Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Paul Hoynes - Plain Dealer Reporter The clock rules. Not the one hanging on the wall or strapped to your wrist, the one inside your head. It ticks the loudest late at night, charting the course and speed of one's quest. Trevor Crowe's clock told him 2007 was his season, the season to make the big leagues. He'd heard the talk and rumors. When the Indians inquired about Manny Ramirez after the 2006 season, Boston asked for pitchers Fausto Carmona and Adam Miller and Crowe, a switch-hitting outfielder. There was talk that Crowe would at least get a September call-up... http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1201599039271000.xml&coll=2
February 1, 200817 yr Reliever Jorge Julio agrees to minor league contract with Cleveland Indians Posted by From wire reports January 31, 2008 13:30PM Free agent reliever Jorge Julio agreed Thursday to a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians and was invited to spring training. http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/01/reliever_jorge_julio_agrees_to.html
February 1, 200817 yr Reasons I hate people who talk on cleveland.com message boards: Posted by Fatzo on 01/31/08 at 3:36PM Another stiff has been reliever signed by the el cheapo Indians. Always rummaging thru "garage sales" type free agents. First off.. he's 28.. I'd rather have a 28 year old with a decent, live arm than 67 year old Roberto Hernandez. Second.. he's mainly a fastball pitcher which is what I like in a reliever.. he comes in and throws strikes.. he doesn't try to dance around the strike zone and throw junk balls. He hits the mid to upper 90's on his fastball and throws a good slider and has a decent change-up. A 3-pitch reliever with a good fastball.. yeah.. I'll take him on a minor league, non-guaranteed contract. More at www.cleveland.com
February 1, 200817 yr From today's PD (http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2008/02/indians_sign_casey_blake_to_on.html) Cleveland Indians sign Casey Blake to one-year deal by Paul Hoynes Friday February 01, 2008, 9:49 AM There will be no arbitration hearing for the Indians and third baseman Casey Blake. Blake and the Tribe came to terms on a one-year, $6.1 million deal today. Terms Blake filed for $6.9 million, while the Indians countered at $5.4 million...
February 5, 200817 yr Shapiro addresses C.C., other Tribe topics Posted by Paul Hoynes February 04, 2008 21:34PM Categories: Indians Let's take this from the top. No. 1: The Indians, short of an early collapse this season, won't trade C.C. Sabathia. No. 2: Regardless of Johan Santana's contract with the Mets last week, General Manager Mark Shapiro believes it will be Sabathia's call on whether he stays in Cleveland after the 2008 season. No. 3: Shapiro thinks there are other contracts just as relevant to Sabathia's negotiations as Santana's record-setting, $137.5 million, six-year deal. No. 4: The five-year contract extension the Indians made to Sabathia at the end of December is not an ultimatum. No. 5: If Sabathia does go to another team, Shapiro said the Indians won't crumble in 2009... http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/02/shapiro_addresses_cc_other_tri.html
February 26, 200817 yr In Mississippi??!? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Developer names streets for favorite Cleveland Indians Tuesday, February 26, 2008 By VETO F. ROLEY The Mississippi Press LUCEDALE -- Grady Sizemore, Ryan Garko and Travis Hafner haven't led Cleveland back to the World Series. But, within the next year or two, the young Cleveland baseball stars will have streets named after them in George County. The George County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved DeSoto Land Company's application to build a 34-lot subdivision about two miles off Miss. 63 and six miles north of the Jackson County line. The subdivision, named Indian Hills, will feature three streets named after Sizemore, Garko and Hafner... Read more at http://www.gulflive.com/
February 26, 200817 yr Moving: Shapiro would not comment on rumors saying the Indians will move their Class AAA club to Columbus from Buffalo after 2008. This makes a lot of sense as C-bus is split between Indians and Reds fans, and Buffalo (we'd presumably swap AAA clubs with the Yankmes) tends to root for the Evil In Pinstripes.
February 26, 200817 yr It would make sense, but minor league locations seem to rarely make much sense. I'd like to see them in Ohio, though, so hopefully it'll actually happen.
March 28, 200817 yr after 13 years, the tribe plays their last spring training game in winter haven,florida today. next year they will be in an all new facility in goodyear, arizona. i wonder why they never returned to homestead, florida? i know the hurricane destroyed the facility, but even after it could be rebuilt? it seems like that would have been the right thing to do, that they just cut and ran. does anyone know the true details about that? some final winter haven remarks from hoynsie: http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/03/this_reporter_will_miss_clevel.html
March 31, 200817 yr I saw two signs of spring today: 1. Indians fans making their way around downtown prior to the home opener. 2. A pot hole patching crew on Clifton in Cleveland. Yay for both!! A lot of the baseball pundits are picking the Tribe to win it all this year. I've heard that before! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 31, 200817 yr The South Florida Sun-Sentinel sports writers are split down the middle, two picked the Tribe and two picked the Tigers.
March 31, 200817 yr The South Florida Sun-Sentinel sports writers are split down the middle, two picked the Tribe and two picked the Tigers. that seems to be my overall observation for all media outlets.
March 31, 200817 yr ^Scary! I was happy to be one of many Red Line riders on a rush hour train who was sporting my Tribe gear. Spring is in the air!
March 31, 200817 yr I wore my [wahoo-less] tribe hat to work today! This is my favorite day of the year! How's the weather looking?
March 31, 200817 yr ^DanB, that is PERFECT! I can't hear that song without thinking of walking up to the old stadium.
March 31, 200817 yr Like the feeling I used to get walking up the ramps to the upper deck, walking out and seeing that large expanse of grass! I've never been able to reproduce that feeling anywhere else. I guess its because I'm old and jaded!
March 31, 200817 yr GO TRIBE!!! I too have my tribe gear up. Of course these whining a$$ Yankee's diehearts in the office are getting on my d*mn nerves! The mets fans don't bother me - too much, but those Yankee fans.....ugh! :roll:
March 31, 200817 yr GO TRIBE!!! I too have my tribe gear up. Of course these whining a$$ Yankee's diehearts in the office are getting on my d*mn nerves! The mets fans don't bother me - too much, but those Yankee fans.....ugh! :roll: I'll wave my Pete Franklin "I hate the Yankees towel" for you!!
March 31, 200817 yr According to weather.com it is 65 and partly sunny. Kind of perfect, especially compared to last year
April 1, 200817 yr There was this odd south wind yesterday that knocked a lot of hits down. It also blew particulate matter into my drinking cup. That was annoying. I don't know what it was from. The enviros are all hot on Arcelor/Mittal for the last few years. There are yard signs up in Slavic Village. That was an anxious game. The fans did not quite fill up Progressive Field. People were not very loud, considering that we had a real fight going down there. Apparently, the fans yell louder when their ticket are playoff tickets and cost three times as much. The interference call in the top of the eighth was hottest moment of the game. I liked Chicago's call to walk Casey Blake, fill the bases, and set up a force out in the bottom of the eighth. That's what I would have done. Casey Blake had been a disappointment on a few occasions back in 2007, and Mr. Chicago thought he was going to break the Tribe by getting an out. (In case you are not following, Blake hit a three run double.) The bottom of the second was fantastic. The Tribe HIT the bases full and then started scoring! Jolly fun.
April 3, 200817 yr On TV it looked terrible...we had a similar trend last year and then picked up as the Tribe kept winning (plus warmer weather). Seriously though, are people in money crunches or something these days??
April 3, 200817 yr Not only are people in money crunches, the money is being spread around now that we have 3 legitimate contenders in town. Remember that in the Indians heyday of selling out, there was NO Browns, and the Cavs were abysmal.
April 3, 200817 yr Only 17,645 fans tonight? WTF? Hell, I can recall when that was a great crowd, especially on a cold weeknight in April.
April 3, 200817 yr ^I live two blocks from your office....so no. But I have braved many a cold night at Indians games, at the old stadium and the Jake. I can understand cold rain keeping people away, but not just cold...for the second game of the year...when Fausto was pitching. Oh well, here's to warmer temps.
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