Keeping It Real Up In The Feel
After the phenomenal series in Baltimore (with an assist to the History Teacher known as the Baltimoran), the Tribe has smoked the Motor City Kitties for the first 2 (assuming that the bullpen can hold them to 4). That brings the 15 game stretch record to 7-1! An unbelievable run by a team that certainly seems to be coming around, in all aspects of the game. Watching Elarton and Davis throw darts today make me think that if we put Cy in a Tribe uni, he might be able to pull off a 5 and fly.
Do Eric Wedge's comments about adding a bat (it sounds like he's OK with the team in the clubhouse) sound eerily close to Coach Norman Dale refusing to put Ray in after Buddy fouls out? "My team is on the floor" may be the model in which Wedgie is working the high confidence in the dugout.
Reading that Alou is unattainable in the PD (reading 4 copies of sports pages in one day more fun than you think), makes me think that Mench (or even Carlos Lee?) may be in the cards for the Erie Warriors. To watch Hernandez, Boone, Blake, and Gerut struggle against seemingly anyone has become painful. The bottom of the lineup presents such a hole that it kills many a rally. If you put that RH bat after The Stick or Gentle Ben, it really strengthens this lineup.
A few amazing stats though (without that RH stick), the team is hitting .293 in the past month, working their way up the charts in runs, average, doubles, and home runs.
Seeing Wickman make the All Star squad was nice, but I still think that Le Pronk and C. Lee could make it if other players beg off participation (or if Kenny Rogers encounters any cameramen en route to Detroit). Sizemore is still maybe a year away from the recognition, but check out the Gammons' article on TB's comments in the last post for some high praise for the Grady Sizemore Show.
I'm working on the Viva Le Pronk jersey. Is he hot enough? 32 RBI's in the last 20 games?!?
Coco just hit an inside the park HR. This IS my team.
Hafner just went yard into Cooperstown, then pulled the curtain call. He is my favorite player on this team. I'll work up some comparisons this week.
The smoke is rising off of the Jake after today. I hope that my boy (the Jake fireworks guy) has enough ammo for tonight.
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any word on what is going to be done with JD for the second half, could he be the trade bait? I'd prefer to hold onto him (Millwood's rising price tag for 2006)
Good crowds yesterday, keep it going tonight (ESPN televised the day game here due to local coverage of Yanks/O's, much to the chagrin of my cookout guests who are pretty tired of hearing about my tribe)
i went last night with the fam and it was great indeed to see 30k+ in there finally, with the largest walk-up (6,700+) in jacobs field history. good to see the bandwagoners are back. also, i'm sure the dollar hot dogs had nothing to do with that...
also, i have been going to games forever and outside of going early for BP and getting balls that way, have never caught a foul ball. who gets one last night? my sister, sitting next to me, snagged a sharp grady liner into section 158 last night. that plus the dollar dogs then fireworks made her believe this may have been her best 4th ever.
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