si jinx joins the colavito curse...

[mscott59]

well sports illustrated has a handful of regional covers this week, as opening day approaches. one of them has corey kluber and michael brantley on it, predicting that the tribe will win its first world series since '48. the last time si said cleveland was on its way to a title was back in '87. indians had had a decent '86... had lots of batting stars like joe carter and cory snyder returning. but the pitching fell apart in '87... and we lost 100 games, finishing dead last in the al east. that couldn't happen again... right? right??

[daleko]

Mar 31, 2015 12:15:51 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

well sports illustrated has a handful of regional covers this week, as opening day approaches. one of them has corey kluber and michael brantley on it, predicting that the tribe will win its first world series since '48. the last time si said cleveland was on its way to a title was back in '87. indians had had a decent '86... had lots of batting stars like joe carter and cory snyder returning. but the pitching fell apart in '87... and we lost 100 games, finishing dead last in the al east. that couldn't happen again... right? right??

Well you could always just watch Major League all summer.

[mscott59]

Apr 1, 2015 9:59:36 GMT -5 daleko said:

Mar 31, 2015 12:15:51 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

well sports illustrated has a handful of regional covers this week, as opening day approaches. one of them has corey kluber and michael brantley on it, predicting that the tribe will win its first world series since '48. the last time si said cleveland was on its way to a title was back in '87. indians had had a decent '86... had lots of batting stars like joe carter and cory snyder returning. but the pitching fell apart in '87... and we lost 100 games, finishing dead last in the al east. that couldn't happen again... right? right??

Well you could always just watch Major League all summer.

i already do. lol. i actually think its a pretty entertaining sports movie. like the fact that the penultimate game is not to win the world series, but to beat the yankees in order to make the playoffs. i like the fact that they win a game on a bunt. pretty obvious that tom berenger didn't have a lot of baseball skills imitating a catcher, but you can definitely see how fluid charlie sheen was as a pitcher, and guys like corbin bernson, dennis haysbert, wesley snipes, looked like they'd played some ball in the past.

[mscott59]

Mar 31, 2015 12:15:51 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

well sports illustrated has a handful of regional covers this week, as opening day approaches. one of them has corey kluber and michael brantley on it, predicting that the tribe will win its first world series since '48. the last time si said cleveland was on its way to a title was back in '87. indians had had a decent '86... had lots of batting stars like joe carter and cory snyder returning. but the pitching fell apart in '87... and we lost 100 games, finishing dead last in the al east. that couldn't happen again... right? right??

In the first week, stars yan gomes and Michael Brantley go down with injuries. Gomes is out for 8 weeks w a knee injury. Saturday kluber pitched 6+ innings of 2 hit ball vs Detroit and then the bullpen lets the floodgates open in one of 3 losses to the Tigers. Jinx? Nah. Lol

[canefan]

It's a long season but the AL Central looks early on to be as tough a road ahead for the Indians as they could get. The Tigers were the next to last team to lose a game and the Royals will be the last when they do lose. Both teams look better than last year's edition with the Tigers having Price all year and adding Cespedes.The Royals additions of Morales and Rios look brilliant early on and they look to have improved the best bullpen in baseball. Should be a fun season.

[mscott59]

Apr 14, 2015 6:57:34 GMT -5 canefan said:

It's a long season but the AL Central looks early on to be as tough a road ahead for the Indians as they could get. The Tigers were the next to last team to lose a game and the Royals will be the last when they do lose. Both teams look better than last year's edition with the Tigers having Price all year and adding Cespedes.The Royals additions of Morales and Rios look brilliant early on and they look to have improved the best bullpen in baseball. Should be a fun season.

agreed that the central is loaded. cabrera went 11-15 in the weekend series in cleveland. francona even had him walked w/men on 1st and 2nd sunday. lol. that's why the loss of brantley (for at least a few days, maybe longer) and gomes (6-8 weeks... guy took out his legs as he was standing w/a foot on the plate waiting for a throw home on a force play... border line dirty imho) hurts, even in april. tribe can't afford to get behind 7-8 games in just the first couple weeks of the season.

[mscott59]

Apr 14, 2015 6:39:18 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Mar 31, 2015 12:15:51 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

well sports illustrated has a handful of regional covers this week, as opening day approaches. one of them has corey kluber and michael brantley on it, predicting that the tribe will win its first world series since '48. the last time si said cleveland was on its way to a title was back in '87. indians had had a decent '86... had lots of batting stars like joe carter and cory snyder returning. but the pitching fell apart in '87... and we lost 100 games, finishing dead last in the al east. that couldn't happen again... right? right??

In the first week, stars yan gomes and Michael Brantley go down with injuries. Gomes is out for 8 weeks w a knee injury. Saturday kluber pitched 6+ innings of 2 hit ball vs Detroit and then the bullpen lets the floodgates open in one of 3 losses to the Tigers. Jinx? Nah. Lol

Jesus. Starting pitcher Carlos carrasco got drilled in the jaw from a line drive from melke Cabrera of the white sox. He's in the hospital. Tribe has dropped its first 4 games at home. Been a long time since that's happened.

[Buckeye Dale]

Apr 14, 2015 21:20:44 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Apr 14, 2015 6:39:18 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

In the first week, stars yan gomes and Michael Brantley go down with injuries. Gomes is out for 8 weeks w a knee injury. Saturday kluber pitched 6+ innings of 2 hit ball vs Detroit and then the bullpen lets the floodgates open in one of 3 losses to the Tigers. Jinx? Nah. Lol

Jesus. Starting pitcher Carlos carrasco got drilled in the jaw from a line drive from melke Cabrera of the white sox. He's in the hospital. Tribe has dropped its first 4 games at home. Been a long time since that's happened.

...shades of Herb Score...

[mscott59]

Apr 14, 2015 21:20:44 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Apr 14, 2015 6:39:18 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

In the first week, stars yan gomes and Michael Brantley go down with injuries. Gomes is out for 8 weeks w a knee injury. Saturday kluber pitched 6+ innings of 2 hit ball vs Detroit and then the bullpen lets the floodgates open in one of 3 losses to the Tigers. Jinx? Nah. Lol

Jesus. Starting pitcher Carlos carrasco got drilled in the jaw from a line drive from melke Cabrera of the white sox. He's in the hospital. Tribe has dropped its first 4 games at home. Been a long time since that's happened.

nice comeback by carrasco last night. a week after getting a line drive off his jaw that sent him to the hospital, he went back on the mound last night, gave up 1 run on 4 hits in 5 innings, striking out 8. tribe won 6-2, after blowing a 3-0 9th inning lead monday night losing 4-3. kc and the tigers are 11-3, and threatening to make teh al central a 2 team race by memorial day unless this team starts getting quality performances from more than just the starting rotation which has been for the most part very good.

[Deleted]

Apr 1, 2015 10:18:53 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Apr 1, 2015 9:59:36 GMT -5 daleko said:

Well you could always just watch Major League all summer.

i already do. lol. i actually think its a pretty entertaining sports movie. like the fact that the penultimate game is not to win the world series, but to beat the yankees in order to make the playoffs. i like the fact that they win a game on a bunt. pretty obvious that tom berenger didn't have a lot of baseball skills imitating a catcher, but you can definitely see how fluid charlie sheen was as a pitcher, and guys like corbin bernson, dennis haysbert, wesley snipes, looked like they'd played some ball in the past.

I have a special edition DVD. Major League is one of my favorite movies period.

They said Charlie Sheen actually became a really good pitcher. His actual fastball got up to 88-90MPH during filming and on one day of filming they said he threw 136 pitches.

[mscott59]

Apr 22, 2015 15:25:28 GMT -5 @cwgbuckeyes7ncs said:

Apr 1, 2015 10:18:53 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

i already do. lol. i actually think its a pretty entertaining sports movie. like the fact that the penultimate game is not to win the world series, but to beat the yankees in order to make the playoffs. i like the fact that they win a game on a bunt. pretty obvious that tom berenger didn't have a lot of baseball skills imitating a catcher, but you can definitely see how fluid charlie sheen was as a pitcher, and guys like corbin bernson, dennis haysbert, wesley snipes, looked like they'd played some ball in the past.

I have a special edition DVD. Major League is one of my favorite movies period.

They said Charlie Sheen actually became a really good pitcher. His actual fastball got up to 88-90MPH during filming and on one day of filming they said he threw 136 pitches.

sheen was a pitcher in hs, so his motion was more natural than taught for the film. he also says he did some steroids in order to both pump up his heater and recover from all the pitching he had to do in the movie.

[Deleted]

Apr 22, 2015 15:33:01 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Apr 22, 2015 15:25:28 GMT -5 @cwgbuckeyes7ncs said:

I have a special edition DVD. Major League is one of my favorite movies period.

They said Charlie Sheen actually became a really good pitcher. His actual fastball got up to 88-90MPH during filming and on one day of filming they said he threw 136 pitches.

sheen was a pitcher in hs, so his motion was more natural than taught for the film. he also says he did some steroids in order to both pump up his heater and recover from all the pitching he had to do in the movie.

So he was just like any MLB player in the late 80s/early 90s youre saying? LOL

[Walter]

Apr 22, 2015 15:33:01 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Apr 22, 2015 15:25:28 GMT -5 @cwgbuckeyes7ncs said:

I have a special edition DVD. Major League is one of my favorite movies period.

They said Charlie Sheen actually became a really good pitcher. His actual fastball got up to 88-90MPH during filming and on one day of filming they said he threw 136 pitches.

sheen was a pitcher in hs, so his motion was more natural than taught for the film. he also says he did some steroids in order to both pump up his heater and recover from all the pitching he had to do in the movie.

Here's an article that hints about Sheen's baseball abilities.
articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/10/sports/la-sp-crowe-20110311-7

[mscott59]

Apr 23, 2015 9:49:31 GMT -5 Walter said:

Apr 22, 2015 15:33:01 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

sheen was a pitcher in hs, so his motion was more natural than taught for the film. he also says he did some steroids in order to both pump up his heater and recover from all the pitching he had to do in the movie.

Here's an article that hints about Sheen's baseball abilities.
articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/10/sports/la-sp-crowe-20110311-7

thanks walt for posting that old column of crowe's. scanning down to see the tidbits was cool, but his last item about mike tyson was a pepsi-thru-the-nose moment here at lunch... lol


Mike Tyson's misidentifying the Michelin Man as the "Michigan Man" this week reminds reader Geoff Strain of Redondo Beach that Tyson once refused to answer a question from UPI because, "One of your drivers ran over my dog."