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[horseofcourse]

Thome hits a homer on his 41st birthday! Hilarious. Back above .500! Detroit is officially in cruise control though. They can even win when Verlander doesn't pitch well now.

[horseofcourse]

Ozzie Guillen needs to shut his pie hole. It's laundary sir. When you remove the cleveland laundary, he had zero reason to be cheered especially when he's playing for assholes like you. You want a damn member of the chicago white sox to get a standing o in cleveland when he played there you moron?? Not gonna happen. He is now wearing proper laundary. He gets cheered again. It's not a tough concept Ozzie. There is zero hypocrisy at all going on. None.

[horseofcourse]

A guy named Head is in the outfield. Brantley done for year. It's a shame there haven't been more injuries this year.

[clyde]

I'm sorry ,HorseyCoursey...I cannot bear witness to this folly any longer.



They no longer exist in my world.

[clyde]

Gosh..I say ''folly" and I think of Arletta.



Very odd.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by clyde

I'm sorry ,HorseyCoursey...I cannot bear witness to this folly any longer.



They no longer exist in my world.

c'mon clyde just because the Head, Fuc< U, Carrera outfield wasn't in your plans you can't stop!!

(if you combine the healthy body parts of Chew, Brantley and Grady you almost come out with a complete outfielder!!)
(kenny's only 44 now, he came and played for us in 2007, I say we go get him too to join Jimmy! Manny's unaffiliated at present too.)

[slotdirt]

Go get yourself some Ellis Burks and you'd have a complete set.

[slotdirt]

Thinking of old Indians outfielders...I can't remember the circumstances of the offseason trade that sent Brian Giles to the Pirates for Ricardo Rincon. I'd have to say based on post-Cleveland careers that the Pirates (and later the Padres) got the better of that deal.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Thinking of old Indians outfielders...I can't remember the circumstances of the offseason trade that sent Brian Giles to the Pirates for Ricardo Rincon. I'd have to say based on post-Cleveland careers that the Pirates (and later the Padres) got the better of that deal.

The circumstances were we had Manny, Lofton, and Justice and he was the 4th outfielder and we thought all we needed was a bad lefty specialist to put us over the top!! We were wrong. We also had Robbie Alomar, Travis Fryman, Sandy Alomar...so Giles' offense was certainly not an overwhelming need at that time. Rincon just wasn't that missing piece however!

[slotdirt]

Just seems they could have had a lot more for a 26 year old outfielder who'd go on to play in the All Star game a number of times. Situational lefties are a dime a dozen!

[clyde]

The trades for Lofton and Baerga/Alomar,just to name 2,far outweighed the Pittsburgh fleecing.


They had no need for Giles and Giles showed little here of what he went on to do with Pitt.Was worth the gamble.

Must we argue about the past?

[slotdirt]

No, but can we talk about the Tigers pending collapse? 20 runs in two games to the Twins and Royals and no Verlander until Friday. I'm telling you guys, these guys are going to go like 8-20 down the stretch.

[clyde]

What's to worry?




They'll run away with it at 8-20.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by clyde

What's to worry?




They'll run away with it at 8-20.

Tribe only has to go 2-29 their last 31 to surpass last year's win total!! I think it's almost doable.

[clyde]

!







I love your misplaced enthusiasm.

[horseofcourse]

Now it's the Obaldo/Exhausto daily double for the sweep!!

(for slotdirt...I saw Santiago hit a game winning homer in extras yesterday...I believe that was the Tiggers Kearns hitting a game winning homer against the Yankees moment equivalent!)

[slotdirt]

First time since 1973 that a guy had come in as a pinch runner and hit a game winning homer. Ramon Santiago will never be confused with either Raul Ramon Mondesi or Benito Santiago.

[horseofcourse]

AFter 10 shutout last night and 4 perfect from Herrmann!! Some guys named Hag-Done and Kluber were pitching relief for the Tribe today. They have obviously gone to the clyde strategy of letting fans in the stands pitch games out of the pen. Chew officially to the DL!! (Grady officially on rehab assignment, our league strikeout championship is near clinching now!) that guy named Head can't hit or field. He's the outfield version of Dopey (dopey did score the winning run in the 16th last night when he was out as the umps were sick and tired of two bad teams attempting to hit so he is in the highlights!).

[clyde]

[horseofcourse]

It's expanded roster time none too soon!! We're gonna see everybody clyde. Even rumors of Hafner coming back! I wonder if I own more baseball gloves than Hafner and Thome combined?? (I think we struck out 29 times the last two days, granted one was 16 innings, but 29 in two days...nice!! And that is even before Grady is playing again! We are now taking no prisoners in the strikeout race, we aim to take it to the line and dominate. )