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[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Odd number contest clyde. After this series the Tribe will be 1,3, 5, or 7 games back of the Tiggers. I'm gonna be the eternal optimist and say they'll be 5 games back.

The 7's are out. The 1s, 3s, and 5s are still alive! I still like my 5...I was putting last night into the automatic win slot with Masterson then the rain came but we got lucky. You are very optimistic going with O-Bald-O or the Exhausto/Verlander matchup.

[slotdirt]

Verlander is like 13-2 with a sub-2.00 ERA against AL Central opponents the last couple of seasons.

I do enjoy how backloaded the Indians-Tigers schedule is - 11 more of these things to go in the last 49 games.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Verlander is like 13-2 with a sub-2.00 ERA against AL Central opponents the last couple of seasons.

I do enjoy how backloaded the Indians-Tigers schedule is - 11 more of these things to go in the last 49 games.

Verlander toyed with them last meeting in Detroit. I do remember in '07 we hit him hard a few times in that race. He's a heckuva lot better now though, not that he wasn't still good back then.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Verlander toyed with them last meeting in Detroit. I do remember in '07 we hit him hard a few times in that race. He's a heckuva lot better now though, not that he wasn't still good back then.

Yeah, 2 hit shutout striking out 12 in June!! Went back and looked at 2007 game log and we went 4-1 against him. We scored 7 against him 3 times and hit 6 homers off him. times change, don't they!!

[horseofcourse]

Here you go clyde. Walkoff hit by pitches in Cleveland Indian history...

8/9/2011 Kosuke Fukudome
6/11/1991 Alex Cole (good lord, remember when we moved the fences way back at the dump for that guy!!)...he turned out to be a poor man's Miguel Dilone.
6/22/1975 Rico Carty


...that's it. one more for the historical record.

[clyde]

thud

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

winner, winner!! Not a homer, but hit by a pitch with bases loaded by Fucl <U on a two strike pitch, he had his 5th strikeout locked up but it works. Frank Herrmann has our last two wins. You can't make this stuff up. It's pure insanity. We do not drop below .500 once again thanks to a Frank Herrmann win!! Fucl<U wins a game he struck out 4 times by getting hit by a pitch. Welcome to Cleveland, you stink.

Oh my God.
























thud

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by clyde

Oh my God.
























thud

I applaud the effort and knowledge Fucl<U has of his abilities. He made absotluely zero effort to not get hit by that pitch. Well done young man.

[horseofcourse]

The records show the last time the Browns played the NFC West they went 10-6 with some guy named Derek Anderson playing quarterback.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

I applaud the effort and knowledge Fucl<U has of his abilities. He made absotluely zero effort to not get hit by that pitch. Well done young man.

Then we do have to give him credit for taking one for the team.He's an all star crash dummy.


Jimenez goes tonight?

Could go into the BP Pitcher HOF.

[horseofcourse]

disaster management on display. Carlos Carrasco all of a sudden has elbow problems! He goes on the DL so they can erase the disastrous decision to send Huff back down with a 0.51 ERA. Carrasco has pitched better than Obaldo all year long and saved the team in June with a brilliant month when everyone else on the team stunk so it didn't make much sense to send him down either. elbow issues have suddenly developed for carlos after he had him throw 120 pitches last out in Fenway when it appeared he was pitching to save his job and did pitching very well. (really, on the DL when he was healthy enough to get into the 8th against Boston last out??)

The Obaldo carnage will be wide and deep...destroying every young pitcher in the organization one at at time (at least the ones they didn't dump to get him!!)

[clyde]

The Frontal Lobe office of which the Indians are burdened ---- they have a penchant for trying to cover self made disaster with more self made disaster.


They remind me of all the politicians we have to support.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

The records show the last time the Browns played the NFC West they went 10-6 with some guy named Derek Anderson playing quarterback.

Aberrations happen.

[clyde]

Here are my noodle showers for tonights game:

Him-a-Spaz will go 6.1 innings and throw 128 Exhausto like pitches with 6 walks,9 strikeouts,12 hits and 8 runs allowed....earned.



He only goes this far because of the tired bull pen arms.

[horseofcourse]

More good tales. they are starting Masterson Friday on two days rest. I don't care if the rain curtailed his pitches or if he used to be a reliever. He is a very good starting pitcher right now...your best. Just give him his 4 days rest (of course the reason for this is because they sent Huff back down he started in Columbus so his full rest takes him to Saturday so he can't pitch until then.) May as well get to destroying you major league pitchers too! AGain, more outflow from the Obaldo trade, destroying all pitchers one at at a time.

[clyde]

Really,really.



Ya can't buy stuff like this.

[horseofcourse]

It is my sincere hope Tribe management and Obaldo make us both look really stupid. I hope he throws a 1 hit shutout tonight, but I'm wondering on the odds right now on all of this.

[clyde]

spit!!





And it would be just like them to do such a thing,too.

[slotdirt]

I think you guys are going to end this series up one game rather than three or five. Tigers have officially started their end of season collapse - a bit early this year!

[clyde]