Most pundits believed going into the 2008 season that the Tribe's defense would be average at best. Those pundits should be slapped in the face, because the Indians are flashing the leather. Asdrubal Cabrera made an eye popping diving catch, Dellucci made a great grab against the wall, and Sizemore gunned down the fleet footed Frank Thomas while also making a great diving snag. All of these factors, including another gem of a start from Paul Byrd, and Ryan Garko finally delivering on a 3 run homerun led the Tribe to defeat the Oakland A's Tuesday, 4-0. The team has now won 6 of their last 8, and the starting pitching has hurled 34 consecutive shutout innings. If the bats ever decide to wake up, this team could become scary good.Also while attending the game tonight, my wife and I sat in front of two dudes who's Tribe knowledge was deplorable. These were some of the 9 inning conversation highlights:
- The drummer bangs his percussion instrument every inning with two outs.
- The Indians last won the World Series in 1964
- The Indians have been to the ALCS 6 or 7 times in the past 44 years.
- The Indians made it to the World Series in 1995 and 1998.
- Jose Mesa retired in 1999.
- They missed the days of Mesa, Lofton, Baerga, and Thome. Wish they were still here.
Why do I mention this? Because it seems like every other game I tend to sit in front of these type of morons. They laugh loudly at their own jokes and have no idea what they are talking about. I am not saying that everyone should be a dork like me and have their own blog, but at least try and attempt to get your facts straight. I never hear anyone saying they wish we had Chad Ogea and Charles Nagy on the mound. The late 90's are over, let's move on.
6 comments:
Don't forget that they also said that Paul Byrd was undefeated this season, didn't realize that Byrd actually started last night's game until the 3rd inning, thought a fast ball was 84 mph, and could not pronounce Kobayashi's name...I am the wife and I know more than they do! (not baseball related they thought saying the word "brewery" was funny while drunk...absolute idiots)
Just because we do not know what a 4-6-3 double play is, get mad on a sacrifice RBI fly-out because the batter didn't reach base, or have no idea why you would intentionally want to walk somebody doesn't make you beter than us. In fact, we are better fans than you because we got involved in the "Wave" while your sat there and watched the game. Sincerely, Yeeeesssshhh!
So what if us bloggers choose not to participate in the wave, idiot fans. No one ever starts it at the right time anyway. Saturday they started one in the 4th inning after we had already scored all those runs.
Hey lyns or anyonymous....Paul Byrd's fastball is 84MPH...get your facts straight.
Hey Anonymous or Szoke - I wasn't talking about Byrd's fastball, I was talking about Kobayashi's.
Calm down wife and anonymouses. Joe Borowski would love for his fastball to hit 84MPH.
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