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What if the Indians Had an Infinite Payroll Starting from 2007?

It’s a pastime of any wishful thinking baseball fan: what if I had a few billion dollars and could buy my favorite team? What would happen? Well, that’s a great question. The Dolans are far from poor,…Read More

Judging Mark Shapiro’s GM Tenure: High-Profile Trades

Let’s get a this out of the way:  I am a fan of the work Mark Shapiro did as general manager of the Cleveland Indians, from when he got the job on November 1, 2001 until he was formally promoted to…Read More

An Indians Fan’s Guide to the Playoffs: Wild Card, ALDS, and NLDS

The 2012 MLB playoffs start today, and the Cleveland Indians are one of the 20 teams to have been eliminated after 162 games. But just because the Tribe is out of it doesn’t mean we won’t see…Read More

Series Preview: Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees

Just when we thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse, the 2012 Cleveland Indians have gone and lowered the bar for expectations yet again. After losing 11 games in a row and looking completely…Read More

The 2007 Cleveland Indians: Five Years Later

Remember Roberto Hernandez? No, I’m not talking about the pitcher we used to call Fausto Carmona. (Or do we still call him that? I’m really not sure.) I’m talking about the pitcher that was with…Read More

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FanSided Cy Youngs Announced: Explaining My Ballot

The FanSided end-of-season MLB awards series continued this weekend with the unveiling of the Cy Young…Read More

Playoff Update: How Are Former Indians Players Doing?

The Indians might not have made the playoffs this year, but some former Tribe players have had the honor…Read More

Things I Was Wrong About (If the Season Ended Today)

So we are now 18 games into the 2011 baseball season, and the Tribe is a healthy 13-5, good for first…Read More

Reunion at Progressive Field

Oh, hello, Cleveland Indians. It’s been awhile. I didn’t mean for you to see me here. Wow,…Read More

Analyzing the CC Trade Nearly 3 Years Later

I recently wrote a guest post for TradeToad which is a website that covers all trades in professional…Read More

Hey Cliff Lee, Where Were You in 2007?

Source: Yardbarker.com I’m going to take a break from the “Looking Back at What Was”…Read More

Looking Back at What Was: First Base

Source: Yardbarker.com This is the ninth in a series of posts looking back at the realities of the…Read More

Bitterness and Bad Journalism

Perhaps The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Indians beat writer Paul Hoynes and I should switch jobs.…Read More

CC Needs to Shut Up

I actually stumbled across this lovely quote by the former ace of the Cleveland Indians staff, CC Sabathia,…Read More

Cleveland and the Persistance of Hope

Even though the Indians won handily last night, an 8-2 victory that featured Jake Westbrook pitching…Read More

Players Not Developing as Tribe Hoped

Source: Yardbarker.com Yesterday’s soul-sucking loss has brought up a lot of speculation about…Read More

The Pity Party Continues: The Worst of the Worst

Hey Tribe fans, welcome back to the pity party! We’re counting down the top five disappointments of…Read More

Indians Ruin Yankees Home Opener

The New York Yankees opened the doors to their new home for the first time.  The Cleveland Indians…Read More

Meet Matt LaPorta, The Next Big Thing for The Cleveland Indians

Remember the big trade of last season? The one that had Indians fans pouting about the team throwing…Read More