BR1986FB;865142 wrote:Very underwhelmed. For what the Tribe gave up, this guy should be God on roller skates. When you get raped in a trade, what you're getting back better be "pristine" talent and I don't see it.

TBone14;865190 wrote:Glad I went to bed when I did. Choo striking out with 1 out and the bases loaded would have kept me up for weeks.

Someone said Choo had a rough game defensively...he did hose a guy at 3rd on one hop from the warning track and the guy was called safe and provided the 7th run.

Carmona needs to be good tonight. I'm not holding my breath.

Glory Days;865219 wrote:what did the tribe give up? oh yeah, a player who has set foot in a MLB stadium and other who has tossed a few games and is completely unproven.

Glory Days;865219 wrote:what did the tribe give up? oh yeah, a player who has set foot in a MLB stadium and other who has tossed a few games and is completely unproven.



did choo throw the guy out? i was at the game and from the first base side he looked out, but no one really argued the call though.

grodt;865601 wrote:Tonights Line-up:
Brantley LF Choo RF Cabrera SS Hafner DH Santana 1B Fukudome CF Donald 2B Hannahan 3B Marson C

Still no Kipnis and I'm assuming Chisenhall is sitting because of the lefty on the mound.

grodt;865610 wrote:Hannahan actually hits lefties (.299/.379/.468) better then righties (.180/.273/.279) and has had some success (albeit in a small sample size) against Buehrle. Chisenhall has 2 hits off lefties all season.

Crimson streak;865620 wrote:And I think we should see more of carerra than fukedome

OQB;865721 wrote:What a great story about Jack Hannahan and the Indians.


When jack found out his son was going to.be premature the team was playing in Boston. He wasn't going to make it back with the first flight back to Cleveland to see his son born or.be with his wife. The only way he could make it back was to get a charter flight which cost 35,000 bucks. He couldn't afford it, he only makes 500,000. Justin Masterson came to.him and told him to.book the flight and the everyone on the team pitched in to get jack back to see his son born.

What a great story, and one that shows how good these guys are, not just in baseball but in life.

bases_loaded;865167 wrote:Neither one of those guys were coming back and both teams knew that.

hoops23;865386 wrote:So we do a 4-1 type trade with other teams highly touted prospects and we got raped...

Then we do a 4-1 trade for Ubaldo, and we still get raped..

People who love prospects that much are hilarious. They bitch when a team isn't winning now, but they also bitch when the team commits to winning within a 3 year window.

Prospects or not, the Tribe isn't a team that will consistently make the playoffs anymore. We had some great pitching over the last few years and haven't done ****. If we didn't do **** with guys like CC, Lee, Fausto (when he was fabulous) then we weren't going to do **** with Alex White and Drew Pomeranz.

Alex White made 3 quality starts in the beginning of the year... Much different then pitching at this point, which is something HE HASN'T DONE.

Ubaldo was failed by his defense last night. It's not the first time either. Every pitcher has rough starts, but the great ones can battle through it 95% of the time. He did that last night.