Comments on: Ten days of Tribe. http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/cleveland_indians/2008/07/28/ten-days-of-tribe/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:25:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Marc http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/cleveland_indians/2008/07/28/ten-days-of-tribe/#comment-148 Marc Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:51:53 +0000 http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/cleveland_indians/?p=55#comment-148 Yea, same old, same old. I'm so sick of hearing the Tribe's "revisionist history" of blaming injuries for this year's debacle. The team was losing from Day 1 this season!!! No injuries back then, remember! As the losses mounted, Shapiro & Co. said "we don't evaluate until Game #40." Well, Markie, the season was lost by that point. And here's the problem: Cleveland is TOO SLOW to react, and is not proactive at all. YES, a whole season CAN be won or lost in April....and this year's squad proved it. There was no sense of urgency to win; Wedge spouted his drivel about the "long grind, blah blah"....while the season went down the drain in the first 30 games. We had the chance to "may hay" and get a lead, as other teams started slowly. But NOOOO, we just had to keep the sorry losing pace with Detroit and Chicago! Until this team and front office develops a WINNING MINDSET from the get-go each year, they'll never finish first again. Shapiro set the losing tone in the off-season with his total lack of production, which is now well-documented. The fans and media should've applied more pressure, because we ALL saw the offensive deficiencies. How Shapiro did not is a mind-boggling mystery. Yea, same old, same old. I'm so sick of hearing the Tribe's "revisionist history" of blaming injuries for this year's debacle. The team was losing from Day 1 this season!!! No injuries back then, remember! As the losses mounted, Shapiro & Co. said "we don't evaluate until Game #40." Well, Markie, the season was lost by that point.

And here's the problem: Cleveland is TOO SLOW to react, and is not proactive at all. YES, a whole season CAN be won or lost in April….and this year's squad proved it. There was no sense of urgency to win; Wedge spouted his drivel about the "long grind, blah blah"….while the season went down the drain in the first 30 games. We had the chance to "may hay" and get a lead, as other teams started slowly. But NOOOO, we just had to keep the sorry losing pace with Detroit and Chicago!

Until this team and front office develops a WINNING MINDSET from the get-go each year, they'll never finish first again. Shapiro set the losing tone in the off-season with his total lack of production, which is now well-documented. The fans and media should've applied more pressure, because we ALL saw the offensive deficiencies. How Shapiro did not is a mind-boggling mystery.

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