Comments on: Ten for ten. Playoffs possible?

By: Dave Wiley

Dave Wiley — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:59:43 +0000

Well, maybe the three game losing streak will remind them otherwise.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:17:48 +0000

"Every once in a while it happens, but it ain’t bloody likely."

Unfortunately the "once in a while" was last year with the Rockies. The only thing this win streak is gonna do is make Indians management convince themselves once again that we don't need to upgrade at many positions to compete next year.

By: barry

barry — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:17:13 +0000

three of four following teams in front of us *have* to go into a major tank for us to make the playoffs:

CHI MIN - if we overtake both, we win the division and what the non division teams do becomes irrelevant.

NY BOS

the other teams above us can go around .500 and we can still surpass them, but we're talking something like 23-7, which gives us 88 wins.

By: Fried Fan

Fried Fan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:04:44 +0000

You see, Tribe excuse-makers? No one wants to hear any of that bullcrap about injuries being the cause for their first-half snoozefest. They've now been without CC, Westbrook, Fausto, JoBlow, Martinez, Hafner, JMichaels, Barfield–and any semblance of a professional bullpen–and, lo and behold, they can actually SCORE RUNS and WIN GAMES when they stop making excuses and swinging the bats like Little Leaguers.

Sheesh! Every other team overcomes major injuries and player losses (see Tampa Bay and Minnesota, for example), and are somehow able to contend for a title. This group of whiney babies sulked, moaned and groaned their way into a lineup of .200 averages for the first two months, effectively flushing the whole season away by mid-May. Way to "man-up," guys!

Can they chase down the ChiSox and Twins? Unlikely, unless there are several head-to-head meetings with those teams, and we sweep…along with both of those teams beating up on each other. Stranger things have happened. But Shapiro, we still need off-season help.

By: Dave Wiley

Dave Wiley — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:54:04 +0000

First, Wayne, great point about the 14th win. That assumes that Wedge doesn't end up with a six man rotation, prior to Lee's start, as the idea has been kicked around for September callups.

Dave, thanks for the typo corrections. Dugout came up as a misspell and wanted me to hyphenate it. I KNEW I shouldn't have listened to that darn paper clip.

John. You were right. When I checked the box score, it had Lewis marked as a save, but it is now changed. My ignorance for not knowing you cannot create your own save. Something new to file away in my memory banks.

Thanks for the feedback. Dave Wiley

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:02:05 +0000

I'd like to see the Tribe sweep Seattle as that would set up Monday for 2 important events:

1) Lee goes for 20 wins.
2) Indians go for team record 14th win in a row.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:25:54 +0000

…and one gets a postseason "berth", not "birth". also, "dugout" is not a hyphenated word.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:18:32 +0000

FIY: You cannot create a save situation for yourself. If you come in with a 4 run lead and give up two, you don't get a save for that just because you made it a closer game. Check the boxscore. Lewis did not get a save last night.