They just wanna win... Go Get Em Tribe

Not to say they are cheating or anything......

Go Get Em.. Ladybugs.. Frisky Dingo Reference.

So I tried to update this morning, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that when I have an 8:50 class and I'm getting up at 7 and taking 20 minutes to eat pop tarts, and not getting into the parking deck until like... 8:20, that I on;y have time to walk to my first class and fill out my fantasy lineups (all.. 8 of them).

But..

Buffalo is no more, officially.. We will see when Columbus is more, officially.. OFFICIALLY

Travis Hafner will go to Akron or Lake County or Mahoning Valley to rehab.. We gotta see how his batting session went first.

Gaylord Perry commented on Cliff Lee

"I won a lot of my games in the eighth or ninth inning, because teammates made some plays or got some hits," Perry said. "It's about twice as tough to win 20 now. When somebody does that, you better keep him." (Indians.com)

Aaron Laffey has an injury and will be shut down rather than move to a six man rotation. Makes sense why he was struggled.

And John "Don't Call Me Jon" Meloan.

I posed the question to CastroTurf on the sudden use of "H" in the name John for John Meloan.

He answered, like we always know he will. He asked the Indians to put the H in after the trade. So.. Great. I gotta go back and change everything in the tags to JOHN now.. Damnit!

Oh and a SQUIRREL made his presence felt.

I was at the game a few years ago against the Yankees in which the Squirrel completely took over. The one today didn't really take over, but he was entertaining in his own right with his army crawl. Choo and people in right tried to corner him into the bullpen, he ran onto the infield when Rich Rundles came in to face Thome, he almost ran into the third base umpire.

He was the man!

Remember a few years ago when Coco Crisp laid down a bunt and beat the throw to first with a head first slide. They broke up a game against the Yankees and Mariano Rivera that night and it was exciting as all get out. The guys on the scoreboard were having fun putting Indians jerseys on Yankee fans in attendance. They then put one on the Squirrel as he was dubbed the "Rally Squirrel"

Fun times.

Today the Squirrel wasn't much luck. Jeremy Sowers pitched well early.. He either pitches well early and blows up later or he blows up early and gets stronger, the guy is nuts.

Javier Vazquez was making the Tribe bats look silly. Jhonny Peralta finally broke through with a two run double in the 6th inning, and after that they had plenty of chances, but double plays and just bad at-bats killed any sort of rally or chance the Indians had. Every inning after that they threatened but just couldn't punch the run though. They didn't even need hits at times either.

Juan Rincon was pretty solid out of the pen. Going 2.1 innings with just one hit at the end of it was huge. Rafael Betancourt was as perfect as you can ask for throwing 9 strikes out of 10 pitches to get three outs.

That now brings us to an off-day, but at least we WIN a series over the Sox, happy days at least.

After the off-day, you get Brandon Duckworth in Kansas City with Anthony Reyes going for the Tribe.

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