My first blog post. Who knows where this is going to end up. Might not last past this post, but it should be nice having some outlet for my thoughts. I'll focus on sports, with a Cleveland/Ohio bias, and will probably add some stuff about comic books and music and movies and other things I find pleasing. So let's get started with my Sunday post, which will be unabashedly Cleveland centric.
Today is the rubber match of the Battle of Ohio, Tribe-Reds. Lee-Cueto. It should be an incredible pitching duel, and since the Cleveland bullpen went 6 scoreless last night, they'll probably get hammered tonight. It's just so hard to have any kind of excitement, or moreso expectation about this team. All through the (nearly four hour) game last night after Huff got shelled, I was just waiting for the 6 run inning where we trot out 4 different pitchers. It didn't happen, somehow, even with Laffey on the DL, we found a couple pitchers to shut down the Reds offense. Newcomers Greg Aquino and Luis Vizcaino were just short of brilliant, going for 4 scoreless innings before Betancourt and Wood closed it out in not-so-impressive fashion.
The offense wasn't very dynamic but grinded out 7 runs. Droob adds two more, two-out RBI. DeRosa homered and had 4 RBI. Choo continues to be a rock in our lineup, two hits with a double and two walks. Vic *gasp* is now hitless in consecutive games for the first time this season.
At this point I'll take whatever we can get for DeRosa in a trade, so it's nice to see him at the very least increasing his value. Cabrera may not actually be this good, but he's looking like the player we expected after the end of '07. He has age on his side as he won't even be 24 until after this season...I'm looking forward to him being a fixture at Short for a long time. Choo is only necessary until LaPorta starts showing what he's capable of. Someone will want Shin Soo in a trade, and if we can get a solid, youngish starter for him (and assuming LaPorta actually does show what he's capable of) I would certainly do it.
Vic will have stretches like this, he may be the best contact hitter in the sport but he doesn't have the wheels to be a .350 hitter. He's the prototypical #3 hitter, nothing else to say.
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Cavs play tonight in Orlando. I still can't get over how many open 3s the Magic have seen in the first two games. It was obviously going to be a tough matchup with Orlando's huge size advantage on the perimeter, but the shots they've been getting haven't even been contested. I've never been a Mike Brown fan, but he started to win me over this year. I'm praying he doesn't blow it by letting Lewis and the rest of the Magic's shooters continue to go off.
That said, LeBron gave the team an incalculable shot in the arm in game 2. They will be playing their asses off, and I truly can't imagine this series coming back to Cleveland anything less than 2-2.
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Mohammed Massaquoi is impressing the Browns. I was pretty stunned when he was taken after we already added Robiskie in the second round, but this team definitely needed plenty of help on offense at every position. Robiskie is the kind of chain-mover that will help every aspect of the offense, if Massaquoi can be the big play threat Stallworth was supposed to be, this is suddenly back to being a dangerous passing attack. I don't expect any more than 1,000 yards from Lewis, but with Harrison hopefully being more of a dual-threat instead of a distant backup, the team's running game should be better as well.
Two exciting games today. I'm predicting an inspiring show from Johnny Cueto shutting the Tribe down, but LeBron quickly making everyone forget with a series changing win in Orlando.
Today is the rubber match of the Battle of Ohio, Tribe-Reds. Lee-Cueto. It should be an incredible pitching duel, and since the Cleveland bullpen went 6 scoreless last night, they'll probably get hammered tonight. It's just so hard to have any kind of excitement, or moreso expectation about this team. All through the (nearly four hour) game last night after Huff got shelled, I was just waiting for the 6 run inning where we trot out 4 different pitchers. It didn't happen, somehow, even with Laffey on the DL, we found a couple pitchers to shut down the Reds offense. Newcomers Greg Aquino and Luis Vizcaino were just short of brilliant, going for 4 scoreless innings before Betancourt and Wood closed it out in not-so-impressive fashion.
The offense wasn't very dynamic but grinded out 7 runs. Droob adds two more, two-out RBI. DeRosa homered and had 4 RBI. Choo continues to be a rock in our lineup, two hits with a double and two walks. Vic *gasp* is now hitless in consecutive games for the first time this season.
At this point I'll take whatever we can get for DeRosa in a trade, so it's nice to see him at the very least increasing his value. Cabrera may not actually be this good, but he's looking like the player we expected after the end of '07. He has age on his side as he won't even be 24 until after this season...I'm looking forward to him being a fixture at Short for a long time. Choo is only necessary until LaPorta starts showing what he's capable of. Someone will want Shin Soo in a trade, and if we can get a solid, youngish starter for him (and assuming LaPorta actually does show what he's capable of) I would certainly do it.
Vic will have stretches like this, he may be the best contact hitter in the sport but he doesn't have the wheels to be a .350 hitter. He's the prototypical #3 hitter, nothing else to say.
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Cavs play tonight in Orlando. I still can't get over how many open 3s the Magic have seen in the first two games. It was obviously going to be a tough matchup with Orlando's huge size advantage on the perimeter, but the shots they've been getting haven't even been contested. I've never been a Mike Brown fan, but he started to win me over this year. I'm praying he doesn't blow it by letting Lewis and the rest of the Magic's shooters continue to go off.
That said, LeBron gave the team an incalculable shot in the arm in game 2. They will be playing their asses off, and I truly can't imagine this series coming back to Cleveland anything less than 2-2.
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Mohammed Massaquoi is impressing the Browns. I was pretty stunned when he was taken after we already added Robiskie in the second round, but this team definitely needed plenty of help on offense at every position. Robiskie is the kind of chain-mover that will help every aspect of the offense, if Massaquoi can be the big play threat Stallworth was supposed to be, this is suddenly back to being a dangerous passing attack. I don't expect any more than 1,000 yards from Lewis, but with Harrison hopefully being more of a dual-threat instead of a distant backup, the team's running game should be better as well.
Two exciting games today. I'm predicting an inspiring show from Johnny Cueto shutting the Tribe down, but LeBron quickly making everyone forget with a series changing win in Orlando.
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