As September has worn on and moved forwardish, we’ve kept one eye on (believe it or not) Major League Baseball.
Why, you ask? Well, because the Detroit Tigers are not winning the Central Division.
Our own Cleveland Indians, rightful owners of said grouping of teams, have reclaimed their title as Central Division Champs.
Now, don’t jump all over us here. Just because we haven’t been all over the Tribe all season, or last season, or the season before that, doesn’t mean we don’t love them, or that we’re some kind of bandwagon jumper.
The difficulty of both following a mediocre baseball team in Cleveland from all the way out in Los Angeles is hefty, indeed. But now we’re ready to be all into it, especially if we get to take on those scumbags from Boston, who we hate more than those other scumbags from NYC.
A short history of us and baseball:
While never having the love for the sport like we have for the NBA, one of the defining moments of our life was Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, when the Tribe was on the verge of winning it all. (We’re sure we’ve told this story here before, but because Boney loves it when we rehash the same crap over and over, we’ll continue.)
So like it’s top of the ninth, Indians are winning, and it’s gonna happen…finally. However, we turned to our father in some moment of Clevelandness, and said, “Dad, we’re not gonna win, are we?”
He looked at me in a way fathers do and simply shook his head, “no”. In that moment we understood our city’s place in the sports universe. It was all quite crushing, sad, and inexplicable to fake tortured fans like Boston people, who have never really suffered.
Anyway, even though the NBA resumes with the training camps and all next week, we can’t promise we won’t be pumping some baseball action in here from time to time.
Just wanted to prep you – just as we’re prepping by trying to figure out who anyone on the Indians actually is. We know CC Sabathia and Kenny Lofton, who we’re sure wasn’t with the team all these years, but was with them last time we were following.
NOTE: LeBron James is hosting Saturday Night Live on your Truthbox this coming week, and we can’t help but wonder why they never invited the entire starting line-up of the 2005 Detroit Pistons to do the same. They are, after all, the greatest assembly of basketball talent the world had ever seen in DET in 2005.
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the Yanks aren’t scumbags.
the roster sports a couple douchebags, yes.
but “scumbag” is a title reserved especially for the current Sox lineup.
you don’t want to face the red sox in the playoffs, chief. you better pray for the yankees if you want you’re little indians to have a chance.
Dude – jump on the bandwagon! Most Indians fans are stuck in mid-90s mindset, as evidenced by the 87 consecutive standing ovations Kenny Lofton received upon his (most recent) return. I think people were slow to embrace this new group of guys because you know how they do. Cut their teeth in baseball while toying with your emotional well-being and ultimately leaving for NY and a 5 billion dollar contract.
By the by, I always felt the Yankees were whores.
Whores and scumbags run in the same circles.
If you post about the Indians then I’ll start commenting again. Like just now! It should be noted, as it is noteworthy, that the only problem the Indians have is the most awesome problem a team can have going into the playoffs- which solid starter do we put in to back up our two Cy Young candidates?
This has never been a problem the Indians have had in my lifetime. NOTE!
Greg Swindell and Tom Candiotti resent Matt’s statement.
Oh yeah, and since Kenny Lofton played point guard for the University of Arizona posting MLB news on an NBA site makes sense.
Because LeBron was so hilarious in his ESPY debut… I think Dexter Manley would have an easier time reading the teleprompter than LeBron
My brother apparently tried to comment the following but was unable:
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I was living alone in Orlando, Florida during that 1997 Game 7. A lightning strike shorted out my television during the top of the third inning. Panicked, I drove down the street to Best Buy and bought a new television. I hooked it up and was back in action before the fifth inning. That television is still in my living room, although my living room is no longer in Florida.
I, too, had that “we’re going to lose” moment of clarity. I had it yesterday, too, when the first Phil Dawson field goal was rendered non-existent by the Raiders’ timeout. It’s a strange and unfortunate sixth-sense all true Cleveland fans are burdened with.
Who watches Game 7 of the World Series alone? Especially when their favorite team is about to win?
If I recall correctly he had just moved to FL and was waiting for his future-wife to arrive.
Hey Jordi and Boney, did you see we (ASU) are nationally ranked? With the esteemed #23.
Can I say “We” since I go to the school or do I have to be a member of the actual team? Boney bagged on me once for saying “we” when referring to a sports team so me and STILLAJEW wanted to pose the question to Jordi since we recently made him the new inspiration for Delta Epsilon after dethroning Boney in a small cerebral coup of smack talking.
Cav do you have an opinion one way or another on the “we” usage with fans and local teams or schools??
I know this has nothing to do with the post but it’s been debated here for the last couple hours and we hope someone from the genius that is yaysports can settle said arguement.
Yeah we is fine as long as you’ve been a lifelong fan and are actually from the city in which the team plays. Like if you are from Cleveland and like the Indians you can say we.
However, if you’re from say, Florida, and picked the Indians as “your team” when you were 8 years old because there was a brief period in the mid-90s when rappers liked wearing Indians gear, you don’t get to do that.
Jeremiah, er, JEREMIAH, yeah, you and your esteemed crew can refer to your school as “we”. For example, as a Florida State alumnus, I am jealous that “we” are not ranked.
It’s all about investment, emotional, financial, or otherwise. If you have fam that plays you can be a “we”; if you play, of course you can be a “we”; if you are indirectly financing the team’s existance, you can be a “we”. Or if you are so caught up in the doings of the team and say, blog about them on a regular basis – not just every few weeks to rag on their lack of an offensive gameplan while you work on your “movie”, for example – then people understand the team lives within you, you can get away with using “we”. Also if you have a tattoo of your team. That’s acceptable too.
I’m done smack talking on this website JEREMIAH and STILLAJEW.
It’s obvious that my smack talking doesn’t do anyone any good here anymore…I’m going to devote my time to creating a bigger, better “TMOB” for any and all non-readers of YAY! to enjoy.
I think it’s time for The Cavalier and I to go our seperate ways… it’s obvious all I do is annoy him and I don’t want that for him, or you guys. It’s been fun, and maybe one day, I dunno, I’ll have my own like “BONEY!Sports” site or something… or maybe I won’t
bye
I’ll miss you Boney – in a very “no homo” way.
Isn’t this the 5th or 6th time he’s “left forever”?
Yeah, get ready for the emergence of “BONEY’s not here”, “Yenob”, and other shenanigans.
Hey, Boney’s Back!
We’ll miss you Boney!
(Can I say “WE”, meaning ME representing the YAYSPORTS! Nation, when I only comment when our teams are in the playoffs? Disingenuous? Yes? No? Pie?)
We’ll see you next time a Detroit team is doing anything! No hockey please.
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