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Originally Posted by dylanmarsh
Okay, a few corrections and points to be made here:
- The Reds beat the Red Sox in '75, not '76. (I see you've since corrected it)
- Somehow I doubt the Indians would have beat the Yankees out for any of the division titles if the played in the AL East for the last 10 years.
- Wells is not a fat ass, he's just big boned.
- Ellis Burks is a classy guy, now, but was a primadona for many of his ML years.
- It's been 86 years between championships for God's team not 87.
- The Braves departed Boston because of a sagging economy and the inability to compete with the Red Sox for the fan base. This scenario is similar to the Indians competing with Disney On Ice during the late 1980's. I am shocked that the Indians held on and weathered that storm.
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My typing got ahead of my brain and I did confuse 75 and 76 originally.
In the 90's with Belle, Thome, Ramirez, Lofton, and company we owned the Yankees and I believe (I maybe wrong and I am sure you will correct me) 5 of the 6 years we won the division we had the best record in the AL.
Wells is a fat ass drunk.....lol and I am sure if he were a Yankee you'd agree.
Yeah Ellis was a major pain, but so was Franco, Lofton, Belle, Winfield and so on but except for Belle they all eventually grew up.
As for the 80's yeah, but one must admit that Cleveland was playing really bad baseball. (And yet their all time winning %age is not that far behind the Bosux... and ranks in the top 10 in baseball.... imagine if the 70's and 80's had produced a few .500 teams where they'd be).
As for Disney on Ice.... that was a myth.... truth is they had extremely poor owners that couldn't afford and had no right owning a team..... Gabe Paul took half the team to build the 70's Yankees..... ARt Modell and his Stadium Corp. raped the Indians in rent, and Cleveland is always one of the first to get hit hardest in recessions and one of the last to pull out....
But I still love them and my Reds..... we'll never be the Yankees bald headed step children like Boston.....