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Originally Posted by robodog
I can't believe just how good our (Cleveland's) pitching is. The $200M Yankee lineup is batting just .120 so far in the series. I mean I knew we had good pitching when I attended the game where we briefly took sole possession of best record, and at the time we had TWO guys over .300 and one of those was like .302. You don't have the best record in baseball with basically one guy over .300 without PHENOMENAL pitching. I'm so much happier than I was in the 90's when we had decent bats but meh pitching, I knew we had little chance of winning it (but damn it we got close, freaking game 7) then but I think if we can get there this time we have a much better chance, experience or not.
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The pitching is that damned good, and look who we have given away and who is coming up.
On the other hand, we also are pretty low on hitting and we're probably going to say goodbye to Blake.
It could be the 90's all over in the reverse order (solid pitching instead of hitting).
If that's what it is I see the same 90's results... good season, close post seasons but no WS rings. The Braves are a great example of this, as are the Athletics.
AS for "acting like we've been there". WE HAVE. However, I am not one to be silent or cool in this aspect. I want to rub the naysayers and doubters faces in it. Too many on this board keep saying "the Indians will lose...." and I take great pleasure in watching them proven wrong and I love big red letters showing they are wrong.
When and if the Indians lose one of the series they can do it to me and I will take it for what it is.... sports.
And sports give us an escape, give us hope, entertainment and we need that in this part of Ohio where fine men and women who are working hard are losing good paying jobs faster than anywhere in the country. Where these men and women are trying hard to achieve the American dream on wages that 20 years ago were embarrassing.
So if my getting exuberant and carried away embarrasses and looks childish, fuck it take it for what it is worth.