civ ollilavad wrote:I can't come up with any reason why we recalled Diaz when Donald is available.

And time to rotate back of the bullpen guys with some people in Columbus. Actually it would have been nice if McAllister had been around for weekend long relief.

Donald is a stopgap shortstop only. I think the better question is why the Indians are keeping Donald and Phelps around, when neither profiles as a future regular here. This is going to be another case where they allow potential assets to rot in AAA for 3 years instead of dealing them for help.

What's the old saying? "In Cleveland, pennant fever is a 24-hour virus?" These guys totally pissed away all their momentum with 3 hideous pitching performances--amazing thing is that this makeshift lineup should have won twice.

So please media, no more bitching about how the fans aren't showing up. They don't believe. And they have been given ample reason to not believe.

If that is the case then Cleveland does not deserve a major league team.

rusty2 wrote:If that is the case then Cleveland does not deserve a major league team.

Apropos, considering we so rarely have a major league quality team.



It is fun contending, and I have been watching alot of the team so far and enjoying the season. But lets be honest. Any team starting the season with bats like Duncun and Kotchman starting at key offensive positions like LF and 1B in the A.L. isn't really serious about contending. As usual with our current brass, they were hoping to catch lightning in a bottle and get lucky. They don't seem to grasp the concept that you make your own luck, and it is no coincidence, in my opinion, this team seems to be unlucky quite often.

Fortune favors the prepared, and when you enter a season counting on guys who are rarely healthy, enter a season with no depth despite their injury history, counting on guys at key offensive positions who have rarely ever hit, you are pretty ill prepared.

Having said that I will continue to enjoy following this team and hope we can start getting some good luck, despite a front office who has done little to create their own.

But Donald is a true utility player 2B,SS,3B.and possible OF. Can Diaz do that?

Hannahan hurt something else and this time he's on the DL. Chisenhall up, is DH today. Ascensio released. Tomlin back on the roster starts today. Which means after the bullpen was used pretty heavily over the past 3 games, we will be one man short in the pen today.

1-2-3 for Tomlin in the first. Former Tribe skpper Joe Adcock on the hill for the Royals.

KIPNIS!!!!!!

Baron is referring to a bases loaded single that put the Tribe up 3-2 in the bottom of the 3rd; then singles by Lopez and Kotchman made it 5-2 and Adcock was replaced. Lonnie Chisenhall had opened the inning with a homer in his first 2012 AB.

6-4 Tribe in the top of the 7th; Hagadone just walked some really bad hitter with one out. Tomlin lasted 2 homers and a triple. Lopes singled in our most recent score.

stealand a single and it's 6-5 for the top of the KC order.

Alex Gordon GIDP to end the inning. Tribe up by 1 with 2.5 to go.

Tribe now up by 3.

A couple errors help Tribe go back up by 3 in the 7th.

Vinnie relieves and fans a pair, but then walks Moustakas and Francouer singles.

Which brings up cleanup htter Eric Hosmer who homered earlier today.

Fly to left (deep? shallow? against the wall? soft pop? I don't know) ends the threat.