Jumpin’ Joe at his best as Tribe Win

Jumpin’ Joe! Wow that was a true heart ticker, and it must suck even worse to be a Royal fan.

Cliff Okay, Still Wins!: Cliff was far from great tonight, but he did a good job with keeping his team in the game and just staying with in himself. Didn’t have his control, but smart pitchers know how to give you six solid on those nights.

Walked only one, did give up 10 hits, and four runs with three punchouts.

That is Cliff Lee’s 8th win of the year boys and girls. Pretty good, yes yes. His ERA is still under 2 at 1.87.

Betancourt and Perez did their jobs tonight, very good and it was up to Joseph to close it out. A double by HERRman(German) made it a little nerve wracking and Jose Guillen almost killed us at the end.

It was Grady Sizemore’s outstanding catch in center saved the game.

Also point out the great play by Ben Francisco to get DeJesus at 2nd. Because Gathright wasn’t running full steam, the run didn’t score before the out and we avoid that tie game.

Hey Marte: Marte has been consistent in his little time. Hits in this three game stretch, scored a run tonight, woulda had an RBI if Asdrubal Cabrera didn’t run himself out of a double.

The big men tonight were Casey Blake and Grady Sizemore though.

Sizemore started the game off with a solo jack, and he now leads the team in RBI. He then homered later in the game to bring in two more. Grady was outstanding tonight, and he even is stepping up and becoming more of a leader with the other guys.

Well, co-leads. Casey Blake wouldn’t be out-done as the road monster returned. His two run jack was huge in the sixth inning. Both him and Grady have the 29 RBI.

Tomorrow, C.C. takes the mound against Kyle Davies.

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Hafner Placed on DL; HERE COMES CHOO

Well, he was supposed to be able to return for today’s game. But just when you think that happens, the Indians place him on the 15 Day DL.

The move is retroactive to Monday, so he is eligible to come off next Sunday.

To take his spot on the roster, they have brought up Shin-Soo Choo from his rehab assignment in Buffalo.

Taking a closer look at walkup music

We occasionally like to have some fun here, look at stuff like bucket kicking and fun junk like that. Plus with the negativity and losing lately, it’s nice to get some humor in our baseball lives.

The Indians site has linked to a story on the walk-up tunes for some of the batters. I’ve always been fascinated in that type of stuff. I’m not into music, but it’s funny to just make fun of silly songs or whatever. There was a point where Travis used to come up to the Brock Lesnar entrance theme, and I found that pretty funny.

Here is the article that gets some information from the players and a professional critique on what they pick. Dellucci’s is pretty funny, and while he hasn’t used the Godfather Theme yet, I’d love to hear him do it.

Garko’s explanation is probably the best, and I can’t say I wouldn’t do the same thing. Just let C.C. pick it.

“(Pitcher) C.C. (Sabathia) picks my walk-up songs. He listens to better music. I just go to and ask what I should go to now, and he always has something good for me. He pays attention on the days that he’s not pitching on which songs I hit good with and which ones I should stick with and which ones I should not go with.” (MLB.com)

Masa Is Pretty Weird

So….

Masa Kobayashi is a pretty weird dude.

Actually he isn’t, but he does some weird things.

It may be the Japanese way, or some sort of secret Japanese way of healing or some deal like that.

But it is pretty weird.

That picture you see there is the back of Masa. Those purple circles are indescribable.

It turns out he uses a ten suction cup machine on his back for some reason.

Anyway… Here is a nice little story about Kobayashi and his adjustment to the Unite States and his new team.

Picture credit to Chuck Crowe of the Cleveland Plain Dealer