For the record, I have not deleted or edited a post by CALIFLA in over a month. The deletions I posted were the only ones of his that appear in my moderator's log. So if a "higher power" is doing anything with them, they aren't showing up in my log.

Mariners Pull Morales Back After Waiver Claim


By Steve Adams [August 29 at 1:49pm CST]


THURSDAY: The Orioles, who have claimed both Josh Willingham and Mike Morse this week, may also have been the team that claimed Morales, tweets Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun. However, as Jon Heyman of CBS Sports pointed out this morning, Morales was not traded within 48 hours of his claim, meaning the Mariners pulled him back. Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik will now have to decide whether or not to extend a qualifying offer to Morales following the season.

Indians release Brett Myers, Francona tells Hamilton.

civ ollilavad wrote:Indians release Brett Myers, Francona tells Hamilton.

THAT was $7 million of Dolan's $$ that Shaps and Marie Antoinetti completely wasted.


Bet this post will be deleted

I'm of the school that one should not complain, unless offering up a viable solution.

Yes, this one is easy.



Kick Shaps and Marie back to Baltimore, or wherever they may currently claim they played baseball....at least at the high school level. Rusty has yet to offer up proof that his man Shaps really played high school baseball, as Shaps has claimed pubically......

Kudos to MarieAntoinetti for early on opening up and disclosing he played baseball minimally before high school, and then.....never again.

Isn't it great having two non-baseball players of NOT any note controlling YOUR Tribe Fandom??

Tigers opened up the Division lead tonight with a win over Oakland. Billy Beane will get Oakland to the post-season, just the same.

Beane works in the pus hole of the earth, Oakland.


He would never work in the #2 pus hole of the earth, Cleveland.

(OK.....maybe Detroit tops Cleveland)

Here comes the cavalry!

Jason Kubel trade: Diamondbacks trade OF to Indians, per reports
By Matt Sullivan  @MattSullivan79 on Aug 30 2013, 12:19a 1

The Diamondbacks have reportedly agreed to send outfielder Jason Kubel to the Indians, contenders for an American League wild card spot.

The Diamondbacks have agreed to trade outfielder Jason Kubel to the Indians, per Steve Gilbert of MLB.com. For Kubel, Arizona will reportedly receive a minor league player and cash from Cleveland, in a deal expected to be announced on Friday.

The deal was first repored as close by Chris Cotillo of MLB Daily Dish and Nick Piecoro of AZcentral Sports.

Kubel was designated for assignment on Tuesday after hitting just .220/.288/.324 this season over 267 plate appearances. The 31-year-old veteran also struggled defensively with Arizona, costing the Diamondbacks 12 runs with his play in the outfield this season according to the Total Zone (TZ) metric and 8.5 by Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR).

Despite his struggles this season, Kubel has natural appeal for an Indians team that has had trouble scoring runs lately. Over the last two weeks, the Indians have scored just 36 runs, the second lowest total of any team in the American League. Outfielder Michael Brantley and DH Jason Giambi have been major players in the team's recent offensive drought. Brantley has hit just .190/.277/.238 in 48 plate appearances over the last two weeks and Giambi has hit .133/.125/.267 in 16 plate appearances in that time.

Kubel may be struggling this season, but he is a career .265/.330/.456 hitter and only a year removed from a solid .253/.327/.506 line. He would give Cleveland a viable alternative to some of their lesser hitters and given that he was DFA'd he shouldn't prove too costly for Cleveland.

Kubel was designated for assignment on Tuesday after hitting just .220/.288/.324 this season over 267 plate appearances. The 31-year-old veteran also struggled defensively with Arizona, costing the Diamondbacks 12 runs with his play in the outfield this season according to the Total Zone (TZ) metric and 8.5 by Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR).

Tell me again why we need this stiff and why we are willing to pick up the rest of his $7 million dollar salary and $1 million dollar buyout for next year.

from ESPN:

Kubel is making $7.5 million this season in the final year of a two-year, $16 million contract. His deal includes a $7.5 million mutual option and a $1 million buyout for 2014.

The Diamondbacks will pay the "vast majority" of Kubel's remaining salary and buyout and will be getting a lower-tier prospect from Cleveland in the trade, a Major League Baseball source said.

Also, the Indians signed free agent catcher Kelly Shoppach to a minor league deal and assigned him to Triple-A Columbus.

My only problem with this is that Raburn has a leg injury and is replaced with, you got it, another leg injury.

Well the crack Medical staff should get valuable leg injury experience.

The Pittsburgh Pirates....of all teams.....went out and picked up Justin Morneau.....who of course would be an upgrade for the offense over.....let's just say, "Swish," "Cabs," or "Chiz," in Shaps and Marie Antoinetti speak. Even when "Masty" is not on the "bump."


Shaps and Marie were apparently picking bathroom tissue out of their private parts as the mechanics for the Morneau deal went down.

Pittsburgh owned Cleveland in the days of Terry Bradshaw, and many years and Browns seasons later.

Sad that Cleveland and the Shaps and Marie "regime" were bested by Pittspuke, once again.

Just so I am not perceived as a continuous "negative Nellie" (no disrespect to anyone named "Nellie"), I will offer up my look at the positive viable solution....

Dolan should just can both Marie and Shaps. A blind monkey could run this organization better than either of them. Shaps has multiple losing seasons on his resume, and Marie Antoinetti is now clinging on him for the ride with BOTH guys.....Georgetown and Princeton....getting their paychecks from Cleveland Indians Fandom.

And when I say "Dolan," I mean both Paul and Larry.

(no offense to Larry, or Daryl and Daryl) (That's a TV history reference....just explaining for Mt Fan....who might once more offer up thoughts of "incoherence" with regard to my posts......the big lug)

Snook season opens tomorrow for the first time in years.....and I have a baited hook.....

Not a great start to these 9 key games, if one EVER believed in the Shaps and (Marie) Antionetti jokesters.

1-6, with victory on the line.....while Cleveland plays the similar pus hole cities of Atlanta, Detroit and Baltimore. City proper for this post....of course.


I really do not strive to melt spirits with my diatribes about Shaps, Marie Antoinetti and addled Dolan.

Shaps, Marie Antoinetti, Addled D and Cona are melting Cleveland fan spirits WAY more personally than I might be able to do.

And on a tangent, at least Dolan is not as I know at this moment...and place..... of time, looking to possibly spend time in jail as the current Cleveland Browns owner might eventually be doing.

Haslam should be jailed just for the ridicule of having no place kicker on the roster with Game One of the regular season a few days away.

This is a very average team. You can't win if you can't hit.

Big losses for the Tribe:


Cleveland Indians designated SS Juan Diaz for assignment.
Cleveland Indians designated CF Tim Fedroff for assignment.

Edited while a post landed with posting in progress and mission was temporarily sidetracked.

Rusty's chosen boy...Mark Shapiro.....left the stadium about 80% empty tonight for The Tribe Victory in what is still of course a mathematically real post season race.

Shaps. What can I say. I thought his job and claim to fame in Cleveland was trying to sell a snow globe in December on his ball field......AND to SELL GAME DAY TICKETS! Especially when the team is truly in a pennant race!!!

Shameful to have that many open seats tonight....and Rusty your "Cleveland economy" excuses wore thin and off base years ago.

Nice win tonight, and I mean that. If this team makes the post season and gets past a one game playoff, I'll eat crow.

Or whatever bird I am served (tabasco sauce will make anything tasty).

I'm clocking The Tribe at playing .433 ball since August 1st.

TFIR, I've got us at 13-17. Did I do my math, correctly? (in 9th grade Geometry, my teacher acclaimed I was "excellent" at my proof statements)


Just for the memory impaired and Cleveland Fan blindness, this team went 5-23 last August...in 2012. .178 ball, and again TFIR, please check my math.

(TFIR has been and might currently be a Math Teacher....just noting for those who might need a prompt)

Terry Francona was canned by Boston for an epic late season collapse.

Mark Shapiro and Marie Antoinetti hired him, and he lords over another late season collapse.

Go figure.

Two late season collapses with two different managers and a bunch of different players in the past two years.

Only Shaps and Marie Antoinetti are the "constants". (math reference)

Systemic.

Well that was quick. So this collection of banjo hitters and rag arms didnt blow the game bad enough last night and the first thing they talk about is the attendance. You dont fool the fans dolan. This team went to sleep after the all star game and who wants to go. Yea they are in the race. Whatever. I have zero faith and zero interest in this unlikable squad. Every time they get to a big moment they spit the bit and then complain about the attendance. Perez should be let go.