I really would be interested in seeing results of a survey of 20-40 year olds in NE Ohio to see what sports team they follow, watch on TV, listen to on the radio and buy tickets to see.

It seems very likely that baseball's future in the area is of very short duration. Indians in Cleveland will probably die with us fans who remember Rocky Colavito.

So the game is on TV in MN, and I have the Extra Innings package, BUT b/c STO elected not to televise this game, it's blocked out for me

2-1, good guys, end of 4th

3-3 bottom of the 6th, 2 on, 2 out for Neal. His last time up with 2 on and 1 out he flew into a DP with Kotchman thrown out at the plate.

Neal strikes out.

From Kotchman on down today, this lineup will go down as the Murdered Row.

6 guys under .232

And this time Neal fans to end the inning.

Impressive Tribe lineup today.

32 out virtual rookie Vinnie Rottino leadoff hitter.
Estblished Major league hitters Kotchman and Lillibridge hitting 5th and 6th (each has an RBI).

Cody Allen in for Kluber. Last 11 2/3 he's been touched for 10 runs after a 13 shutout inning career start. Let's see how he adjusts. He has back of the bullpen potential. In fact that's the only area in which the Tribe has depth at the big leagues and upper minor league levels.

Still tied.

Lillibridge at SS, with his daily error. Hannahan erred as well. If I recall way back when the team was winning most of the time, our defense was among the best in the league. That's also gone to hell.

We avoid the sweep!

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?conte ... 3&c_id=cle

..............WE WIN!!!

And we're back into a 4th place tie!!!

And our magic number to lose less than 100 is 1.

Did y'all catch those batting averages?

Holy cow.

Check out the Baltimore Orioles averages. Really not much better.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore;_y ... =320918112

Indians BA - .247 Orioles - .247

Indians OBP - .318 Orioles - .311

Indians SLG - .380 Orioles - .414

Indians OPS - .698 Orioles - .725