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This team needs some continuity at manager as the team continues through this youth movement.

Neither one of you fruitcakes have any idea what the Indians need or are doing.

I think the Indians should get liquored-up and hit the sweat lodge.

QUOTE(#5):

Originally posted 10:54 AM ET  09.12 by It's a bag, man

I think the Indians should get liquored-up and hit the sweat lodge.

What do you think Spring Training really is?

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Originally posted 07:53 AM ET  09.12 by SlinkyRedfoot

Neither one of you fruitcakes have any idea what the Indians need or are doing.

Now THAT'S the TRUTH

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Originally posted 10:48 AM ET  09.12 by Grossedout9

Laughs........um if i am not wrong I assuming your speaking of yourself........Anyways look at the past two years last year and this year. Look at how he conducted a team withthe players he had. It hasnt be bad under they current condition. Gesh not having a good day are we :? want a cookie

I can't even fully understand you, but I think I've got the jist. You are wrong. You really don't know much about the Indians, or what Wedge has done during his time here. He hasn't been bad under the current condition? The Indians were some experts pick to win the World Series -- where are they? How about the talented team he had in 2006? Now, I'm not blaming Wedge entirely, but I don't think he's good. He makes good tactical decisions, but I don't think he does that good inspiring the players.

I think you know less about the Indians than Roy does.

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Originally posted 11:04 AM ET  09.12 by Grossedout9

No your speaking fiction.....you don`t have the concept thinking abilty to understand fact......

Go take another Engrish crass, change your avatar and then come back, numbnuts.

Where the hell is Ping -- I'd love to see the dialoge between him and grossedout.

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Originally posted 11:28 AM ET  09.12 by Grossedout9

Can you ever keep a story topic without getting off subject? sadly No.........posting 3 in a roll shows it..........shakeshead........

Yeah, if I were you I would have gone that route, too, as opposed to being on topic and addressing post #9.

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Originally posted 11:04 AM ET  09.12 by Grossedout9

No your speaking fiction.....you don`t have the concept thinking abilty to understand fact......

This is, in your mind, on topic? It's not even English.

Slinky, I think you're just kind of wrong about this year. The season was lost primarily because of the following reasons:

1. Pronk SUCKED and then got hurt. He was probably playing hurt the whole year
2. Martinez hit for NO power at all and sucked. Zero HR from a 3 or 4 hitter for 1/3 of the year.
3. Garko was awful the first half of the year.
4. Westbrook was lost for the year: Sowers was awful.
5. Carmona was lost for most of the year and has lost his control.
6. Cabrera's bat fell off the face of the earth.
7. Betancourt's ERA is like 6.00 instead of the 1.50 or so that it was last year.

The only reason they are bad that is Wedge's fault is that he insists on playing Franklin Gutierrez and Andy Marte way too much even though they are terrible and don't really show signs of getting better. They don't play Jamey Carroll enough, and I don't know why because he gets on base very well. Really, only a few players on the Tribe have played to expectations: Cliff Lee (way above expectations), Sizemore (quite a bit above), Ben Francisco, Peralta, Aaron Laffey (back end starter), and Rafael Perez has been ok.

Wedge has actually gotten better in what I feel was always his weakness of leaving starters in the game too long when his bullpen was so super awesome. Now he's doing pretty well with everything. I just wish he would bench Gutierrez and Marte and either give the Tribe the best chance to win (with BenFran and Carroll), or maybe pull someone up from AAA and give them a shot.

Yeah, they might have been a little better had they kept CC and Blake, but those trades were definitely smart moves and they had to make them--those trades could potentially pay off for the next 6+ years. The team has played below their expected W-L record, but I think that has more to do with a **** bullpen than the manager.

Wedge isn't a good manager. The Tribe looks like they need someone to fire them up for every game, and I don't think he does that. He also sucks at managing the bullpen..... not that he has much to work with.