I Moved On Yas

The link for the new look Tribe Talk is...

tribetalk.chroniclet.com

It's way cooler, and I was able to get all of my old posts to the new site. However, I lost all the comments.

Feel free to let me know what you think about it, and keep coming back...I'm having a lot of fun with this.

Bear With Me

I'm trying to move this blog over to a new URL to actually have it on the Chronicle's website.

I suck at stuff like this so bear with me, I'll let you know when I'm finished.

Inside the Brain of C.C.

Check out this link. It is espn.com's Page 2's opinion of what is going on in C.C. Sabathia's brain.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=brain/080417&sportCat=mlb

Indians 11, Tigers 1

Finally. Finally. We get the all around effort from all parts of the team. This was truly a breath of fresh air. Here are my thoughts from the game:

• Obviously I loved what I saw from Fausto. If he is going to be our ace next year, he does what aces do: they stop losing streaks. He was masterful in his 6.2 innings, and again looked pretty much unhittable.
• Ryan Garko and Travis Hafner both went yard for the Tribe, and they're starting to snap out of this power drought they are on. Hafner almost took another one out, but it curled foul. He absolutely CRUSHED the ball, for whatever it's worth.
• This Jamie Carroll is a nice little ballplayer. He hustles, he plays hard, and it seems like he genuinely cares. He's the homeless man's version of Grady, and this year's version of Mike Rouse.
• What an at bat by Victor in the 7th. He fouled off approximately 2, 742 pitches before hitting an RBI double off the wall in left field. They finally are starting to make pitchers work.
• The current bums of the lineup (Casey Blake, Jhonny Peralta, Jason Michaels, and Franklin Gutierrez) went a combined 6-17 with 4 RBI. Not the best, but I'm not gonna complain.
• Did you guys see that Subway commercial where you can earn Wahoo Bucks or something like that? Well the Subway restaurant they showed us had a number of palm trees in front of it. They might want to feature a restaurant that can actually exist around here.
• There is definitely going to be a bruhaha (is that right, Bryan?) between the Indians and Tigers at some point this season. Not a game goes by where multiple people aren't plunked by a pitcher. How Bobby Seay didn't get thrown out last night after hitting Grady AFTER both benches being warned is beyond me.

Was this the game that snaps the Tribe out of this funk? Are they gonna take off like we all thought they would? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, as well as your opinion as to what this blog should be called. Guess nobody wants these tickets...

Yankees Bury Bernie Williams Under New Stadium For Good Luck

There is a hilarious story on theonion.com today, here's a short excerpt and the link:

"By giving Bernie this chance, we have once again proven why we are the classiest organization in all of sports," Levine added. "Lesser teams would have overreacted to this whole curse thing and buried Derek Jeter."

Check it out here: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/yankees_bury_bernie_williams_under

Is Cliff Lee Good Again?

In Jayson Stark's column "Rumblings and Grumblings", he goes down the list of some players that are off to a quick start, and determines whether or not they are for real or not. The list goes from the obvious, Justin Upton (for real) to Gabe Kapler (nah). Cliff Lee is on the "more real than not" section of the column, and this is what is said:

"While one executive we surveyed cautioned that Lee's first two starts were both against an Oakland lineup that isn't quite Bash Brother-esque, most people we polled thought his disappointing season last year was a health issue, not a talent issue.
"I think he has to be for real," one scout said. "He's pitched this way before. Now he's showing the same ability again. And the only glitch was when he got hurt. So why wouldn't he be for real?"

Hopefully he keeps this up. If C.C. is going to have a down year, the slack is gonna have to be picked up somewhere, hopefully he can.

Major League Influence

Look at this video from a high school baseball game, and something tells me the movie "Major League 2" has something to do with it:


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This is eerily reminiscent of when Willy Mays Hayes 2 (Omar Epps, not Wesley Snipes) dove over Jack Parkman during the movie. If this guy would've been really cool, he would've yelled "SUCKERRRRRRR!" like Hayes did.