Will he stay or will he go now......

I must apologize to all of you for the recent departure. Thanks for the encouragement from all of you who have written in the past few weeks. And also thanks for the many Cleveland Indians fans that I have met in the past few months who live right here in Mississippi. When I set out to do this, I never thought it would be so real. I especially never thought it would be so tough to write a post about a loss.

But I understand that a loss is not the worst thing in the world. Just today, I saw something scroll across the bottom of ESPN saying that the Indians had traded with Atlanta for C - Sal Fasano. Why is this important to me? Well first of all, he is being traded from the Braves and their AA club is in my home town here in Mississippi. Secondly, if you do any research at all, you will be able to tell the he might possibly have one of the top 4 mustaches of all time. No kidding.

So we start fresh tonight, however, I will be filling in the previously skipped posts throughout the next few days, so go back anytime to check them out. I mean..... only if you're really a Tribe fan....and really bored.

On to tonight.......

Cliff Lee is on the hill again tonight. Trying to hammer down his 11th win this season. It's still disturbing to me that Borowski is still our team's leading saver with 5 saves. At least the hitting is finally starting to somewhat show up.

From everything that I have heard of read, Cliff Lee is quite possibly one of the best humans on Earth. If you think back only to last season, you can remember him being the goat. The guy being sent back to the minors to "find himself". Well good for you Cliff, good for you. I understand that it was during that time that Cliff discovered that there were more important things in life than baseball. And, in turn, that's when he actually started to play with no worries. I think you see that so many times in sports that just go unnoticed. And it's a shame.

The most important sports-town in my life is definitely Cleveland. The most important sports team in my life is definitely the Cleveland Indians. However, as loud as I yell when we prosper, or as much as I hurt when we fail, at the end of the day, it is just sport. And I think that Cliff Lee has realized that. And that is what makes him human. And that is also what has made him succeed this year.

As far as tonight, me patiently watching a baseball game on a computer (ugh), nothing sticks out more to me than the batting averages. Let's look.....(.266,.279,.299,.254,.298,.229,.269,.229, Cliff Lee=pass).

Bottom of the 8th, Betancourt comes in....and gives up a double to "Stupid" Jeff Kent, driving in a run.

Cle-4 LA-1 - prompting Wedge to pull Betancourt to bring in Perez........who in-turn gives up another single to drive in another run.....4-2. Perez strikes out LaRoche. Perez strikes out a high school junior to end the 8th.

Cle-4 LA-2- Borowski is in....uh oh. Runners on second and third. K. Infield single - Berroa scored.

Cle-4 LA-3- Borowski is intentionally walking Kemp. Stupid Jeff Kent drives in a run.

Cle-4 LA-4 - Thanks Joe for not losing it.. Finally...... Extra innings.....Carroll walks...Francisco singled (Carroll to 2nd)...Garko singles. (Carroll to 3rd, Francisco to 2nd)....Double play....Peralta doubled to deep right. scoring Garko and Gutierrez. Blake walked.. Inning over.

Cle-6 LA-4 - Enter-Kobayashi.....Ground Out......Ground Out.....Single...Ground Out!!!

Cleveland - 6

LA dodgers - 4

POG - Everyone other than Joe Borowski