9.22.2006

The land of Cleve

I am immensely tired. But that's when all the good blogs are written, right?
I am becoming depressed, and normally you would think it would be caused with my continuing struggles with school, my dead-end job, or my withdrawal from softball (it's been less than 24 hours since I last played) But actually, it's the Cleveland sports scene that's killing me. I've never seen a city so devoid of hope (i've never been to kansas city) The indians were sooooooo disappointing. I banked on them making the playoffs, so I invested in a 20 game season ticket plan with my dad. Needless to say: NOT WORTH IT. It's actually so not worth it, i'm considering of doing it again. But this time with a couple mroe people. The indians are there again. They seem to be on the doorstep of greatness, but everything hinges on the moves they make this off season. I can barely stand to wait. Even though, I feel like the continuing excuse of being a "small market team" is kind of wearing thin. They need to make a big splash! Not just this, bid on the guys coming from injury who might return to there once great form. (Millwood worked out nicely, Aaron Boone did not) So, as the season dwindles, you can just sense the lack of energy coming from this team. Even with the young guys, they are playing lethargic. The last game I went to felt like a funeral. There was no energy, no excitement. The Twins fans were louder than we were.
The Browns 0-2, and I am starting to reseach if there has ever been a team to finish the season at 0-16. If this happens, I would blame this mostly on the AFC North, but the Browns alraedy lost one of maybe 2 games they'll actually be favored. The good thing going for them is, home field advantage might actually mean something. I'll be at the Pittsburgh game and the Kansas City game. Which are both later in the year. So hopefully we'll see that improvement that the press and coaches talked about at the beginning of the season. However, I want to attribute the current browns situation on poor personnel decisions (players) and on a terrible offensive coordinator. No offense, but Carthon is not any good at his job. Actually, I did mean offense, Carthon, you're terrible at your job. You might want to start looking for something to fall back on. You're not going to last through this season.
The Cavs are a bright spot on the scene but only because of Lebron. I liked the draft, didn't like the off season moves. I'm still waiting for Ferry to make a trade that I can say "Hell yes! The man is a genius!" We'll see!
That's the other thing, Shapiro, Savage, and Ferry are all touted as sharp minds with an eye for scouting and sooooooooooooooooo far, i would say it's been wholly unsatisfying on the jobs they have done collectively. I personally think Cleveland sportsfans deserve better. We ever deserve better sportswrites! But I won't go into that right now.
And now I sleep!

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