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Winter Meetings: Day 2
Welcome to Day 2 of the Winter Meetings here in the land of walking, talking mice. After two Meetings here at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin resort, I am now a pro at navigating my way around...
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Sizemore watch begins
And so it begins, the weekly monitoring of Indians center fielder Grady Sizemore. He was among the position players who took the fields at the Indians’ player development complex on Monday, taking...
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Finding Fausto
When Indians starter Fausto Carmona headed home to the Dominican Republic for the offseason, manager Manny Acta made sure the pitcher left him with his phone number. Otherwise, it might have taken...
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The kids are all right
It’s the same story every spring. The regulars get their work in during the early innings of exhibition games and the fate of the game is handed to players with uniform numbes that reach into ths 70s...
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Waiting to exhale
There were a few gasps here in the Goodyear Ballpark pressbox during today’s first inning, when Indians catcher Carlos Santana tried to score on a close play at the plate. Santana singled with two outs...
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Pom[eranz] Wonderful
Mike Pomeranz felt it was time to teach his son how to throw a curveball. Not just any curve, either. It was a spike curve, thrown with the index finger bent and dug into the seams. So Mike began...
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Gone with the wind
The wind was howling at the Indians’ player development complex Monday morning and it didn’t let up when the team arrived to the Ballpark at Camelback Ranch in Glendale. It was raging out to left field...
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Luis muy bueno
A few days ago, when a strong wind was ripping through the Ballpark at Camelback Ranch, Indians manager Manny Acta was ready to add a few asterisks to some wind-aided blasts that left the yard. On...
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“It’s Spring Training.”
I know how some die-hard fans can get at this point in Spring Training. We’re about midway through camp, so it seems like a good time to study the box scores and see what jumps out. If somebody isn’t...
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Red Cedar Faithful Rejoice!
This has been a strange college basketball season for me and my fellow Michigan State fans and alums. Up is down. Down is up. The Spartans lived on the bubble. I didn’t know what it was like to root...
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