Archive for April, 2009

I ate a lot of bacon tonight in an attempt to soothe myself after a particularly troubling and maddening Indians loss. Why bacon? Because bacon is delicious. I was not about to eat tomatoes, which would have only infuriated me further. Seriously, the only thing that would have made me feel better would have been if Jensen Lewis were here cooking me the bacon whilst I berated him (or perhaps boxed him about the ears?) for being such a crappy pitcher and all-around jerk. Ok, ok. He had a bad day and it wasn’t (entirely) his fault and really it’s the “trends” of the season are disturbing me. It’s kind of like when you can tell a relationship is going badly and you don’t necessarily want to get the boot. You know it won’t happen right away. So you try to hold on till August (when anything can happen), but kid, it ain’t happening. You can’t ski the K-12.

At any rate, I can’t prove this statistically but the Indians have developed a habit of “finding a way to lose.” That’s what the coaches are always talking about, right? If it’s not the starters screwing up, it’s the relievers. If it’s not the relievers, it’s the starters. Should they both decide to pull it together the hitting and defense go AWOL.

Oh well, the baseball season is absurdly long. And hopefully something good will happen – like getting 20 to 25 new players.