Byrd By The Numbers
September 24, 2008Calling on Jerome Harrison
September 25, 2008
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After a 2 week hiatus due to circumstances and a lack of working electricity, the WFNY Podcast returns with a special roundtable edition. New writers DP and Craig join yours truly to take a thorough in-depth look at the State of Cleveland Sports. Which team is the closest to a title? Which is the furthest? How can these teams fix themselves? What are we looking for over the remainder of this Browns season? What pitfalls might the Cavaliers face? We try to answer these questions and so much more.
As always, please send us your questions, comments, thoughts, show ideas, critiques, etc to podcast@waitingfornextyear.com, and once again a special thanks goes out to Bob at Cavs Board for producing the podcast.
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Fifty minutes!?
Hey, it’s hard to stop the Cleveland Sports train once it gets rolling!
I tend to be a bit long-winded. Also, we were all set to talk mostly about the Browns, and when we went into a “short” segment on the Indians. It just steamrolled for much longer than we anticipated.
Plus, after we finished a few verses of 9,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall, we got bored.
Besides, readers got zero minutes of podcast last week, so they needed to get DOUBLE the podcast this week!
To be honest, it was tough to limit it to just 50 minutes. I’m pretty sure this episode could have gone 2 hours before we would have run out of issues to talk about.
@RockKing: Crazy idea, I know, but… How about writing about these issues? 🙂
You should see the three-page recap/notes sheet I wrote about the Tribe that we didn’t even really talk about!
The part of the podcast that bothered me the most was the talk of trading Cliff Lee. I know no one said they wanted to necessarily, but kept talking about selling high. A championship caliber team needs an ace. After the way Carmona has pitched this year, he isn’t one. Cliff is our one bonafide ace. He has been money all year. He is better than CC was last year as he has not imploded down the stretch. You can count his bad starts on one hand. There is no way on earth we should even be thinking of trading this guy.
And I do hope Dolan puts some money into the team this offseason. He had a lot of salary come off the books this year. If he doesn’t put it back into the team, everyone should picket outside the team HQ like Lions fans would do to try and get Millen fired. Dolan has to put some money in the team. We have a lower payroll than the Royals. The Rays are proving you don’t have to have a huge payroll to win, you just have to make good moves. Lets hope Shapiro has it in him.
Good podcast.
Joe Smith was not good at the line though for the Cavs.