MLB News: Tomlin to DL; Hernandez Recalled
August 14, 2012Box Score: Indians 6, Angels 9
August 15, 2012While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email at tips@waitingfornextyear.com.
We don’t usually link to items from Cleveland.com because we assume you have read them. Make sure you don’t miss this one from Terry Pluto– “I know, the Indians let go of Kotchman and he hits .300 for another team. Look at how Derek Lowe picked up a save for the Yankees with four scoreless innings against Texas Monday night. Well, good for the 39-year-old Lowe.
Rather than move Lowe to the bullpen, the Indians released him and gave the spot to young Cody Allen — who has been terrific. The Indians need to look at Corey Kluber and Roberto Hernandez in the rotation. Hernandez is key because the Tribe has a $6 million option for next season, and they do need starting pitching. The Tribe can replace Kotchman with Russ Canzler (.263, 17 HR, 62 RBI). He was the 2011 Intentional League MVP, and at 26 is either a prospect or he’s not. The Tribe saw a reason to trade for him over the winter.” [Pluto/CLE.com]
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Cleveland Reboot is back, and DK is once again challenging the local media. Carry your banner sir. [Cleveland Reboot]
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“As a kid, Waiters estimates he’d spend “23 of 24 hours” at the playground. It’s hyperbole, but not by much. Dion would consistently hold the court for four or five hours against older players. When he got tired, he’d nap on the bench.
Philly legend has it that out of respect, nobody would go near him while he slept. Oh word, that’s Dion? Leave him alone.
Growing up, Dion actually preferred football to basketball, and also played baseball and soccer. But in what he cites as a key moment, Monique Brown, his mom – Dion calls her “My backbone throughout my entire life” – insisted that he focus only on hoops, which she correctly assessed was his best option.” [Horowitz/Dime Mag]
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Replacing the ‘Brew Crew’– “It was the most celebrated haul of his entire tenure, with apologies to the 2002 class headlined by Justin Zwick and Maurice Clarett. Minutes after Ohio State’s loss to LSU in the BCS title game, high school senior Terrelle Pryor called Tressel to assure him the Buckeyes would be back on that stage – and they would win.
The Brew Crew, along with Pryor, brought the star rankings in bunches and promised to deliver more of that same reloading. They were successful up until scandal yanked their senior year aspirations out from under them. Still, Pryor’s promise to Tressel came true: The Buckeyes did win* in the Superdome against an SEC foe.
But that’s just a fraction of the story. That previously-scheduled reconstructive surgery for 2012 has now been downgraded to the elective and cosmetic variety. The class of 2008 didn’t leave such big shoes to fill after all. It barely left any shoes.” [Ramzy/Eleven Warriors]
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The value of an NBA coach– “Which brings me to my opinion on Coach Scott; I’ve never met Byron Scott but from what I’ve seen he seems like a very well spoken charismatic kind of guy. He has a strong work ethic and from the stories of “Camp Scott” he sure seems to want to instill this in his players. Most importantly though for the Cavaliers he has a history as a coach of developing young talented point guards into Hall of Fame talents and for getting the absolute most out of young talented teams. In my opinion his two runs to the NBA finals with the New Jersey Nets were a complete reflection of how his coaching and guidance can lead a young talented team in the right direction. I felt when New Orleans let him go he was being fired due to the failures of the front office to put together the right pieces for them to excell as well as being the teams scapegoat when Chris Paul got hurt.
Coach Scott seems to have a great relationship with Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson. Both players seem to be high character guys with a fire in them to improve all the time and stay humble. This relationship should not be taken for granted and with another young talented player joining the team in Dion Waiters now is the most crucial time for Byron Scott to be part of this team.” [Fear the Sword]
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What if . . . LeBron James had had a strong figure and proven coach he respected when he was here (Scott) instead of a coach he apparently did not have a lot of respect for (Brown).
On the other hand, James probably doesn’t think much of Eric Spoelstra either, and that didn’t matter.
The national media appear to have gotten over their dislike of James and are now in full gush mode. I don’t think the fans will follow suit.
One of the things that I find hilarious is how ESPN and TNT are now full-circle on LeBron and trying to get everyone to come with them. “It’s time to love LeBron again”. But why? Because it’s completely in their best interest to have a new storyline for LBJ. Last year and the year before they got everyone to watch their basketball coverage by painting LeBron and the Heat as villians. The story they manufactured in the playoffs was about a changed LeBron… a redemption. That’s the story they are moving forward with this year and they’re trying so hard to get everyone to come with them. Dwight Howard’s idiocy made it easy for them to say “Oh, the Decision really wasn’t so bad compared to this! We should just forget about it!” The worst is Colin Cowherd, ESPN’s top schill. When he says something, you know the idea actually came from some executive VP. The fact that he masquerades as the voice of the people is hilarious… he’s the voice of ESPN management. Okay I guess I’ve ranted enough… this is a topic that gets me fired up.
i live in a region where colin cowherd is not available on radio. like, i would have to dvr his show if i wanted to hear him.
sharing this, pat, because it is a message of hope.
Cowherd is voice of the people? The only thing I like about him is that he is honest about the fact that he is a complete bandwagoning crony. He likes whoever is best at that moment (team/player) and makes no apologies for it. I think it’s a terrible way to go through sports fandom, but he’s pretty honest about that assertion.
as far as the “LeBron isn’t so bad” angle they have going now, I do not think that most fans are going to buy it. I think the Chris Paul, Melo, Deron, and Dwight sagas have cemented the Heat as the “everything that is wrong about sports” team rather than chipped away at it.
they created a monster and now others are trying to create their own monsters to compete (i.e. the Batman effect)
“The class of 2008 didn’t leave such big shoes to fill after all. It barely left any shoes”
well sure, they traded all those shoes for tat’s.
I love to listen to sports talk radio on my lunch break, but for a while my only two options were Cowherd and Stephen A. Smith (until I caved and got XM radio). I took the lesser of two evils and tried listening to Cowherd regularly. You are right that he makes no bones about loving stars and loving the big market teams. But from time to time he likes to remind everyone of how “management” wanted him to do this or that, and he wanted to tell the people the truth so that’s what he did. Over time though, I realized that he doesn’t do that… he’s really like the little tag-along boy who wants to be liked by his cooler and more athletic peers. He allows his opinion to be changed constantly by the guests on his show, but when regular joes call in, he uses his microphone like a bully and belittles everyone who disagrees with him. The fact that he does not allow his opinion to be changed by a compelling and factually correct argument shows me that he’s really not an intelligent person, and I lost all respect for him.
These places exist? I yearn for them to be the norm.
I definitely agree with this… if you only watched ESPN, you’d probably think that the country loves LeBron now, but I’m pretty sure a poll would show that the masses still dislike him and dislike the Heat.
Anybody know why they call it the Brew Crew?
BTW, that “We don’t rebuild, we reload” line has been around since Woody Hayes.
don’t get me wrong. i have no respect for him either 🙂
I figured… I know you to be too intelligent for that. I think I just wasn’t done ranting yet. Coupled with his Las-Vegas-style moral ambiguity, I am not at all a fan of that guy.
so, continuing with the Batman analogy…
Boston’s big-3 really would be Batman (put team together first out of the blue and created the impetus for others to match)
Laker’s Pau trade made them Penguin (conniving and dangerous but ultimately flawed)
Heat are obviously the Joker (perfect villain to hate)
Knicks are Mr. Freeze (scary on the surface and by name but really no threat at all)
Clippers are the Riddler (fun to have around but really a complete joke)
Nets are Catwoman (so desperately want to be as powerful as Batman and at times looked like it was possible, but just cannot get the job done)
Lakers now are Bane (extremely intimidating and powerful, but some major flaws that could be their undoing lying just beneath the surface)
Mavericks are Robin. Always a secondary story even at the heights of their greatest accomplishments.
Paul Silas could be said to have been in the Byron Scott mold (i.e. veteran, hard-boiled, NBA champion, etc) and it didn’t seem to matter to Lebron. He just has some unfortunate character issues that have never worked themselves out, and may not ever I’m afraid.
https://waitingfornextyear.com/2008/02/introducing-the-brew-crew/
Named after Michael Brewster. See above link for more details.
This has nothing to do with anything, but I just saw the Denver Broncos depth chart… how happy must Mike Adams be? Instead of being the backup safety in Cleveland he is now the starting safety in Denver, a team with a better than decent chance of making the playoffs.
Hey, thanks a lot, Matt. That’s interesting.
What if the entire organization didn’t allow Lebron to get whatever he wants whenever he wants? Brown was never given a chance to control Lebron because the higher ups made it very clear that Lebron had authority over Brown.