Easter Special: Cavaliers at Celtics
April 4, 2010Celtics 117, Cavs 113: Comeback Attempt Sails Wide Left
April 5, 2010While 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
An appropriately-named Tribe preview: “So where does this leave us, as Indians fans heading into the 2010 season? Are we facing a season like 2003 or 2004? I don’t think so. I think we’re looking at 1992, coming off a truly awful season, with a bunch of promising talent in the farm system. Only this time, there is no new stadium around the corner, and there is no economic boom on the horizon. The Indians will not be hip in a few years; if we’re lucky, they’ll be edgy. Just as surely as Jobu can’t hit a curveball, there is no revenue salvation coming in the next few years. We will not have a top-five payroll, probably not even top ten.
So it’s gut-check time, my friends. We may well have two 76-win seasons coming our way now, but they won’t be followed by a jump that brings us within 10% of the Yankees payroll. If we win, it’ll only be because the moves our new GM made worked out really well, and that may or may not happen.” [Jay/Let’s Go Tribe]
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Role playing: “The Cavs don’t have any players other than LeBron who could be considered a true superstar. What Danny Ferry has assembled is a team of excellent role players and second-tier stars who play with LeBron extremely well. As the last two regular seasons have shown, LeBron doesn’t need another superstar to dominate the league over the course of 82 games.
As it stands right now, the Cavs’ “core” — players under 30 who play major roles on the team — consists of Mo Williams, Anderson Varejao, Delonte West, and JJ Hickson. All of them are good, all of them play well next to LeBron, and with the exception of West, all of them have long-term deals with the Cavaliers.” [Cavs the Blog]
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Latest Scout.com Two-Round Mock Draft lands the Browns a pair of Texas Longhorns [Chris Steuber/Scout.com]
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Hope springs eternal… “Today, Cleveland is on its heels, half sobbing, half laughing in hysteria, again, picked to finish dead last in the AL Central. The summer will not pass fast enough this year. Sighing, they recall the evening, late and cold, in 1997, the seventh game of the World Series, they day after my 22nd birthday, perhaps the greatest baseball game that could have been played in Indians history, when Jaret Wright, loose and easy, had pitched 6 1/3 on 3 days rest. Tony Fernandez hits a single that brings Jim Thome and Marquis Grissom home, and with it all hope began to spring forth. Not only was it to erase 49 years of baseball pain – they were on the precipice of vindicating a city for all of its sins. It was 2-1, two outs, bottom of the ninth, and school will never start, rain will never come, sun will warm of your neck forever. Now Edgar Renteria, a product of the Marlins farm system, hits a soft shot over Charlie Nagy. Nagy’s glove just glancing a ball which brings Craig Counsel home and feeds the jaws of defeat – all those sins continue to rest on the shoulders of the Tribe, and grow heavier in the years to come.” [Mike Ma]
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And finally, some Buckeye Spring football is right around the corner… [Eleven Warriors]
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5 Comments
Yes, thanks for that reminder of the ’97 WS Game 7, what a great memory. One of only two games I cried after in my life. (I was 10 years old at the time.) Cried my eyes out all night til I was sick and my mom still made me go to school then next day! If you can guess the other game out of the history of the Cavs, Browns, Buckeyes, & Tribe a huge internet high five is coming your way.
@JK – On Nov. 25, 1979 the Browns lost to the Steelers 33-30 in OT. I was nine years old. I cried and cried. My dad tried to comfort me with the caring sentiment of, “we’re from Cleveland, get used to it.” I never did. I’ve always held out hope despite all evidence to the contrary. So for me its not just hope for a championship but as a tool to stick it to my dad (who I love dearly). As my brother once said to me when the Tribe was in the playoffs, “if the Indians lose, dad wins.”
What is the second game? You gotta tell us.
I think I would be ok with Earl Thomas and Colt McCoy.
I’ll never forgive Jose Mesa for blowing the save. I watched at my then girlfrined’s house. For some strange reason that can only be blamed on the cosmos, we broke up shortly there after. I think that’s around the same time I developed my unquenchable taste for beer. Dang you Joe Table. Dang you to heck!
JK – Was it tears of joy after the Cavs won the Eastern Confernece and Lebron & Z hugged for 5 minutes? Cause I got kind of misty-eyed watching that.
@2 & @ 4 –
Nov. 7th 1998, a Michigan State team that would finish 6-5 comes into Columbus and shocks the most talented team in Buckeye history (imo), #1 ranked, Ohio State 28-24. I was devistated.