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Underdogs ... again: But Indians don?t mind the role of spoiler
Thursday, October 11, 2007
By Andy Call
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
CLEVELAND The Indians are getting used to the underdog role.
In fact, in some ways, they?re beginning to like it.
?I absolutely think we feed off that,? veteran right-hander Paul Byrd said Wednesday as the Indians prepared to work out at Jacobs Field. ?It means something to you when the other team is supposed to win and you don?t get a lot of credit. We?ll just have to go there and try to upset them, I guess.?
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Sabathia-Carmona factor a big one for Francona
JIM INGRAHAM, Morning Journal Writer
10/11/2007
BOSTON -- Let's just say that C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Carmona, the Indians' two 19-game winners, have gotten Boston manager Terry Francona's attention.
''People don't realize what a good athlete and what a great kid C.C. is,'' Francona said. ''Obviously we're not rooting for him, but anyone who knows him knows what a great kid he is. What we need to do, though, is drive his pitch count up the way the Yankees did.''
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Staff has Indians feeling good about chances
By DAVID S. GLASIER, Journal Register News Service
10/11/2007
CLEVELAND -- Indians pitching coach Carl Willis has reason to be pleased as the Indians prepare to face Boston in the American League Championship Series.
Starting pitchers C.C. Sabathia and Paul Byrd posted victories in the American League Division Series as the Indians sent the Yankees packing in four games. Fausto Carmona pitched well in Game 2, but did not get the decision in an extra-inning victory.
Sabathia will get the start in Game 1 of the ALCS, scheduled for 7:10 p.m. tomorrow at Fenway Park.
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Indians can learn from stress test in New York
Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:56 AM
By Scott Priestle
The Columbus Dispatch
 Mark DuncanAssociated Press
Indians third baseman Casey Blake plays catch in the rain during a short workout in Jacobs Field.
CLEVELAND -- Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner is not one for sightseeing, even in a city as lively as New York. He had extra reason to stay inside last weekend, when the Indians were in town to play the Yankees in an American League divisional series.
"When the games were over, you were mentally drained," he said. "There's so much riding on every pitch. I always looked at all the off days during the playoffs and thought, 'Why do you need all those?' Now I know why."
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Shapiro knew the direction
By Tim Brown, Yahoo! Sports
October 10, 2007
BOSTON ? There were always those stretches of highway, those uncomforting signposts warning him to go back, to reconsider.
Mark Shapiro might have too, had it not taken so long to smooth and pave that road, had it not made so much sense then, had he not believed so much in it now.
And, still?
Those 94 losses in 2003. The fall to fourth place in 2006, just when everyone seemed to be getting it. First the bullpen would go bad and then the defense, then it would all fit and almost nobody would show up at the downtown ballpark.
"There definitely were a lot of nights that drive home was a long drive," he said, "and you question it."
On the night the Cleveland Indians would return to the American League championship series after a decade away, eliminating the New York Yankees and setting the game's cornerstone franchise afire, Shapiro killed an hour watching batting practice from the visitors' dugout at Yankee Stadium.
He has been general manager of the Indians since late 2001, when John Hart left for Texas. Since then, the Indians have had their moments of hope and pain, of good baseball and bad. But, there had been nothing like clearing out Yankee Stadium on the second Monday of October, nothing like putting a team on the field over four games that was not only better than the Yankees, but significantly better.
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