Indians Tidbits (2007 Season)

[Big Papa]

Originally Posted by OSUBasketballJunkie

CPD

INDIANS INSIDER
Choo hears boos for wrong reason


Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Minneapolis -- Outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, promoted to the big leagues Monday by the Indians, has heard boos before.
Last week, the boos took on a disturbing tone. When Class AAA Buffalo, the Indians' top farm club, played in Toledo, fans apparently associated him with Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 of his schoolmates before killing himself April 16.
"Some fans said bad things," said Choo before Monday's game. "It's pretty close to my name. My name is spelled Choo, and his name is Cho."

WTF is wrong with people? Are people that ignorant? Yeah, he's the guy that did the shooting, he's playing right field today for Buffalo. Or hey, his name sounds the same, maybe he is a relative, let's boo him. How pathetic.

[Big Papa]

Originally Posted by NFBuck

Well, we get the 7-3 win in 12 innings. Bullpen did a great job keeping us in it until the bats came alive in the 12th. Needed this one because tomorrow it's Carmona against Santana.

I can't believe Hernandez pitched 2 innings and did not give up a run.

[JCOSU86]

Originally Posted by redskinbucksfan

It's nice to see a couple of wins, and it's early, but there are some unsettling things with this team.

1) When Blake plays first, the entire infield sans Victor is basically batting under .200
2) These guys have the foot speed of a beer league softball team
3) These guys could take defensive lessons from a beer league softball team
4) Beer league softball teams hit far better with runners on base
5) There are a couple of definite holes in the bullpen (although they did a nice job yesterday)
6) Andy Marte is overmatched at this level
7) If Peralta ever sees a pitch that is not a low and away breaking ball, shame on the AL
8) Trot Nixon is being held together by duct tape and superglue
9) Too many K's
10) No plus throwing arms in the OF

The good:
1) No one has run away with the division out of the gates like the last 2 years
2) Travis Hafner is terrifying at the plate
3) No one is more fun to watch than Grady Sizemore
4) Bewtween the weather and the lack of true home games, the hitting should turn around
5) Based on ability to make soft tossing lefties look like Warren Spahn, I'm damn glad Sowers and Cliff Lee play for us. They'd go 8-o with a 1.47 ERA against us if they were Royals
6) KC is good enough to be a thorn in the rest of the division's side, not just ours
7) Starting pitching looks good, especially since Lee is coming back
8) CC looks like a bona fide ace so far
9) I've got a good feeling that Cleveland fans will love Barfield by the end of the season
10) Young players with experience mean a few guys could be entering thier primes simultaneously.

Excellent points.

Originally Posted by Big Papa

WTF is wrong with people? Are people that ignorant? Yeah, he's the guy that did the shooting, he's playing right field today for Buffalo. Or hey, his name sounds the same, maybe he is a relative, let's boo him. How pathetic.

I agree. It reminds me when I was in the Navy during the Gulf War. There was a report on the Washington DC news that this guy named Saddam Hussein was getting crank calls in the middle of the night and being harrassed. No matter that the guy was from Morrocco and had nothing to do with invading Kuwait. Unless of course the dictator Sadam was working at an North African food market in Washington DC

[exhawg]

Originally Posted by Big Papa

I can't believe Hernandez pitched 2 innings and did not give up a run.

Hopefully he just had a lot of rust to knock off.

[OHSportsFan9]

AL Central Division Leaders: Cleveland Indians.

nice outing by Carmona. The Indians are looking pretty hot right now, though it's only 1/10th of the season down.

[NFBuck]

Carmona gets the W over Johan.

The Choo booing is a goddamned embarrassment. I [censored]ing hate stupid Americans.