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02-06-2007, 10:43 AM
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FANLINES
Indians are on in off-season
Team's moves have faithful feeling excited about 2007
Monday, February 05, 2007
Some national baseball analysts are praising the Indians for their off-season acquisitions. Are you confident the team will improve to contender status in 2007?
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The thing about baseball is there are two ways to win: A.) You either need a heck of a lot of talent, typically purchased by the Yanks or BoSox or B.) You need everyone on your team playing good ball for most of the year.
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02-11-2007, 04:59 PM
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Extreme makeover
GM Shapiro hopes new pitchers bring bullpen relief
By Sheldon Ocker
Roberto Hernandez looks to become a setup man for the Tribe this season.
On a slow news day, it has been a favorite question of local radio sports talk hosts: ``Which Cleveland team will be first to win a championship: Indians, Browns or Cavaliers?''
That seemingly innocent query is almost guaranteed to overload the phone lines because it draws on Northeast Ohio's deep-seated feelings of self-loathing and defeatism.
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02-11-2007, 05:25 PM
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Time for answers Can Tribe find them in spring?
Sunday, February 11, 2007
By ANDY CALL
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout.
Hey, just where is "somewhere," anyway, as told in the poem, "Casey at the Bat?" If you're an Indians fan, "somewhere" is Winter Haven, Fla., where pitchers and catchers report for spring training Thursday. The notion of outfielders flipping down sunglasses while sprinting across freshly cut grass to catch fly balls is never quite as appealing as when one is lugging yet another shovelful of snow to the other side of the driveway.
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02-11-2007, 05:43 PM
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Shapiro nearing extension
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
General Manager Mark Shapiro, in the final year of his contract with the Indians, is expected to sign an extension early in spring training, if not before.
Indians pitchers and catchers report to Winter Haven, Fla., on Feb. 15.
Team President Paul Dolan and Shapiro agreed not to start serious negotiations until the 2007 Indians had taken shape. With the addition of six free agents and second baseman Josh Barfield, the Opening Day roster is all but set.
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02-12-2007, 12:55 PM
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Live while I'm young!
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Crowe ready for challenge in outfield
Tribe feels young prospect's athleticism better suited in center
By Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com
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CLEVELAND -- In the field, at the plate and on the basepaths, Trevor Crowe is doing everything in his power to speed up his big-league timetable.
Alas, the timetable can rarely be forced, as Crowe and the Indians came to learn last fall.
Acknowledging an organizational hole at second base and trying to capitalize on Crowe's athleticism, the Indians subjected their former No. 1 pick to a position switch from the outfield to second shortly before the end of the Double-A Akron season. Nevermind that Crowe hadn't played the infield since high school (and even then, by his own admission, his skills in the infield were "mediocre, at best"). This was a shot for a young player to accelerate his rise to the Majors. And all he had to do was field some ground balls and turn some double plays.
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02-13-2007, 08:19 AM
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Tribe PR guy sees potential, better bullpen
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
By Andy Call
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
CANTON TWP. Bob DiBiasio has spent 28 of his 29 years in baseball working for the Cleveland Indians. This means he's mastered the art of looking on the bright side.
The team's vice president for public relations drew a deep breath before beginning Monday's address to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club at the Four Winds restaurant, then fired off a machine-gun round of positives from the 2006 season - all of which actually took place.
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02-13-2007, 08:26 AM
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PAUL HOYNES' SPRING PREVIEW OF THE AL CENTRAL
Stakes high in MLB's best race
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The Indians don't play the best team in the American League Central until May 25. Kenny Rogers, by then, will have been wanded more times than a 70-year-old grandmother going through airport security because of that mysterious substance that kept sticking to his pitching hand during the postseason.
If, by chance, Rogers pitches against the Indians in that three-game series in late May, they should strike immediately against Detroit's 17-game winner. Manager Eric Wedge doesn't have to take the sanctimonious approach that Tony La Russa did after catching Rogers red-handed -- or should that be sticky-handed? -- in Game 2 of the World Series.
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02-13-2007, 08:28 AM
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