The Indians prospect called up this week to spark a suddenly moribund offense might have gone 0-4 in his Major League debut last night, but if it wasn’t for Cord Phelps we’d have poked a straw through the bag of our morphine drip after looking at the Cleveland.com sports page this morning.
Really, take away the two pieces on the Tribe prospect from the sixteen items on the front sports page now and you’re left with: No less than five (five!) items on Terrelle Pryor and/or the scandalized Buckeye football program; two AP rips on LeBron, including a reminder that DeShawn Stevenson is not only someone who were still talking about but that he’s one of the good guys now; there’s an NFL lockout update; a recap of last night’s extra-inning Tribe loss, the latest chapter in the early-June meltdown; a piece on ritualized animal torture; one on a hockey game (!!!); and one on a Texas Rangers draftee who was paralyzed in an outfield collision. Even the article on the Cavs number one pick in this June’s draft reminds us that the Cavs get the number one pick in the year when everybody’s saying the top pick has to be used on a slow pudgy* six-foot tall point guard who played in like six college games. And the only thing left is a piece on how a couple of local high-schoolers were picked in the MLB draft, which is nice, but one of them plays for the Brecksville Bees. BEES!!!
Um. At least somebody’s having fun somewhere.
And there’s always vaca.
But most importantly, the darkest hour right before the light and all that, so something really good is probably going to happen really soon. It’s almost enough to make us wager on the Mavaliers tonight but if it’s not that it’s for sure going to be something, which is pretty exciting, so.
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To honor the launch of ESPN’s new Grantland website, here’s a good read from Deadspin’s Tommy Craggs on why the website’s namesake Grantland Rice “really sucked.” And despite that, we’re still optimistic about the site at least because Rafe Bartholomew was hired as an editor for the site, and you’d see why if you read this adaptation/excerpt on “The Legend of Black Superman” from Bartholomew’s book on “the Phillippines’ unlikely love affair with basketball” (Disclosure: Bartholomew is our former roommate’s cousin not even kidding).
Which is all for today. Hope everyone has a decent one.
*Sort of a joke.






