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said in the article possibly Crowe and Lofgren for Bay, meh i dunno, i really like crowe though

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Home run, Cleveland.

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awaaaaaay back, it is......GONE!

do that, for sure. even he continues the 21hr 84rbi pace, and ups his average just a little...i'd take that. then, if he reverts to form...

cross-posted from another forum i frequent, my thoughts..

tribe - shapiro says we're standing pat.

okay, i guess....literally everyone is back, save maybe borowski...however, it's most likely our last year with cc.

i seem to remember 3-4 years ago, larry dolan (owner) saying that 'he'd spend the money when the time is right'...i remember because it was the year that i didn't buy a 10-game season ticket after 2 years of buying them (i figured if he didn't want to spend money, neither would i) from what i see, there's never been a better time to splurge a little...

1. came 1 game from probably winning the world series in 4-5 games.

2. last year with a dominant (ignore the post-season after 250+ innings) #1 starter...

3. 5 extra playoff home games. period. the extra revenue a team gains from having home playoff games is ridiculous. let's say the average ticket price is (i have no idea, just guessing) $100...that's times 43,000 tickets.

so say, 4.3 million ticket revenue times 5 games = 21.5 mill-ish...

that's just TICKETS.

add in beer (i myself spent 80-ish on beers/2 shots on 1 game alone, hell, prolly more like $100, how can you keep track at that point??), food, merchandise, etc...i imagine it was $35-40 million gross, at an absolute minimum. i'd actually love to see statistics on teams' income due to home playoff games..

so now you have to pay players, coaches, staff, beer guys, etc...okay, so let's say you conservatively push $25,000,000 or so total for the playoffs. it's a business, you buy a team to make a profit, and you stash away half into your own checking account.

you still have 12.5 million dollars (which, again, sounds really low) to spend on the team, right?

4. how about carl crawford to leadoff next year??

anyway, obviously i'm a little put-off by shapiro's comments...yes, we're young, and will be a year better next year, rather than a year older, especially with the playoff experience, but isn't now the time another B+/A- type of player would push us over the hump??

i'm optimistic, really i am. even as a cleveland sports fan. tribe 1 game from the world series, cavs played in nba finals, brownies looking better and more exciting week in, week out...

yet, i realize how hard it will be for my first sports love to get through the american league every year. you have to get so lucky over the course of a year and the playoffs to get to where they were this year, and who knows? we could have injuries, or a horrible apr/may and never get back to that point again...

obviously i'm still hurting, and yes, we have everybody back, in most cases for several years, but to not take an opportunity like the one we had: up 3-1, with our number 1a and 1b aces in games 5 and 6, it makes me realize how long of a season it is, and how the Indians will probably forever frustrate me...