Comments on: Indians fire manager Eric Wedge and entire coaching staff

By: The Mathews Compound Bow

The Mathews Compound Bow — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:56:44 +0000

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By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:13:07 +0000

Any discussion of the Indians should start and end with a look at the economy in Northeast Ohio. The fans expect perennial success, but the market will not sustain the kind of spending that builds championship teams. Watching Mark Shapiro try to put together a competitive roster each year (and succeed more often than not) is like watching that survivor guy on reality TV assemble a shelter in the wilderness. You marvel at how his ingenuity can conquer adversity, and you only wonder at what he could build if he had more than twigs and grass at his disposal.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:27:16 +0000

1. 3rd base coach Joel Skinner has been with the Indians since before Wedge and was making the same mistakes then.
2. The Idians batting coach was a personal friend of Eric Wedge’s and couldn’t teach streak hitters to be more consistant.
3. The pitching coach started off the year attepmting to change how Carmona was pitching, which caused the problems with his delivery.
4. Cliff Lee wanted to leave because he and Wedge disagreed on Lee’s performance. Lee wanted to finish games and Wedge was insistant on a setup man then closer. (roughly 10 games were lost for Lee by our relief pitchers.) He should never have been hired!!!
The funny thing is I’ve talked to spotswriters for major publications, e.g. sporting news; and they seem to be aware of our internal problems, but can’t voice it past their editors… You’d think that our local newscasters would be better, but the sportswriters that I know here follow the same rules…
Truth is the only reason we have teams is to round out the league… MLB, NBA, NFL…
WE ARE THE LARGEST MARKET NATIONWIDE, not here in Cleveland, but there are many transplanted Clevelanders nationwide. There are resturants and pubs nationwide that broadcast Cleveland sporting events that rely on the business… And the networks hate it.
Look at the Atlanta/Cleveland World Series touted as boring by the network affiliates who couldn’t wait till it was over, (Costas said that); it was the highest rated World Series… When Yankees and Mets played, they rammed it down your throat, lowest ratings ever… All I gotta say is think about it.

By: D.G.

D.G. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:08 +0000

Shapiro should have also been fired.

By: Frank-CA

Frank-CA — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:36:51 +0000

Trying to a Cleveland fan is difficult to do when as long as I can remember the ownership of the city is either lacking the expertise or knowledge to bring a winner to that city. Team after team have falled for decades and it doesn’t seem to matter what sport you choose. Not since the 60′s has the city had any kind of winner so the question is why then and not now. Original teams of the city have moved to other cities and with the exception of the Cavaliers, mediocracy seems to be the accepted norm (of ownership). Part of it could be that these teams have not evolved from the model and plans that worked in the past to what is successful for teams today. Building prospects from within the organization seems to be working elsewhere why not in Cleveland? Or have they all been traded away for a one time wonder that again didn’t work out for the long haul.

By: John Seale

John Seale — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:23:36 +0000

Thank you fellow Tribe fans…we did it…