IdahoBert

I hesitate to respond to this remark…

If I were a Cleveland player, I would be so furious about this stuff. Fellow players undermining their performance to undermine the team. I doubt that stuff like this makes for a very good clubhouse atmosphere.

This whole Emmanuel Clase thing is deeply troubling. He’s an all-star for God’s sake. This isn’t like somebody I never heard of. Not that I’ve heard of everybody but, darn. Accusations like this are deeply dispiriting.

When I was reading an article about all this, I didn’t realize all this other gambling stuff had come up, which I guess is old news: “The situation with Clase and Ortiz comes after MLB suspended five players for gambling in June 2024, including a lifetime ban for San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano. MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 with a legal sportsbook in 2022 and 2023. Athletics pitcher Michael Kelly and three minor leaguers — San Diego pitcher Jay Groome, Arizona pitcher Andrew Saalfrank and Philadelphia infielder José Rodríguez — received one-year suspensions. Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball in February for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games, and for intentionally deleting electronic messages pertinent to the league’s investigation.”

I would be so mortified if stuff like this were happening to my team. I mean, I would be eviscerated.

Cleveland Guardians All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase has been placed on non-disciplinary paid leave as part of a Major League Baseball investigation into sports betting. Clase becomes the second Guardians pitcher to be placed on leave in connection with a sports gambling probe.

“Our long national nightmare is over“ President Gerald Ford

If Greene shaving his beard turned things around I’m OK with taking off the mustache, his eyebrows and his hair.

Mize not starting tomorrow. Knee.

I wish relief pitchers weren’t so mercurial. Let’s face it, just about every relief pitcher is a failed starter. So you’re already starting at a deficit. Maybe we expect too much from these guys.

I no longer feel like battery acid with broken glass of coursing through my veins.

Luke Jackson sleeps with the fishes.

Luke Jackson the new Maeda

7 runs w/2 outs

Dingler clears the bases 10-0

7-0.

5-0

Maybe he’s trying to break the curse.

What kind of voodoo did it require to get a three run lead? Do all their base now belong to us?

I can’t believe that what we’ve seen the last 13 games is more indicative than what we saw for the last 120. But I don’t have an explanation for why the pitching and hitting have both collapsed simultaneously. We just have to trust that people at the helm in the front office, in the dugout, and on the field can deal with this. There’s little choice in this matter anyway. As Edward R. Murrow famously ended his broadcasts during the dark days of WWII, “Good night, and good luck."

This is why we can’t have nice things.

This is a freakish collapse. I could see stumbling. Stumbling is bound to happen. But this exceeds stumbling. I hope they somehow pull out of it and this becomes a bad memory.