The 2015 Cleveland Indians

[Stark]

All this season goes to show is that those games in April where we went 7-14 actually do matter.

If we even go 10-11 that month, everything is different right now.

 

[AZ_]

All this season goes to show is that those games in April where we went 7-14 actually do matter.

If we even go 10-11 that month, everything is different right now.

Nobody ever stated that games don't matter, but the constant stream of whining about the season being over was and remains stupid.

The Tigers were 1/8 of the way to a division title, if you'll all remember...

 

[Chris]

Nobody ever said the season was over, that's the thing. You just act like people thought that because you have an odd obsession with being snarky.

I maintained the Indians were too far behind to even sniff the division title after the horrible start (roughly first half of the season), and I was right. The Indians are about a dozen games back on September 21, a couple weeks before the end of the season. I and many others also stated, in April, that the Indians' play in that month was very concerning and hurting their chances. Not a very bold take, though, at least not to anybody but yourself. Simply saying what was stated back in April and May.

I was wrong about the Tigers being the team to bury them. My bad.

 

[AZ_]

Nobody ever said the season was over, that's the thing. You just act like people thought that because you have an odd obsession with being snarky.

I maintained the Indians were too far behind to even sniff the division title after the horrible start (roughly first half of the season), and I was right. The Indians are about a dozen games back on September 21, a couple weeks before the end of the season. I and many others also stated, in April, that the Indians' play in that month was very concerning and hurting their chances. Not a very bold take, though, at least not to anybody but yourself. Simply saying what was stated back in April and May.

I was wrong about the Tigers being the team to bury them. My bad.

Of course they did, but the point was that the Tigers were far from uncatchable...which obviously proved to be true.

It's an incredibly long season. One bad month won't kill you, three at .500 months probably will, and that's what happened. Though there is still a sliver of hope even then.

Needless to say, the outpouring of emotional diatribes in some of those game threads was at a whole new level of unbearable.

Pretty good microcosm of what the Indians board has become, so I'm glad MoFlo will be looking to clean it up.

 

[Huber.]

Of course they did, but the point was that the Tigers were far from uncatchable...which obviously proved to be true.

It's an incredibly long season. One bad month won't kill you, three at .500 months probably will, and that's what happened. Though there is still a sliver of hope even then.

Needless to say, the outpouring of emotional diatribes in some of those game threads was at a whole new level of unbearable.

Pretty good microcosm of what the Indians board has become, so I'm glad MoFlo will be looking to clean it up.

Would you say it's a SOCIAL EXPERIMENT?

 

[Pyro]

I miss your old signature with the PR quote from the dude who promptly rage-quit the site afterwards.

 

[MJA1080]

CLEVELAND -- The leaders inside the Indians' clubhouse wanted to do more than talk about their goals or developing identity as a team. The core group wanted to put their beliefs down in writing and then have each member of the ballclub sign their name, attaching more accountability to what often comes off as cliches.
After players such as Corey Kluber, Michael Brantley, Jason Kipnis and Yan Gomes put the final touches on a kind of contract for the entire team, Indians manager Terry Francona looked it over and passed it out on Saturday. There was one version in English and another in Spanish, and each member of the Tribe signed what is more than just a piece of paper in the eyes of the team's leaders.
"If you sign your name on the dotted line," Gomes said, "you're telling everybody else that you're in. If you fall off that track, it comes back down to, 'You gave your word.' We're going to hold everybody accountable for it."
The concept of the contract came up when Francona met with the team's core group -- the players signed to long-term pacts with Cleveland -- after the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline. Following deals that shipped veterans Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn, Brandon Moss and David Murphy to other clubs, Francona made it clear to Kluber, Brantley, Kipnis and Gomes that the team believed in them as leaders.
Francona then floated the idea of the contract.
"In the midst of all of those conversations," Francona said, "I had asked Kluber, Brantley, maybe both, I was like, 'How would you feel if I passed out almost like a contract?' And they [liked the idea]. I said, 'It's got to come from you guys.' They did a great job, man. They worked at it."
While the Indians are in the midst of trying to chase down the American League's second Wild Card spot, Gomes said there was nothing to the timing of handing out the document. They only passed it around the locker room now, because the players took their time in getting the wording and ideas just right.
"It wasn't a matter of, 'Why now?'" Gomes said. "It's been something we've talked about throughout the year and we didn't want to just spitball some stuff, put it together and then, 'Hey, here's the thing,' and not all of us really meant what we were saying. I think we took big consideration into what we really want to believe in. It's just a matter of, we've got a lot of young guys and we really do believe that we have a good future in this organization and with our team, especially with the guys that were involved in putting this together.
"I think we're going to be here for a long time together. So, we figured, if we really put together something that us guys that will be here for a long time, something that we really believe in, and we truly live by it and we enforce it, then I think guys will come around and follow it. It was something we really wanted to put together."
When Francona saw the final draft, he loved what he read.
"It was very good," Francona said. "We kind of took some time and didn't rush through it. We did it in Spanish, we did it in English."
Francona then smirked.
"I told [Josh] Tomlin we did it in pictures for him," the manager joked. "When it was finally ready, we gave it out [Saturday]. I was really proud of them."
Gomes did not want to go into details on specific elements of the contract.
"It's just a matter of playing the game the right way," Gomes said. "We're building a culture and we're building a way that we believe in. That's pretty much all I can say."

http://m.indians.mlb.com/news/artic...=10153640928359521&adbpl=fb&adbpr=46104914520

It's nice to see this, especially after we talked about the lack of accountability when guys like Bourn and Swisher were here. The Tomlin part may have been the best though

 

[Chris]

Of course they did, but the point was that the Tigers were far from uncatchable...which obviously proved to be true.

It's an incredibly long season. One bad month won't kill you, three at .500 months probably will, and that's what happened. Though there is still a sliver of hope even then.

Needless to say, the outpouring of emotional diatribes in some of those game threads was at a whole new level of unbearable.

Pretty good microcosm of what the Indians board has become, so I'm glad MoFlo will be looking to clean it up.

So it's worse than the other game threads in the other sections?

 

[EdMonix11]

David Stearns named the Milwaukee Brewers GM.

He was the Indians Director of Baseball Operations for two years before becoming the Assistant GM of the Astros. He's 30 years old....

 

[AZ_]

So it's worse than the other game threads in the other sections?

Tough to say, are you posting in all of them?

 

[Chris]

Tough to say, are you posting in all of them?

Yeah, I am. Thank god you aren't in the Cavs forum at all. So which one of us was asked to take a leave of absence recently by staff again?

 

[macbdog]

David Stearns named the Milwaukee Brewers GM.

He was the Indians Director of Baseball Operations for two years before becoming the Assistant GM of the Astros. He's 30 years old....

Now get Chernoff into another GM spot and the Tribe will have 4 guys sprinkled throughout MLB as part of the secret Tribe cabal bwah ha haaaa...

 

[AZ_]

Yeah, I am. Thank god you aren't in the Cavs forum at all. So which one of us was asked to take a leave of absence recently by staff again?

Calm down, Sally. I'm just messing with you.

But getting back to the Cavs forum is definitely something I plan on doing this season. Though certainly not in the game threads, you're free to pollute those at your pleasure.

 

[Chris]

Calm down, Sally. I'm just messing with you.

But getting back to the Cavs forum is definitely something I plan on doing this season. Though certainly not in the game threads, you're free to pollute those at your pleasure.

Don't call me Sally.

I actually don't post in game threads there.

 

[Pyro]

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