Who Will Be the Most Disappointing Cleveland Indian in 2015

[AZ_]

The real playoffs.

 

[The Oi]

The real playoffs.

Yeah, you know.

The ones where the team wins enough regular season games to earn the right to play another team multiple times.

 

[Huber.]

I would have never guessed that Jigo is really Kenny Lofton.

 

[The Oi]

Kenny's thoughts match those of many of us vets.

Seven years in a row without a playoff appearance and we've got people disparaging the fans for being disgusted with/apathetic about the team.

It's almost an accomplishment to avoid making it for that long.

 

[AZ_]

Kenny's thoughts match those of many of us vets.

Seven years in a row without a playoff appearance and we've got people disparaging the fans for being disgusted with/apathetic about the team.

It's almost an accomplishment to avoid making it for that long.

It's really not.

I'd imagine at least 33-50% of the teams in baseball are boasting similar "droughts"

I'd be willing to bet 100 percent of them do a better job of supporting their team at the gate.

 

[Nom]

Yeah, you know.

The ones where the team wins enough regular season games to earn the right to play another team multiple times.

When they made the play-in it was more or less guaranteed it would screw Cleveland, right?

Sure enough - we win Wild Card but team with worse record gets play-in game and beats us.

 

[Nom]

Kenny's thoughts match those of many of us vets.

Seven years in a row without a playoff appearance and we've got people disparaging the fans for being disgusted with/apathetic about the team.

It's almost an accomplishment to avoid making it for that long.

Royals hadn't made playoffs since 1985, hit the least amount of HRs in MLB and outdrew the Indians by 500k

In 2013, the Pirates made it for the first time since 1992 - and outdrew the Indians by 700k.

The Blue Jays haven't made the playoffs in 21 years - outdrew the Indians by 900k last year.

The Mariners, Marlins, Astros, Padres, Mets all have gone 8+ years without the playoffs. And outdrew the Indians last year.

Like...if you want to know why people make fun of the "fans" it's because while every other fan base gets excited when their team wins games, we're finding ways to argue that our favorite team's wins don't count.

 

[The Oi]

Too focused on how the consumer should respond to a weak product than on the fact that the manufacturer of the product is producing a substandard good.

Hello existing small business client... Back when we printed high quality paper to your expectation, you were buying it like gangbusters. Ever since we started printing a 6*8 picture of mickey mouse with an erection on every piece of paper We manufacture you've bought less and less each year.

We really think you should keep buying our dick paper. We've been printing the dick smaller and smaller over the last couple years and for three weeks last year, all of our paper had no dicks on it! If you ordered paper during that time it would have looked nothing like all the dick paper we'd printed for 6 years before it and that we're currently printing now.

Expect a call from a satisfied dick paper buyer in a city of similar size to the one you're in that would like to chastise you for not buying dick paper while he's quite happy with his.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Too focused on how the consumer should respond to a weak product than on the fact that the manufacturer of the product is producing a substandard good.

Hello existing small business client... Back when we printed high quality paper to your expectation, you were buying it like gangbusters. Ever since we started printing a 6*8 picture of mickey mouse with an erection on every piece of paper We manufacture you've bought less and less each year.

We really think you should keep buying our dick paper. We've been printing the dick smaller and smaller over the last couple years and for three weeks last year, all of our paper had no dicks on it! If you ordered paper during that time it would have looked nothing like all the dick paper we'd printed for 6 years before it and that we're currently printing now.

Expect a call from a satisfied dick paper buyer in a city of similar size to the one you're in that would like to chastise you for not buying dick paper while he's quite happy with his.

 

[The Oi]

When groups of people associated with a certain city realize that they're not beholden to spend money on a product just because it's produced in their city, they'll see the world the way that the manufacturers (Team owners) see them.

Be a capitalist. Not a sap. Free yourself of the burden of an arbitrary obligation to a shitty product.

Buy the product when it's good. Ignore it when it's shitty.

 

[Nom]

I'll never understand how we can say that anything less than the 90s Indians doesn't deserve support while simultaneously mocking Heat fans for being front runners.

Guys. We're the Heat fans of baseball.

 

[Randolphkeys]

I have got a whole other thing going on, my wife is a big Red Sox fan and my 3 1/2 year old will get his ass kicked at school if he isn't repping the Giants. But you Clevelanders should force yourselves to pay 20x the ticket prices I paid in high school and do it often. I just can't due to geographic location...

 

[The Oi]

I'll never understand how we can say that anything less than the 90s Indians doesn't deserve support while simultaneously mocking Heat fans for being front runners.

Guys. We're the Heat fans of baseball.

Cleveland fans have supported their teams when they've been elite. The Indians of the last 7 years aren't comparable to a team that won multiple championships over half a decade.

I get the point in that "true" fans, whatever that means, can't understand why people wouldn't support a team that wins some games but people are picky with their money. And they should be.

A consistent winner is a good product. A consistent loser is a bad product.

The Indians have been a consistent loser. They're a bad product. Why must people buy it?

 

[AZ_]

Cleveland fans have supported their teams when they've been elite. The Indians of the last 7 years aren't comparable to a team that won multiple championships over half a decade.

I get the point in that "true" fans, whatever that means, can't understand why people wouldn't support a team that wins some games but people are picky with their money. And they should be.

A consistent winner is a good product. A consistent loser is a bad product.

The Indians have been a consistent loser. They're a bad product. Why must people buy it?

With all that said, Go Browns!

 

[The Oi]

With all that said, Go Browns!

I am apathetic to the Indians. I hate the Browns.

I'd appreciate it if the disconsolate Tribe fans of the board could help me in my battle to convince Clevelanders to abandon the Browns in favor of other more joyous pursuits, such as posting about those teams or poops they've taken