I'm not living off the 90s anymore. What a total and utter perfect storm. It was two decades ago. What have they shown me since I've been old enough to appreciate sports fully? Maybe a little bit more than the Browns. The Browns happen to play in a league where one draft pick can turn your franchise around (much like the Cavs). The Indians do not. In their market it will take years and years of good, smart moves to even have hopes for contending a year here and a year there.
It's not entirely their fault, but naturally some of the blame does have to go their way.
Just have so little hope. There are definitely some core players on this team. Pitching staff has some bright spots, and Kipnis/Brantley are keepers. It's just not anywhere close to enough though.
I don't ever expect what happen in the '90s to happen again, literally, either.
I was just pointing out they were pretty hopeless before then, too. I agree, perfect storm.
But I am not literally hopeless, in them getting it together, and making a run. Will it happen this year, or next year, of the one after that? Probably not.
Baseball is a funny, you can get good fast.
If two and three good every day players blossom on us, it changes things fast.
Things always feel at its worst when it goes bad, like it will never get better.
I do like they build a lot on strong pitching, because that's what you need to go the distance in baseball.
They just need to start hitting on some of their every day players. It's not even just offensively, some of these guys are just bad two-way players in general.
I don't know who some of their scouts are, but they need to go. They're finding some absolute shit.