The_BaseBlog's Blog

How rude of me to abandon this blog just because my precious little Cleveland Indians were eliminated from the postseason. I'm so self-centered, right?

Well, it was a bitter pill to swallow. I think Clevelanders are the only ones who can be pessimistic leading a 3-1 best-of-seven series, but that's how I was knowing the Tribe had to face Beckett, then Schilling in a likely Game 6 at Fenway, then a deciding Game 7 a night later at Fenway. Tough odds to even win just one of those against a far more playoff-savvy Boston team.

Cubs fans certainly have their famous incompetence, but those in the Windy City have been able to celebrate a Bears Super Bowl and 450 Bulls NBA championships in my lifetime, so spare me the sob story. Clevelanders have been stabbed in the jugular so often and so publicly that our postseason disappointments are known by one- or two-word little subtitles -- "The Drive" and "The Fumble" first come to mind. But don't forget about "Michael Jordan" or "The Mesa."

So the future does look bright for the Tribe, but that's what we all said in Cleveland 10 or 12 years ago when John Hart started to turn the Indians into a powerhouse, and we still never could seal the deal.

Does Cleveland still have a WNBA team?

-- John P. Wise