Fire Eric Wedge?

Here's an online petition you can sign in support of firing Indians manager Eric Wedge. Vote (or sign) your conscience. I am beginning to agree with the fire Wedge crowd. I think every game he manages is a game less the next manager gets to assess his players for next season.

Bad news, good news

The bad news: MAD now publishes only four times a year.
The good news: I just found out my subscription now lasts until 2012.

(For those of you who find Peanuts parodies as funny as I do, I linked to a pretty current and topical one from MAD. Here's another good one, too .. about our ol' pal A-Rod.)

A review of "Star Trek"

For those of you who can't wait to decide for yourselves, here's a chance to see what a critic thinks. I haven't read this review, so I have no idea what it says.
And, don't tell me anything about the movie until I see it! Nyahhh.

Guess I am a little behind here

I should offer some longer items, because it has been too long since I posted. But, here's a few short things I could expand on later. If you have a preference, tell me which you'd most like to see more about:
1. I don't think Eric Wedge should be fired right now as the Cleveland Indians manager. I do, however, think there's reason to think there's some reason the team always seems to get off to a slow start with him at the helm. I'd say if they don't rally significantly by the All-Star break, the Indians should think very hard about making a change.
2. I think the Cavs are going to win the NBA championship, too.
3. If I were the type to bet, I'd bet that Braylon Edwards is traded before the Browns start their season.
4. It rains a lot in Virginia.

If the first 33 times don't work ...

An honest to goodness headline:
Cops: Man shot 34 times in head with nail gun

Interesting things I found on Baseball-reference.com

Did you know that, according to the similarity score method, the most similar player in baseball history to Trais Hafner is ... Mark Teixeira? Hafner's on-base percentage is higher, but Teixiera's batting average and slugging percentage are better.
I'd have never guessed it, but here's the page that will show you the result.

Is the fat lady warming up?

So the Indians are 0-5 to start the season. What does this mean?
I wish I could find some stat that told me the records of all team that started a season 0-5. I'd guess their final records weren't very good.
That said, it's isn't time to panic yet. The Tribe could win six of seven games, be back at .500 and nobody would complain.
To do that, they have to do two things: 1. Pitch better, and 2. Hit more consistently.
I am encouraged by the way Victor Martinez and Travis Hafner have been hitting. But, that's not enough to win consistently.
I really think this team has a chance to be very, very good. They are talented and deep. Even their weakest spot, the starting rotation has a lot of possibilities to turn to if their pitchers start to fail.
I guess we'll see.