This playoff thing... Kind of depressing

I love the playoffs.

But in a way, I'm sort of depressed.

I'm a regular viewer of First Take on ESPN2 and fellow Indians-commiserator Jay Crawford had a graphic put up of former Indians in the playoffs.

It's stunning.

LF- Manny Ramirez
CF- Ben Franciscp
RF- Ryan Ludwick
SS- Mark DeRosa
3B- Casey Blake
2B- Ronnie Belliard
1B- Jim Thome
C- Victor Martinez

SP- Cliff Lee, CC Sabatha, Carl Pavano, Paul Byrd
RP- Rafael Betancourt

Manager- Charlie Manuel

Am I forgetting someone here?

This is just insanity in a way.

We can field an entire nine man lineup with former Indians in the postseason. We can field 4/5ths of a rotation with former starters in the postseason.

Why can't we field a bullpen?

That's right... Our bullpen's have sucked.

Anywayyyyy.

In a way... Who was glad to see CC Sabathia prove he isn't a playoff fluff the other night? I'm rooting for the Twins and I despise the idea of ever rooting for something in YANK pinstripes.

But for one game, I'm glad CC could go out there and show that he's not one that succumbs to postseason pressure. He's better than that. I just wish he showed it in 2007 instead of 2009.. Grr..

Couple end of the year surgeries going on.

Asdrubal Cabrera had surgery on his elbow to remove loose bodies. Those damn loose bodies! Dr Chicken Dance did this one.

Chris Perez had something done with his ankle. Dr. Chicken Dance and someone else did the surgery.

Both will be doing stuff by the end of this calender year.

I think that should pretty much cover our end of the year surgeries. Grady Sizemore all that crud done, you got Cabrera and Perez fixing things. I think everyone else is good to go.

Unless Travis Hafner pulls something moving boulders in the offseason when he visits the family in North Dakota.

I just scared a bunch of people.

It's been a straight neglect of the Minors since I ended the minor league reviews.

Coming soon, the Indians end of the season review and we're going to hand out some hardware. I know, not the season to be rewarding people, but the entire organization didn't suck and we need to establish more tradition. The annual feathers will be given out and I'll name my first All-Daily Team.

The All-Daily team will be just that. Sure it's the name of the blog, but it's not just the best players. It's the players that are day in and day out, awesome. I pride this blog on being as daily of an update as possible (when I'm not exhausted of course), so reward the guys who play hard.

There's a story on the Indians main page about Scott Barnes, who was acquired in the Ryan Garko trade.

All minor league news though, make sure Indians Prospect Insider is in your daily reading selection. I shouldn't have to tell you. Instructional League recaps are being posted and that's nice to keep an eye on. I'll be honest though, what much can I say about that after Alex White made his debut?

Kelvin De La Cruz is back?

Yay.... I keep up with the instructs stats, but won't bother with the boring details.

Tony Lastoria did hand out his Tony Awards, which is the minor league awards, Pitcher, Hitter, Etc. Check em out.

While I'm not posting every day, I'm working hard. I've begun to make a serious effort on the Prospect Overview board which has been something I wanted to put together for awhile. I've finally decided the best course of action and so far, I've got just about every name put down and just about every piece of information I need.

What I'll have on it is vitals: How Acquired, Year, B/T, DOB, and then Rule V eligibility. Then starting next year when prospect rankings start to come out, I'll tally up the various sources for a quick reference. I'm hoping that I can find a way to work it so it's interactive where you can sort by name, year, rule v, etc. That's my ultimate goal. If anything, it will be a useful reference tool.

I'm hoping also to work out a way where I can add up all the prospect rankings and make some sort of logical composite ranking for everyone. I'm also working out a system that I'm going to call "D Points" if I can ever work it out, where I have a points system worked out for awards/recognitions that prospects will tally up in their minor league careers. Why? I don't know, I get bored sometimes.

My other project is the official move to Fan Huddle. As you may have remembered, I committed to moving my blog to the Fan Huddle network. That means a move from Blogger to Word Press and basically just a complete change as far as what you see visually. The domain remains the same.

Right now, I want everything to be perfect before I make the full move, so for now, you still see what you see. But eventually, you'll see this.

Only, with content.. Dah-hoy..

But yeah that's what I'm working on now. I'm planning on working on the season wrap up next week and either have it posted for next week or the week after.

I'm thinking the managerial search will start to kick in.. So this weekend I'm working on the offseason chart, it will be pretty bare as far as free agents go.. But hey.. That should be ready to go for the next week.

FYI. I've started actually using twitter for what it was intended for. Being totally ridiculous and silly. I've been commentating on the MLB Playoffs regularly, so if you enjoy my ridiculousness, follow on twitter. I found a free twitter birdie and put an Indians cap and Jersey on him. Doesn't he look so cute?

Also coming next week...

I've had the privileged of being asked to being in the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. What this has done is assembled blogs, at least two, hopefully, of each team, that will vote on all the major league awards, just like the real media votes on them. Chapters and all that fun stuff.

The Manager of the Year award is coming up and I'll have my vote this weekend posted here. So you'll be seeing that throughout the month of October. I'm honored to be a part of the BBA, which is a great assembly of blogs and love that I'm sharing the Indians representation with the wonderful Steve Buffum of the always brilliant "The B List" on Cleveland Fan.

AND FINALLY..

REPRESENT!!!!!!!!



The Tribe Daily's first official sponsored Fantasy Baseball team took home their first Championship this week. After the Twins officially beat the Tigers, The Tribe Daily officially became the Champions of the Philadelphia Rotisserie Wars League. A league assembled of fellow bloggers around the interwebs, I was able to maneuver myself to a win in this auction league.

This was my first ever auction league, so how I pulled it off, especially I drastically underspent in the draft, I'll never know. But I won by a whole 12.5 points.. That's bananas.

I'm honored that I was able to bring home a championship to the city of Cleveland. I know it wasn't quite what you all wanted.. But I did it, even if it was with Miguel Cabrera, Joe Mauer. At least Travis Hafner, Shin-Soo Choo, Asdrubal Cabrera, and even Matt LaPorta had a part in it.

MVP was Chris Carpenter by far though. I bought him for ONE DOLLAR! One Dollar! One Stinkin dollar!

Wooo! Victory!

So keep an eye out and let's commiserate about the former Indians in the postseason. It's quite fantastic.