ALBERT BELLE RUMORS & GOSSIP
Albert Belle to Lebron: “Take The High Road and Act Like a Professional”
Albert Belle was a very good baseball player who spent the majority of his time with the Cleveland Indians. For those of you not old enough to remember, Albert Belle wasn’t a choir boy.
Him giving Lebron advice about being professional is like Jack the Ripper holding a women self defense class.
Here are a few of Belle’s transgressions:
In 1986, he went after a heckler...
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December 01, 2010
Discuss
How good was Albert Belle from 1994-1996?
The answer is really, really good.If you can get past the Halloween incident, or the throwing the ball into the stands and injuring a fan incident, Albert Belle's career was excellent: .295/.369/.564/143 OPS+/381 HR.On the Zambrano Scale, Belle was a 7, and that's without the benefit of the roster in his ear. Though, he put together such an outstanding three-year stretch...
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September 01, 2010
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September 01, 2010
Indians Comment of the Day: Paying tribute to Albert Belle
"Would it really be such a bad idea to honor Albert Belle? Nobody has to say he's a fine human being or a credit to the community, but wouldn't you love to see a full house screaming at him like they once did after one of those late-inning dagger home runs?" - larrymikan3
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August 09, 2010
Albert Belle: One Crazy Guy
Today's Classic TV Friday is a violent one. Are you in anguish over your job/love life/the heatwave? Get some vicarious catharsis through Albert Belle as he beats up people all over the 90s.
The first video finds our permanently disgruntled hero straight laying out Brewers 2B Fernando Vina with a full barreled forearm shiver. The collision is definitely in the basepath, but...
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July 23, 2010
Today, in Cleveland Sports History: 6.6
Today in 1991, Albert Belle was shipped to the minors for not running out a ground ball. Figures.
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June 06, 2010
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June 06, 2010
For Your Need to Know: Albert Belle SMACKDOWN – May 31st, 1996
This is just For Your Need to Know:
On this Memorial Day 14 years ago the highly volatile (and highly underrated as a truly great slugger) Indian outfielder and attacker of trick-0-treaters Albert Belle breaks up a double play (roughly 15 feet away from second base) with a forearm shiver to the face and chest of then Brewer second sacker Fernando Vina.
Belle (6′3”, 240...
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May 31, 2010
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May 31, 2010
Catching Up With … Albert Belle
Nobody’s heard from Uncle Albert in a while. So Bugs&Cranks went digging through the snow over the weekend and found him in Washington, DC.
The scene: 14th and U streets NW, nearly paralyzed by two feet of snow. The youngsters with their Tweeters and their YouFaces organized a snowball fight at the hipster intersection. (Q: Does anything scream “policy nerds!”...
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December 21, 2009
Morning Update: This is it... Let's end it
Who's ready to put this season behind and move on?:raises hand:Hopefully you raised your hand.It will be nice to put behind a year where we don't have to hear numskull's like Albert Belle chime in.I mean really, what is this guy doing right now? Stalking poor innocent women in his free time, when he's not calling up Paul Hoynes to make stupid jokes about how the Indians...
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October 04, 2009
Albert Belle Was “Just an Angry Black Man”
Imagine being a beat writer for a team that was supposed to compete for American League playoff contention, but has failed miserably at almost every part of the game. You are heading to St. Louis to catch the All-Star festivities - you know, actual good baseball players - and your phone rings.
On the other end [...]
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July 15, 2009
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July 15, 2009
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