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To think another arm would come along so soon …
Anyone who doubts that any half-way decent human could easily enough get used to living in the trunk of a dead tree if he had to doesn’t know the first thing about being a Browns fan.
There’s still 95 days before real NFL football games will be played again, which of course gives folks a lot of time in which to get creative. With the Holmgren regime now in an unprecedented...
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What’s Worse than Dan Gilbert? (NBA Lottery Open Thread)
A billionaire who made his fortune employing high-pressure tactics to sell the loans that drove the US economy off a cliff is bad enough. Even worse if he also presided over the leadership vacuum that blew the greatest homegrown hometown superstar athlete in world history out of Cleveland, then reacted to that failure by engaging in an astonishingly reductive demonization campaign...
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Royals fired up by Chris Perez’s WWE act, knock Tribe out of first place
So the Indians are “rivals” with the Kansas City Royals now. Thanks to Chris Perez, a man as pleased with himself over 20 scattered innings of spring baseball as anyone in MLB history, it’s true. The PD’s Dennis Manoloff has the scoop:
The Indians’ and Royals’ dislike for each other has gotten that much more intense.
Not surprisingly, Indians closer...
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Mary Kay Cabot Really Likes Brandon Weeden’s Arm
Last week we heard from longtime NFL scout Greg Gabriel, who, in expressing his opinion that Colt McCoy is a “far better player” than new Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden, also mentioned that Weeden “has a good but not a great arm,” and that his ball tends to “float.” The Plain Dealer’s Mary Kay Cabot, after having watched Weeden for a couple...
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Letter to Terry Pluto from soldier sends the wrong kind of Memorial Day message
It’s understood and appreciated that Terry Pluto wanted to do something nice for the troops in his latest Memorial Day Weekend column but the decision to publish the following letter from a Cleveland native in the Air Force was just way off:
FROM A FAN IN THE MILITARY . . .
This email came from Sgt. Maurice Ingram, a Cleveland native in the Air Force. He has written me from...
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Jim Brown to Cleveland Fans on Mike Holmgren: “You’re sitting on a mess.”
Tony Grossi caught up with the greatest athlete to ever wear a Cleveland uniform, Jim Brown, to follow up on Brown’s pre-draft statements that Trent Richardson was a “good working” running back, “very efficient,” but not “outstanding.” Brown clarified these statements by explaining that while Richardson might have top level strength, he doesn...
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Real Letters from Tribe Fans
This one came in a couple weeks ago in response to the Scene cover story on The Curse of Chief Wahoo:
Dear Peter:
I’m really struggling with this. Please help. I’ve been a Cleveland Indians fan for all of my life. I like this baseball team that Cleveland has.
After reading your article on Chief Wahoo, I’m not sure that I feel right supporting this team.
I know that...
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Mike Brown, Mo Williams Bounced in Second Round; Video Game James Puts Pacers on Brink for ‘Cleveland South’
This season, former Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown, for the first time in his career, got to coach a team with two legit All Stars on it instead of just one. Unfortunately for Brown, neither of those All Stars was LeBron James, and Brown’s Lakers were bounced 4-1 by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals.
Mo Williams got to join up with two legit...
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Longtime NFL Scout Greg Gabriel: “I don’t think that Weeden has the tools to beat out McCoy unless the competition is rigged.”
Greg Gabriel is a veteran 29-year NFL scout, including for two New York Giants Super Bowl-winning teams and the Chicago Bears NFC Championship run of ’07. You can check out his resume here, before reading what he has to say about Brandon Weeden and Colt McCoy, including that “McCoy is by far the better player,” and that, “having watched both players a number...
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Indians closer Chris Perez tells working stiffs of Cleveland to suck it up and spend more money on Major League Baseball and $8 beer
If you missed it over the weekend, Indians closer Chris Perez unleashed on Cleveland fans in response to having been booed by some fans at home last Thursday after he allowed a couple of baserunners in a game that he eventually closed out for his 13th save in 14 opportunities this season. Some of Perez’s response was fair enough (“They haven’t even scored yet and...
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Pat Shurmur Statement on Community Raises Hope and/or Questions
In last Sunday’s PD, Bud Shaw published an otherwise unremarkable Pat Shurmur apologia that included an especially interesting statement from the Browns head coach in explaining why next season would be different from last year’s nightmare:
... far far away from here. Dear god, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far far away from here. Dear god, make me a bird ......
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Las Vegas Not Buying Holmgren’s “Pretty Good Jump” Promise
If you thought it was hard enough to believe Mike Homgren last week when he said he expected the 2012 Browns to make “a pretty good jump,” here comes the people who risk real money on these promises to say that if Pat Shurmur’s charges are going to make any kind of significant jump next season, it’ll be backward.
As reported last week, Cantor Gaming, which...
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Horseshoe Casino Lets the Losers In
Dan Gilbert’s Cleveland casino opened last night to incredibly fawning reviews in the local press and from some people with Twitter accounts.
“Not even two hours after it opened, the Horseshoe Casino paid out its first $50,000 jackpot,” NewsChannel5′s Jen Steer reports.
A casino that will spend millions annually to market itself and will take in tens of millions...
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On the Bust Rate of First and Second Round NFL Draft Picks
@rodofdisaster is the author of our in-season “Xs and Os with the Bros” feature. Here he is with some thoughts on expectations for first and second round NFL draft picks. Enjoy.
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There isn’t an NFL fan around who doesn’t at some level enjoy the strategy involved in the game, and I’d suggest that the chess match that takes place...
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THANKS, MOM
For a billion things, including keeping that smile on your face even though MS has taken so much away from you.
And also for teaching me how to swing a baseball bat, and throw and catch a football, because all dad brought with him off the boat was a soccer ball. And also of course for marrying that guy off the boat, and for teaching him to love baseball and football, too, and for...
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Shurmur: ‘We don’t hand anybody anything.’
Except for NFL head coaching positions and other assorted management jobs. To Bob LaMonte clients only, of course. But other than that, we don’t hand anybody anything.
Shurmur irony/hypocrisy bomb via Tom Withers.
If you missed it in the thread below, here’s a note on pectoral tears from commenter ‘thatsfine,’ who’s “in orthopedic surgery.”...
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Dan Gilbert Finally Figures Out the Trick: Build “With,” Not “Around” Superstars
The sky’s the limit now, Cleveland, because Dan Gilbert’s finally got it.
“We want to build a franchise with Kyrie or with other superstars, not around superstars,” Gilbert said [at a press conference yesterday timed to coincide with the opening of his latest regressive cash crab]. “We think that’s probably not a great formula for success, right...
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Holmgren on 2012: The Year of the “Pretty Good Jump”
The Bull and Fox did a good job with their interview of Mike Holmgren on 92.3 yesterday afternoon and most of the headlines today are the same as the one here, since Holmgren said that he, “expect[s the Browns] to take a pretty good jump this next season.” No word yet on whether the folks at NFL.com have adjusted their prognosis for 2012 in the wake of this statement...
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Ohio City Writers Panel at Happy Dog Tonight
From the Facebook event page:
They don’t call it a “beat” for nothing. Aaron Goldhammer of WNKR’s “The Really Big Show” moderates this panel discussion on the thankless task of writing the first drafts of Cleveland’s uniquely tragic sports history. Panelists so far include Peter Pattakos of ClevelandFrowns.com, Vince Grzegorek of Cleveland...
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Happy Cinco de Mayo from the Cleveland Indians
You’ll be glad to know that the Battle of Puebla was foremost in the minds of the Progressive Field crowd on Saturday night. The sense of historical perspective was palpable.
In other news, Bud Shaw’s take on Seneca Wallace and mentoring is spot on; Here’s Andrew Perloff’s way-too-early look at the 2013 NFL draft’s first round at SI.com; Here’...
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First Place Friday Frowndup with Deleted Scenes from Last Week’s Chief Wahoo Story
With the Tribe in first place and Terrell Suggs just having graduated from Balled Too Hard University, it’s as good a time as any to remember that it will still all have a fiery end for us as long as Chief Wahoo is an officially sanctioned symbol of Cleveland sports.
To that end, here are a few paragraphs from an early draft that didn’t make it into last week’s...
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More Weeden Readin’
Chris Kouffman of UniversalDraft.com wrote a comprehensive review of Brandon Weeden’s NFL prospects as part of a “Dolphin-centric” series of prospect profiles for South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel. Here’s one interesting excerpt but the whole thing is packed with information and definitely worth a read.
In the case of longevity, I did a study of the number...
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May 02, 2012
On Adam Schefter’s Report that the Browns would have selected Kendall Wright at 22 instead of Brandon Weeden
Shortly after the 2012 NFL draft’s first round wound up last week, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Browns would have selected Baylor wide receiver Kendall Wright with the 22nd pick instead of Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden had the Titans not taken Wright with the 20th pick.
Even if Schefter’s report hadn’t given rise to second-guessing like...
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May 01, 2012
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May 01, 2012
Comprehensive Review of the 2012 Cleveland Browns Draft
@rodofdisaster is the author of our in-season “Xs and Os with the Bros” feature. Here he is with a pick-by-pick review of the 2012 Browns draft. Enjoy.
Trent Richardson, RB Alabama (#3 overall):
When you’re drafting #4 overall, you need impact players. This is an impact player. I like him better than a receiver here as he’ll touch the ball more often and help both the running...
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April 30, 2012
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April 30, 2012
Holographic Chips Are Down: Browns First Round Draft Review
It’s Code Blue at Flippen Enterprises and we’re trying hard not to think that the Brandon Weeden pick isn’t the most Browns thing ever.
However, as it turns out, you can have phenomenal draft parties or you can effectively solve puzzles like this the next morning, but you can’t do both, so this one’s up to you guys until some more dust settles. Anyway...
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April 27, 2012
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April 27, 2012
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