Just in case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven't, the Indians have managed to win a few games and are threatening to climb away from the rest of the AL Central. The Wigwammers have managed to win 3 straight ballgames and 8 out of 10. The starting pitching has been phenomenal and has carried the Indians' scoring challenged offense. The starting rotation gave up their first run in 44 1/3 innings today when Aaron Laffey (who turned in another strong effort) gave up an unearned run in the 2nd inning of the Tribe's 4-2 victory over Oakland. The catalyst for this pitching onslaught? Mr. Cliff Lee.

Through 7 starts, Cliff Lee is 6-0 with 53 2/3 innings pitched, 44 Ks, 4 walks, and a 0.67 ERA. He's given up 4 earned runs all season. His stats are so good right now, they sound made up.

Regular readers of The Legend, know that from time to time, we run a Classic 80's/90's sports posters piece taken from readers submissions of nutty posters like Eric Dickerson Robo-Back. Today's posters lack the delightful cheese factor of their 80's and 90's predecessors, but when some blogger whips up a, Classic Turn of the Millennium Posters, blog post from his grandmother's basement in 2020, LeBron dunking over Garnett last night will be featured prominently.

By now you've heard about LeBron's dunk last night and seen highlights of it. Just in case you haven't:

Between the NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, Olympic hotties, and the NFL draft, I haven't kept my eye on baseball stats at all. I was not prepared for the surprises that awaited me when I checked out the AL and NL stats leaders. Yes, I know it is only one month into the season and we shouldn't overreact, but look at some of the names atop the MLB leaderboard. Who are those guys?

Hey, the Rangers Josh Hamilton and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's (LAAsOA?) Casey Kotchman are 3 and 4 in AL batting average! Hamilton,

How often do sports fans get to chant something as fun as "Boston Sucks, Boston Sucks!" in their sportsfan lives? For us folks in Phatlanta, it ain't very often. Granted, the Celtics are more than capable of destroying the Hawks over the course of the next two (and hopefully three) games. But when an 8 seed under .500 backdoors into the playoffs and twice takes down the team with the league's best record to tie a playoff series, the fans can chant whatever they want until the next game tips.

I was in the "Highlight Factory" (cartoonishly- lame nickname, but lots of fun) last night with 20,000 rabid fans, and the only sporting events where I've had more fun have all been Georgia football games that we weren't supposed to win, and they were all enhanced by a belly full of Wild Turkey. At the very least, last night was the best professional sporting event I've ever been to by a huge margin.

I saw that Tampa Bay is tied for 1st in the AL East, and I wanted to write something nice about them. But then I remembered that changed their names from the Devil Rays to the Rays this year and I just couldn't do it.

There are a lot of teams whose nicknames make a lot of sense. Pittsburgh is the steel city, so hence the Steelers. The New York Islanders play on Long Island. Milwaukee is known for its beer, and their baseball team is appropriately called the Brewers....

Who hasnt't wanted to be a fly on the wall in a NFL War Room during draft preperations? Thanks to Clevelandbrowns.com, all of our dreams come true and we are able to go inside the Browns war room. It's probably the most exciting video I've ever seen in my life. Buckle your seatbelts and click here if you are ready for the excitement. It really doesn't get any better than that.

Unfortunately, I was on hand at the "Phone Booth" tonight to see the Cavs get their asses handed to them by the Wizards. Maybe it was watching the Cavs run around like the entire team rented a limo and did two shots at every one of the 2 1/2 State Area Clyde's locations before the game, but listening to the Wiz "fans" during the debacle really raised my ire tonight.

I've been patient with local teams since I've lived in the area, and I'll admit that Skins fans are the real deal. Listen to a couple of hours of DC talk radio, whether it be Riggo, Bram Weinsteinnnnnnn, Doc Walker, or the incomparable Steve Czaban, you'll get tons of bonkers Redskins talk. This is a good thing. The loyalty of a fan base is directly proportional to the insanity of its local sports talk radio callers.

Beyond the Skins, though, the town is a joke pro sports-wise (there are a lot of college sports fans here, but the only legit ones are the Terps fans).

If you can't tell, a year plus of relying on Joe Borowski to close out games for the beloved Tribe caught up with me this week. The only solace I've found is knowing that I'm not alone. If you're a baseball fan, you've been there. You never feel safe watching any game unless your squad has more than a 3 run lead. Your closer comes in and never gets ahead of hitters. He puts a lot of runners on, and isn't afraid to let a few runs cross the plate. On some nights, you know that there's no way in hell he's closing it out. He eats your soul.

Hello noble readers. I've located some good material from around the blogosphere, and I want to share.

The World of Issac is running a 4 bracket, Dirtiest Name In Sports Tournament. Who doesn't chuckle upon hearing the names Dick Trickle, Chubby Cox, Rusty Kuntz, and David Seaman? Many more great names in the Tournament.

I've seen two Nats games in the new ballyard and, as earlier reported, I like it. With the HD Jumbotron, the natural ballpark look, the local cuisine, and the cool batting cage, it's got the accouterments of a great ballpark. It's not quite complete, though. It lacks a certain....feel. The Presidents Race adds charm, but it's now the corporatized Geico Presidents Race, and a blatant rip off of the Sausage Race in Milwaukee and the Racing Pierogies in Pittsburgh.

Cleveland, April 15, 2008 -- Indians closer Joe Borowski was placed on the disabled list with a strained right triceps today, following a blown save against the Boston Red Sox. The Legend of Cecilio Guante has learned that a strained triceps muscle might be the least of Borowski's concerns, though. A leading Cleveland law enforcement official says that evidence has surfaced linking Borowski to hundreds of mysterious, unsolved deaths throughout Northeastern Ohio.

Police Chief Wahoo was willing to speak to us, but didn't want too many facts of his investigation to slip out to the public. Chief Wahoo indicated that since since April of 2007, a fear has gripped the city of Cleveland and all of Northeastern Ohio.

Rumors and Rants went to the trouble of collecting a bung-load of favorite teams from fellow writers around the blogoshpere. There are a lot of classic teams remembered including the '87 Twins, the '93 Phillies, and the '83 O's. CS and I chimed in on the '86 Mets and the '95 Indians. It's a fun read.

Here's an excerpt on the '84 Tigers from Fanhouse's Michael Davis Smith.

"The 1984 Tigers are, in my memory, perfect. I know the record book says they lost 58 games, but that's not how I remember it. I lived in suburban Detriot and turned 8 that summer, and all I can remember about those Tigers is that they were perfect. I was sure that Lance Parrish and Alan Trammel and Lou Whitaker and Kirk Gibson and Chet Lemon and Jack Morris and Willie Hernandez were the perfect assemblage of baseball talent....

They're playing the season opener right now, and the Nats hold a 2-1 lead over the Bravos headed into the top of the 8th. Odalis Perez (why does John Miller insist upon saying Perez like he does? Pear-ez) pitched 5 innings of one run ball! Holy crap, now there's a shocker.

First game in the Nats new digs...... almost. The editorial staff at The Legend went to the preseason O's/Nats game last night to get a sneak peak at the ballpark. Luckily, we took our assistant director of photography who snapped off all of these preview shots for us (thank you Ricky Booby).

Davidson's Stephen Curry has amazed us through the first two rounds of the tourney.....This guy has been sick. And sweet sassy molassy, the man can shoot.

Stephen, you got us to thinking about players like Thunder Dan Majerle, Trent Tucker, Mark Price, Todd Day, Chris Mullin, and Robert Horry. Guys that could drop bombs from way downtown. That makes us think of our some of our favorite ballers. The deadly, 3 Point Specialists. Here's a list of our favorites.

Since last summer's British Open where Woods finished 12th, Tiger's PGA finishes have been 1st, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 5th. Damn. Those tournaments had from 64 up to 153 golfers in them. Tiger has beaten the crap out of a lot of golfers on the links lately.

The guy is just too fricking dominant to compare to any other athlete. Maybe too dominant to compare to any other person. Except...... Bill Brasky. You know, big fella, goes about 7'-6," 800 lbs.