Friday, September 22, 2017

Streak is Awesome.. World Series Championship better.

                                                   
                                                    The Cleveland Indians are good.
They have a chance to be good for a long time! The team which is coming off a recent 22 game win streak. Same squad who blew a 3-1 lead in last years World Series. (ouch!) The team who I correctly blogged has one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. {Their 3.36 Era leads baseball}
The tribe are winning with regularity without some of it's best players.
2nd baseman Jason Kipnis has been hurt and ineffective. Outfielder Micheal Brantley is hurt so much you'd think baseball is a collision sport. In order to continue our run I'd actually trade one or both Kipnis and Brantley in the off season. Speaking of trades acquiring Jay Bruce has been a hit!
{no pun) Pitching is a huge component of winning baseball games.
There is no clock in baseball the time of the game is measured when you get the outs.
When you control the hits and outs and when they are made, you more importantly control the score.
 Corey Kluber is a Cy Young candidate, 17 wins 2.35 ERA and 252 Strike outs are strong numbers.
 The bullpen is strong with Bryan Shaw, {24 holds) Cody Allen, {28 saves) and a have a combined  ERA of 1.73. Yikes! The defense is very good and filled with young players such as Giovanny Urshela who are used similar to the way teams use a closer to end the game.
 They have clinched a their division and are fighting for home field advantage throughout the whole postseason. Francisco Lindor is one of the young faces of the league and has set a record for home runs hit by a switch hitting short stop 32.
 The tribe have a boat load of young talent, they play with joy, swagger and are strapped with a head coach who is going to roller skate into the Hall of Fame when he retires. The plate is set for them to be good not only for now but for years to come.
 As per this year, not even a record breaking winning streak can satisfy the thirst of  winning the World Series. They were too close last year, the attention is all on Cleveland for a change and now is the time for redemption. As a Clevelander the thought of two parades in one year was orgasmic.
We came very close to that in 2016, opportunity is at our door once again.
 Streaks and Sportscenter highlights, interviews, record breaking streaks are great.
 World Series championship = complete nirvana.    

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