I was at Progressive Field the other day for that unfortunate milestone of the Tribe getting no-hit, down in section 167, and a straight shot from Eagle Avenue. In the second half of the game, a tiny voice three rows back punched through the throbbing din of the unemployed and truant Wednesday afternoon crowd. At [...]
Historic Tremont, Ohio. You’ll never find a more mixed hive of here and there throughout the cardinal state than in this borough just south of downtown Cleveland. And I’ve quite happily called this place my home for the last 8 years. Starting with some artists and artisans, their vision, their work, that’s helped to rebuild [...]
With all the renewed debate of whether or not Jim Thome is a Hall of Fame worthy player as he sits but four home runs shy of 600, Defend Cleveland Show columnist Greg Miller for his blog ‘Nurse the Hate’ had this to say yesterday. Kind of hard to even get past the two photos [...]
Reading this harrowing piece on the Anheuser-Busch dynasty reminded me of something I’ve noticed lately: beer advertisements are not what they used to be. I’m not asking, “hey, remember how funny those Budweiser bullfrogs were? Those Budweiser bullfrogs were really funny.” They weren’t funny. The towering success of that campaign, like NASCAR, simply doesn’t make sense to me. And, like NASCAR, [...]
This is the moment you will know if following and rooting for the Cleveland Indians is worth your time. No one can argue that the team needs help with the outfield. All season long the team has held onto the belief that somehow/someway Grady Sizemore would return to being a .275/28HR/100 RBI outfielder. Let’s be [...]
The Defend Cleveland Show for WRUW 91.1 FM, Cleveland has always sought to tether itself between there needing to be more than a manufactured pandered “take” on the world of sports, and that of its study and research filtered through influences which aren’t afraid to extend beyond the sports world alone. In other words all [...]
Can someone explain to me why a “professional athlete” can’t play first base? This Travis Hafner situation about him not being able to play in the field is extremely confusing to me. Are you trying to tell me that this guy’s shoulder is so fragile he can’t risk throwing the ball across the diamond? How [...]