My heart is broken in two

My dad and I went to the last game in our six-pack of Cleveland Indians tickets last night, which is what I had bought him for Christmas last year. It was pretty pathetic. Pathetic is not even a good enough word. How about: deplorable, miserable, paltry, heartrending, wretched. I know I shouldn’t let a “little [...]

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Good sportsmanship in MLB!

Jim Thome, if only you had done something as simple as buy a $12K ad in the Cleveland Plain Dealer thanking your fans, as CC Sabathia did, we might not greet you with hisses each time you come to town. Of course, you said you loved Cleveland and Sabathia never made such overtures of affection. [...]

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More bitching about new name of Indians’ ballpark

Marketing people suck. I’d like to get my hands on the publicity genius who thought that this was a great new symbol for Progressive Park–or “Regressive Park” as Diane has been calling it. C’mon… surely you could have made a cooler symbol…? This looks so cheesy and half-assed. I’m a technical writer; I know the [...]

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Corporate America rears its ugly advertising head on another defenseless public arena

Today I had to drag my tired ass grudgingly out of bed for work only to hear the news on my radio alarm clock announce that Progressive insurance has bought the naming rights to Jacobs Field, the ballpark of the Cleveland Indians. We Clevelanders knew for months that the contract for the naming rights was [...]

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Like a horror film…

An unsettling fog has descended upon the world, as viewed from outside the window of my office. Michael had warned me that such was occuring in Wadsworth at just this moment, but I figured it was an Akron/Cuyahoga Valley thing and it would not affect me up here in Mayfield Heights. Yet, here it is, [...]

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Don’t rip on Cleveland or Clevelanders!

Mars Girl with the Mars Dad during the first ALDS gamein Cleveland, when the hope and promise of a World Series was ripe. It’s been a rough week. It all started with the Indians’ nose-dive into oblivion somewhere in the seventh inning of the last ALCS game. I, unlike my father, was still holding out [...]

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The weather’s smoldering; I’m sick; I rode anyway

The last two days have been HOT HOT HOT! in Northeast Ohio. When it gets to 90+ degrees with humidity, it sure is NOT pleasant. When I turn my air conditioning on (I hate having to close my house up), you know it’s hot. Still… my philosophy has always been that so long as it [...]

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