sportscoach
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Your feelings are misplaced. Be mad at MLB and the MLBPA--not the Indians.
This shit is fucking laughable. Obviously we weren't making moves like the Indians of the 90s. Nobody will probably ever get that lucky again. Do you understand that the 90s Indians were probably the best baseball team over an extended period that you'll ever see (even though they didn't win a WS)?
You're actually saying you're upset because we didn't pull off a heist like trading Eddie Taubensee for Kenny Lofton, or Felix Fermin for Omar Vizquel. You can't trade bums for hall of fame level players consistently (but look at the Casey Blake and all the Seattle deals to see that we're still robbing people blind occasionally).
The casual fan was thrilled when the Indians signed Swisher. That person's feelings shouldn't run an organization. If they can't understand that, maybe that's the root of the problem--there aren't enough intelligent people in the Indians's market, and small market baseball no longer appeals to the casual idiot.
You also aren't completely reading what I am saying either. I wasn't actually referring to me when it came to most things in my statements, I was referring to general fans in Cleveland. Cleveland fans are mostly if we don't win then they complain. There is a ton of negative fans out there. I am not upset about anything to be honest. I just stated I didn't like the moves we were making.
We went from Jacobs who was winning and at least trying to bring in free agents to cover holes to Dolan who had a bad scouting/drafting staff and didn't spend any money to bring in free agents. So you had spoiled 90s fans which the team had new owners and the new owners werent putting out a good team anymore. The casual fan is blaming them and my opinion was at first the team wasn't welll run and looking back it is easy to tell at first Dolan and the FO didn't really know what they were doing. Indians bought low and essentially sold high on players. It felt like their was disconnect between Owner, FO and manager for a fair amount of years.
Once again I have stated that the team has been very good of late especially since we changed the owner (aka the younger Dolan is now running the show) and we got Francona as our manager who is friends/on very good terms with our FO. We have been a lot, a lot better and I am giving them high grades the last few seasons. Now that being said in the years of Acta and not signing that free agent like the fans want, they lost faith in the FO to make the deals they wanted and now don't care about the team. We should have gotten some of those fans back but it doesnt mean we have all of them