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There and Back Again
It was a productive week around the new Bastian home. We got all the strawberry-and-jam wallpaper removed from the kitchen, cleaned out the junk the previous owners left in our basement (not the...
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Think warm thoughts
Call me crazy, but I enjoy shoveling snow… which means I’ve been having a whole lot of fun over the past two days. Maybe it’s because I missed out on all the shoveling over the last five years living...
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Finding Fausto
When Indians starter Fausto Carmona headed home to the Dominican Republic for the offseason, manager Manny Acta made sure the pitcher left him with his phone number. Otherwise, it might have taken...
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As the Crowe flies…
Indians GM Chris Antonetti offered this thought earlier this month… “It’s Spring Training. Inevitably, when you have 60 guys in camp, I’m sure that there will be a few guys that have some bumps and...
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Fausto goes first
You know what happens when you assume? Well, not much if the assumption at hand was that Indians starter Fausto Carmona was going to be on the bump come Opening Day. It had not been officially...
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Pom[eranz] Wonderful
Mike Pomeranz felt it was time to teach his son how to throw a curveball. Not just any curve, either. It was a spike curve, thrown with the index finger bent and dug into the seams. So Mike began...
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Luis muy bueno
A few days ago, when a strong wind was ripping through the Ballpark at Camelback Ranch, Indians manager Manny Acta was ready to add a few asterisks to some wind-aided blasts that left the yard. On...
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“It’s Spring Training.”
I know how some die-hard fans can get at this point in Spring Training. We’re about midway through camp, so it seems like a good time to study the box scores and see what jumps out. If somebody isn’t...
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