Official Cleveland Indians Thread (Reds, Angels, team, standings)
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There are some good points there. For whatever it is worth, coolstandings.com projects the 2011 Indians' AL Central chances through 5/1/11 at 68.8%; their playoff odds are 73.6%. However, let me mention the 2001 Phillies (i.e. the Phillies team that for all intents and purposes started the Phillies' current run of being a consistently good team/playoff contender) as a point of reference. After the games of 6/1/01, the NL East standings looked like this:
PHI 35-18
ATL 27-26
FLA 25-28
NYM 23-32
MTL 21-34
According to coolstandings.com, the Phillies had a 78.3% chance of winning the NL East at that point and an 81.7% chance of making the playoffs at that point in the season.
However, the Phillies went 51-58 the remainder of the season (finishing 86-76), while the Braves went 61-48 (finishing 88-74), allowing the Braves to win the division by 2 games. (Incidentally, the Mets also did pretty well the last 2/3 of the season in 2001, going 59-48 and finishing above .500 at 82-80 after their bad start.)
In addition to the above, I'll note that much like the 2010 Indians (who went 69-93), the 2000 Phillies were a bad team, finishing 65-97. (As a point of reference, in 2000 the Braves went 95-67 and the Mets, who won the NL pennant, went 94-68.)
Indians return home tonight still sporting the best record in the American League.
The Indians are currently defending a 13-game home win streak.
I'm afraid they only play well in crappy April weather! It's going to be a beautiful night in Cleveland...hopefully the Tribe can still play ball!
Hopefully the fans show up. If they don't show when with the best record in MLB, good weather, and coming off a respectable showing out west, then I don't want to hear the "wait 'til school's out" excuse. It would be a shame if the crowd is anything less than 20,000.
Hopefully the fans show up. If they don't show when with the best record in MLB, good weather, and coming off a respectable showing out west, then I don't want to hear the "wait 'til school's out" excuse. It would be a shame if the crowd is anything less than 20,000.
Considering how small the Indians' season ticket base is right now (which can be estimated by looking at the smallest crowd of the season), a crowd of 20,000 for a weeknight game would represent a huge (and very, very impressive) walk-up crowd for the Indians.
Considering how small the Indians' season ticket base is right now (which can be estimated by looking at the smallest crowd of the season), a crowd of 20,000 for a weeknight game would represent a huge (and very, very impressive) walk-up crowd for the Indians.
I see your point, and the rain definitely will hurt attendance tonight.
Didn't they have a little over 8,000 walk ups at the beginning of the month? I thought they would be able to pull it least that coming off the road trip with the record they have, but again the rain...
Great video of Hafner's walk off home run from the video of Seattle fans:
Indians Walkoff Live 05/13/2011 06:29pm PST, Recorded on my iPhone on 5/13/11 at 9:29 PM EDT ZackDulisse on USTREAM. Cricket (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14685842#utm_campaign=twitter.com&utm_source=14685 842&utm_medium=social - broken link)
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