It doesn’t have to be as serious and inspirational as Moneyball was, just enough to remind the rest of the MLB the Indians are still playing “Major League” ball. Maybe another movie might light a fire under their teepees. The Indians should take a note or two from Charlie “The Real Wild Thing” Sheen and try to embrace the “Winning!” attitude this season. The A.L. central and the Detroit Tigers can both affirm to their struggles with winning since the 2007 season.
The Indians came out swinging last season and had finally shown some promise since their NLCS brawl with the Red Sox in 2007. On June 1st 2011, the Indians led the A.L. central by five games with a 33-20 record, which was also good enough for second best among the entire league. They then proceeded to lose 4 games straight, and over the course of the season, slowly hand the A.L. central jungle back over to its rightful King and owner.
As baseball fan, it’s definitely exciting to see your team come out of spring training hot and playing great baseball in the early summer months. But, the length of the season always seems to take its toll on some teams, and 2011’s season’s victim was the Indians finishing with an 80-82 record. For the past four years, Indians fans haven’t had much to cheer about, but the beginning of last season was certainly a spark in the camp. It’s just disheartening to get that feeling, only to have it washed away by mediocrity and trip back to the type of season they’d grown used to.
You can blame them for letting go of Cliff Lee, or Jimenez not necessarily performing up to “snuff”, or their lack of a substantial line-up, or the rest of the N.L. central or even LeBron. But, the fact of the matter is pointing fingers and burning jerseys isn’t going to help the team find the right recipe for winning, which apparently has the main ingredient of “Tiger Blood” now a days.
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