@miktoxic said: by then he'll be pulling into the badger parking lot on sunday with his browns uni on. betcha a tee-shirt...

The amazing thing about this is the negative reaction to LeBron from other places, not Cleveland and not Cavs fans.

@chris. said:And I'm sure Laffey will get moved back to the rotation sooner than later, but like I keep saying, I love him in the bullpen. I love him anywhere, really, but with such a questionable rotation and shallow bullpen, he'll be a huge x-factor being able to pitch 1, 2 or 3 good innings and keep us alive. Thank god Acta is actually using him in big spots instead of as a mop up man. It is very important that the bullpen has someone to go to for longer relief like you said. Regardless of who is starting this year there will probably be a lot of struggles. Laffey is going to help keep us in some of these games if the starter gets in trouble early. I am much more comfortable pitching Laffey for three innings and closing with Perez than using four pitchers in four innings. Perez really has good stuff. Hopefully Acta will have a tough decision to make when Wood gets healthy. I still think our bullpen is going to be above average this year. Our starters might struggle but I like our bullpen.

ya Redmond will be a solid back up, decent hitter also

@blowe said:or because he got very sick the last 2 weeks of training camp and lost the QB competition to Joe Flacco, whom he was beating at the time. Stuff happens Smith won the job and got sick and Flacco did well and that is that! Flacco was a first round pick and got the job and no team benches a first round pick unless he starts stinking it up. It is sorta like benching your kid who is playing well! Smith has never had a chance so far in the NFL. He was a winner in college, I would be willing to get rid of either of our QB's for him.

Camp Joe Thomas is so freakin proud !!!

@the-gipper said:Good analogy. I too will be hoping for the Saints to win. I mean, they are, after all Saints. They are on a Mission from God! They already are- did you hear about the t-shirts that just say WWBD? What Would Breesus Do? PS- In my book the Blues Brother's movie is one of the all-time classics. PPS- I think the Colts are going to win (Manning will be too much for the Saint's D), but I'll be rooting for the Saints. May the tankers go down in flames.

And here's Jayson Stark, who lists us as one of the 5 winners in the trade market, along with Philly, Boston, St. Louis and LA (Dodgers) They're not going to feel like winners in Cleveland right now. We know that. Trading away a rent-a-player like DeRosa was one thing. Trading two pillars like Martinez and Lee is another. So as one AL front-office man put it, "I'm sure there are no smiles in Cleveland right now. You think about where they were in 2007, up 3-1 in the ALCS and one win away from the World Series. And next thing you know, they're the big sellers two years in a row in July. That can't feel real good." But of the teams that spent July selling off, nobody reeled in the quality haul of prospects the Indians did. They collected six solid young players who are either big-league ready now or will be shortly (Chris Perez, Justin Masterson, Carlos Carrasco, Lou Marson, Jason Donald and Jess Todd). And they built both the Lee and Martinez deals around younger, 6-foot-5 flame-ballers who both project as No. 1 starters -- Jason Knapp and Nick Hagadone, respectively. So for what they were trying to accomplish, they did well. But "here's the tough part," said the same front-office man. "This is different than trading CC. At least they could do that and know the next year they still had Cliff Lee. But these trades mean they're not going to win for a couple of years. I'm sure they're excited about a lot of the guys they got back. But 81 times a year, you've got to sit there and watch it. And that's tough. I think they're going to end up being really good in about 2012. But in the meantime, it's going to be hard." http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...&id=4370512

Tweet, tweet! This could well change the landscape of this twitter thingy. http://bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=...&Itemid=125 Beanpot

Wow, a Wali Rainer mention or two. Look, Jackson isn't going to get his due until the defense is a Top 10 defense. Look at the season Shaun Rogers had last year. If he's on the Steelers or Ravens or even NE defense last year, they're probably talking Defensive POY. Shep, regarding your post about the mixed signals sent by the media types. They've got a show-me attitude about the Browns on both sides of the ball and who could blame them? After last year's not-ready-for-primetime showing, the media is not going to believe in this team until they do something worth believing in. What's my feeling on that? GREAT! We don't need any attention and I'm sure that's exactly how Mangini & Co. want it. With regards to D'Qwell, he's a solid linebacker, but by no means spectacular. I'd like to see a few more TFL's and maybe Rex's schemes will allow that.