Report from Jacobs Field
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Oct 02, 2007 
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The Indians mingled with the media about an hour this afternoon. Had a chance to speak to Casey Blake, Joe Borowski, Travis Hafner, Trot Nixon, Grady Sizemore and manager Eric Wedge.
The Indians must have received a team memo about what to say. In essence, they can barely remember losing all six games against the Yankees, postseason experience doesn’t matter and they have a lot of faith in C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Carmona
“The regular season doesn’t matter any more,” Sizemore said. “All that matters is what happens now.”
I did notice a few interesting things. There were three long tables full of baseballs, 135 balls in all. There were signs around the clubhouse reminding the players to sign the balls before Game 1. So there’s a decent chance the entire team will have sore wrists.
Nixon still has a lot of Red Sox blood in him. He changed expressions and snarled when asked about A-Rod. “I don’t wan’t to comment on that,” he said.
The Indians look like a hockey team. Half the guys have beards and the other half are trying.
The big story in Cleveland – seriously – is that LeBron James is rooting for the Yankees.
Lets go Yankees! Ah I’m excited!
Excited, even though it’s days away!
King James knows where it’s at!
That Trot Nixon is one charming fellow…
snarled? really?
“The Indians have received a team memo about what to say”
= FEAR THE NY MEDIA
postscript: King LeBron may be from Akron, but he knows where the Empire is located!
maybe the Indians that are trying to grow beards should try some of Guiseppe Franco’s products on their chins:)
trot = tool
lEBRON, A RIGHT THINKING “KINDA” GUY!!!! A Yankee
cLEVELAND can’t remember losing to Yankees? OK….
Watching LeBron is just like watching the Yankees. We are all witnesses! Witnesses to greatness!!
A champion rooting for a champion . . . nothing wrong with that!
What a jerk Trot is – I thought he would have some class – guess I was wrong.
lol matt
i actually had a dream the other night that i went to game 4 at the stadium and Guiseppe Franco threw out the first pitch. the crowd went nuts!
Hopefully next year King James and company can dethrone the Spurs!
ya know, looking at the photographs, I get the feeling Cleveland is just happy to be “here”
after all, this is their first appearence since 2001.
And for all the anti-yankee media hype about CC and Carmona, together, they have the grand total of ONE postseason apperance – and that was six years ago.
Imagine if it was the other way around. We would be flooded with stories on Yankee inexperience.
I love the fear of the NY media. In fact, perhaps Pete and his cohorts can feed on that and help out their home team: I should think that those midwestern boys could easily be distracted by too much media attention…
I never liked that Trot, or “Snot” as the RF bleacher creatures would call him. Juvenile, but funny.
Haha, I’m watching a Guiseppe Franco commercial right now.
This “feud” is all in Trot’s enormous head. He has no real reason to hate Alex except that Alex plays for the Yankees and he played for Boston. Do us a favor Trot and stop pretending like you’re relevant.
Oh and LeBron James is awesome.
I swear that any time I’ve sat in fancy-pants seats at Yankee Stadium, I’ve spotted LaBron. He may be there more often than that crap ex-mayor of ours. I suspect two things–that he, like Alex, loves NY and dreams about playing for a NY basketball team and that he’s chummy with a member of the Yankees. I’m thinking Jetes.
Speaking of Yankee lust, did everyone see the picture of Delgado with the Jeter jersey? It’s from when he was clearing out his locker. (God how hideous must it have been to do that in the presence of media?)
Lebron gained many, many fans today, and probably lost none in Cleveland. People there will cheer him as long as he plays for the Cavs, no matter what. Smart PR move by Lebron, you can never have too many fans/be too popular. I bet Nike masterminded this. Slick move.
What’s that, a celebrity that wears a Yankee hat because he… likes the Yankees? A novel idea. I’ve seen him in pictures or clips with a Yankee hat on, nice to know it’s not just a fashion statement.
Pete, is he getting as much heat as Tom Brady did for making the same good decision?
Why is it that when I get the good seats the only person I ever see is Bobby Bacala?
“Yankee Lust” is the best fame I’ve ever heard on this subject.
I used to say “inside every sawk or met is a yankee dying to get out.”
Yours is much, much better.
http://tinyurl.com/yuv73p
And here’s the da evidence.
Nixon has no class…I’ve seen him flip off fans in the RF stands at the Stadium, behind his back, as a pitch is being delivered. He’s got good numbers against Clemens though…
Yeah like anyone should care about what that loser says about anything. He wasnt even good enough to be an everyday player and he is talking about the MVP. Why would someone with 30 rbis this year even get interviewed…?!
Tro-ot Nixon is a horse’s ass.
Oh, the 2004 game 2 bleacher memories.
I guess what are they supposed to say? We are afraid we will lose in the post season because we lost to the yanks six straight in the regular season. We are unsure if we are going to win because we have almost no post-season experience and Carmona and Sabathia both have been horrible against the yanks.
I cant believe trot is even healthy after 162 games? That must be a record for him. That guy has been on the disabled list more days than giambi and drew combined
Bob from NJ, right on. LeBron will always be appreciated in Cleveland after everything that he’s done for that franchise. They were a mess, changing coaches left and right, until the 2003 NBA Draft turned it all around. The Cavs got him and everything has been great since then. Now if they only had someone to replace Zydranus Ilgauskas in the middle.
By the way, somebody needs to do something about Squat Nixon.
Dr. Ac –
Did you photoshop those pix? Or are they for real?
(It also looked like Lindsay was photoshopped into the pic with Brit & Paris.)
Either way, you get some really interesting pictures.
I can’t stand Nixon either, but he is the complete opposite of J.D. Drew, no question.
LeBron is a genius. He could do anything and he would always be cheered in Cleveland. He rescued that franchise from the gutter. They weren’t drawing fans, they were losing, and changing coaches left and right until he came along. A quality replacement for Zydrunas Ilgauskas is all that separates the Cavs from an NBA Title.
I guess Trot got released before he got the Red Sox memo that hating on A-Rod was sooo 2004.
What if James like the Yankees? You are not forced to root for the team the people want you to root. You root for the team you like. Period. I don’t even care if a yankee player was a fan of Boston before, and has a “Red Sox” heart. He could like the team he wants. He is a professional and will do his job no matter who he roots for.
Andrew that is a classic. SOmeone emailed it to me, I don’t know if I can even post it bleeping out the words.
Trot Nixon is a horse’s bleep.
He’s the meanest
He bleep the biggest bleep.
Trot Nixon is a horse’s bleep.
The picture of Brady in the Yankees hat is for real. He is a Yankees fan. Caused quite a stir up here in Boston last year.
Trot Nixon is a clown. Anyone ever notice how his numbers rapidly declined when they started testing more for steroids? Obviously I’m not insinuating anything… but still.
“Oh, the 2004 game 2 bleacher memories.”
Funny that Yankees fans go on and on about how classy they are and how classless other teams’ fans are, then brag about their obscene chants directed at opposing players.
How are your 2004 game 7 bleacher memories?
Doreen-
That’s a real Daily News Cover
thanks for the props, Hon!
I DO have mad skills, if I says so myself (sic)
As a bonus, here’s the famous Post cover I mentioned above
http://tinyurl.com/32gv76
Seriously, if Lebron can root for the Yankees and do it in a public way, preferably at the Jake, then I promise to root for the Cav’s next year. Gotta be more funt hen rooting for the laughing stock that inhabits Madison Square Garden.
Doreen-
I think I misunderstood your question: those are real pictures of Tom Brady, Big Papi, and 38-Donuts.
The Brady pic ignited a firestorm, making the covers the boston papers.
As you know, Curt named his son “Gehrig Schilling” – how’s that for Yankee-Lust.
By the way, the Schilling hat is a Yankee Hater hat, there is a line through the interlocking NY. They are very popular in Beantown.
I hope the Yanks use Trot’s snub at bulliten board material in their locker room – how stupid of him!
It’s very sad to wear a hat that says “I hate XXX” instead of your team’s hat… A sign of an inferiority complex.
Words cannot even begin to describe my hatred for Trot Nixon.
history and being an ex-sox player aside. he was asked about a player on an opposing team who is the hands down MVP winning in a few weeks. he should answer the friggen questions.
if cleveland had a guy who was a lock for MVP, i’m sure the yanks would be asked questions on him. unreal.