Jesus Christ, sometimes it’s almost painful being a fan of professional sports teams from Cleveland. You have to be some kind of masochist. It’s like the sports Gods line up with big grins on their faces waiting for the opportunity to fuck Cleveland fans up the ass.
The Browns, after a somewhat promising start to the season, are now at 2-5-1 and have fired their Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator.
The Cavs are sitting at 1-7 and have already fired their Head Coach.
And now the final thing that sparked this thread, apparently the Indians are looking to trade off some of their veterans, including Corey Kluber.
I suppose I should be happy that at least the Cavs (actually Lebron James) won a championship and the Indians were good for a few years.
Does any other city suffer as much misery as Cleveland?
I’ve known other people who switch their favorite teams with whoever is good at the time. I just can’t do that. It’s Cleveland or bust for me. It’s like a incurable chronic disease.
Oh well. I just needed to rant for a bit. Thanks for listening.
I think we need to get ourselves a hockey team. Detroit is a pretty trash place when it comes to sports a lot of the time, but the Red Wings always seem to pick up the slack then the Tigers, Pistons and Lions aren’t running hot.
I feel you on “Cleveland or bust” tho. I can’t believe I watch the Browns every Sunday. EVERY Sunday. Like if I don’t, they’ll be taken away again. It’s a disease.
Try barracking for St Kildain the AFL (Aus Footy League). Started in 1873, won their first premiership in 1966 (by one single point) and nada since then.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Cleveland’s top 4 starters are one of the best rotations in the game. It’s also relatively cheap. In Lindor and Ramirez, they have two of the most exciting young talents as well. The window to win a championship is still wide open. The bullpen needs retooling, plus a little more tinkering here and there, and that’s it.
Sure, they’ll listen on Kluber or Carrasco if another team literally wants to give up the farm. If a monster package included a young stud starter, they might part with one of their own, but that’s true of a lot of teams.
Are the owners assholes? The payroll seems too low to cry poverty and they would have to be crazy to blow that team up. I can see them moving Encarnacion for salary relief but not much else.
Sunno. Maybe Cleveland is jinxed by idiot team ownershiop.
Cleveland has a hockey team (the Monsters) and they’re pretty good. Problem is, no one cares now since it’s AHL. I’m old enough to remember when AHL hockey was actually pretty popular there (the Barons, from long before I was born until the early 70s. It was all downhill after that).
When you include Akron and Canton, Cleveland is the 16th biggest market, and
The Indians sold out 455 consecutive games from 1995 to 2001. They were averaging over 42,000 fans every home game. They have won the division the past three seasons and yet they only averaged 23,000 per game. What’s up, Cleveland?
Also, those years you cite were among the first few years at Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field). I think it’s pretty common for MLB teams to draw pretty well for the first few years at a new (or newly-renovated) stadium, which then tapers off once the newness wears off.
Whatever is going on in Cleveland isn’t just reflecting the few percentage point dips league wide. Take a look at these numbers:
The first two years of Jacob’s Field weren’t sell outs. The Indians started winning and attendance went way above league average all the way through 2002. It was above average again in 2007, another first place finish. Now they’ve been first for three years and crickets.
I think one answer is that the Browns didn’t return to Cleveland until 1999 and the Cavaliers were truly horrible in those days. Since then those teams have sucked up a lot of the sports dollar spending in th Cleveland area
