Settle Down – It Was Just One Game
Okay, Cliff Lee looked like crap, the offense did nothing off a former Indian, and as usual, the sky is falling after one loss. Settle down folks. Indians fans should be use to losing the first game of the season, it’s happened 7 of the last 11 seasons. Deal with it.
The bigger question has to be Lee, who is being counted along to anchor a pitching staff that right now is questionable at best. He wasn’t very good in the spring, and carried that over to Opening Day vs a Rangers team that can hit, but at the same time can be beat.
Maybe hindsight being what it is, Eric Wedge should have pulled Lee after he got hit on the forearm, or maybe after he got hit for four runs in the second inning. To his credit, Lee got into a groove in innings three and four until Hank Blalock hit a three-run no doubter in the fifth to put the game away.
But again, it’s just one game, so relax. After all, you could be the Yankees, who just gave C.C. Sabathia a 7-year, $161 million dollar deal to go out and allow six runs, eight hits and five walks over 4 1/3 innings. In other words, it could be worse.
Matt has covered Major League Baseball and the "other two" Pro teams in Cleveland since 1994. He has been on the beat of the Indians in full-time mode since 1996, working for various raido and print networks around the country.
