Indians Legend Passes

The baseball world mourns the passing of another legend this year.  The winningest pitcher in Cleveland Indians history, Bob "the Smeller is the" Feller passed away.  Feller was an 8-time All Star and was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1962.  It was erroneously reported to have passed away last week, but was merely placed in hospice before passing away on the 15th.

Choo's Promising Future

Cleveland outfielder Shin-Soo Choo (seen below holding a miniature version of himself) will potentially have to put his career on hold if he isn't a part of a gold-medal winning South Korea team in the Asian Games.  All South Korean men must serve two years in the military by the time they are 31.  Choo is 28 and has been trying to find a way out of his military service.  One option is to lead the South Korean baseball team to a gold-medal victory at the Asian Games.  It is customary for gold-medal winning athletes to be excused from this mandatory military service.
















Other options include:

• Dressing in drag to confuse the South Koreans, making them think he is female
• Go back in time to be a part of the 1998 or 2002 Asian Games championship teams
• Not suck in 2008 to be a part of the Olympic team that won gold
• Move to Canada, by being traded to the Blue Jays
• Convert to a pitcher and learn to throw a submarine pitch
• Send his Don Johnson look-alike bobblehead in his place - they'll never know the difference

Red Sox Gets Salty

One of the coolest names in baseball was quietly traded to the Red Sox last week.  Jarrod Saltalamacchia went from the Rangers Triple-A affiliate to the Red Sox Triple-A affiliate.  According to a report, Salty got a case of the "yips," which basically means he forgot how to throw the ball 60 feet back to the pitcher.

Before the Sox acquired Saltalamacchia, they were reportedly deep into the Rube Baker trade talks before the Indians finally clued them in on the fact that Rube was just a character from the 1994 movie Major League 2.

Strasburg Sucks

In his second game as a major league pitcher for the Washington Nationals, highly touted phenom Stephen Strasburg sucked, but still managed to get the win.  Just a few days after 14 K's and no walks against the Pirates, Strasburg was forced to face slightly less pathetic competition in the Cleveland Indians... slightly less pathetic.  And the results were not as stellar.

Strasburg left with a 6-1 lead, but the bases were loaded, and he walked 5 of the last 12 batters he faced.  Strasburg also managed to give up a solo shot to Travis Hafner.  *Side news flash* Travis Hafner still plays major league baseball for the Indians. *End of side news flash*

Strasburg has officially been declared a "stopper" for his gutsy effort against the Indians to stop a 2 game losing streak.  Of course, let's not forget... THE NATIONALS SCORED 9 RUNS!!!!  Generally speaking, if you score 9 runs, you're going to win, regardless of who is on the mound.  Nevertheless, let's not let the facts get in the way of the truth.  Truth is, Strasburg is Gibson, Koufax, Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson all rolled into one Cy Young winning machine.  We are at the beginning of history.  Strasburg will win 14 straight Cy Young awards in 12 seasons, strike out 439,250 helpless batters and have a lifetime ERA of 0.03.  At least that's what we should believe from all the press.