When it rains, it pours down meteors of doom.
As if losing six straight wasn’t pitiful and sad enough, a Jered Weaver curveball became a pain in the…side of Jason Kipnis, and well, you know the familiar rest. Obliques muscles are the new broken pinky toes; there’s not a whole lot you can do other than let nature take its course. And it’s actually something I can say I know the pain of. It’s no joke when you tweak one of these things. In the immediate moment when it happens, it just sucks the air right out of you.
So now, the Indians are without their best player until May 15 at the earliest, if they choose to go the retroactive route. But who knows how long this thing will linger. Everything is magnified right now since it’s “still early,” but this was one of the last things that the Indians could afford right now. The off-day came at a good time, and it looked like they needed it. Unfortunately, our second baseman needs a bit more than that.
Jose Ramirez was brought up from Columbus. Sorry, no Lindor-polooza yet.
UPDATE: Chris Antonetti just confirmed that Kipnis will miss three to five weeks, so there goes the whole retroactive thing.
Jose Ramirez, not Rodriguez
Yeah, I goofed. Thanks!
hate to lose kipnis of course, but i’m excited to see ramirez – he’s been tearing the cover off the ball so far this year at AAA and has a nifty walk/strikeout (9/8) rate to boot!
perhaps he plays well while kipnis is out and then we can abandon the absurd elliot johnson experiment when kipnis returns.
An oblique injury takes at least a month to heal most of the time.
I really, really hope Ramirez is given a few opportunities to start. Don’t want to watch either Aviles or Johnson (or…both…) in the lineup every day. And, frankly, I’m kind of excited to watch somebody in the starting lineup who hasn’t been with the team up until now, because how many of us have actually enjoyed any of our regular players’ at bats through this point??
Maybe I’m just extra pessimistic after reading Pluto’s latest piece.
agreed, though in general i find it’s always pretty exciting when the prospects make an appearance. hopefully this will necessitate some more meaningful lineup adjustments as well. the idea of batting aviles at the top of the order (like when he and swisher batted 2-3 the other night) is horrifying.
gah. aviles and swisher 2-3 in the lineup again tonight, with elliot johnson at 2nd base. somebody needs to shake francona awake.
on an unrelated note, does anyone here regularly read/participate in the indians discussions on “Waiting for Next Year”? i love the writing, but the commenting/discussion is awful.
i tried to get involved in the comment section over there, but it seems to be mostly folks with negativity rivaling that of our own “ghost of joel skinner” and folks willingly ignorant of the indians’ financial realities (the old “why can’t we sign miguel cabrera, this ownership is awful” type of nonsense) arguing with two of the most ridiculous indians apologists i’ve seen this side of paul hoynes. there’s no middle ground over there – either the indians are the most ineptly run ballclub that’s ever existed, or they’re absolute geniuses and we just need to keep waiting a little longer for their master plan to come together.
We’re pretty chummy with the WFNY crew and every place has its own distinct tenor. You might not always agree with what’s been said across anywhere on the Internet (or Twitter), but good writing is good writing. You have to learn to take the negative with an even keel.
I think we do a pretty good job of not overreacting TOO terribly here. But sometimes (like the over the second half of April), it just can’t be avoided. I wasn’t here for the Acta era; I can only imagine how defeatist this place was then.
oh the writing is great, i really enjoy it. the tenor of the comments section is what i found so disappointing – but given that the topic of discussion is cleveland sports, i suppose that shouldn’t come as THAT much of a surprise.
Trolls are trolls. Look no further than last night.
I could only imagine what is was like on here during August of 2012 – the worst month of Indians baseball I’ve ever witnessed… (And I date back to the early 80s as a Tribe fan)
What happened last night?
I never check in there as much as I intend to, but I really ought to remember to read more. Sounds like the comment section for Cleveland.com (which was plenty “entertaining” with today’s Wahoo article btw)…I’ll just have to remember not to bring any troll bait if I join in any discussions.
There’s nothing I hate more than being serenaded by the DOLANS R CHEEP crowd.
I was telling this guy about our blog once and he goes “Are you guys better than Cleveland.com?” And I don’t like to get into peeing contests about who is better (mostly because I don’t care, but also because I just don’t like to be rude). So I said “I promise you one thing – our commenters are 4,000 times better than the ones on Cleveland.com.” I firmly stand by that!
Reading the comments section on Cleveland.com is the intellectual equivalent of having one’s hemorrhoids removed by a rusty razor blade in the hands of Ray Charles.
Sean Porter: “What happened last night?”
Two nights ago now, but I was referring to the racist aftermath of Boston Bruins fans going after PK Subban.
Oh, I see…
I assumed Ghost finally got tossed from this site… haha!
As far as I know, not yet.