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Chase Headley teaches us how to “Stop, Drop, Roll and Completely Make Umpires Look Like Hapless Idiots Human.” It worked for them.

Our Cleveland Indians will play their final game prior to the All-Star break, looking for a split in the four-game series against the Bronx Bombers. With yesterday’s controversial interference play kind of leaving a bad taste in our mouths, it’s up the Cookie Monster to help maintain the Tribe’s comfy (but not totally insurmountable) 6.5 game lead over the Tigers.

The good news? Chances are pretty good that we won’t see the Yankees’ Three Horsemen of the Apocalyptic Bullpen (Betances; Miller; Chapman) today, unless the game gets real crazy; such as another super-stupid-long 19-inning nightmare, or today’s Yankees’ starter Masahiro Tanaka gets engulfed by a swarm of ginormous and very hungry fire ants. I mean, if Chase Headley can fool an entire group of umpires into thinking that he was going to “make a play on a ground ball” by hurling himself into Francisco Lindor and then flopping like a leaf tumbling off of a tree branch (as depicted above), then just about any borderline unconscionable scenario is plausible.

Argh… Yes, I’m still bitter.

(Oh, and Derek Jeter got married to model Hannah Davis. I guess this means no more gift baskets.)

As always, lineups are as follows:

Indians Yankees
1B
Carlos Santana
LF
Brett Gardner
2B
Jason Kipnis
CF
Jacoby Ellsbury
SS
Francisco Lindor
DH
Carlos Beltran
DH
Mike Napoli
1B
Mark Teixeira
3B
Jose Ramirez
SS
Didi Gregorius
RF
Lonnie Chisenhall
2B
Starlin Castro
LF
Rajai Davis
3B
Chase Headley
CF
Tyler Naquin
RF
Rob Refsnyder
C
Yan Gomes
C
Austin Romine
SP
Carlos Carrasco
SP
Masahiro Tanaka

2 Comments

  • mondo dentro says:

    We’re having a great season… but I hate the Yankees so much losing the series to them is leaving a baaaaad taste in my mouth right when I wanted to be celebrating where the Tribe is at the half way point. Salazar and Carrasco couldn’t pitch one more decent game before they took a breather?! Am I just being greedy?

    • Michael Strozewski says:

      No, you’re not being greedy. But place today’s performance on the whole team. They’re all playing like my college team after a night of hard drinking. Although I think we could give the Tribe a game with as bad as they are playing today.