The B-List Lite: 5/13

The Tribe gives Zack Greinke his first win, and today's game recap features:

• David Huff is bad
• Ducks on the Pond
• The badness of David Huff
• Squander Ball against Bad Robinson Tejeda
• David Huff's badness
• The predictable failure of Grady Sizemore
• David "Mr. Bad" Huff

There are lots of places to watch the Indians strand 11 runners, but only one place to read The B-List.

Indians Lean Hard to Port

Rob Neyer is off for a couple days, so he asked some of the SweetSpot bloggers to submit a piece in the theme of "What should your team do about [ill-performing player X]?"

For the Indians ... well ... singling out ONE ill-performing player is kind of a challenge.  Given that we have exactly two hitters doing well (arguably four, I guess), my piece would have been an eight-column installment plan, mostly ending in "scream helplessly and cry."

Instead, I sought a class of trouble we're having: namely, a near-total inability to hit left-handed pitching.  For more details, check out my entry on Rob's blog.

THEN you can scream helplessly and cry.

The B-List: 5/12

The Tribe wins the series in KC in a rain-drenched affair, and today's game recap features:

• Fausto Carmona's weasel factor
• Aaron Laffey and Chris Perez add more weasality
• Tony Sipp: not a weasel
• Russ smash!
• Drooby Doo!
• Super Trey Hillman's Parade of Bad Decisions
• Terror on the Basepaths!

There are lots of places to watch the Royals strand 13 runners, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 5/11

The Tribe takes the opener in KC, and today's game recap features:

• Jake Westbrook adjusts, looks much the same
• Russ Branyan connects!
• Russ Branyan doesn't connect!
• Plate discipline is not simply taking walks
• The horror of the KC bullpen
• Small Sample Size Follies
• Mark Grudzielanek, useful player

There are lots of places to watch KC's bullpen combust, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 5/7 - 5/9

The Indians do not lose a series and actually beat the Tigers, and today's game recaps feature:

• Masterson fights Verlander to a draw
• Talbot fights mediocrity to a draw
• Branyan fights Suck, loses by split decision
• Our new old closer
• Our old new closer
• The guy who probably ought to be closer
• Good things from Travis Hafner and Mark Grudzielanek
• Serial badness

There are lots of places to watch Luis Valbuena make another error, but only one place to read The B-List.