The B-List Lite: 9/20

The Indians drop the opener in Minnesota after going 2-1 in KC, and the game recap features:

• The Purpose of September
• Jeanmar Gomez' focus
• Andy Marte's special night
• The author admits his ignorance
• Drew Sutton and the nickel-plated schmoes in Clumbus
• Compare and contrast: Tony Sipp v. Joe Smiff
• Notes from the weekend: Choo & Lou, Yoon steals home, rain delays of death
• Happy 8th birthday, Isobel!

There are lots of places to see an inability to get the third out, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 9/16

The Indians take the sesaon series from the Angels on a bloop single by Christopher Lloyd, and the game recap features:

• Fausto's newfound command
• Raffy Perez rights the ship
• Over the bullpen's collective heads
• Trevor Crowe's hitting prowess
• Unfair derision
• Managerial Second-Guessers!
• Very, very, very* bad  September offense

There are lots of places to see an error by a third baseman cost a team a win in a Cleveland game, but only one place to read The B-List.

* very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very

The B-List Lite: 9/15

The Angels bore the Indians to death, and the game recap features:

• Jeanmar Gomez' inability to win without stuff
• Gomez' silver lining
• Justin Germano, tomorrow's Jamey Wright
• Frank Herrmann, tomorrow's Frank Herrmann
• Jensen Lewis, today's Eddie Moo
• Every interesting plate appearance after the second inning
• Welcome to the club, Drew Sutton!

There are lots of places to see the Indians offense get throttled, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 9/14

Shelley Duncan single-handedly beats the Angels, and the game recap features:

• Duncan's magical night
• Duncan's long-term value
• Josh Tomlin's high-wire act
• Mike Brantley, leadoff hitter
• Walks for fun and not fun
• The Bob Wickman Commemorative Save
• The silver lining of Travis Hafner's AB

There are lots of places to see the Indians ride homers to a victory, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 9/10 - 9/12

The Indians drop two of three to the Twins despite 1 ER allowed by starters in over 23 IP, and the game recaps feature:

• Fausto Carmona's changeup
• Carlos Carrasco written in pen
• Mitch Talbot's Dead Cat Bounce Redux
• Justin Masterson, ersatz swingman
• Today's Science Lesson!
• Schmuckoglobin
• The highly-productive duo of ... catchers?!
• Luis Valbuena's errorless game (singular)

There are lots of places to see more low-scoring games, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 9/7

Tofu lou Marson's grand slam (yes!) leads the Tribe past Caliheimgeles, and the game recap features:

• Tofu Lou's golden bat
• Tofu Lou's golden arm
• Tofu Lou's most surprising stat
• Justin Masterson makes an adjustment
• Travis Hafner looks familiar
• Jayson Nix' Tinfoil Hat
• Mike Brantley, one-man Terror on the Basepaths
• Walks for fun and profit

There are lots of places to see the Indians ride homers to a victory, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 9/3 - 9/6

The Indians finish a split with the Mariners and take the Labor Day opener from the Angels, and the game recaps feature:

• Felix Hernandez is very good
• Getting no-hit by Luke French is very UN-good
• Mitch Talbot's Dead Cat Bounce
• Secretary of State Jessica Simpson
• Live weasels
• The invention of Punyball
• Chris Perez: still awesome
• Raffy Perez: a bit less awesome
• Terror on the Basepaths!
• Red Flag Carrasco

There are lots of places to see low-scoring games, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 9/2

The Shin-Soos Choo take the opener in Seattle, and the game recap features:

• Josh Tomlin's Inning of Crap™
• A comparison you'd probably I didn't make
• Double Gloating Action
• Tony Sipp's key skills
• Chris Perez, strike-thrower
• A drunken colobus monkey
• Familiar faces doing familiar things
• Tofu Lou is not impressed

There are lots of places to see an Inning of Crap™, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 9/1

The White Sox finish sweeping the Tribe with another late-inning win, and the game recap features:

• Carlos Carrasco's start
• Fundamental difference
• Goofus and Gallant
• The root of much evil
• New Math
• Jayson Nix: Not Jhonny Peralta
• Shin-Soo Choo: Still Good
• How hard is it to find a left fielder who can HIT?

There are lots of places to see homers play a pivotal role in an Indians game, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/31

The Indians make a furious comeback to convert a 4-1 deficit into a 4-3 loss, and the game recap features:

• A list of players more odious than A.J. Pierzynski
• Justin Masterson's role
• Justin Masterson's performance
• Marln Brando watches Frank Herrmann pitch
• Botching the comeback
• Joe Smiff's vestibular region filled with Pop Rocks
• Gorgonzola cheese
• Shelley Duncan's milestone

There are lots of places to see homers play a pivotal role in an Indians game, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/30

The Indians make a furious comeback to send a 6-3 game into extra innings, then make fans furious by blowing it 10-6, and the game recap features:

• A brief treatise on the internal combustion engine
• Mitch Talbot is filled with chocolate pudding
• Wild Chris Perez
• Joseph Conrad watches Raffy Perez pitch
• Botching the comeback
• A pterosaur in a Snuggie™
• Travis Hafner's value
• Jayson Nix' future and ejection

There are lots of places to see the White Sox bullpen stink, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/27 - 8/29

The Indians take two of three from the Royals, and the game recaps feature:

• The fifteen-run deluge!
• Amazing Adventures in Base-Clogging (by the other team!)
• Josh Tomlin's ordinariness
• Jeanmar Gomez' encouragingness
• Second-guessing for fun and no profit
• Managerial Back-Patter
• Digging the Long Ball

There are lots of places to see the Indians lose, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List: 8/25 - 8/26

Family illness forces a delay of columns about splitting a pair with Oakland, and the game recaps feature:

• Lucky Mitch and Unlucky Mitch are the same Mitch
• Justin Masterson's adequacy
• The disappearing Ks
• Chris Perez: Manly Man
• A lack of pan-frying
• Port Smash!
• Tofu Lou and the Smallball of Doom
• Jayson Nix as Tomorrow's Casey Blake
• Trevor Crowe, One-Man Squander Squad!

There are lots of places to see the Indians score infrequently, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/24

The Tribe is throttled for a third time by Gio Gonzalez, and the game recap features:

• The Brett Favre Plan to get Gio Gonzalez the 2011 Cy Young
• A flurry of Sad Trombones
• Pointless Bonus Fausto
• Jack Cust v. Tony Sipp: Mano a Failo
• Oatmeal on a Stick
• Tofu Lou Marson's unique achievement
• Scouting reports filed by the wind

There are lots of places to see the Tribe get shut out again, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/20 - 8/22

The Indians get swept by the Tigers, and the game recaps feature:

• Very bad offense
• Very bad offense
• Very, very bad offense
• Lousy starting pitching
• Good relief pitching
• But so what?

There are lots of places to see the Indians lose, but only one place to read The B-List.