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.

The B-List Lite: 8/19

The Tribe salvages a game after making five errors, and the game recap features:

• The Future of Third Base: Not Jayson Nix
• The Future of Third Base: Not Andy Marte
• The Future of Third Base: Not Luis Valbuena
• Mitch Mitch Mitchy Mitch Mitch
• The Bullpen of Doom ... to the opponent
• Comical baserunning
• Matt LaPorta, foul ball machine

There are lots of places to see Cleveland player make an error, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/18

The Indians drop a second straight to the Royals, and the game recap features:

• Green Eggs and Hector
• Fausto Carmona's Simple Fail
• Don't swing, batter!
• Ducks on the pond!
• Everybody hits!
• Travis Hafner, man of class
• Frank Herrmann's fake goodness

There are lots of places to see a home run in an Indians game (yeah, again again), but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/17

The Indians drop the opener to take sole possession of fifth place, and the game recap features:

• Jeanmar Gomez: same as it ever was
• The strike-throwing bullpen
• The strike-taking power hitters
• The fact the pitches they took weren't strikes
• Hustle by the Fat Guy
• Questionable lineup construction
• Asdrubal Cabrera's warmth

There are lots of places to see a home run in an Indians game (yeah, again), but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/13 - 8/15

The Tribe drops two of three to the Twins, and the game recaps feature:

• Justin Masterson's worst best game
• Justin Masterson's best worst game
• Mitch Talbot's rust
• Fausto's improved control
• Pronk smash!
• The Top of the Order
• A brief discussion of Hector Ambriz
• (not really: it's not brief, nor a discussion, but rather a lengthy rant)
• Also, Andy Marte
• Things we once had but probably don't really miss

There are lots of places to see the Indians post a scoreless last three innings, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/12

The Indians avoid the sweep, and the game recap features:

• Jeanmar Gomez: 4 gems in 4 starts means ... what?
• Raffy Perez and the Dropping Shoe
• Chris Perez and the strike zone exclusivity
• Mike Brantley proves I'm an idiot
• Things I Did Not Know: Doubles Edition
• Lou Marson's Arm of Doom
• Shin-Soo Shoo's Hand of Pain

There are lots of places to see a home run in an Indians game, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/11

The Indians succumb again to the Magic of Buck Showalter, and the game recap features:

• Josh Tomlin's morphing type
• Brett Bergesen's dominance (?!?!?!)
• The offense in a nutshell
• (a very small nutshell)
• Shelley Duncan's Hidden Play
• The infield's Hidden Play
• Defense: on hoses and flashed leather
• The third baseman of the future better not be a third baseman of the present

There are lots of places to see a home run in an Indians game, but only one place to read The B-List.

The B-List Lite: 8/10

The Tribe drop the opener to Bal'mer, and the game recap features:

• Justin Masterson's suggested future role
• Michael Brantley, leadoff hitter
• Jordan Brown, any hitter
• Frank Herrmann's 23rd minute
• A short treatise on the efficacy of Rule 5: "It's dumb"
• Homers!
• Winnie the Pooh and One Fish, Two Fish
• Managerial Head-Scratcher

There are lots of places to see a home run in an Indians game, but only one place to read The B-List.