This is all sorts of wonderful with this ice, ya know?
[WHAT KIND OF NICKNAME CAN I GET OUT OF BONDERMAN?!]
Well, we’ve gone all this time without signing a starting pitcher to a minor league deal. I mean, I figure Anthony Reyes is enough fodder for us.
But it looks like the Indians are trying hard to get one in the fold.
Bastian says the Indians are close to an agreement with Jeremy …

Make sure you follow the twitter today. I’ll be at the Tribe on Tour event at Summit Mall today and I’ll try to tweet and post pictures.
The Tribe on Tour event has received a lot of praise and has seen a lot of attendees the past two days.
I have a quick update really, nothing too major, but I wanted to get this all out of the way because I’ll probably …

Oh February, how close you are to us.
Next week, I’ll share the Spring Training Primer schedule, because the week after, it begins.. That is how close we are to spring training. I’d give anything to have the season of spring come at that time, but I’ll settle for what we can get. This snow… This snow I do not mind. The snow is whatever…
But when we get these below 10 …

This weekend, the Cleveland Indians will hit the road for their revamped version of their winter press tour. This Sunday, they come to my area in Akron and I’m locking it down right now.
My ultimate hope is that Manny Acta is wearing a fedora, just so I can tell him that I admire the hat he is wearing.
Yes, I’m a strange person.
[STILL STUCK IN THIRD]
This third base thing just seems …

How about that flurry of stuff yesterday?
If you followed the action on twitter, you would have seen the initial shock and horror of Rafael Perez’s near $4 million salary figure. I went to class thinking Choo was going to pull in $300 million and still not understanding that number.
When I returned, I saw the Choo salary figure hadn’t even hit $4 million and there was a mistake on Perez’s number.
And …

You do all realize we are less than a month away from that glorious day in baseball?
Pitchers and Catchers… I’m just going to get into it. Why waste time?
Because I certainly don’t have anything else to say.
[CABRERA SIGNS DEAL]
One of four Indians eligible for arbitration that has yet to sign a deal has now signed a deal. Asdrubal Cabrera will play for $2.025 million next season as he and the …

Friday, the most productive day of my weeks during the semester. You might ask why, considering I have no classes, but that question is the answer.
I have no classes, so I use it as my To-Do-List day. Unfortunately there is an aspect on my To-Do-List that I would have rather not had to do. I meant to sell back this book I didn’t need yesterday, because you are allowed to …

There are some other random scattered notes and thoughts that I didn’t get to yesterday that I wanted to cover today. So here is a bit of a random rundown.
Joe Martinez does in fact have two options left, so there is room there for the Indians to send him down, which wasn’t really there with Justin Germano. He’s been added to our 40-man roster and I’ll update the rest of …

Wow, it has been some time. A few weeks to be exact.
Fact of the matter is, when I was on break enjoying the holidays, I was bored as all get out.
But there was nothing to talk about.
Of course the minute I return to work, some stuff goes down!
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and I welcome you officially to 2011. Because eight days after the new year is …

It is seriously the busiest day of the offseason today. Not only have the Indians inked Travis Buck to a minor league deal with an invite to spring training, they’ve brought back Austin Kearns into the mix with a guaranteed major league deal worth a little over $1 million.
The Indians were searching for a right-handed compliment to their trio of left-handed outfielders and Kearns fit the bill. We brought up …

I enjoy the fact that Christmas is on the weekend this year. I know everyone in high school and below are not grateful for that, because they’ve probably done the math (the one time they do math, amiright?) that tells them they’d get more vacation days out of Christmas being on a weekday.
I’m past that point though and on break regardless of when Christmas is, so I’m all about what …

A year ago, I don’t think anyone thought Bob Feller would go as quickly as he did. John Perrotto’s thought is pretty much spot on.
“Bob Feller was the one person who I really thought would just live forever.”

The man was a beacon of health even at old age, but just in the past few months things started to hit him all at once. I think we’ve all been prepared for …

The snow hit us hard and heavy this week and now as it ends, we are greeted with………. RAIN?!
It’s raining right now. I’m not complaining, I don’t have a problem driving around in rain. Snow, I hate. But it is rather weird, with some parts of the United States getting pounded and apparently rumors of another big snow storm coming to Northeast Ohio in the next day or so, that …

I’m working today and with the Winter Meetings wrapped up, no planned Tribe posts until later this weekend. Today however is BBA Day and I wanted to have something go up to do my part for this great group that this blog is a part of.
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance was a group formed a little over a year ago by Daniel Shoptaw of C70 At The Bat. We are basically …

The Indians have lost infielder Josh Rodriguez to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2010 Rule V Draft. The Pirates selected Rodriguez with their first pick.
Seattle followed that up with the pick of Jose Flores, who will have to jump from A-ball all the way up to the majors if that is going to work. Puzzling.
More on both selections later. Minor League Phase in Progress.

Just a good old reminder to like the new fan page on Facebook if you are a reader of the blog. It would really help me out, thanks! If you don’t want to be bugged by the three-five posts a week appearing on your news-feed, just turn the updates off. Thanks chaps!
[WHO WANTS A BABY?]
The hot rumor surrounding the Tribe is the interest that Tribe West (Seattle) has in one …

A few site notes that I’d like to update with before we get into the latest concerning the Tribe.
I created a “fan page” on Facebook. It’s different from the current profile that the blog has on the Networked Blogs or whatever it is. I did this so the posts automatically get updated and whoever “likes” the page gets those updates.
Anyway my goal is to get the site more promotion. …

Whoa has it been a week already since the last update?
Since we last talked, snow fell and it fell on December 1st. I feel as if I was a reason for this. We survived a relatively snow-free November for the most part.
The little bits of snow have arrived just in time for Snow Days getting into high-gear. Funny thing, the Indians have roped Apolo Ohno into this video to give …

I think it has become a goal of mine (even though I have no control over it what-so-ever) to see November end without a heavy snow or anything like that. Sure it has snowed, somewhat, but it hasn’t exactly been Snow Days.
Which has apparently been a huge hit and that’s a great thing. I mean, our freakin’ manager was going down The Batterhorn on an inner tube!
Manny wasn’t lying when …

I have to give credit where credit is due to WFNY’s Jon Steiner for this tweet.
Before I even saw it though, I thought the same thing. Jon just put it into words in a far better way that I could have. Interesting how the day after Choo gets his military reprieve, South Korea gets attacked.
Let’s get down to business, not that there is much of it. Which is why we …