“Our boys bring home the Cy Young Award in consecutive seasons — which never happens! — only to be traded away in consecutive seasons. Yes, this outrage, it’s juicy. Much worse than that 43-0 homecoming drubbing the Steelers gave the Browns in 1999, far more inexplicable than the Indians’ three-game collapse to lose the 2007 ALCS. This one, it’s special. Just like blowing the World Series with two outs in the bottom of the ninth in 1997’s Game 7, it’s a screwing that’s been saved just for Cleveland fans and nobody else. And don’t think we’re not pissed about it.”

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“And while the Yankees cherry picked stars from other rosters, no other club ever got a crack at Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. Yet Bud Selig wants to tell us that parity is alive and well in major league baseball. I can’t imagine how he says this with a straight face. This ain’t parity, this is prima nocta.”

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