Tonight, I attended what should be my final Cleveland Indians home game for the year. The playoffs are no where in the Indians future this year. So, tonight, by any other standard, should have been an ordinary, unimportant game. And it was! So, what keeps 24,842 people's attention during an ordinary, unimportant baseball game? the food? people watching? the give-a-way? At least the give-a-way (a wonderful Indians Logo blanket) was useful to wrap up in and stay warm. Tonight, none of those held my attention for long. It was the offensive output that resulted in a 13 to 6 Indians victory. The Royals didn't even get into the "offensive show" until the 8th and 9th inning leaving we Indian fans thinking about all of the blown wins the Indians already experienced this season. I focused upon Jhonny Peralta who came to bat in early in the game and had such a horrible at bat that I wondered if he even saw the baseball. Then I focused upon him again when he came up with runners in scoring position and lined a ball into the outfield, scoring two runs. So, the third time when he came up I wondered which Jhonny would show up - sure enough he lined another baseball into the outfield for a two run double. He ended the evening with four RBI's. During the 5th inning, one of the shinning stars for the Indians came up in a what was still a close came, Shin-Soo Choo. I sat wishing for a home run to "seal" the game. Choo hit a two-run homer to give the Indians a 5 to 3 edge. And when the Indians didn't hold our attention, we all sat with our blackberry's monitoring the USC-Ohio State game at ESPN.com.
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