Comments on: Cleveland Top 40

By: grasshopper

grasshopper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:09:23 +0000

I used to record Casey Kasem’s top 40 on tape a couple decades ago and then listen to it for the rest of the week at school; I hope they keep doing the top 40 countdown at least

By: DaytonDogg

DaytonDogg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:35:57 +0000

B-Man, actually, I think the Indians team mops up the Boston team. And you can have Man-Ram because Shoeless Joe and Belle can play our corners.

Aaron- you’re right, its amazing the Indians didn’t win a title in the 90’s. Although, I’ve seen many lists putting the 95 team as one of the greatest of all time, even with the World Series loss. I mean, this was their lineup:
Lofton, CF
Vizquel, SS
Baerga, 2B
Belle, LF
Murray, DH
Thome, 3B
Ramirez, RF
Sorrento, 1B
Alomar, C

That’s right, Manny hit 7th on that team. His OPS was .960 and he hit 7th!

By: Steve from Cleve

Steve from Cleve — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:01:49 +0000

B-Man:

We’re having trouble because the Indians have so many great players in their history. Unless you think a lineup with Speaker, Lajoie, Boudreau, Ramirez, Belle, Thome and etc. is bad?

Also, I echo the Herb Score and Charlie Nagy inclusions. Score was flat-out nasty before he got plunked with a line drive and Nagy was a horse for all those great 90s Indians teams.

By: Andrew H

Andrew H — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:54:10 +0000

You list all the guys as pitchers and don’t have Charles Nagy on the list? He’s got to be on the list to begin the discussion at minimum.

By: SoCalTwinsfan

SoCalTwinsfan — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:08:25 +0000

Wintheiser,

I would put the Killer at third and that would allow you to put Hrbek and Justin Morneau at first base.

Carew has to start at second, its not even close. All of his batting titles were as a Twin. The Angels have no claim here.

Any all-time list of relievers for Twins has to include Everyday Eddie.

As for OFs, Bob Allison, Torii Hunter, and Tom Brunansky are 3rd, 7th, and 9th respectively in career homers as a Twin, so they should be listed somewhere.

As for starting pitchers, you can’t forget Brad Radke, especially after all he did in 2006, and Frank Viola, who started and won more games for the Twins than Johan (as well as won a Cy Young Award before being traded to the Mets.)

By: chuck

chuck — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:09:27 +0000

I know that he fails to reach your qualifying threshold but I was a little surprised that their was not one mentioning of the greatest left hander in Indians history, Herb Score.

For the two years he pitched before Gil McDougald hit the unfortunate bullet of a line drive that hit Score squarely in the eye, Score was the best southpaw in baseball…..arguably the best pitcher period.

As a very young white sox fan in remorseful sorrow over the trading of my beloved Chico Carrasquel to allow for some unheralded, no name rookie named Aparicio to take over at short, I followed those indian teams closely and Score was phenomenal. He replaced a declining Spahn before the emergence of a young Koufax and was, no doubt, the best.

By: Motherscratcher

Motherscratcher — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:32:01 +0000

I think any 40 man roster of the Tribe has to include Ernie Camacho, doesn’t it? I mean there are still 39 other spots for some of the best players in major league history.

Are you really going to leave Ernie “Macho” Camacho out of the discussion completely? That’s bad karma, man.

By: Josh F.

Josh F. — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:42:25 +0000

I’m not very happy right now. Start my weekend with a cup of coffee and some good reading and I get stuck with the lines, “C’mon feel the noise, girls rock your boys, we’ll get wild, wild, wild” stuck in my head for goodness knows how long.

By: Bob McWilliams

Bob McWilliams — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:50:19 +0000

Two things:

it was a thrill to come home from work way after midnight Thursday night, start reading the new SI and read this terrific piece right at the front and think, man , this is a good piece, who wrote this? and then see JOE POSNANSKI at the end. Woo-hoooooo!!!! good for you!

Thing number two: In the late 70’s my wife saw a Cleveland-Boston game at Fenway, and decided that Frank Duffy was her all time favorite player. Based on cuteness (her opinion). So, he’s gotta be on there, right?

By: The B-Man

The B-Man — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:32:24 +0000

Wow, you guys have trouble coming up with a “best ever” Cleveland team. This is easy for most other teams (expansion teams excluded). You already handicapped yourself Joe. I guess I’m just spoiled with my hometown red sox. And how dare you claim Louie Tiant?!
LF Ted Williams, Carl Yastremski, Manny Ramirez, Jim Rice, Mike Greenwell
CF Dom Dimaggio, Ellis Burks, Johnny Damon,
RF Dwight Evans, Johnny Pesky (?)
1B Big Papi (screw DH), Jimmie Foxx
2nd Bobby Doerr, Pedroia, Jody Reed
3rd Wade Boggs, Carney Landsford (a stetch)
SS Garciaparra, (um maybe this is harder than I thought)
C Carlton Fisk
P Cy Young, Pedro Martinez, Babe Ruth, Roger Clemens, Beckett

I guess this is harder than I thought but I wrote this list with no research and off the top of my head so I think your Indians are at a disadvantage.
Question: Is there a DH in this leageu?
Another caveat: I was born in ‘77 so forgive me if I can’t remeber who was great in the ’60’s.