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For the most part, the 2009áMLBáAwards Season will be aásnoozefest. Sure, there will be some debate over secondary awards like Rookie of the Year, but for the most part, the major hardware is spoken for. ZackáGreinkeáappears to have a well-deserved stranglehold on the AL Cy Young. Joe Mauer is the clearáchoiceáfor AL Most Valuable Player, except to a few fringe Yankee fans and Harold Reynolds. And if Albert Pujols is not the ...

It was another disappointing October in Cleveland, as it has been each year since 1948. It is perhaps a blessing that the Indians did not make it far enough to collapse on the big stage, as they routinely did throughout the '90s and again in 2007. However, while the team as a whole did not reach the postseason, many Indians alumni got to experience the playoffs. Here's a look at the former ...

Is it just me, or is Bon Jovi getting annoying? Once the kings of pop metal, the band that serenades us during postseason commercial breaks has become a watered-down country-rock group with none of the edge they used to have. With that in mind, here are 10 songs that could have been the anthems of the 2009 baseball season.Begin Slideshow

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's classic poem "Casey at the Bat" is perhaps the greatest baseball story of all time. Period. The only possible criticism one could make of the story is the lack of personality exhibited by the titular titan, Casey. The story is much improved when Casey is replaced with a more colorful character, like Milton Bradley (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/248205). Therefore, I humbly submit a story of one of the greatest characters in Major League ...

Any Cleveland fan with a decent short-term memory knows that, for the past several seasons, the Tribe has experienced consistent inconsistency at third base. Since Travis Fryman hung up his cap, the Indians have had a revolving door at the hot corner. The Indians have had four different Opening Day third basemen in the last seven seasons, none of them for more than two years in a row. No, inconsistency isn't necessarily ...

The 1999 Cleveland Indians had one of the best lineups in the history of Major League Baseball. They had incredible individual accomplishments. Three sluggers combined for 108 homers. Four hitters had RBIs in the triple-digits. Five players scored 100 or more runs. They became the first team in nearly 50 years to score 1,000 runs in a season. More importantly, their incredible bats more than compensated for the unremarkable pitching staff; the ...

Like many baseball fans, I spend the entire year waiting for playoff season. To me, the stretch from July to November is a nonstop crescendo of euphoria. The flurry of rumors at the trade deadline gives way to the end-of-season dogfights for playoff spots, which in turn lead to four weeks of primetime match-ups between the best teams in the league. Unfortunately, the baseball season doesnÆt always end on a high note. ...

Sunday nightÆs ALCS game was a watershed event in my young life. After relentlessly hating them for years and yearsùsince before I can rememberùI found myself almost kind of happy to see the Yankees beat the Angels. When I drew pictures of IndiansÆ games in first grade, I would always depict my heroic Tribesmen humiliating the Bronx Bombers. When I adopted the Red Sox as my second-favorite team in middle school, it ...

Everyone who has had the good fortune to read Alan Moore's "Watchmen" knows that it is one of the greatest literary works of all time. Entertainment Weekly called it the 13th-best book since 1983. Time Magazine called it one of the 100 best novels since 1923. "Watchmen" is the only comic to appear on either list. What makes "Watchmen" special is its incredibly complex characters. Most of the ...

Like many baseball fans, I have spent a good number of hours watching TBS over the past couple weeks. TBS' coverage has been jam-packed with colorful commentary and insight from the brightest baseball minds in the world. Given that the next game TBS will air could be their last of the season, I thought it would be nice to reflect on some of the most memorable things that ...