Written By Larry M. Glicken "LG"
The Cleveland Indians met with Terry Francona yesterday in Cleveland
for the job of managing a bad baseball team. Francona left the Indians
thinking the Tribe has a family feeling. For Indians fans that is the
problem with the ball club, the Indians are owned by the Dolan family
who apparently refuse to raise the Indians pay roll to bring players
into Cleveland to contend in the Major League.
The Dolan's have trimmed
the Indians pay roll by about 110 million dollars from the time the team
was a contender.
The fans have lived with promise after promise
for years since the Dolan family took over the Indians. Each year the
Indians front office says the team is going to open up the wallet to
bring in some players to make the Indians more competitive, those words
turn out to be more empty promises.
The Indians let good players go to
other teams and it is more of the same thing with the Indians.
The
club isn't saying much about the Francona interview, he was here and
that is about it. The fans don't think the Dolan's will pay what it
takes to bring a high-profile manager like Terry Francona to Cleveland
and if they do, how about the players he would have to work with?
Would
he be able to build a winning team being hand cuffed by the Indians pay
roll? The teams Francona built into winners in his past have spent the
money required to bring in the talented players. That may not be the
case with the Indians. Then there is the problem with the Tribes front
office, do these people have the smarts to get the right players?
There
are all kinds of problems with the Cleveland Indians beside the
manager. Until the ownership cut loose with the cash it is going to be
more of the same with the Cleveland Indians.... It was a nice dream to
see Francona come to Cleveland for the Indians manager position, if that
dream becomes a reality is entirely another story....
Larry Glicken is the owner of www.clevelandsports360.com and the host of the Cleveland Sports 360 Show, an online streaming sports video show at www.streamingsportstalk.com
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