We lost 23-2, what's to say about that. Nagy gave up 9 runs in relief.

Nobody can believe we swept the Sox. We tried pretty hard to lose this game though. The White Sox came back late against our bullpen. Finley has been pitching quite well lately. None of the runs were charged to him. Chris Magruder must be giving Russ Branyan something to think about. Who knows, maybe Branyan will try and shorten his swing and just make contact. I'm happy about this sweep but I'm not going to build any false hope here cause as soon as I do, we'll start a big losing streak. Minnesota tomorrow, so we'll see if we can close the gap.

I read in the Plain Dealer we're playing smack em back baseball now. I don't quite know what that is but it worked yesterday and today as we beat the White Sox again 8-4. Am I satisfied? Nope. Branyan keep striking out and keeps starting and we scored all 8 runs in 1 inning. I know we didn't need any more but who knows? Omar and Thome came through with key hits and Burkes hit a ball to deep short and maybe thats why it was misplayed. A few more wins like this and we won't be talking trade. Who am I kidding, we'll be on a 4 game skid starting tomorrow.

We beat the White Sox? Not only that, we shut them out. Bartolo went the distance as we won 7-0. I thought for sure we'd lose the next six games. As usual Branyan had a pair of strike outs. So he's inching toward a strike out every other at bat. But, the big news is we might trade Colon to Milwaukee for a couple of top prospects. That's the stupidest thing we could do. There's no substitute for pitching and he's the best we have. Maybe we can let Finley go for a top prospect but not Colon. And it's time to get rid of Branyan. Let him go to the National League and become a star like Giles or Sexson.

At any other time I'd be mad about a split with Detroit. This year I'll take it. We won a wild one 11-7. The score was like 6-1 then it was 6-6. But I guess our late pitching was better than there's. Thome and Burks provided the power each hitting 2 home runs.

We scored early but not nearly enough as Detroit beat us again 9-5. They scored 8 runs in the 7th inning to put this one away. The game started well enough as we scored three in the first, but I knew that didn't mean anything.

Hey, the score was 4-2 again but we ended up on the winning side. And whats more, we beat Detroit. Not that it means anything. To me it just means we can't lose 139 games this year. Pretty sorry comment huh? Well, I'm an Indians fan. Thanks to Ellis Burks' 8th inning home run breathing room. We needed it too. Wickman got the first 2 batters in the ninth before loading the bases. Then a first pitch ground ball to Vizquel ended it. Chuck Finley has been pitching pretty good lately too. He lost a couple of tough games his last 2 times out by 1-0 and 2-0 scores.