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Watch: Ohio State basketball head coach Jake Diebler throws first pitch in Cleveland

Not the worst attempt that we’ve seen

As the biggest name in Ohio sports, it’s not surprising when the Cleveland Indians bring in any Ohio State representative to throw out the first pitch.

Recently Denzel Ward got the call, and on Sunday it was Buckeyes basketball head coach [autotag]Jake Diebler[/autotag]’s turn. It’s a big deal to be asked, and as an Ohioan while leading the Ohio State hoops team, it made perfect sense for him to get the opportunity.

Now we all know that Diebler’s preferred sport is basketball, and like Ward, didn’t quite throw a strike. It wasn’t nearly as wild as the Cleveland Browns cornerback, as he one-hopped it to the plate.

We are glad that Diebler is a much better coach than he is at throwing a baseball.

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Sparks fly as former MLB star speaks of Commanders old team name

Jim Edmonds weighs in on Washington’s old team name.

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Former Major League Baseball player Jim Edmonds thought the Washington Redskins was a cool team name.

Edmonds, on a live broadcast of the MLB’s St Louis Cardinals game, stated that he was shocked when the Washington Redskins and, later, the Cleveland Indians succumbed to public pressure to change their team mascot names.

In 2020, Washington’s mascot name was dropped for the rather mundane and redundant Washington Football Team. The result was during that 2020 season; the team was poked fun at by all sorts of media across the country because all other 31 teams had a team name, and this team was, well, “the Football Team.”

Then in 2021, the Cleveland Indians discarded “Indians” for “Guardians” after being the Indians from 1915 through 2021.

The Redskins had actually first been the Boston Braves in 1932. Then when they were moving to Fenway Park in 1933 to share with the Boston Red Sox, in a marketing strategy, they determined to discard “Braves” because Fenway would now be host to the “Red Sox” and “Redskins.”

Edmonds, on the broadcast Thursday, said, “You know what’s really funny is when people reach out to you and say, ‘Hey, I’m from this area, and we really love our baseball here.’ And somebody else will say, ‘Yeah, I wish they had the old names that they used to have.’ It’s just funny to hear everyone’s opinion.”

“I’m still shocked that we’ve changed so much as a whole that [we’re] not allowed to have the Cleveland Indians anymore — the Guardians. And I’m saying that too because my wife is partially Native American Indian.”

“I always thought it was kind of a cool thing, not a bad thing, to have a team named after the Indians or vice versa, whatever, the Washington Redskins.”

Edmonds was good enough to have remained in the major leagues for 17 seasons. He played eight seasons for the Cardinals and seven for the Angels. The former centerfielder was a four-time MLB All-Star and an eight-time Gold Glove winner.

 

Hall of Famer Jim Thome coaching baseball at HS where his son plays

These days Thome splits his time between several jobs.

Jim Thome played in the major leagues from 1991-2012, earning five All-Star nods and a trip to the Hall of Fame for his trouble.

While Thome is mainly known for his time with the Cleveland Indians, he later played for several other teams in the latter half of his career, including the Chicago White Sox. That’s where Thome and his family eventually settled despite a few more stops before his retirement.

These days Thome splits his time between several jobs. The list includes serving as the special assistant to White Sox general manager Rick Hahn, the president of the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association and coaching baseball where his son Landon plays second base at Nazareth Academy High School, according to Mike Clark at the Chicago Sun Times.

Thome says Landon works extremely hard:

“I try to simplify it for him, I’ve got to say he works extremely hard. And as his dad, I’m really, really proud of him. He’s a young kid that really loves to play the game and has been given an unbelievable opportunity around a ton of great players.”

While he’s yet to achieve the slugger level his father did in MLB, Landon is batting .330, with 25 RBI and eight doubles for the defending Class 3A champion Roadrunners.

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Top 10 Notre Dame baseball players according to ChatGPT

How many of these players do you recognize?

So Notre Dame will not make the College World Series for a second straight season. In fact, it didn’t make the NCAA Tournament at all. So what are Irish fans left to do? Look into the past, of course.

Not long ago, we took the liberty of asking ChatGPT, the AI information bot that supposedly is threatening to put all of us writers out of work, its opinion on Notre Dame athletic history. Specifically, we asked it to rank what it believed were the top 10 Notre Dame football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball players. Now, we’re bringing it back to seek its opinion about Irish baseball players.

Keep in mind that ChatGPT gives this disclaimer:

“As an AI, I don’t have access to real-time information or the ability to provide subjective opinions. However, I can tell you about some notable baseball players who have had successful careers at the University of Notre Dame. Keep in mind that this list is not exhaustive and does not rank them in any particular order.”

There’s also this:

“Please note that this is not an exhaustive or ranked list, and there have been many other talented baseball players who have represented the University of Notre Dame.”

So with all of that said, let’s see who ChatGPT came up with. Please note that some of these have been edited to remove inaccurate or outdated information:

Washington rules out a fan favorite for new name

Washington ruled out a fan favorite for its new name. “Wolves” or “Red Wolves” had been a favorite for some of the fanbase.

As announced earlier this morning, the Washington Football Team is now set to reveal their new name/identity on February 2.

This change will be both welcomed by many and resisted by many. That is only natural when you are dealing with people, a long-standing tradition and where there has been much emotional and financial investment.

In a video released by the organization, Doug Williams reflects, “We have been ‘Redskins’ all of our lives, but whatever the change is, I am hugging it.”

Desiring a public acceptance, Washington GM Martin Mayhew expressed, “I hope it is something that embraces DC and the culture we have here.”

“We believe we found a name that our fans and our team across the DMV and beyond can really rally behind,” Washington team president Jason Wright declared, announcing the date.

Damon Jones, WFT Chief Legal Officer reflected on some of the complicated issues and that they were, “Looking at all the similar names and logos that might be out in the marketplace, and how to be sure that you create enough distance from rights that other folks have, (so) that you don’t get yourself into legal trouble.”

“In searching the intellectual property landscape, its extraordinarily complicated for something like this that is going to be this famous and this widely used” continued Jones.

Consequently, a fan favorite, “Red Wolves or Redwolves” was ruled out officially. No doubt this was done now, to eliminate a larger disappointment at the time of the actual announcement.

Seeing they were not going to go with “Redwolves” it is probably wise for Wright to have gone ahead and broken that news to the fans now.

Here is a brief mention and glimpse of the new uniform:

It now appears that the beloved HTTR may cease to exist.

Whatever the choice will be, a lesson that should have been learned is for Wright and Dan Snyder to avoid the politically correct, horrible over-reaction by the MLB Cleveland franchise who announced they were transitioning from the Cleveland “Indians” and becoming the Cleveland “Guardians.”

We earnestly hope Wright and Snyder won’t similarly blow this transition.

Cleveland Indians vs. Minnesota Twins live stream, TV channel, start time, odds, how to watch the MLB online

The Cleveland Indians will meet the Minnesota Twins in the second game of a doubleheader on Tuesday night from Target Field.

The Cleveland Indians will meet the Minnesota Twins in the second game of a doubleheader on Tuesday night from Target Field.

The Indians will look to bounce back after losing all three games to the Brewers in their weekend series while the Twins blew a big lead against the Yankees and lost in the 10th inning. Both squads will be looking to turn their game around tonight.

This should be a great game, here is everything you need to know to catch the action tonight.

Cleveland Indians vs. Minnesota Twins

  • When: Tuesday, September 14
  • Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: FS1
  • Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)

MLB Odds and Betting Lines

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Cleveland Indians (-105) vs. Minnesota Twins (-115)

O/U: 7.5

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Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers made a sweet bare-handed grab on a foul tip and MLB fans rightfully loved it

We’ve never seen a catch like this before.

Minnesota Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers barely had to move to make what has to be one of the coolest catches of the season Wednesday night in Cleveland.

The 24 year old who is in his second year in the big leagues used some quick thinking and some pretty darn good athleticism to snag a foul tip with his bare hand that ended the eighth inning in what turned out to be a 3-0 win for the Twins.

One of the announcers on this clip said he’s never seen a catch like this before and I’m right there with him… because check this thing out:

Pretty sweet.

Jeffers’ had a great reaction, too:

MLB fans loved it:

Cleveland scored the winning run after the Red Sox’s blatant obstruction erased an easy out

Don’t see that too often.

It’s not every game you see a player go into celebration mode after a throw beat him by 20 feet, but Oscar Mercado had reason to be excited.

The Cleveland Indians defeated the Boston Red Sox, 7-5, on Sunday in a wild game that saw Cleveland rally back from a four-run deficit. But it was that go-ahead run that had the baseball world talking.

With the score tied and two outs in the eighth (and Mercado on first), pinch hitter Yu Chang ripped a double down the third-base line. Mercado was thinking home the moment the ball cleared the infield, but if you weren’t paying attention to what unfolded on the base path, you’d think the Red Sox got Mercado out at home by a mile.

Not exactly …

Replays would show that Red Sox second baseman Yairo Munoz obstructed Mercado on the base path. And on top of that, Austin Davis nearly got in Mercado’s way at third base — the two narrowly avoided a collision.

Here’s a view at the obstruction. Plus, a shove mid-run from Mercado.

The Red Sox broadcast was ready to go into a meltdown over the call, but once they saw Munoz in the way, they even conceded the ruling was correct.

“Oh, there it was.”

We’re so conditioned to seeing umpires miss these types of calls, but I must say that home plate umpire Nic Lentz was all over it there. Nice job.

Boston’s Jarren Duran had a great reaction to Cleveland’s catcher firing a ball off his helmet by mistake

This was all so weirdly hilarious.

Some things in baseball are so simple and easy to do, things that are so simple and easy that we often take them for granted.

Like seeing a catcher throw the ball back to the pitcher. Nothing usually goes wrong there, right? The catcher throws the ball to the pitcher who catches the ball and the game slowly goes on.

There’s really nothing easier in baseball than the ‘ol throw back to the pitcher.

Well, OK, sometimes things can go wrong with this very simple thing and that’s what happened yesterday in Cleveland and it was pretty darn hilarious.

Cleveland catcher Austin Hedges went to throw the ball back to Cal Quantrill  but instead he fired it off Red Sox center fielder Jarren Duran’s helmet.

For real. This happened. And Duran’s “did that just really happen?” reaction to it all was pretty great:

Twitter had reactions:

Cleveland’s Franmil Reyes surprised a cancer patient with a signed baseball and a home run

“This at-bat, I wanted to do something special for Jessica.”

Now this is one heartwarming story.

On Wednesday, during the Cleveland Indians game against the Texas Rangers, Franmil Reyes had a night to remember. Not only did Reyes slug it out on the field in Cleveland’s 7-2 victory, he also went above and beyond for a fan battling cancer.

Before his last bat of the evening, Reyes singled out Cleveland fan Jessica Atwood — who lost her mother to cancer then was diagnosed with breast cancer herself — in the crowd. Atwood’s story clearly touched Reyes, who signed a baseball for her and gave it to her with the message: “Jessica, we’re here for you. I love you.”

“He tosses this ball to my husband and my husband is, ‘okay, thanks,’ and he kind of stops,” Atwood said, according to WKYC Studios. “He’s standing there for a second and my husband looks down at the ball. I just see tears in his eyes, he hands it over to me and I just start crying. I’ve never cried at a baseball game before.”

Then, on that same at-bat, Reyes blasted a 451-foot home run and pointed to Atwood and her family in the crowd, dedicating the home run to her.

Reyes later reflected on his home run and his interaction with Atwood to Bally Sports Cleveland, stating that he hoped he could do something special during that at-bat for Atwood.

“I was like, ‘this is not enough, this baseball is not enough.’ So, when I was on deck, I said ‘please God, I know it’s been tough these couple days at the plate.’ I didn’t ask for a homer, but this at-bat I wanted to do something special for Jessica.”

What an incredible moment for Atwood and family, and what a lovely gesture from Reyes for going above and beyond here. This is what sports is all about.

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