Misleading headline

SPORTING GOODS

"Indians beef up bullpen with deals for Graves, Karsay."

Anyone who follows up NY baseball knows that this move is nothing more than a way to get some warm bodies who used to be decent into spring training. However, as I hold out hope that all the preseason hype that is building around the Indians for 2006 comes nowhere near fruition, the idea that these two clowns may take up roster space in Cleveland next year is enough to make me happy.

I just don't see any way that Cleveland doesn't have two guys in AAA (with no real shot of making the roster) that are better than Karsay and Graves. Some day teams will figure out the concept of replacement players - a player is only valuable if he cannot be replaced easily and cheaply. Indians fans can only hope that their manager has a good grasp on the idea.