Give the Tribe a little respect

Chip Caray, Tony Gwynn and Bob Brenly -- the trio in the booth for TBS broadcasting the Tribe vs Yankees series -- just won’t give their bias a rest. It’s always about the Yankees ready to break through. How hard is it to just acknowledge that the Indians tied with Boston for the best record in baseball and give the team the respect they deserve?

I guess we just need to learn to live with it; some things, it seems, are never going to change.

After all these years I still can’t stand the sight of Cris Collinsworth as he did the same thing to the Browns when he was a broadcaster doing Browns games. The Browns could have scored 250 points and he would have felt the team lacked punch.

Heck, even ESPN – after the Tribe trounced the Yankees in the opening game – saw its announcers talking about how the Yankees pitcher couldn’t hit his spot. Not that the Indians came out ready and blasted the ball – it was all about the difficulties of the pitcher.

I’m not sure what will take to change things. The easy answer is championship teams, but I don’t think even that will do it.

The mistake on the lake, the burning river blah, blah, blah, you name it. People have mighty long memories when you aren’t from a major market team with deep pockets and massive advertising dollars.