Why I Love The Tribe

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Why I Love The Tribe
Topic Started: Apr 19 2009, 05:31 PM (25 Views)
Deb	Apr 19 2009, 05:31 PM Post #1
The resident Cowboys Chick Posts: 648 Group: SUPER MOD SQUAD Member #211 Joined: February 18, 2007	Why I Love The Tribe By Deb People follow a team or a player for a lot of reasons, or sometimes for no reason. Look at that whole TJ/Roethlisberger thing. ;-) Looking back..as far as I can remember, I can't remember any period of time when I didn't get excited for baseball season. Growing up was rough. We moved a lot. I was shy. But baseball in so many ways saved me. I was a tom boy, athletic, and could outplay any boy my age. We played in the streets of Cleveland, using the sewers for bases, under the street lights till someone or everyone got called in for the night. My Dad always worked two jobs, but some of my best memories were when he'd come home late at nite and throw me pop flies till I am sure he wanted to die. Maybe it was an escape for him too. I collected the cards...photos, made scrapbooks. I would mail each card to the player, in care of Cleveland Municipal Stadium and I always got a signed card back. SOMEONE signed them. But back then it was just a thrill. After years of losing and empty seats, something happened in the 90's. The Tribe...Thome, Ramirez, Vizquel, Baerga, Sandy Alomar Jr. and company... actually got good! I remember the first time I had a chance to go to the NEW Jacobs Field. Tickets were hard to come by. You waited in line like you were waiting for concert tickets. I was lucky enough to get bleacher tickets and I couldn't have been happier. I got up on gameday, put on my Baerga t-shirt, walked out the door...slid on the wet deck and literally bent my ankle in the wrong direction. I knew it was sprained or broken...and then I was faced with a tough decision. I could either go to the game or go to the hospital. I went to the game. I walked on...walked to the stadium...walked up three million steps to the top of the bleachers and looked down on that field for the first time. I will never forget that color green, and the white uniforms. I can't remember now if they won or lost. I do remember them cutting off my shoe in the emergency room and being on crutches for the next month. But I got to go to the game. Other good memories of the Tribe and baseball revolve around my grandmother. If she couldn't get a game on the television, she'd plug in the radio and sit outside and listen to it. She was their biggest fan. She was nearly paralyzed at the end and had congestive heart failure. She had her lungs tapped once and the fluid drained, but she said, "never again". So we said good bye...watched a few more Tribe games and drank root beer floats until she died. There have been a lot of highs and lows...and I guess watching the game today, a lot of things just came back. Today was a game Nana would have loved.



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