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According to reports, Kerry Wood is expected to sign a contract with the Cleveland Indians as long as he passes his physical Thursday. When I say knock on wood, I mean it. Kerry has a long history of injuries and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him fail the physical and lose the contract offer. With that said, I hope that doesn’t happen.
In my previous blog I briefly speculated where the long-time Cub would land. I had mentioned Texas since he idolized Nolan Ryan. Guess I was wrong there, but I did know he lives in Arizona so part of me had hoped he would sign with the Diamondbacks. Then I could actually cheer for the hometown team and look forward to seeing him pitch just as much as usual. But I couldn’t have been more thrilled to hear my second favorite team in baseball signed Woody. My mom was born in Ohio and I view it as my second-city for sports teams.
The 97′ Cleveland Indians remains one of my favorite groups of guys ever assembled. I remember always picking them when I played All-Star Baseball 1998, one of the best baseball games of all time may I add. Now besides him playing for my second-city, my Dad brought up a point I hadn’t even considered; He’ll be playing in the same division as the White Sox! Kerry now has several opportunity to close out the South Siders and make them look silly which gives me great satisfaction.
Still the though of him being on any team but the Cubs still sounds wrong to me. And picturing him wearing another jersey is so impossible, I customized an Indians jersey just to see what his jersey would look like (That is if the legendary Juan Rincon gives up his number for the legend.) Nothing compared to the blue pinstripes, but I’ll take it.
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