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A collection of 2016 Cleveland Indians World Series hype videos

October 24, 2016 Ai Leave a comment

Hype videos obviously aren’t the best part about one of your teams making the playoffs in their sport. Obviously.

But they’re kinda close.

After Mike put more blood sweat and Bud Light into Bottlegate’s Cavs Finals hype video than anything else we’ve ever done on the site, we decided to leave the Tribe in the hands of the people.

They delivered.

Does a great job of recapping the playoff run so far. Also there’s a lot of Hammy. From the same guys that brought you the Indians playoff hype video before the ALDS started.

Same guys, this time with the Cubbies included.

A little wider breadth of clips in this one, from Sandy’s homer in Game 4 of the 1997 ALCS to Frankie’s first major league hit to regular season games from this year all the way to the ALCS. I also like the song choice a little better than the first video that had me feeling like I was back listening to Kiley & Booms.

Little more about the city & Cavs in this one, behind some heavy guitar that’ll get the blood flowing. Some cool 90’s Indians crossovers with Frankie/Omar and Napoli/Thome too.

At first I thought the music choice was curious but then I remembered you could play three minutes of Indians clips over Jim Carrey doing the most annoying sound in the world in Dumb & Dumber and I’d still eat it up. Lots of Miller Time in this one.

Short and sweet here. Great song choice, all substance and no fluff clips, and Jake fucking Taylor. Outstanding.

A World Series hype video featuring Gio Urshela multiple times? Sure, what the hell. Fire it up.

All playoff clips here, other than that gut-wrenching single up the middle from 1997. Appreciate them working in Jose Bautista aimlessly crashing into the outfield wall in this one.

Similar to the previous video but replace ’97 with Delmon Young taking Danny Salazar to the fricking moon in the 2013 Wild Card game.

Send any other videos over to @Bottlegate and we’ll get em’ up here.

KEEP THE CHIEF

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Tom Hanks Signs Off Of SNL With “Go Tribe!”

October 23, 2016 Mike Leave a comment

Tom Hanks closes #SNL with a "Go Tribe!" #RallyTogether pic.twitter.com/ubONvPD0mm

— Michael Collier (@MikeACollier) October 23, 2016

The best actor in the world doesn’t shout your team out on national TV? Can’t relate.

Tom Hanks hosted SNL Saturday night and as he was thanking everyone during his closing speech, he let out a nice little “Go Tribe.” The man who landed a plane in the Hudson River and who survived a plane crash and befriended a volleyball on a deserted island is a Cleveland Indians fan. I’d rather have Forrest Gump be a fan of my team rather than that dude who plays Michael Jordan’s sidekick in Space Jam that roots for the Cubs.

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Charlie Sheen Needs To Throw Out The First Pitch Before Game 1 Of The World Series

October 20, 2016 Mike Leave a comment

Major League
continues to be the gift
that keeps on giving!

if called upon,
I'd be honored. pic.twitter.com/ijjAU0Qvbw

— Charlie Sheen (@charliesheen) October 20, 2016

There are certain choices in your life that make so much sense that sometimes you tend to overthink things and end up making the wrong decision. Instead of sticking to the KISS principle, we always try to outdo ourselves and try to please everyone. This is one of those times. It doesn’t have to be. The answer is right here. Right in front of our faces.

Charlie Sheen aka Ricky Vaughn aka Wild Thing needs to throw out the first pitch before game one of the World Series. Case closed. No one else.

Just imagine the scene at Progressive Field when you hear that first chord to “Wild Thing,” the center field gate opens up, and you see Charlie Sheen emerge and jog to the pitcher’s mound in his thick rimmed glasses.

And you know Chuck would bring it. Forget about the curveball, he’s throwing the heater. The crowd (me because I’ll be there) would go absolutely bonkers and lose their shit. I tried to think of other worthy people, and there are a lot, but I don’t think someone else would elicit the same reaction as Sheen would.

OK, so maybe he doesn’t look as young as he used to

And mayyyyyybe he might have some little ailment they refer to as “HIV.” So what. As long as he doesn’t pull a Bauer and start leaking all over the mound, then it’s no harm no foul. It’s just Tiger Blood anyway.

The Tribe players have already adopted a “Major League” theme for this season, why not have it culminate with the Wild Thing throwing out the first pitch before the biggest game of their lives?

Other GREAT choices: Superpimp. Or Mall Guy. Or Leebow. Maybe even Johnny Manziel.