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...example, was in Cleveland this summer. The city has its charms, and the waterfront is nice, but something tells me I won’t be moving to Ohio anytime soon. At least Spoon and the Pixies came to town; along with Sufjan Stevens and The Mountain Goats (those two it-boys of sensitive singer-songwritering) I spent a summer that was more tragic than hip. My song was “This Year,” the Mountain Goats’ tragic but exuberant story of adolescent defiance...
...Boston Red Sox were battling the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS that fall, and a very public and controversial dispute arose over who should be Boston’s starting pitcher for Game Four. Pedro Martinez seemed to be the obvious choice, but manager Jimy Williams stunned Red Sox Nation by selecting reclamation project Pete Schourek to start the game...
Some day, somewhere, some surgeon is going to perform the first face transplant. It might even be Dr. Maria Siemionow of the Cleveland Clinic. But despite news reports this past weekend that she is interviewing potential candidates for this pioneering operation, don't expect that it will be happening any time soon. It will take months to find the right person with the right combination of physical disfigurement and psychological adaptability to be a recipient. And - if past experience with hand transplants is any guide - possibly more than a year to find a donor for the procedure...
...August, the Cleveland Indians organization came calling...
Then, in August, classmate Frank Herrmann, the ace of the Harvard pitching staff, followed suit, signing with the Cleveland Indians after a summer ball tour in Hawaii...