Losing 1-0 or 10-0 makes no difference

 It's still a loss.    We have had bad losses in the last couple of years and come back from them.    Here are some thoughts tonight:

• Owen Miller started in LF tonight for Columbus.  Why in the freakin' hell is he starting in LF?  The Indians have a LFer.   They don't need a LFer.  The only thing that makes sense is if they plan to bring him up and play Rosario in RF or CF.   Eddie R. has played 67 games in RF in his ML career and 57 games in CF but he is so good in LF I just don't get it.   The place to play Miller, if you want to play him anywhere, is at first base.   THAT is where we need help...unless he is a great catcher.   
• Luplow and Bauers keep throwing wood on the fire underneath the tar pot, the contents of which will likely be used to run them out of town on a rail after they have been tarred and feathered.   Luplow has played in the majors for 5 years and he has only hit over .205 once.  Bauers is in his 3rd year in the majors and has never hit over .226. Yu Chang has 139 ABs in the majors over 3 years and he is hitting .158.   Chang got a hit in the 8th in a 10-0 loss but he is in that same boat.    Look, Bauers goes 4-4 and Luplow hits 3 HRs and we likely still will lose.   But that's not the point.  These three guys are just pathetic.   We have given all three of them every chance.   Send them to Columbus and bring up someone else.   Which brings me to my next point:
• J.C. Mejia was one of those guys called up.  He did not choke in his ML debut.   He performed.   Yeah, his performance was not that much different than the first 3 innings by McKenzie tonight so it doesn't mean everything, especially in a blowout.   But still, he didn't choke it out.    Luplow, Bauers and Chang are sucking on a nightly basis, doing just enough to make it tough to totally write them off.   But, man, they are being given chances time and time again and they are choking.   You think the Indians would throw McKenzie and Hentges out there for 5 years just because they might figure it out sometime?  
• I don't normally say this kind of thing but Luplow, Bauers and Chang should be ASKING to be sent down to the minors to fix their hitting problems.   If they are not doing that, they are stealing money from the Cleveland Indians.  How can they get to the park every day and look their teammates in the eye when they perform like this?   I just don't believe I could bring myself to do that or, for that matter, think I actually belong in the majors if I would stink as bad as they do.
• I am also pissed off with Bobby Bradley, Daniel Johnson, Bradley Zimmer and Oscar Mercado.  If just one of them was doing ANYTHING, they would be in the majors now and we wouldn't have to have Luplow, Bauers and Chang on this team.   I mean Josh Naylor scuffles a lot but at least, on a nightly basis, he seems to do SOMETHING to help up win.   These other guys should be ashamed of theirselves to collect a paycheck for their level of performance and the Indians should be ashamed to throw them out there day after day in front of paying fans.   I mean I get McKenzie and Hentges, I get Logan Allen making the rotation this year.   Performance gives you a chance.   But Logan Allen is in the minors after sucking for just a little while.   Yet we still have to put up with Luplow, Bauers and Chang.  In the past week a number of guys the Indians have recently played against have been DFA'd or sent to the minors for bad performance.  And then we Luplow, Bauers and Chang
• There was one good thing that happened tonight.  The Lynchburg Hillcats got down 9-0 after 5 innings tonight and came back to win 14-13 in 13 innings.   So, Indians, it can be done.   
• As I said before, it is time to use openers in the rotation spots of McKenzie and Hentges or piggyback their starts.   Even though it was only one game and I am not sure he is healthy let alone ready for the majors, Eli Morgan went 6 shutout innings tonight.  
• Time to put this game behind us and win one for Beiber tomorrow in a game, hopefully, where I don't have to watch Chang, Bauers or Luplow play...and I get to see Owen Miller make his ML debut and have the kind of success that Mejia had tonight.