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September 8th, 2009
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — To many local fans, the Indians shipped something else to Philadelphia on Wednesday along with pitching ace Cliff Lee and outfielder Ben Francisco.
Hope.
“I think it’s terrible,” Ed Vavra of Painesville Township said as he nursed a 22-ounce draft inside Local Heroes Grill and Bar, just across East Ninth Street from Progressive Field. “I would say more, but I’m trying to keep it clean.”
On the TVs above the bar, the Tribe was finishing up a 9-3 loss to the Los Angeles Angels, dropping to 18 games below .500.
“It’s the worst trade they ever made,” Vavra added. “They really got nothing in this deal.”
“Nothing” is four minor-leaguers — pitchers Carlos Carrasco and Jason Knapp, catcher Lou Marson and infielder Jason Donald — but not the Phillies’ top pitching prospect, Kyle Drabek.
Many fans believe their home team should have received more, much more, for the popular Lee, winner of last season’s American League Cy Young Award as the league’s best pitcher, and everyday left fielder Francisco.
The Sandusky Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol had stated that a 20-year-old woman driving a pickup truck had struck a car in the rear on state Route 60 at the intersection of Darrow Road just before 11 p.m. Troopers had said Allison Priess, of Vermillion, failed to stop in time.
The impact pushed the car into the southbound lanes and into the path of another car filled with teens. David Ryan Kelm, of Vermillion, was killed in the crash. The driver, Brittany Getter, 16, was injured and taken to Lorain Community Health Partners Hospital. The driver of the car that hit the oncoming vehicle was flown by LIfeflight to St. Vincents Hospital in Toledo. There was no immediate word on 19-year-old Harrison Strickler’s condition. The passengers; Rachel Hogue, 16, of Vermillion, was not treated, and Ali Cunningham, 18, of Vermillion was taken to Lorain Community Health Partners Hospital.
CLEVELAND — The federal prosecutors earlier this morning charged a local Cleveland, OH construction contractor with trying to bribe a Cuyahoga County Commissioner named Jimmy Dimora with an estimated $33,000 in cash, landscaping work, Cleveland Cavs and also Indians tickets plus hundreds and hundreds of dollars in dining out to get county contracts moved.
The charges had said an unnamed public official whose description is matching Dimora had helped Steve Pumper’s former company, D-A-S Construction, obtain a lot of work on county projects, this includes brownfield and also public housing projects. The bribery charges were filed in U.S. District Court, and they suspect that Pumper also has used bribes to help him win mortgage insurance contracts in North Ridge the school district.
Original Source: Cleveland.com