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Buying Into The Indians: Literally

By Erie's Scribe on Jan 31, 2008 with Comments 1

Mortimer, we’re back!!!

As sports fans, we invest our time, money and emotions into our teams. Unless you’re a Packers fan and Green Bay resident, though, you don’t have an actual ownership share of your team. Thanks to a tip from a reader, this is no longer the case.

Into our lives stepped Randy Newsom via the New York Times Freakonomics blog. No, unfortunately we can’t actually buy into the Cleveland Indians, but we can buy stock into one of the Tribe’s minor league hurlers. By going here, anyone can snatch a few Randy shares and bet on his future major league earnings. A mere $20 for a piece of Randy’s Major League pot at the end of the rainbow? The editorial staff at The Legend couldn’t wait to jump on board (after a lengthy debate over whether I read about this in Moneyball or not).

The commenters on the Freakonomics NY Times blog don’t seem to think much of Randy’s chances to make the big leagues, but what do they know? What team doesn’t have a need for a crafty submarining/sidewinding righty out of the pen? Eighteen saves in Akron last year? Our kind of player.

Sure, “Newsom does not have a blazing fastball, wipeout slider, or a knee-buckling curveball, but he is extremely intelligent, has moxie, commands his pitches well, has great makeup, and goes right after hitters. He should start the season in the Buffalo bullpen and could make his professional debut with the Indians sometime in 2008.” Hear that? He’s got moxie! Moxie!!

And we’re going to be investment gurus. Every couple of weeks during the season we’ll post a Newsom watch to chart Randy’s progress. You, Legend faithful, will be able to see first hand whether our investment experiment booms or busts, at no cost to yourselves. All he has to do is make a cool $1.25 million and we’re in the black. Eat your hearts out Stock Market Wizards.

Horribly Unfortunate Editor Update: Alas, we have moved to slow as Newman stock has flown off the shelves and is no longer available for purchase. At the very least, still a great publicity stunt, and we’ll be watching.

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Tags: Cleveland Indians • Randy Newsom

About the Author: I am a Cleveland sports and Buffalo Sabres fanatic. I'm currently living in Erie, but even when I'm not there, Erie runs deep in me. I'm an ex multi-sport goalie, and we goalies tend to see things a bit differently. I went to college with Cecilio's Scribe and I am also a Big Red afficiando. Otherwise my college sports loyalties are all over the place. I try to keep my posts light, but I'm a Cleveland fan so the occassional rant is possible (inevitable?).

Buying Into The Indians: Literally

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