{"id":198,"date":"2005-06-17T23:50:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T23:50:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-17T23:50:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T23:50:41","slug":"what-couldve-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/17\/what-couldve-been\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could&#8217;ve Been&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that aren\u2019t Indians fans, here\u2019s a bit of history from <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=2087052\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=2087052', 'ESPN ');\">ESPN <\/a>this week:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried to do it in Cleveland, we didn\u2019t quite succeed. We lost the team,\u201d Steinbrenner said. \u201cWe tried to buy the Indians first, but we didn\u2019t get them. So Gabe Paul said, \u2018Let\u2019s come up to New York and see the Yankee people. They want to sell.\u2019 So we came up here, and I met with Bill Paley, and he was a man of his word, he stood behind everything he ever told me. And that was it. I just fell in love with New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right\u2026  Steinbrenner tried to buy the Tribe in 1973, but the Indians\u2019 current ownership wouldn\u2019t pull the trigger.  Gabe Paul was in control of the Indians for most of the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s, except for a few years with New York, as described by Steinbrenner above. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he would\u2019ve accomplished the same types of things in Cleveland as he has in New York?  Nah\u2026  nothing ever that good happens for Cleveland\u2019s sports teams.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that aren\u2019t Indians fans, here\u2019s a bit of history from ESPN this week: \u201cWe tried to do it in Cleveland, we didn\u2019t quite succeed. We lost the team,\u201d Steinbrenner said. \u201cWe tried to buy the Indians first, but we didn\u2019t get them. So Gabe Paul said, \u2018Let\u2019s come up to New &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/17\/what-couldve-been\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Could&#8217;ve Been&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}