Albert Belle is washed, Larry Dolan is cheap, and a sweet Geocities site

Inspired by a Reddit post and later a Twitter thread from YouTuber Foolish Baseball, I learned a lot of interesting things about early-internet Indians fans by digging around the old baseball Usenet forums. I also found my new favorite website.

For starters, this guy called the decline of Albert Belle pretty spot-on.

Belle became a free agent at 30, which nowadays would scare just about any team off. But back in the big brain front office days of the ‘90s, Belle was a huge power threat guy who batted 120-plus runs in back-to-back seasons and was easily capable of hitting over .