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An alternate sports universe has come to Cleveland -- Bud Shaw's Sports Spin

Related Topics: Coco Crisp, Progressive Field

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The raising of the first championship banner in 52 years is now an opening act for the close pursuit of a second?

Of course it is.

Who didn't see that coming?

If you predicted the scene that will unfold at The Q and at Progressive Field Tuesday night in the most remarkable development in Cleveland sports history, you probably also predicted:

• LeBron James going all in with the Indians to the point you no longer care if underneath he's wearing pin-striped boxers.

• Thirty-seven-year-old Coco Crisp homering in the game that clinched the division, the game that clinched the ALDS and the game that clinched the ALCS.