Ever since sometime this past June, has your back felt a little lighter? Did you feel like a weight was lifted off your shoulders? Maybe it only hit you in October, when you realized that even though you really really really want the Indians to win, it isn’t the life-or-death struggle that put your stomach in knots and made you second guess everything that went the wrong way in every significant Cleveland sports game (still looking at you, Joel Skinner – Lofton should have scored in 2007).
I know this is a Cleveland Indians blog, but the championship won by the Cleveland Cavaliers in June has cast its shadow over all the proceedings thus far in late September through mid-October.