There are some interesting things that have happened in the organization over the last week with Mark DeRosa and John Meloan being traded, Andy Marte on fire in Columbus, and more. Tony checks in today with his thoughts on a potential move of Marte, the puzzling decision to trade Meloan, and recaps a long conversation with Columbus Manager Torey Lovullo. While the big league team's season continues to circle the drain, the emphasis the rest of the season will start to turn more to the young players in the system and who better to guide us through the second half than Tony.

Coming off a brutal 2008 season, expectations for the 2009 Browns are not very high. As training camp starts to appproach, a lot of the national websites and blogs are starting to come out with some prognostications on the '09 season. So before celebrating our great country's independence by blowing up a small corner of it, here are some odds and ends that show some love for our revamped Cleveland Browns heading into 2009. Wait, did I say love? Sorry, I meant contemptuous disgust.

Question: What do Don Mossi and Ray Narleski have in common with Greg Aquino, Rafael Betancourt, Vinnie Chulk, Matt Herges, Zach Jackson, Masa Kobayashi, Aaron Laffey, (inhaaaaaaaale), Jensen Lewis, Rafael Perez, Rich Rundles, Tony Sipp, Joe Smith, Jose Veras, Luis Vizcaino, and Kerry Wood? Answer: Nothing. According to their contemporaries, Don Mossi and Ray Narleski comprised the best relief pitching combo in the history of baseball when they played for the Cleveland Indians from 1954 through 1958. The others in the question above... do not. Greg Popelka takes a look back.

When you suck the life out of Paul Cousineau as an Indians fan, you know you have issues as an organization. And that's about where Paulie's at right now. Tired of the team's "consistent approach" of playing middling players at the wrong position, capturing defeat from the jaws of victory, and overwhelmingly sucking the life out of any optimism we may feel for the team ... Paulie takes some time out to hurl some tomahawks at our readers, hitting on a slew of different issues surrounding the team.