It didn’t go like everyone in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio wanted it to, but Game 1 of the Guardians-Detroit American League Wild-Card Playoff Series on Tuesday at Progressive Field should have sent a resounding message to the deep thinkers on the Browns.
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That is, it should have shown the people in Berea just how exciting — how wonderful, how special — the postseason is, especially at home in Cleveland. These last two months, when the Guardians put on the best comeback in Major League Baseball history, it enlivened everybody in the region.
It’s done that in all of the many times the Guardians have made the playoffs. The same can be said for all of the Cavaliers’ trips to the postseason.
The Browns have not had a home playoff game since Jan. 1, 1995 when they beat the New England Patriots 20-13 in the 1994 AFC Divisional Round. That’s been almost 31 years ago.
Yes, all this should have hit the Browns like a ton of bricks on Tuesday.
But, do you think it did, even just a little bit?
I don’t, either, not a chance.
Haughty, pretentious Browns General Manager Andrew Berry always thinks he’s the smartest guy in any room into which he walks. So he probably just ignored it — stayed about the fray, as it were,
But if I were Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, we would have sat and watched the game on TV together and I would have peppered him with a plethora of biting questions he doesn’t want to answer.
Steve King
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