"You can't let the other team beat you with your seventh guy out of the pen instead of your best arm."

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Ironic quote of the day, courtesy of Manny Acta, after the Indians fall in extras to the White Sox, thanks to an Alex Rios triple off Chris Perez.

The Suite life of CST's Doug and Tom

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Social media is a tool that's brought us closer than ever to our well-loved sports' teams. It allows us to follow the innermost breakfast plans of our favorite athletes, who, it turns out, enjoy slices of banana in their Frosted Flakes just like us mouth-breathing commoners. How interesting!

The Cleveland Indians already have a reputation as being one of MLB's most Twitter-friendly teams. The Tribe upped the ante this year with the Indians Social Suite, billed by the club as “the first social media-only space in professional sports." The suite, situated along the left field line right above third base, gives attendees wireless Internet access from whence to send their undoubtedly insightful and entertaining electronic messages to friends and followers. Invitations to the social suite are distributed on a game-by-game basis. 

My initial taste of the suite was during last night's game against the Texas Rangers. As guest of CST webmaster Tom, the two of us sent out a handful of tweets and blog posts from Tom's Android phone.

Tribe game goes to extras

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We're in extra innings after a late tribe rally. The bats were deader than Dillinger for seven innings, but a passed ball and other super moon craziness lead to two runs in the bottom of the eighth. If the tribe wins now we can hang out outside the casino construction site with CST's very own SamVox.

Tonight's game not so 'super'

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Not much offense tonight for the wahoos. Instead cst members Tom and Doug are waiting on the appearance of the super moon, which could frighten more superstitious members the Rangers into making a game changing error or two.

Where can we get Vegas odds on this possibility?

Live from Progressive Field

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CST contributors Doug and Tom are reporting live from the Indians social suite at Progressive Field. A chill wind blows through the stadium, but we're barely feeling it as we look down at the riff raff below from our lofty perch. Kidding!

Thanks to the Indians for including two members of our growing blog into their social media campaign.