The baseball season is winding down with just 9 days left in the regular schedules. The post-season will be different now that the MLB has added an additional wild card team.

My team is the Cleveland Indians, cellar-dwellers extraordinaire. They are currently tied with the Minnesota Twinkies for dead last in the AL Central, after holding onto first place most of the first half of the season. Being 20 games out of first is typical near the end of the season.

It wasn't always like that. They commanded the division in the last half of the 1990 decade and often finished 20 games or more ahead of the second place teams. They went to the World Series in 1995 and 1997.

But... that was another decade and those great players have all retired, except for Shortstop Omar Vizquel, who is still playing in the major leagues in his mid 40's.

Omar is a shoe-in for Cooperstown, the Hall of Fame.

Looking at today's Indians I can not see one player who would even make the ballot for the Hall.

The conjecture about what is going to happen after the season to my "Tribe" goes like this...

Four starting players will remain. Most of the bullpen will remain. Everyone else is going. There will be block trades, releases, buy-outs of contracts and "bye-bye' notices taped to lockers.

There will probably be blame all around, and the manager, Manny Acta wiil probably get his pink slip and a nice buy-out check. But he isn't to blame.

I place the blame on a dumb ass owner who won't spend his voluminous cash on going after good players, especially pitchers and big right-handed hitters. I blame a too-inexperienced general manager in the front office who just goes on kissing the owner's rump.

Anyway I look at it, the Tribe needs a reboot. I would start by booting the owner's broad butt down to his bank and demanding a huge check to rebuild the team for the long-suffering fans.