Blogger and Media Reactions to the Crisp Deal

Cleveland fans are supposedly upset by the Crisp deal. If that's so, none of those fans appear to be on the Internet. Reaction among Tribe bloggers is uniformly favorable. Check these out.

• Mistake by the Lake Sporting Times has an interesting post on the Crisp trade. They love it. Read the comments too.
  

• Let's Go Tribe has posted the first in a series of articles analyzing the trade.
  

• The Cleveland Indians Report hasn't analyzed the actual deal, but based on what they wrote in advance of the deal, they love having Marte in the organization.

Of course, the Red Sox are spinning the deal hard, and if Epstein's as high on it as he sounds, we ought to worry a little, because he's no dummy. Reaction among the Sox fans appears mixed, with some guys going so far as to say that Coco will quickly make fans stop missing Johnny Damon. Others are a little more wary.

The local media has some analysis of the deal, starting with The Beacon-Journal's Terry Pluto, who wrote about the deal in-depth and is generally favorable toward it. In The News-Herald, Jim Ingraham's column focuses on the other prospect included in the deal, catcher Kelly Shoppach. What about The Plain Dealer? While the PD devotes a lot of newsprint to covering the trade itself, aside from a brief Paul Hoynes soundbite about the deal, the only Tribe analysis this morning was contained in Roger Brown's column, where he discussed Casey Blake. Go figure.