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This season, baseball historian Bill Savage has been contributing a Chicago Cubs fans perspective from his seats at Wrigley Field in a column called The View From Section 416. For the World Series, Cleveland Indians fan and baseball writer Susan Petrone has joined the party and will write The View From The 216 -- aka Clevelands area code.Its been a strange and heady year here in Believeland. If you live in the 216, its a fine time to be alive. Were currently grooving on the Indians in the World Series. The wind off Lake Erie smells of hope and energy. It started this past summer when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the citys first major sports championship in, like, forever, and has carried right on over into October. The idea that the Cleveland Indians are playing in the World Series right now and that they havent been swept but could actually win this thing, is simultaneously overwhelming and joy-inducing.The only problem is, its a little lonely. Judging from the news and social media, it appears that just about everybody outside of Northeast Ohio is rooting for the Chicago Cubs in the Series. In a way, its understandable. The Cubs have lost for so long and in so many ways that a sort of mythology has sprung up around their epic World Series drought. Embracing the lovable losers has become almost, well, cute. Cleveland, on the other hand, has lost not only baseball games but population and jobs over their 68-year-drought. We have learned that losing isnt cute or cuddly.People are hesitant to cheer for the Cleveland Indians for any number of reasons. To put it in human terms, if my city were a person, shed be the funky chick hanging out on her own, moving on the periphery of the cool crowd. Shes the one who sometimes tries too hard to act cool. She can be defensive when she thinks shes being insulted, probably because she has been given a lot of grief in the past just for being her. And then theres her tattoo. Somebody said she got it a long time ago and knows its horrible. Shes still gathering up the courage to get rid of it. Some of the popular kids whove talked to her one-on-one thought she was really cool, fascinating, beautiful even, but theyll never say so. Nobody will admit to actually liking her.And it seems that nobody will admit to actually liking the Indians. Im not asking you to buy season tickets here, just to give them a chance. Why should you get behind Cleveland?Getting behind the underdog is an American tradition The Cubs have a $186 million payroll and a near-perfect roster of marquee players. By contrast, the small-market Indians have a $114 million payroll and maybe two guys and one pinkie that anyone outside of the city has ever heard of. On paper, Cleveland is grossly overmatched. Nobody thought theyd make it past the American League Division Series, much less all the way to the Fall Classic. But here they are. In a World Series of baseballs two perpetual underdogs, were the underdogs.They keep finding unusual ways to winIf youre reading this, you probably already know the litany of injuries. The Indians were without their most productive hitter (Michael Brantley) for most of the season. They were without their regular catcher (Yan Gomes) for most of the season. They entered the postseason with two-thirds of a starting rotation. They won Game 3 of the American League Championship Series despite losing their starting pitcher in the first inning because he was bleeding all over the ball. They clinched the ALCS with a rookie making his second major league start on the mound. Terry Francona is reimagining the way modern managers use their bullpens on the fly. Who does this sort of thing? Dont you want to see what theyll do next?Cleveland needs this more Lets start this with a question. Ask 10 people where theyd rather live: Cleveland or Chicago? Lets start with you, would you rather live in Cleveland or Chicago?Its okay that you said Chicago. Were used to that.For Cubs fans, this World Series is about winning baseballs ultimate title. In Cleveland, the World Series isnt just about baseball. We dont have the luxury of a second major league team. Our football team has never won a Super Bowl. Chicagos basketball team alone has won more championships on its own than our entire city has won in the three major sports in the Super Bowl era. Chicago has never been the punchline to a stale joke.By now Im sure youve seen the MLB-sanctioned T-shirts for the postseason. They feature an identical tagline with only the city name changed. When I saw the Respect Chicago shirt, I almost laughed. When have people not respected Chicago? Thats about as daring as saying Respect Tacos. Now a T-shirt exhorting you to Respect Cleveland? Thats a bit more challenging, isnt it?We are a small market city. The national narrative about this World Series is still focused on the Cubs. Even when the small market team wins, the rest of the world doesnt say Cleveland won. Instead, people wonder how the big market team lost. Even if the Indians win it all this year, the national headlines wont read: Cleveland wins World Series. Theyll read: Chicago Cubs fans continue to suffer. By cheering for the Indians, you will help to subvert the dominant paradigm.Think about getting behind them. You dont need to buy the Respect Cleveland shirt. But call up that funky chick and ask her to hang out. Get to know her a little bit. Show her some respect. And root for her in the World Series. Bob Ojeda Jersey . Rousey will put her perfect 8-0 record and hardware on the line against another undefeated fighter, 7-0 Sara McMann in the main event of UFC 170, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas Nevada on February 22nd. Rick Sutcliffe Jersey .4 million title. 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Despite seven new faces and the offseason retirement of future Hall of Fame forward Tim Duncan, its been business as usual for the San Antonio Spurs over the first four games of the new campaign.The Spurs look to continue their hot start when they host the Utah Jazz on Tuesday at the AT&T Center.San Antonio has won all four times its taken the court, thrice on the road, and is already in the routine of resting veteran players for the rigors of the eight-month-long journey to the postseason.The Spurs gave starting point guard Tony Parker and reserve guard Manu Ginobili the night off against New Orleans on Saturday but San Antonio cruised to an easy 98-79 win.Part of the Spurs early success has been the play of their reserves, especially point guard Patty Mills, who scored 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting against the Pelicans in a spot start for Parker and then added another 18-point game off the bench in San Antonios 106-99 victory at Miami on Sunday.DeWanye Dedmond, one of the Spurs under-the-radar offseason acquisitions, has contributed seven points and 7.3 rebounds per game while playing an average of 18 minutes and already has eight blocked shots.David Lee, who has taken some of the minutes that belonged to David West last year, is scoring eight points per game and pulling down 6.8 rebounds per outing in an average of just under 17 minutes.Dedmond has been very active and has been doing a wonderful job off the bench, as has Lee, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said Saturday. DeWanyes game is running and giving us some energy, and David is a basketball player -- he knows howw to play and fits into any kind of situation.ddddddddddddThe Jazz (1-2) head to San Antonio on the heels of a 88-75 road loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday.George Hill paced Utah with 18 points while reserve guard Dante Exum was the only other Jazz player to reach double figures with 10. Joe Johnson scored seven points in the opening quarter, but didnt score again.The four starters other than Hill -- Johnson, Boris Diaw, Rudy Gobert and Rodney Hood -- combined for just 20 points.I didnt believe it was a good night for me -- its a team game, not individual, Hill said after the loss. My stats dont mean anything if we lose a game like we did (Sunday).Jazz forward Gordon Hayward sat out his third straight game with a broken finger on his left hand and likely will not play in Tuesdays contest.Although San Antonio is often considered the most international team in the NBA, the Jazz have supplanted the Spurs in far-flung flavor this year, with seven players from outside the United States: center Gobert and forward Diaw (France), guard Dante Exum and forward Joe Ingles (Australia), guard Raul Neto (Brazil), forward Trey Lyles (Canada) and forward Joel Bolomboy (Ukraine).On Monday the Jazz beat the Oct. 31, 11:59 p.m. EDT deadline to avoid restricted free agency by agreeing to a four-year contract extension with Gobert worth $102 million, according to league sources. The contract is just short of the projected maximum offer of $106 million. ' ' '