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The Cleveland Indians are playing their best baseball of the season, and their ace is looking to contribute to that.
C.C. Sabathia looks to bounce back from his worst start of the season when the Indians open a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays at Jacobs Field on Tuesday night.
Cleveland (14-8) defeated Baltimore 6-1 on Sunday for its seventh win in eight games. The Indians were 2 1/2 games out of first place in the AL Central on April 21, but have since moved atop the division and are 1 1/2 games ahead of Minnesota.
Cleveland is 5-0 when Sabathia starts this season, but the left-hander has not won since defeating the Chicago White Sox on April 15.
Sabathia (3-0, 3.18 ERA) appeared well on his way to another brilliant outing Wednesday against Texas, but that changed drastically. He gave up just one hit through the first five innings, but allowed five runs and six hits in the sixth. He didn't factor in the 8-7, 11-inning victory.
"Today, I kind of blew it for us, but the guys ended up picking me up," Sabathia told the team's official Web site.
The left-hander is 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA in three home starts this season, and 4-1 with a 2.40 ERA in his last six starts at Jacobs Field. That includes a four-hitter for a 5-2 victory over the Blue Jays on Aug. 29.
Sabathia is 2-2 with a 4.25 ERA in four home starts against Toronto in his career.
The Indians won all three home games over the Blue Jays last season to improve to 9-1 in their last 10 against them at home.
Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner went 2-for-4 Sunday, and is hitting .107 (3-for-28) at home this season. Hafner, who is batting a team-high .338, was 4-for-9 with three homers against the Jays in Cleveland.
He is 3-for-6 with a double against A.J. Burnett (2-1, 4.18), who's coming off his best start of the season after giving up four hits in seven innings of a 6-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday.
After allowing 11 runs in 14 innings over his first three starts, he has given up just two runs in 14 innings in his last two
Pitching at Jacobs Field, though, has been difficult for Burnett. The right-hander is 0-2 in two career starts in Cleveland, allowing 14 runs with a .449 opponent batting average in 11 1-3 innings.
Burnett is 1-2 with a 7.27 ERA in three career starts against Cleveland.
Toronto (13-12) defeated Texas 6-1 on Monday, and have won five of seven after a season-high five-game skid.
Aaron Hill hit his team-leading fifth home run against the Rangers, while Troy Glaus went 2-for-3 with his third homer.
Center fielder Vernon Wells missed his first game of the season Monday because of flulike symptoms. Wells is just 5-for-21 in his career against Sabathia, but has hit two homers.


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I spent this week in Dallas at the Internet Engineering Task Force. It was my first time going.
Participating in the IETF has long been a dream of mine. Maybe something beyond a dream; it was only a few years ago that I realized this history-making council of knights was something that I might actually be able to join myself. It was an odd epiphany, like opening one's mailbox and finding an invitation to apply for a professional masters degree program at Hogwarts.
For me, the IETF process, where any person can join, but no companies are allowed, and the most official decisions are called a "request for comments", inspires a feeling somewhere between patriotism and religious fervor. I'm liable to interrupt family dinners to explain the IETF's hum-based method of gauging consensus, or to repeat by heart Dave Clark's famous quote
We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.
So, naturally, actually going to IETF would have to be a disillusioning experience, and in some sense it was. The meetings seem to be 40% bickering about minutiae and 60% talking to dead air. Obstinacy, pedantry, and obstructionism are in long supply. There's essentially no educational component; no energy is expended to help attendees to learn about areas outside of their own bubble. I learned an important lesson there: review the agenda ahead of time, and study up on anything that piques your interest, or you will simply be lost!
The vast majority of people in each meeting are simply silent, and it's impossible for me to know whether they are bewildered newcomers (like me) or some kind of passive expert observer. I spent the whole week in Dallas just to give two 10-minute presentations. And oh, by the way, proportionally, the men's swim team at my high school had more women in it than the IETF.
On the other hand, it was also a fascinating, inspiring, and massively informative week. I met personal heroes and long-time collaborators by the dozen. I had lunch and dinner with a different group of grizzled experts every day, with plenty of time to hear old engineering war stories and ask all the unanswered questions from all of the day's working groups. I might even have managed to drum up support for my very first internet standard proposal.
Most IETF attendees seem to be regulars who go to most of the meetings. Some people have been to practically all of them, since the beginning. I'm not sure I'm likely to become one of them … but I also get the feeling this won't be my last.


text: Kevin Anthony Wagner, son of Kevin and Holly Wagner, celebrated his seventh birthday May 3. Kevin is a grandson of Joseph and Patti Cresho, the late Anthony J. Morris III and the late Percy and Meryl Wagner. He is a great-grandson of Elizabeth Morris and Maryann Cresho. Kevin has four sisters, Kasandra, Meryl, Mackenzie and Piper.