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Meet the crew
CO-FOUNDERS
Michael Hattery
Michael Hattery was born and raised in upstate New York. Unfortunately his father was born and raised in Medina Ohio, forever staking the family’s allegiances to “The Cleve”. Mike is now a practicing attorney in Northeast Ohio. He grew up around baseball, touching it in any way he could, be it a mediocre high school career reliant on poor secondary offerings or working in the clubhouse for the AA Binghamton Mets. The last touch he could find was writing which for him is mostly focused on analytics and data reliant columns. Unfortunately, while they can occasionally offer some small nugget of insight they are predominantly mindless wanderings through the mind of a frustrated fan, rather than a rational observer. Mike has previously written on The Athletic, Fangraphs, The Hardball Times, WFNY, Indians Baseball Insider and Cleveland Sports Insiders. Follow Michael on twitter at https://twitter.com/snarkyhatman. Michael can be reached via email at Michael.Hattery@gmail.com.
Gage Will
Gage is a Sandusky, Ohio native who has been transplanted to Findlay. Cleveland sports struck at a young age, in the 1990s heyday of the Indians. Caroming a tennis ball off of front steps to emulate Omar Vizquel birthed a passion for the Indians, clanging jumpers off the back rim channeled Brevin Knight, and Tim Couch proved that football was only wise if you had capable blockers. Beyond his fandom, Gage has published hundreds of articles between Indians Baseball Insider and WaitingForNextYear.com
MANAGING EDITOR
Jim Pete
Jim Pete was born and bred in the Forest City of Cleveland, Ohio before moving to the giant Metropolis of McKean, PA. He is currently residing in Raleigh, NC only 30 minutes away from Zebulon, NC and Cleveland’s High A affiliate, the Carolina Mudcats. Cleveland Sports just happen to be his passion, coming in a not-so-close second to his wife, son and daughter, as well as his crazy dog and even more insane cat.
Rooting for the Indians and the rest of the Cleveland sports has been akin to walking on broken glass, Legos and hot coals at the same time…but somehow have found a way to consume his life on a daily basis. Yeah, he does hate Cleveland Sports…just a little…
Jim’s first Cleveland Sports memory was watching the Tribe as a five-year old in cavernous Municipal stadium, in awe of Charlie Spikes, Andre “Thunder” Thornton, Duane Kuiper, Rick Manning and the great Buddy Bell. Most thought Municipal was a giant dung heap. Jim thought it was nothing short of heaven. He died a little while attending the infamous Red Right 88 with his Dad, and swore off the Browns and the NFL that day. The moment Jordan hit the winning shot over Craig Ehlo is forever etched in his mind as the worst day in the history of the world.
Hyperbole knows no bounds.
Jim has written and talked about Cleveland Sports over the past 15 years for several sites, and last was a senior editor, columnist and beat writer for Indians Baseball Insider and Cleveland Sports Insiders. He attended Historic Grainger Stadium regularly with his kids and wife in tow, and is now a regular at Five County Stadium.
He longs for the day when people hate Cleveland because they win titles…and not because of a series of shortfalls. You can follow Jim on Twitter https://twitter.com/JimPeteEHC, or he can be reached at everybodyhatescleveland@gmail.com.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kevin Scheid
Like far too many, Kevin is an ardent Cleveland sports fan, who has wrestled with the existential crisis of realizing how many precious hours and level of emotional investment spent on all three teams. Throughout the years, Kevin has written and podcasted about Cleveland sports on various mediums, although he is no better off because of it. You can follow him on Twitter @Scheidology, and spot him at various Northeast Ohio grocery stores and a particular Bay Village coffee shop.
