Exactly right. For team ERA, Atlanta was #1 and Cleveland was #3. To say that Cleveland's pitching was "pretty below average" is ignorant.

If you want the goods on how this went down, there's a book written by longtime Cleveland sportswriter Terry Pluto called "False Start" about the origins of the new Browns. Great book by maybe THE most credible sportswriter on all things Cleveland.

I came away unimpressed with the documentary. With such a rich history and a full menu of misery to focus on, I came away thinking that this was possibly the worst 30 for 30 yet, and I came into this glad to see Cleveland get some national due as a sports city. The whole thing was rushed, had glaring omissions…

That Cleveland expansion team was actually worse than scratch. They had less than a year from the time they found out there would be a team until the season opened. Further, in the "expansion draft" the NFL learned its lesson from the early success of the Jacksonville and Carolina teams, and further restricted the…

That history wasn't guaranteed. They were going to be the Baltimore Browns until Art Modell, may he forever rot, settled the lawsuit against him for fraud. As part of the settlement, he agreed to relinquish the team history to the city of Cleveland until such time the city had a new team to assume the history.

Frankly, that's in no small part due to the efforts of the fans in Cleveland who had a promising lawsuit against Modell pending, who protested the NFL to such great lengths that they took down the NFL's phone lines for several days due to call volume, and who otherwise made noise and raged out in a way that was fairly…

I don't think you can come to any other conclusion than Baltimore stole the Browns. They identified an NFL owner in financial trouble and trying to get his city to buy him a new stadium. They offered to build him a new stadium if he moved the team, charge $0 rent, bribe…ahem, excuse me, "reimburse" $75 million for…