48 Years Ago, Cuyahoga River Catches Fire; Today, Mariners Don’t

No thanks to this long, lean, strikeout machineOn June 22nd, 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught on fire. The river was so saturated with industrial waste that all it took was a spark from a passing train to set the whole river in flames.

This incendiary event was instrumental in prompting the environmental revolution of the subsequent decade, including the 1972 Clean Water Act, a monumental piece of legislation that regulated the discharge of pollutants into bodies of water.

Of course, none of this would have been necessary if they simply had Andrew Miller.

Cleveland’s all-star lefty reliever is something of a baseball anomaly. Not limited to traditional bullpen roles, like closer or…