Indians buy Nick Swisher,sell STO

A bit late, but I still wanted to jot down a few thoughts on the Cleveland Indians managing to land Nick Swisher to plug into a corner outfield spot and add power to a team in desperate need of it.

Swisher was tabbed to a four-year deal for 56 million dollars with an option for a fifth year, provided Swisher reached a certain threshold of numbers and games played.
The 32-year-old Swisher will replace Shin-Soo Choo as the starter in right field and along with the recent signing of Mark Reynolds gives the Indians power that they did not have last season.
The pairing of Swisher and Reynolds should have a strong chance of combining for sixty homers and three hundred strikeouts, but I think Cleveland will make that trade-off considering the desperate need for a power infusion.

Swisher has never hit under 21 homers in any season in the big leagues and instantly becomes more than just a free agent signing.
Nick Swisher may have wanted to play on the West Coast (his wife is an actress) and he likely would have rather played on a contending team, but if the Indians could not sign a player from near the area (Parkersburg WV isn't exactly Solon or Strongsville, but still) and has state ties (former Buckeye) that had a limited market for his skills, who can the Wahoos sign?
Nick Swisher instantly becomes the face of the franchise and gives a fan base that has been disappointed by being the runners-up in so many attempts to sign players, a reason to hang in there.

Do not get me wrong, Nick Swisher is not a franchise player, but he plays very hard and lends a charisma that the franchise has lacked over the past few years, or at least before Grady Sizemore turned into a piece of peanut brittle.
I wish the deal was a year shorter, but to get players to Cleveland, one must overpay at times, so it is understandable to make this deal work.

The Indians also made a business deal by selling the team-owned Sports Time Ohio network to the Fox Sports bunch for 230 million and Fox Sports will pay at least 40 million a year for the next ten years for rights to televise the Indians.
I would think that the Fox people would keep STO rolling as a side channel for those April nights when the Indians and Cavaliers each play and once you get cable/satellite clearance, you generally do not want to give that up.
I have no concern with what channel shows the games, but I do hope that STO stays somewhat intact as I enjoy the local Cleveland-oriented programming on STO more than I do the national-based (other than Cavalier shows) programming on FSO.
If Bruce Drennan, Chuck Galeti, and the Browns Red Zone stuff stay on STO, I'll be fine with any other changes, if not then I'll be more bothered.
I have the Directv sports package mainly for the Cleveland talk (The games are paid for separately), so I might drop that if radical changes are made and add more of the same stuff that I see on other networks.

It is a good business move for the Indians, who get some dollars and less of the responsibility of running a network, while Fox wins as well by eliminating its competition and adding another sports entity to its network.
I just hope that the networks stay the same just under the same umbrella.....