August 8, 200818 yr Even the nice guys Chris Welsh and George Grande are teeing off on the goofy base running stunt Jay Bruce just commited. Thrown out at third on a left side hit ground ball to short for inning's first out. Welsh claims 12-year old players don't make that play. Questions if Dusty Baker is going to have to start from scratch 'around here'? Nice observations, but did Chris and George just take off their sunglasses at night? Been going on since Day One.:eek: His weak attempt at a basket catch was pitiful also. When will a guy find his butt on the bench for committing these idiotic blunders?:irked:
August 8, 200818 yr His weak attempt at a basket catch was pitiful also. When will a guy find his butt on the bench for committing these idiotic blunders?:irked: Hard to bench them when you have to run 9 out on the field. Maybe Dusty just needs to start a game with 4-5 players. The ones that have not made some bonehead, no hustle play.
August 8, 200818 yr Hard to bench them when you have to run 9 out on the field. Maybe Dusty just needs to start a game with 4-5 players. The ones that have not made some bonehead, no hustle play. Wasn't aware they had only 8 position players on the team. Since when did they start carrying 17 pitchers?
August 8, 200818 yr Wasn't aware they had only 8 position players on the team. Since when did they start carrying 17 pitchers? My point flew way over your head. This team is FULL of players that are making bone-headed plays. So you pull one and you look at the bench for a replacement and you look at a guy that probably the night before pulled off a similar bone-headed play. So, in essence you replace a bone-headed player with a bone-headed player.
August 8, 200818 yr 3 Ks, 2 bombs... Cueto has now given up 26 home runs, the most in the National League. You would hope he can improve on that next year.
August 9, 200818 yr Joh Fay makes some sense out of this mess.... http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=blog07&plckBlogId=Blog%3ae57bcc87-152a-4f72-96fb-cc08b1f396ef&sid=sitelife.cincinnati.com There are a lot theories on what's wrong with the Reds, but I think the biggest reason they are where they are right now is because of a lack of talent. This wasn't a very deep roster to begin with. With the injuries to Aaron Harang, Jared Burton, Jerry Hairston Jr., Ryan Freel, Norris Hopper and Alex Gonzalez, it's gotten a lot thinner. The trade of Ken Griffey Jr. thinned it a little more. Griffey was one of blog's favorite targets, but since the trade Corey Patterson has gotten the bulk of the time Griffey would have gotten. I'd still make the treade. But that's a severe drop off. And it goes on the down the line. Homer Bailey is getting starts Harang would have gotten. Gary Majewski is getting ininngs Burton would have gotten. Jeff Keppinger hasn't been the same player since he came back from the injury. He's hitting .209 since he came off the DL. Sit him and Jolbert Cabrera plays shortstop. Cabrera's played well but he's a 35-year-old guy who was last in the big leagues in 2004. If everyone's healthy, Patterson is behind Freel, Hopper and Hairston on center field depth chart. There's no way to infuse talent on Aug. 8. But you'd think the Reds would be getting younger pretty soon. They have 12 potential free agents on the roster. Isn't time the start looking at the in-house replacements? I'm curious about Ryan Hanigan, Chris Dickerson, Josh Roenicke, Chris Valaika and Todd Frazier.
August 9, 200818 yr That Cordero signing looks better and better everyday, he just gave up 4 runs in the top of the tenth and looks like he is going to get another loss.
August 9, 200818 yr No worries in Mudville...remember Dusty said these are Wayne Krivsky's players. Can they lose 90? 95?
August 9, 200818 yr I am just glad they got rid of the problem in that 3 hole so, they can turn this thing around.
August 9, 200818 yr I am just glad they got rid of the problem in that 3 hole so, they can turn this thing around. Just curious...who said that would turn things around?
August 9, 200818 yr Just curious...who said that would turn things around? I said at one time that they if their pitching could hold up they could make a run but their eggs against the Rockies and Nationals did them in. On the 3 hole debate, everyone seemed to say that was a major problem with this team.
August 9, 200818 yr I said at one time that they if their pitching could hold up they could make a run but their eggs against the Rockies and Nationals did them in. On the 3 hole debate, everyone seemed to say that was a major problem with this team. I don't think everyone said that. Maybe said he doesn't deserve to be hitting there, but don't recall everyone saying that. Where's he hitting with the sox? Hit in the 5 hole tonight...0-4 and Ave. down to .200
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