ChickenWyngz

That’s a massive expense to a lot of school athletic (especially baseball) accounts. Those things run TIGHT.

You have a strong misconception of how many coaches are truly fired, especially for on field performance.

I agree with this 100%. It’s the biggest missing piece. If you look at Young’s stats, he’s actually got inverted splits so he’s better against righties than lefties. Its not going to bring you back an absolutely dominant lefty reliever, but I’d like to see them package Casali and then one or two is Senzel, Newman or Barerro (prefer to keep Senzel in this instance) for a middle grade lefty reliever a team needs off the payroll. Casali is hitting .162 but a team close to contention with awful defense at the catchers position would trade for him. Then I believe the ultimate goal is to end up with Williamson in the bullpen in the place of a Fernando Cruz or equivalent. That puts you to 2-3 lefties in the pen and opens up a spot to add CES to the roster.

Heck, that’s a never ending rabbit hole. I wish they were undefeated in their 7 games against them this year and up by 7 or 8 games.

That’s far from an apples to apple comparison.

I prefer the NFL’s method of division games to close out the year. I know there’s much less chance in those games determining much after 162 games rather than 17, but at least there’s a chance. If you’re going to have a run of 6 games against a common divisional foe, do it then.

Agree! I was talking to family about this the other day. Lots of weird quirks. Travel is well advanced now, but why did they go to Baltimore, fly home for 3 days and then fly back to Washington DC? None of it makes sense.

Agree completely. Go 3 and 3 or better and you’re in a great spot. Just don’t blow it!

When will this one hit?

9 times out of 10, just shut up.

Reds need to score early tonight and jump on the young Braves starter. Weaver gives up runs anyway, but the Braves pound pitchers that fit his profile.

I think this speaks to how tough it is to have an extended winning streak in the MLB. A lot of luck goes into it as well.

I’m not even sure this is a knock off lol

Spot on. NL West may end up with 3 teams in. Division is the route this year.

Agree 100%.

It is better to be hot then, but the fact remains that they’re a few weeks away from the decision on whether to make a trade or not.

I’d agree. All depends on what they do at the deadline. Rumors of them considering selling recently and MLB channel questioning Counsel being on the hot seat.

I think that this will depend a lot on the Cubs of all teams. I’ve seen reports recently predicting the Brewers to be sellers at the deadline and gear for an all in attempt next year. The Pirates played way above their level early and are plummeting back to earth. The Cardinals are awful.

I know exactly what you mean, but I don’t think that was last year. MLB made an agreement to fix this a while back. I used to have the same issue but used the app to listen to games while grass cutting last year.

It was just in March that Marty Brennaman called this team awful and said it would take a divine intervention to compete for the division. In his defense, we all thought the same.

If we are going to the point of changing districts because teams aren’t very competitive in it we’re going to be changing a lot.

This is true. You really can’t speak enough about the job Maile and Casali have done with a young, ever changing and at times struggling pitching staff. The other night on the radio Brantley discussed this a bit and even pointed out that it really exposes Stephenson’s struggles in the area at times. It puts the Reds in a tough place of dealing with growing pains by letting Stephenson learn in the fire or doing what is most successful everyday. This is true too. Diaz and Sims had gone consecutive days and Bell will rarely push a reliever to 3 day. Giabut had thrown 20+ the day before which Bell also likes to avoid the day after with that. The good news is it sets up a really fresh bullpen the rest of the way in KC.

There are no state mandated 30 day wait periods for coaching positions. It must be a school policy.

FACTS! However my point was more to the fact that schools make it nearly impossible to fail now. I work in one everyday and have seen this firsthand.

I think a kid being able to have continuous academic eligibility issues given todays standards speaks volumes.