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Reds Tidbits (2007 Season)

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Well, the Reds have their first black manager. I guess that's something. I've never seen such a lack of excitement over the hiring of a 3 time NL Manager of the Year. Hey, we get at least 1 more year of Dick Pole jokes. That's 2 somethings.
 
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Baseball notebook: Reds exercise $13 million option on Dunn

Thursday, November 1, 2007 3:57 AM



From staff and wire reports
The Cincinnati Reds answered a $13 million question yesterday by exercising the contract option on Adam Dunn.

Dunn batted .264 in his fourth consecutive 40-home run season. He also led the Reds with 106 RBI, scored 101 runs and drew 101 walks. Dunn, who turns 28 on Nov. 9, may or may not have heard the news. According to a team spokesman, he is on a fishing trip and out of cell phone range until next week.

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I won't go so far as to say they've under anything great here, but they haven't fucked it up (yet). Picking up Dunn and Hatte were items 1 and 2 for me. Keeping Nacho another year is fine with me and NOT paying Easy Eddie $3.5M is a no-brainer. 4 for 4 with those moves, IMO.

Still plenty of time yet to screw something else up.
 
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Cincy

Dunn still has plenty to prove
But he's a keeper
BY PAUL DAUGHERTY | [email protected]

The Big Donkey was out of touch, gone fishin', casting his line with Matt Belisle and Tom Hume somewhere in the bayous of Louisiana. Maybe he'd heard the Reds had picked up the option year of his contract, maybe he hadn't. Thirteen million dollars, cash money.
Easy come, easy go.
Adam Dunn delights and infuriates, often at once. Outwardly, he owns the sort of Type-Z personality most of us could benefit from. Gone fishin' isn't just an expression with Dunn. It's more like a motto. He's pleasant and funny and, outwardly, takes himself as seriously as a can of Silly String. All good.

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The only summary I could get from that confused little bit of garbage was that the Reds shouldn't offer Dunn a LTC untill he loses weight and hustles more?? After he starts the article by saying Dunn isn't a Pete Rose/Sabo/Freel type of player and fans need to accept this??? WTF??

Seriously how do you get a job writing nonsense like this? I'm not even going there with my disagreement on the merits of Dunn, I'm just saying whatever point you are trying to make...fucking make it. Don't contradict yourself in the space of one article.
 
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After a decade in Sarasota, Reds look for new spring home

Nov. 7, 2007
CBSSports.com wire reports

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]SARASOTA, Fla. -- The Cincinnati Reds will look for a new spring training home after voters rejected a taxpayer-supported stadium project. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The $16 million bond referendum to help pay for a $45 million renovation of Ed Smith Stadium failed by a narrow margin on Tuesday. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Officials said the vote will end efforts by the Reds and the city to reach an agreement. The Reds have trained in Sarasota for a decade, and were looking to stay another 30 years.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]"We obviously start looking for a new home," said John Allen, the Reds' executive vice president and chief operating officer, said in Wednesday editions of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The rebuilding project was to be paid with money from the city, the Reds, the county and the state. [/FONT]
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Any guesses as to where the Reds will end up?
 
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Enquirer

Three Florida complexes are going to be vacant soon: Vero Beach will open after this spring because the Dodgers are moving to Arizona; the Devil Rays are moving from St. Petersburg to Port Charlotte; and the Indians are moving from Winter Haven to Arizona.
Orlando and Lee County (Fort Myers) are considering adding teams.
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Arizona is the other possibility. Cities have tried to woo teams from Florida over the years. The town of Goodyear is building the Indians a $75 million complex.
The biggest factor working against going to Arizona is the increased travel time for Cincinnati-area fans.
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Baseball
Allen steps down as CEO in Cincinnati

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:29 AM
By Joe Kay


ASSOCIATED PRESS
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John Allen


CINCINNATI -- When John Allen was handed control of the Cincinnati Reds in 1996, suspended owner Marge Schott referred to him as her bookkeeper. In short time, he proved he wouldn't be her caretaker.
Overnight, Allen went from anonymous controller to the most powerful person in baseball's first professional franchise, guiding it through some of its darkest times. He took the team in a different direction, restored ties with fans and rebuilt a farm system that had been ignored.

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