Buckeye Chris
Theres No Cure For Laurinaitis
Buy some lottery tickets, patterson got a homerun
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Two run single by BPhil. Bad move going for second base there but he beat that tag. Bad call by the ump and bad move by Brandon.
6-0 Reds.
How the fuck is it that we cant beat the piss poor Dodgers at home and we take the first two from New York in Yankee stadium? Ridiculous.
6-0 Reds.
How the fuck is it that we cant beat the piss poor Dodgers at home and we take the first two from New York in Yankee stadium? Ridiculous.
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Good finish Reds.
If Aaron Harang gets his shit together we would have a top 3 pitching staff in baseball. We still cant hit water from a boat but still....
I'd sure love to get a sweep tomorrow with Cueto on the mound.
If Aaron Harang gets his shit together we would have a top 3 pitching staff in baseball. We still cant hit water from a boat but still....
I'd sure love to get a sweep tomorrow with Cueto on the mound.
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mercer_buckeye
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CCI;1189358; said:
Please lets not start this shit again, the season is over has been for awhile. This team has talent but no pulse. Not trying to jump your shit but I cant go through the false hope thing again.
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Bestbuck36;1189344; said:
Well if I were only searching for boundless optimism, this is the thread, I guess....
Seriously though, even with Harang pitching balls to the wall, you still have that bullpen and still no real strong back end of the rotation. Perhaps you meant something else, but there is nothing on this team that should give you that impression.
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There is a real nice young core of talent and its spread out to enough positions that they really aren't that far off. The problem as I see it is a combo of the schizo routine you get from young players, Cueto being the best example, and the utter lack of leadership, or production, from the older guys.
This years just too much to ask after that last losing skid but they have shown the ability to play very well against good teams when they are on.
All in all I'm interested to see what WJ does in the coming months, he has the track record to warrant hope and the situation isn't completely hopless.
This years just too much to ask after that last losing skid but they have shown the ability to play very well against good teams when they are on.
All in all I'm interested to see what WJ does in the coming months, he has the track record to warrant hope and the situation isn't completely hopless.
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Jaxbuck;1189462; said:
Many teams have been built the way the Reds are now. Eventually a leader has to emerge or it won't happen.
Kind of like the Columbus Blue Jackets actually. Started pretty well, then the wheels fall off, then play badly against teams they should beat but play very well against teams that shouldn't have a problem beating them.
Now there I can agree. This isn't like you have a GM afraid to make moves and you certainly don't have a moron in Jocketty. Baseball is a funny game that way.
But let's not be premature. I only have to go back about 10 pages to see you all wishing for .600 ball from these guys :p
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BuckeyeMike80;1189511; said:
Agree completely. I have been pretty vocal in calling for an exorcisim of the losing culture of this franchise. No way to know for sure but I think JR, Dunn and maybe even Harang and Arroyo are part of that. If you see productive guys sent packing I'm willing to wager WJ thinks they fall into that category.
I'll take your word for it, I don't follow hockey. The Reds started horrifically, played very well for about a month then the wheels fell off again. They seem to play down to their level of competition and can't sustain the intensity needed for long winning streaks or to break short losing streaks. All the hallmarks of an immature or mentally weak team imo(I think they are both).
and you only have to go look at the record from May 5 to about June 5 to see them play it for a solid 30 dayish stretch. If they can do it that long they can do it longer, its not just blind optimisim.
If they solve the #5 spot issue the Reds have as good a starting rotation as anyone.
As much as I doubted them this off season Bray, Burton and Cordero have made for a pretty effective back end of a pen. Roenicke is on the way and Affeldt is doing better than average. Note the date and time I said this but I'm not worried about the pen anymore.
The biggest issue now is the patchwork nature of the roster for the position players and the overall weakness of the CF, SS and C positions along with the millstone effect of JR.
They strike gold in the shakeups to come and solve the CF, SS, C (and probably LF) questions and this team is as good as anyone. I'm not afraid to say that at all.
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I have a friend of a friend who knows a priest who specializes in exorcisms of sports team and misguided and wayward people who are trapped into becoming fans of long suffering teams .
PM me for his email. Nm he already knows how to contact you.
PM me for his email. Nm he already knows how to contact you.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Dispatch
Reds 6 Yankees 0
Sleepless rookie silences Yankees
Sunday, June 22, 2008 3:38 AM
By Hal McCoy
Dayton Daily News
Frank Franklin II Associated Press
Corey Patterson watches his 100th career home run, which gave the Reds a 4-0 lead in the seventh inning.
NEW YORK -- Daryl Thompson might have thought it was a form of rookie hazing, his teammates not scoring runs in his major-league debut.
But that isn't the case. The Cincinnati Reds seldom score runs for anybody, treating home plate like Mount Everest or the South Pole -- a place difficult to reach.
The 22-year-old Thompson, pitching in Yankee Stadium yesterday, didn't listen to the Ghost Whisperers of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. He held the Yankees to no runs and four hits (four walks, two strikeouts) in five innings, but his offensive buddies scored zero against 31-year-old journeyman Dan Giese, making his first major-league start, for six innings.
For the Reds, though, all's well that ends well. They scored four unearned runs in the seventh and two runs in the eighth to win their second straight over the Yankees 6-0.
Continued........
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