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Reds Tidbits (2009 season)

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Pete Rose at the game tonight. Thom revealed that Rose comes back to Cinci every year for Marty's birthday. Really?! Rose does something not for himself, his ego, or his wallet? Shocker!

Anyway, during all the Twitter talk in the 6th between Jim Day and Cowboy, I grabbed my iPhone and decided to follow along. Jim Day later responded to several requests on Twitter for him to go down and get a Pete Rose interview that he wasn't going to do it, because Pete Rose had been advised by his lawyers to just shut the fuck up and not say anything at all. Day admitted that the crew decided to help Rose out by not even asking, implying that they knew if they did ask, Pete would probably grant the interview and say something to screw his chances at restitution. :lol:
 
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Dryden;1506321; said:
Pete Rose at the game tonight. Thom revealed that Rose comes back to Cinci every year for Marty's birthday. Really?! Rose does something not for himself, his ego, or his wallet? Shocker!

Anyway, during all the Twitter talk in the 6th between Jim Day and Cowboy, I grabbed my iPhone and decided to follow along. Jim Day later responded to several requests on Twitter for him to go down and get a Pete Rose interview that he wasn't going to do it, because Pete Rose had been advised by his lawyers to just shut the fuck up and not say anything at all. Day admitted that the crew decided to help Rose out by not even asking, implying that they knew if they did ask, Pete would probably grant the interview and say something to screw his chances at restitution. :lol:
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Safe to say that self control was never one of Pete's strong suits.
 
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There's been something wrong with his mechanics longer than just that ape fucking The Dusty gave his right arm imo.

I opined over at RZ the other day that the smart GM's should be looking at Lee while everyone else is fixated on Halladay. Its good to see not all of these guys are complete fucking idiots. The Phils are going to be good for a long while. The Reds, not so much.
 
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I come to find out this kid that shut us down tonight started the season at single A Fort Wayne. I've seen them twice this year, and they are dominating everyone they play, but come on.. This kid was a fucking Tin Cap no more than 4 months ago, and he walks into that hitter's park, and does that. Ouch.

EDIT: Hitter's park if you have hitters, that is.
 
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Not to belabor the point, but this Reds team is finally going down to the level it probably should have been all year long (give it's performance hitting-wise).

Look at the run differentials for all the teams. The Reds (-79 going into tonight) were the ONLY team with more than 40 wins with that large of a negative differential. the other teams below them are Washington and San Diego. Baltimore was -66 going into tonight and were only a game or two behind the Reds in overall wins....

Any screw up in the numbers are on me - I did it from my head from what I tried to remember from today.

The hitting coach and Baker need to go.
 
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Sounds like Dusty almost pulled Hal Mcrae after tonights game. I wonder if he threw any phones.


Reds manager Dusty Baker has rarely fired on his team.

He did Wednesday after the 7-1 loss to San Diego Padres, a game in which the Reds had a total of one hit.

“This is totally unacceptable,” Baker said. “It is embarrassing. It is pitiful. This is terrible.”

Baker questioned the team’s effort and enthusiasm.

“You’ve got to get after them,” Baker said. “They’re taking it to us. We’re not getting after it. We’ve got to do a whole lot better than this.

“Like I said, this is pitiful.”

The Reds have lost two of the first three in the four-game series with the Padres. The Padres, mind you, were 4-19 in the month of July when they came to Cincinnati.

“They’re not a good club,” Baker said. “They’re beating us like this. What does that make us?”

I'm sure plenty of you on the blog will be glad to answer that question
 
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In the spirit of the Nostradumbass predictions we dug up over in the scUM bickering thread I thought I'd pull up some of the brilliance given to us by this threads resident douchebag:

Honor&Glory;1365621; said:
speaking of polishing turds...I am only going to say that I've seen enough of Dunn, Griffey, Connine, etc...in the Reds lineup since GAPB opened. Don't you think with all the power that was supplied over the years and the resluts (losing seasons) stay the same that maybe, just maybe a different approach is warrented?
Doesn't Hernandez average 18 HR's a year? if Gonzalez is healthy he's a guy capable of hitting HR's and BP is a 25 HR guy...I'm sorry, but I fail to see the 'sky is falling' mentality for the Reds offense because of this signing. I do, however, see an improved defense and a more dynamic way for the Reds to create runs other than three run HR's. I'm good with it. As for the Corey Patterson comparrison...well, in 8 seasons, Patterson's career OBP is .297 and he stole 182 bases...Taveras, in four years has an OBP of .331 and has stolen 169 bases. The numbers that I find most interesting were is OBP and Avg in Houston which seem to be closer to what the Reds will get...which is around .265 and an OBP around .333...if he does that and steals 65 bases in front of Philips, Bruce and Votto, I'll take it.
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I know you failed to see it. Its because you are stupid.

Honor&Glory;1365719; said:
The Reds pitching wasn't all that bad last year...more importantly when Griffey, Dunn, EE and company went into a collective slump the team had zero chance to manufacture runs...and when Hairston was injured it was even worse. How many times was that 'potent' offense chuck full of power shut out last year? a whopping 8 times before the trade deadline and only twice after it. Pitching and defense win championships. The Reds for too long have forgotten what they had in 1990 and in 1999...a great blanance between pitching, speed, power, defense and bench play. I'm sick of waiting for the 3 run homer. I've seen 6 years of that bullshit...I want a baseball team to root for again, not a beer league softball squad.
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How goes the run manufacturing thus far numbnuts?

Honor&Glory;1366842; said:
I grasp it...I just don't buy it to the extent you're trying to sell it. Every division winner in baseball last year scored around 800 runs. I do find it curious that the Angels, the best record holder in the AL, only scored only 68 (765 to 697) more runs over the course of the season than their opponents yet won 100 games. I understand that its all about pitching, but can you honestly make the argument that the Reds pitching (4.55 team ERA last year) won't be better with Griffey and Dunn gone and a return of Gonzalez at SS with younger, faster defenders in the OF? Defense makes average pitching better. I'm willing to sacrifice the 40 HR's that you were very quick to inject into the conversation, by the way, for manufactured offense and better defense. I can't understand why some people can't grasp that with a possible exception that Dunn may have been their favorite player and they have a bone to pick with Marty about it.
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Imagine how many games they'd have lost by now if they had some shit head hitting 40 HR's in the middle of the lineup.

Honor&Glory;1464409; said:
:biggrin:

I've been waiting...but he's probably too busy watching Adam Dunn hit meaningless homers for a losing team in Washington to concentrate on the Reds. :)
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Honor&Glory;1464983; said:
awww...what's the matter? somebody replace your beer league softball team with baseball players?

that's ok. it happens. Oh, the Reds have scored as many runs to date this season as they did last season and their record is 8 games better...I know, I know...it has everything to do with the pitching and nothing to do with lazy fat-fuck bumbs like Dunn being removed from the clubhouse. But I'll give you credit...you've stood by your anti-reds guns since the Taveras signing. Funny how that's worked out so far, ain't it? Oh, I know, I know...its only may and you've sat through...ONE June Swoon in the last 9 years...but, hey, don't let fact stand in the way of your grouchieness....seriously, go root for the Nationals...they cleary suck way more and they are in need of fans in DC. :)
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Hopped up on that soap box a little quick did we? How we looking after more than 50-60 AB's wingnut?

Honor&Glory;1467816; said:
statistically speaking, EEE is NOT a better hitter than Roslaes and their comparative minor league numbers and current major league numbers back that up. Oh, sure if hitting more homers is your definition of a better hitter than EEE wins...but only barely because AR is virtually even in SLG%. In 5 years in the minors, for each player, AR out hit, out OB% and out OPS'd EEE...the only difference is Rosales hit 40 some odd homers while EEE hit around 90 I think...but AR had way more doubles, tripples and SB's than EEE and had a .970+ fielding percentage to EEE's .937...and Rosales was playing SS at the time.

so, I'll ask...what makes EEE a better hitter OTHER than your opinion?

in fact...here are the numbers from baseball-reference.com regarding their minor league careers.

AVG: EE .291 AR .291

OBP: EE .352 AR .365

SLG: EE .451 AR .494

OPS: EE 803 AR 859

HR: EE 70 AR 55 (EE had 805 more AB than AR)

RBI: EE 369 AR 241 (EE had 805 more AB than AR)
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Pete Rosales take over 3B yet?

Honor&Glory;1467981; said:
what difference does it make what age they are? you're willing to penalize AR for playing college ball and having to adjust much later to the wood bat?
Both played the same number of years in the minors. EEE has YET to have a seson with more than 77 RBI...whoopty fucking doo...light hitting slap hitters drive in 70.
my, god...just admit that you know nothing about baseball. At least that way I'll cut you slack when you bitch and moan about the Reds.
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:slappy:

sorry I just couldn't resist but having to argue with morons like this about something essentially as obvious as 2+2=4 is insult to the injury of being a Reds fan.
 
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