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Reds Tidbits (2009 season)

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Morally and financially, how in the hell can you owe damn near $100,000 in child support?

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The face of perfection: Tom Browning's mug shot

By 'Duk
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We try to cover both the glory and the gutter here on Big League Stew and perhaps that's best displayed through our chronicling of one Mr. Tom Browning.
Last September, our own David Brown perfectly captured the moment in time that was Browning's perfect game with the Reds in 1988 ? a feat that ensured he'd be forever remembered as one of only 17 pitchers to get 27 outs from 27 straight batters.
On the flip side of the coin is a day like today, when Browning's mug shot ? a Smoking Gun special, if there ever was one ? is blazing through the blogosphere after he was arrested in Sarasota, Florida for nonpayment of child support.
(And to think I used to covet that Perfect Game bobblehead the Reds gave away last season on the 20th anniversary of the game, too.)
From the Associated Press:
Jail records show Cincinnati Reds minor league pitching coach Tom Browning has been charged with nonpayment of child support.
The former Reds star, who threw a perfect game in 1988, was arrested on Friday.
He is being held in the Sarasota County Jail until he is either taken to Polk County, where he owes the child support, or pays the $99,008.36 that he owes.
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New soda sponsor

It appears that coca-cola is the pop sponsor for the Reds this upcoming year (ironic since pepsi's taking over OSU after this school year) and in addition to the all-you-can-eat seats returning, they also have a value menu located in the fan zone with $1 hotdogs, peanuts, coke and ice cream along with $5 beer throughout the stadium. But they've also eliminated the pepsi college-teen nights :grr: WTF!
 
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Cincy fans seeing Red as team prepares to leave Florida behind - MLB - CBSSports.com Baseball

SARASOTA, Fla. -- They drive down Interstate 75 every March.

Or at least they did, year after year. They head back up I-75 when spring training or their vacation is over.

At least they will, one last time.

"I'll tell you what, I'm going to miss this place," Rick Card said, standing in a sea of cars with Ohio license plates in the Ed Smith Stadium parking lot.

Card and his buddy Tom Hemmert showed off the Reds stickers they put on Card's car for the trip down from Celina, Ohio. They fly a Reds flag out the window, too.

"This is our sixth year," Card said. "And every year we've had more fun. It's like a family down here. And now they're breaking up the family."
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Seriously? I think more fans need to make the long trip DOWNTOWN to watch REAL GAMES before we should be concerned about whether or not people will get to watch the scrubs who won't make the team and the scrubs who will practice.
 
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Jerry Crasnick: Young nucleus makes Cincinnati Reds a potential dark horse - ESPN

Young core gives Reds immediate hope
Potentially strong rotation and improving offense should keep Cincy in NL Central mix
By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Baseball fans in Cincinnati haven't suffered in recent years on the same grand scale as their fellow Rust Belt die-hards in Pittsburgh. But the town that gave us Johnny Vander Meer, the Big Red Machine, Marty and Joe and the Nasty Boys has definitely seen better decades.

When former general manager Jim Bowden acquired Ken Griffey Jr. in February 2000 and declared that "baseball is back in Cincinnati," he neglected to mention that it would be a mostly uninspired brand of ball.
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But the Reds win out because of their surplus of arms. Edinson Volquez, Johnny Cueto, Aaron Harang, Bronson Arroyo and Micah Owings make for one of baseball's best 1-through-5 starting contingents. As astute Reds fans and Scrabble devotees have pointed out, you can take the first letters of their last names and spell "HAVOC."

The bullpen gives manager Dusty Baker a lot of options, with Arthur Rhodes and Bill Bray from the left side; Dave Weathers, Mike Lincoln and Jared Burton from the right; and 34-save man Francisco Cordero at the back end.

"Their pitching is going to make life miserable for some teams," said a National League scout in Florida. "They could definitely be a factor, in my opinion. The only thing that gets in the way is their lack of depth if they have injuries. They have no margin for error."
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John Dewan, author of the newly released "Fielding Bible II," said those changes at shortstop, right field and left field would result in a net gain of 40 runs saved, which translates into four more victories through the defensive improvement at those three positions alone.

Dewan's plus-minus system ranked Dunn as the 30th-best left fielder in baseball last season, while Griffey ranked 29th at two positions: center and right.

The biggest drag on the team's defense is Encarnacion, who hit 26 home runs last season, made 23 errors at third base and is starting to look like a player who'll never quite live up to his early billing.

In his new book, Dewan writes, "Encarnacion is to third base what the bull is to the china shop."

Or as one scout said of Encarnacion, "He's got some ability, but less than he thinks he has."
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scott91575;1443022; said:
Fucking Nick Lachey is throwing the first pitch. I took a crap this morning more talented than him. You know the Reds suck when he is the best they can get for the first pitch.
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You gotta be fucking kidding me. It's like the motherfucking Bengals and now the fucking Reds are TRYING to force me to root for other teams. Fuck that cocksucking bitch. Fucking bullshit.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1443428; said:
So, have the Reds been mathematically eliminated yet?
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No but they took a step in that direction when they announced the OD lineup.

1. Jerry Hairston, Jr. CF
2. Darnell McDonald LF
3. Joey Votto 1B
4. Brandon Phillips 2B
5. Jay Bruce RF
6. Edwin Encarnacion 3B
7. Ramon Hernandez C
8. Alex Gonzalez SS
9. Aaron Harang P

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If that doesn't wake people up from the off season of delusional "they might be good" stuff nothing ever will. That looks like one of BaBoone's sunday specials.

Darnell fucking McDonald starting on Opening fucking Day....only the fucking Reds.
 
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