Reds Tidbits (2009 season)

[schwab]

Not sure, but here is our dream scenario again!!

We got 1st and 2nd, no outs, Hanigan at the plate.. we gonna bunt?

Let's see if Dusty changes strategy

EDIT: He squares, passed ball! Runners on 1st and 3rd, no outs.. if we lose, I will buy Kansas City Royals gear and switch teams.

EDIT EDIT: Holy fuck, we just got schooled by the Natinals.. 4-3-6-4-6 Double play, Bruce watches from third as if he bought a ticket..

EDIT (3): Gomes comes through, knocks in the Natural, and we go up 3-2.. Harriston knocks in Gomes, and I can probably close the window to the Royals Team Shop, thank you very much.

 

[DontHateOState]

I have the Nationals ML. Hoping Cincy does the incredible and blows this.

 

[schwab]

What does the first part mean?

And this one belongs to the Reds! 4-2 in 12.

 

[DontHateOState]

What does the first part mean?

And this one belongs to the Reds! 4-2 in 12.

LOL whoops. Well, the Nationals just lost my moneyline bet. That was worth staying up for.

 

[jlb1705]

I couldn't believe the Reds almost blew having a runner on first with no outs.

Bruce has to take off on contact in that situation. He either scores the run or the Reds only make one out instead of two. It was a nice heads-up play to advance to third in the first place, but this makes more than one time where I've seen a Reds runner on third just stand there flat footed not scoring a run while the other team eats their lunch.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

I couldn't believe the Reds almost blew having a runner on first with no outs.

Bruce has to take off on contact in that situation. He either scores the run or the Reds only make one out instead of two. It was a nice heads-up play to advance to third in the first place, but this makes more than one time where I've seen a Reds runner on third just stand there flat footed not scoring a run while the other team eats their lunch.

Bruce's baserunning has been pretty poor lately. Not sliding on the plate at the play a couple weeks ago. Not sliding in the inning where he scored the game-winning run against the Cubs. He nearly got thrown out at 2nd on the wild pitch and then again on the play at the plate. If he slides home, it takes a perfect throw to get him. No slide and a mediocre throw gets him. Fortunately, it was an awful throw and it became moot.

His head doesn't seem to be in the game these days.

 

[Dryden]

Good job by the Donkey last night in the bottom of the 6th getting picked off 2nd to end the inning. My inner-Marty was laughing about that one.

Those were some hardcore fans hanging around through that delay, considering they start closing concessions in the 7th, that was about four hours without food or drink to watch the end of a Nationals game.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Good job by the Donkey last night in the bottom of the 6th getting picked off 2nd to end the inning. My inner-Marty was laughing about that one.

Between that, the popout with 2 on in the 3rd and the taken strike 3 the night before with a man on, I knew Marty was enjoying himself.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Between that, the popout with 2 on in the 3rd and the taken strike 3 the night before with a man on, I knew Marty was enjoying himself.

Thinking to himself how much better we are without such a bad ballplayer no doubt.

Meanwhile in the real world our LF quagmire of Nix/Dickerson/Macdonald/Gomes has produced the combined line of .337 obp/.424 slg/.761 OPS with 9HR and 34 RBI.

Dunn by himself has a line of .394/.542/986 with 17 HR and 44 RBI.

LF OPS of .761 vs LF OPS of .986 and people are happy about it.

Whatever. You can't fix stupid.

 

[Dryden]

Meanwhile in the real world our LF quagmire of Nix/Dickerson/Macdonald/Gomes has produced the combined line of .337 obp/.424 slg/.761 OPS with 9HR and 34 RBI.

Dunn by himself has a line of .394/.542/986 with 17 HR and 44 RBI.

LF OPS of .761 vs LF OPS of .986 and people are happy about it.

Don't penalize Nix for the lines posted by the other guys. Nix has 7HR and 18RBI, with a line of .324/.553 (.877) as a sub, PH, and a total of only 28 games in LF. Nix is the everyday LF now, can still run like a CF, has a cannon for an arm, and costs ... well ... nothing. Between Nix in LF and Bruce in RF, teams don't hit so many doubles into the gaps, and don't go first to third on singles either.

Nobody disputes what Dunn brings to the plate. Everybody knows he's going to hit 40HR, 100RBI, and draw 100BB every year -- be Top 5 in the league in all three categories. But it's not 2005 anymore. He's 29. He shouldn't still be getting picked off 2B by a catcher on a play that wasn't even a designed pitch out.

Getting to first has never been a problem for Dunn. It's getting to home without making a stupid out along the way.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Don't penalize Nix for the lines posted by the other guys. Nix has 7HR and 18RBI, with a line of .324/.553 (.877) as a sub, PH, and a total of only 28 games in LF. Nix is the everyday LF now, can still run like a CF, has a cannon for an arm, and costs ... well ... nothing. Between Nix in LF and Bruce in RF, teams don't hit so many doubles into the gaps, and don't go first to third on singles either.

Nobody disputes what Dunn brings to the plate. Everybody knows he's going to hit 40HR, 100RBI, and draw 100BB every year -- be Top 5 in the league in all three categories. But it's not 2005 anymore. He's 29. He shouldn't still be getting picked off 2B by a catcher on a play that wasn't even a designed pitch out.

Getting to first has never been a problem for Dunn. It's getting to home without making a stupid out along the way.

The small number of AB's is exactly why Nix has such good numbers. Play him everyday and he'll give you something pretty damn near his career line of a sub .700 OPS. I don't dispute he is better defensively and that does have value. I could give a lot more weight to the argument of how much cheaper he is if we didn't have 6M+ rotting away in CF right now.

 

[Honor&Glory]

Thinking to himself how much better we are without such a bad ballplayer no doubt.

Meanwhile in the real world our LF quagmire of Nix/Dickerson/Macdonald/Gomes has produced the combined line of .337 obp/.424 slg/.761 OPS with 9HR and 34 RBI.

Dunn by himself has a line of .394/.542/986 with 17 HR and 44 RBI.

LF OPS of .761 vs LF OPS of .986 and people are happy about it.

Whatever. You can't fix stupid.

you're right...I noticed that when Dunn got picked off of second base last night....

by the way...where are you and the Dunner honeymooning? I swear to God, John Madden didn't hug Brett Favre's nutsack as hard as you hold Dunn's...

Dunn still can't run, still can't field, still clogs up the base paths and, yes, still plays for a shitty team.

 

[Jaxbuck]

you're right...I noticed that when Dunn got picked off of second base last night....

by the way...where are you and the Dunner honeymooning? I swear to God, John Madden didn't hug Brett Favre's nutsack as hard as you hold Dunn's...

Dunn still can't run, still can't field, still clogs up the base paths and, yes, still plays for a shitty team.

How did I know any mention of Dunn would bring you crawling out of your hole? I know you aren't smart enough to realize it but the only time you post on this thread is when its something about Dunn but what ever makes you feel better.

I'm glad you said clogging up the basepaths. What an utter fucking bafoon you are.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

How did I know any mention of Dunn would bring you crawling out of your hole? I know you aren't smart enough to realize it but the only time you post on this thread is when its something about Dunn but what ever makes you feel better.

I'm glad you said clogging up the basepaths. What an utter fucking bafoon you are.

Sorry, jax, but "bafoon" =

 

[Jaxbuck]

Sorry, jax, but "bafoon" =

whatever

he's still a dumb fuck