Da Reds thread

[OrangeWilly]

Originally Posted by vols kick balls

Holy ****. Pathetic.

.507 win % is a little higher than what I would have guessed....But hey, if you are going to lose badly at least set some kind of a record.

[vols kick balls]

It is hard to believe that out of nearly 20,000 baseball games, last nights was the most lopsided. DFA the entire team.

[vols kick balls]

Robert Manuel has been called up. Roster move TBA.

[vols kick balls]

Willy Taveras 8
Jerry Hairston Jr. 6
Joey Votto 3
Brandon Phillips 4
Jonny Gomes 7
Ramon Hernandez 2
Jay Bruce 9
Edwin Encarnacion 5
Aaron Harang 1


Jimmy Rollins 6
Shane Victorino 8
Chase Utley 4
Ryan Howard 3
Jayson Werth 9
Greg Dobbs 7
Pedro Feliz 5
Carlos Ruiz 2
J.A. Happ 1

[tidwell]

I enjoy watching baseball, especially NL Central teams... but George Grande makes it almost impossible.

[hatvol96]

Yeah, the three old guys at the back end of the bullpen will be the weakness. They are holding back an otherwise stellar team.

[vols kick balls]

Where was that when Weathers gave up that grand slam a couple days ago?

Cordero has been lights out. Rhodes has been damn good. Weathers still scares the **** out of me.

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by vols kick balls

Where was that when Weathers gave up that grand slam a couple days ago?

Wow, how horrible. He gave up a grand slam to Albert Pujols. I bet he's the only pitcher in baseball history to do that.

[emainvol]

Originally Posted by vols kick balls

Where was that when Weathers gave up that grand slam a couple days ago?

Cordero has been lights out. Rhodes has been damn good. Weathers still scares the **** out of me.

I have a hard time blaming Weathers for that one. Rhodes walked some scrub to load the bases, then Dusty Baker decided that the best way to combat Pujols was to throw a guy who he owns out there.

[vols kick balls]

True. The HR is probably more Dusty's fault for sending Weathers out there even though Pujols is something like 9-18 against him. Weathers has actually been good this year, but I still feel he is a ticking time bomb and he scares the **** out of me.

[DowntownVol]

Originally Posted by vols kick balls

True. The HR is probably more Dusty's fault for sending Weathers out there even though Pujols is something like 9-18 against him. Weathers has actually been good this year, but I still feel he is a ticking time bomb and he scares the **** out of me.

Pujols should have been walked there. Okay, so a run scores, you're still up 3-1, one out, double play can get you out of the inning, a base hit (maybe) ties the game, sac fly and you're still up 3-2. The problem is, Dusty cannot think outside the box enough to even contemplate such a move. I see it as ballsy. Dusty, I'm sure, would see it as wussy. Whatever. Probably would have turned a L into a W.

Dusty still cost the Reds the game long before the Pujols grand slam, though, because, and I hate to run this point into the ground, he should have had two relievers warm and ready to go and yanked Homer after the first - not second - baserunner allowed in the 8th.

[vols kick balls]

Scary stat... Willy Taveras has one walk in his last 115 PA's. The fast Willy experiment has been a bigger failure than anyone could have predicted.

[blupotato]

at least he has put the bat on the ball here recently. it would be much more scary if he had another major drought and was not walking or hitting.

[champyvol]

Originally Posted by vols kick balls

True. The HR is probably more Dusty's fault for sending Weathers out there even though Pujols is something like 9-18 against him. Weathers has actually been good this year, but I still feel he is a ticking time bomb and he scares the **** out of me.

i agree when they call him from the pen. i run to get my single barrel jack

[emainvol]

Bailey isn't throwing strikes at the same rate as Friday, but he has been very effective through 2.

He just put on a terrible attempt at a sacrifice.