Loading ...An afternoon game today in Milwaukee, where the Reds attempt to get back on the winning track. Paul Wilson and his 6.00 ERA take the hill against Wes Obermueller, who is sporting a nifty 1.74 ERA. Obermueller, however, has pitched only 10.1 innings, all in relief, so we’ll be seeing his first start [...]
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The Enquirer has a story here, and Marc Lancaster says the Reds wasted an opportunity. There is also this piece by John Fay that discusses the fact that Dave Miley has finally dropped Joe Randa back down in the lineup. Can someone explain to me, however, the rationale for hitting Casey third and Dunn fifth? [...] Why do we have so much trouble in Milwaukee? Seems like they always play the Reds tough. For what it’s worth, I don’t like Bill Hall. Any thoughts on today’s game? Well Chris brought us a 21 game progress report for some of the players, 13% of the season is gone. Time to kick the teams tires too. These things we know. The bullpen is a bigger mess than the bathroom in your first apartment, Milton is racking up frequent flyer miles that likely redeem only at [...] The Post reports that former Reds third baseman Brandon Larson, recently released by the Devil Rays’ organization, has signed a minor league contract with Rangers. He was supposed to be going to AA Frisco, but still has not appeared in a game. The D-Rays reassigned “former Reds bust ” (TM Marc Lancaster) Jimmy Haynes [...] For all the complaining I’ve been doing (online and off), this club is still only 1 game under .500 (10-11) and 5 games back of the Cardinals. But as Bob Scanlan (of all people) was saying about the surprisingly inept Padres yesterday, “I don’t care about ‘games out of first,’ I care about the [...] Continued from Part Two (here’s Part One, if you missed it), this is the final installment of my interview with Marc Lancaster: Redleg Nation: That seems like a healthy approach, frankly. What’s reassuring to those of us out here is that they’re not rejecting outright, for lack of a better term, the “Moneyball” approach. Marc [...] I know we all thought the Reds would have an improved bullpen this year, especially since last year’s pen was historically bad. But is it possible that this year’s pen could be worse? Ryan Wagner is the only one I trust. One of my baseball habits involves deadball era imagery I make paper products out of old baseball cards and sell them on the net, for fun I like to peruse the Library of Congress for old photos, especially Reds photos. This one particularly interested me. It’s a pretty basic picture from the deadball era; [...] Felipe Lopez just hit a grand slam to put the Reds up 6-1. That ought to buy him at least one more start before Rich Aurilia gets back into the lineup full-time. Here’s Part Two of my interview with Marc Lancaster of the Cincinnati Post. Part One is located here. Enjoy: Redleg Nation: Going back to “the beat,” do you think that being so connected to the team on a day-to-day basis can cause a writer to lose perspective, or even be unable to enjoy the game [...] The NL record for grounding into double-plays is 30, shared by Reds legend Ernie Lombardi and out factory Brad Ausmus. Jim Rice holds the MLB record with 36. (The records for lefites are much lower – 32 for Ben Grieve and 27 for A.J. Pierzynski, set last year). Through 20 Reds games, Sean [...] Marc Lancaster has a short piece today about the fact that Randa is still in the cleanup slot, despite entering Monday one for his last 22, and three for his last 34 (left unmentioned is Randa’s career .424 SLG, and 102 career HRs in 4600+ ABs). “He’ll be fine,” said Miley. “Hitters are going [...] Here’s a game thread for tonight. If you have any comments on the game, let’s hear them. Junior just hit one on the nose, but it was caught with a back to the wall. You can just see him heating up more every at-bat. Let’s hope he keeps that up. Thoughts? Also, after last night’s [...] You will recall that, last week, I teased an interview I did with Marc Lancaster, the Reds beat writer for the Cincinnati Post. Well, we had a great conversation about many different topics. It was such a good conversation that we kept talking for longer than we had expected. As a result, [...] |
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