That act is tired, and I\’d hoped Arroyo would\’ve gotten it out of his system after the year he had in Cincinnati.
I hope he doesn\’t talk to Doug Mirabelli. Mirabelli basically made himself such a nuisance and distraction that the Padres had to trade him back to Boston. Of course, they got Cla Meredith (50 innings of 1.07 relief) and Josh Bard (943 OPS in 260 PA) in exchange, so it worked out great for the Padres. But Mirabelli really came across like a dink.
I\’ll be glad when the \”Idiots\” are finally scattered to the four corners of the compass, so guys like Arroyo stop pining away for something that only existed for a few months.
I think there are only a few guys left from the 2004 team, anyway: Varitek, Mirabelli, Ortiz, Manny, Nixon, Kapler, Schilling, Wakefield, Foulke, Timlin… who am I missing.
Whoah. Take it easy. The inflammatory context you’re attributing to Arroyo is coming from the writer, not him. Who gives a rat’s ass if he keeps his house in Boston? 90% of the team doesn’t live in Cincy, so that makes them disloyal? All he’s sayin’ is that for the life of his contract with the Reds, he’s gonna try and maximize his value for the free agent market. He’s doing a little career planning. What a tool. Frankly, I appreciate the honesty.
it is sad to see the guy that wasn’t cool enough to be one of the cool kids still hanging around after they gave him a swirly.
i’m so tired of this crap i think they should trade him to the yankees. Do any of us think that he’s going to be a top 5 starter in teh NL again next year? I know i think there’s a pretty good chance this was a career year and we’ll get something a lot more like league average next year.
So see if we can steal phillip hughes from the yankees and maybe another high prospect, and let him suffer in NY as a hated enemy of the red sox.
I feel you guys, but seriously, does anyone have any beef with the idea that Boston is a cooler city than Cincinnati? I grew up in Cincy, lived there for 18 years, but cmon, there’s really no contest.
Our rotation would take a big hit if we traded BA, and we’re certainly not going to find equal value on the FA market. We’re the beneficiaries of a sweetheart deal with BA for the next two years. We should take advantage of it. He prefers to be in Boston? Not my concern.
I think if you read the article closely, you’ll find that most of the inflamatory remarks in it were made by the writer not by Arroyo. He misses the fans in Boston. That’s a pretty safe subject to stick with. I’m sure if you asked someone like Kearns or Casey the same question they’s say that they missed the fans in Cincy.
i’m surprised that people are defending stuff like this. where’s the fan pride?
No one said anything about Boston v. Cinci, he’s talking about Red Sox v. Reds and siding with the Red Sox who spit in his face.
and i didn’t see anything inflamatory by the reporter, it was arroyo saying that he still missed playing for the red sox even though the reds gave him a chance to start and the fans in cinci supported him all year. if he appreciated what the reds had done for him he might say that he missed the fans, or even the nightlife and public transportation, but he’d also imention that he loves playing for the reds who were closer to the postseason than the redsox.
all he says that he likes the reds for is the opportunity to up his value. great, the oldest and greatest pro baseball team in the world is now a tool for some dork with prince valiant hair and delusions of rock talent to make more money when he eventually disses us.
no thanks.
question: who will be the better pitcher for cinci next year, homer bailey or bronson arroyo? Since i expect a drop in arroyo’s numbers, i’m thinking bailey has a shot to top him NEXT YEAR and then again every year for the rest of his career.
NY starting pitching was their downfall in the post season, and I’d trade them arroyo if we could get another pitcher like Bailey and a position player or good prospect. I think the reds would be better, next year and for years to come, and i’d love to see him have to put on the yankee uni.
Maybe a subtle point being made is that Red Sox fans have more team pride. As he pointed out, Fenway sells out no matter how poorly the team is doing. The Reds were leading the wild card for a couple of months and yet everytime you turned on the tv, you saw empty seats galore.
And you can’t trade him for not falling in love with the history of the team after one season. This is the era of free agency. I’m willing to bet that 90% or more of all the players honestly could not care less where they were playing. Should we ask Adam Dunn if he would like playing for a Texas team so that he could be close to his family? Uh-oh, he might say yes and then you’d have to trade him too. What about Junior? He hasn’t liked playing here since day one. Maybe Aaron Harang misses the fact that the A’s make the playoffs far more frequently than the Reds? Better not ask him or you might have to trade him as well.
Maybe half of the team would rather be playing for the Yankees or the Red Sox or any other team that pays more, makes the playoffs nearly every year, and has fans that show up to every single game regardless of performance. For a professional athlete, is it so wrong to want any of those?
first off, i live in boston and i can tell you that 2.7 million tickets (out of a possible 2.835 il) were sold BEFORE the season started. I was at a game at fenway against the twins late this season and it wasn’t close to full. When the red sox tanked, people stopped going, and those were people who had already bought the tickets at an average of $45. So we can stop kissing red sox fans asses.
Second, maybe it’s true that half the reds would rather be playing for someone else, I don’t know. And you know why i don’t know? Because they don’t go around telling the newspapers! Call me old fashioned, but i expect my team’s players to respect my team. It may not be their favorite team in the whole wide world, and maybe they know deep down that they’ll probably leave at some point, but while we’re paying you millions of dollars and giving you a chance to start in the majors, you say the right things about the team and the fans.
It’s called basic respect, and if a player can’t hack that, then i’m fine with them being traded for players who can. Especially if i also think it would make the reds better talent wise.
I 2nd Al’s comments, I have a good friend in Boston and tix were to be had easy and on the cheap the last month.
BA was traded during Speing Training, and pedformed to his fullest with the Reds. He’s a competitor and led the NL in IP, even taking the ball on short rest a couple times. He’s locked up for two more years. No worries.
Bronson gets off on the fact that Boston is on TV every 5 minutes, and in his mind, it’s still October 2004 up there. I’m just disappointed that he didn’t stop making these comments after spending a full season in Cincinnati.
I too expect a fall off in Arroyo’s performance next season. So the question is, do you deal him now at peak value, or ride out his very reasonable contract and trade him the winter/season before he is a free agent when he will most likely bring less in return?
I must say, I really like the Arroyo to NY for Hughes deal on many level.
my uncle is bronson no lie and he is the best i know where he lives and what his cell number is!!! and he is fine on cicinatti he gets a lot more playing time its better for him!!! i love yuo unlce bronson!!!!!!
Boston will always miss a class act like Bronson Arroyo. Wish you were back with the Red Sox. Best of luck with your singing too. But, reaally glad that you got A World Series Ring.
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BOO!!!!
That act is tired, and I\’d hoped Arroyo would\’ve gotten it out of his system after the year he had in Cincinnati.
I hope he doesn\’t talk to Doug Mirabelli. Mirabelli basically made himself such a nuisance and distraction that the Padres had to trade him back to Boston. Of course, they got Cla Meredith (50 innings of 1.07 relief) and Josh Bard (943 OPS in 260 PA) in exchange, so it worked out great for the Padres. But Mirabelli really came across like a dink.
I\’ll be glad when the \”Idiots\” are finally scattered to the four corners of the compass, so guys like Arroyo stop pining away for something that only existed for a few months.
I think there are only a few guys left from the 2004 team, anyway: Varitek, Mirabelli, Ortiz, Manny, Nixon, Kapler, Schilling, Wakefield, Foulke, Timlin… who am I missing.
Hey, Bronson! Obviously the Red Sox didn’t want you. Sell the house and stop living in the past, man. At least the sun shines in Cincinnati.
Whoah. Take it easy. The inflammatory context you’re attributing to Arroyo is coming from the writer, not him. Who gives a rat’s ass if he keeps his house in Boston? 90% of the team doesn’t live in Cincy, so that makes them disloyal? All he’s sayin’ is that for the life of his contract with the Reds, he’s gonna try and maximize his value for the free agent market. He’s doing a little career planning. What a tool. Frankly, I appreciate the honesty.
Seems to be a lot of griping over nothing to me. He was asked some questions, he gave his opinion. Big deal, get over it.
Pining for the days of “the idiots” is like wishing you could go back to high school. You can’t, so you’re better off moving on.
it is sad to see the guy that wasn’t cool enough to be one of the cool kids still hanging around after they gave him a swirly.
i’m so tired of this crap i think they should trade him to the yankees. Do any of us think that he’s going to be a top 5 starter in teh NL again next year? I know i think there’s a pretty good chance this was a career year and we’ll get something a lot more like league average next year.
So see if we can steal phillip hughes from the yankees and maybe another high prospect, and let him suffer in NY as a hated enemy of the red sox.
Arroyo’s at his peak, so trade him and let him go back east. Doesn’t want to be in Cincinnati? So good-bye!
I feel you guys, but seriously, does anyone have any beef with the idea that Boston is a cooler city than Cincinnati? I grew up in Cincy, lived there for 18 years, but cmon, there’s really no contest.
Our rotation would take a big hit if we traded BA, and we’re certainly not going to find equal value on the FA market. We’re the beneficiaries of a sweetheart deal with BA for the next two years. We should take advantage of it. He prefers to be in Boston? Not my concern.
I think if you read the article closely, you’ll find that most of the inflamatory remarks in it were made by the writer not by Arroyo. He misses the fans in Boston. That’s a pretty safe subject to stick with. I’m sure if you asked someone like Kearns or Casey the same question they’s say that they missed the fans in Cincy.
Winning would do a lot to curb the desire to return to Gotham City.
i’m surprised that people are defending stuff like this. where’s the fan pride?
No one said anything about Boston v. Cinci, he’s talking about Red Sox v. Reds and siding with the Red Sox who spit in his face.
and i didn’t see anything inflamatory by the reporter, it was arroyo saying that he still missed playing for the red sox even though the reds gave him a chance to start and the fans in cinci supported him all year. if he appreciated what the reds had done for him he might say that he missed the fans, or even the nightlife and public transportation, but he’d also imention that he loves playing for the reds who were closer to the postseason than the redsox.
all he says that he likes the reds for is the opportunity to up his value. great, the oldest and greatest pro baseball team in the world is now a tool for some dork with prince valiant hair and delusions of rock talent to make more money when he eventually disses us.
no thanks.
question: who will be the better pitcher for cinci next year, homer bailey or bronson arroyo? Since i expect a drop in arroyo’s numbers, i’m thinking bailey has a shot to top him NEXT YEAR and then again every year for the rest of his career.
NY starting pitching was their downfall in the post season, and I’d trade them arroyo if we could get another pitcher like Bailey and a position player or good prospect. I think the reds would be better, next year and for years to come, and i’d love to see him have to put on the yankee uni.
also, NYC is Gotham, not Boston.
Maybe a subtle point being made is that Red Sox fans have more team pride. As he pointed out, Fenway sells out no matter how poorly the team is doing. The Reds were leading the wild card for a couple of months and yet everytime you turned on the tv, you saw empty seats galore.
And you can’t trade him for not falling in love with the history of the team after one season. This is the era of free agency. I’m willing to bet that 90% or more of all the players honestly could not care less where they were playing. Should we ask Adam Dunn if he would like playing for a Texas team so that he could be close to his family? Uh-oh, he might say yes and then you’d have to trade him too. What about Junior? He hasn’t liked playing here since day one. Maybe Aaron Harang misses the fact that the A’s make the playoffs far more frequently than the Reds? Better not ask him or you might have to trade him as well.
Maybe half of the team would rather be playing for the Yankees or the Red Sox or any other team that pays more, makes the playoffs nearly every year, and has fans that show up to every single game regardless of performance. For a professional athlete, is it so wrong to want any of those?
first off, i live in boston and i can tell you that 2.7 million tickets (out of a possible 2.835 il) were sold BEFORE the season started. I was at a game at fenway against the twins late this season and it wasn’t close to full. When the red sox tanked, people stopped going, and those were people who had already bought the tickets at an average of $45. So we can stop kissing red sox fans asses.
Second, maybe it’s true that half the reds would rather be playing for someone else, I don’t know. And you know why i don’t know? Because they don’t go around telling the newspapers! Call me old fashioned, but i expect my team’s players to respect my team. It may not be their favorite team in the whole wide world, and maybe they know deep down that they’ll probably leave at some point, but while we’re paying you millions of dollars and giving you a chance to start in the majors, you say the right things about the team and the fans.
It’s called basic respect, and if a player can’t hack that, then i’m fine with them being traded for players who can. Especially if i also think it would make the reds better talent wise.
I can’t get the link. Where is the story posted at?
I 2nd Al’s comments, I have a good friend in Boston and tix were to be had easy and on the cheap the last month.
BA was traded during Speing Training, and pedformed to his fullest with the Reds. He’s a competitor and led the NL in IP, even taking the ball on short rest a couple times. He’s locked up for two more years. No worries.
He’s a very valuable commodity.
Bronson gets off on the fact that Boston is on TV every 5 minutes, and in his mind, it’s still October 2004 up there. I’m just disappointed that he didn’t stop making these comments after spending a full season in Cincinnati.
I too expect a fall off in Arroyo’s performance next season. So the question is, do you deal him now at peak value, or ride out his very reasonable contract and trade him the winter/season before he is a free agent when he will most likely bring less in return?
I must say, I really like the Arroyo to NY for Hughes deal on many level.
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Tom
my uncle is bronson no lie and he is the best i know where he lives and what his cell number is!!! and he is fine on cicinatti he gets a lot more playing time its better for him!!! i love yuo unlce bronson!!!!!!
Boston will always miss a class act like Bronson Arroyo. Wish you were back with the Red Sox. Best of luck with your singing too. But, reaally glad that you got A World Series Ring.