Loading ...Okay, admittedly I got carried away with the headline. David Weathers is no longer a Red, and he certainly had some good moments for our favorite team, so I guess I can start typing his full name out again.
Anyway, some items in the news:
–The Reds received an undisclosed amount of cash from the Brewers to complete the Aug. 9 trade for Weathers. My sources indicate the amount was $17.42, and Walt Jocketty has already spent it all at Skyline.
–Our buddy Shawn has relocated his Cincinnati Reds Blog; go check it out. Shawn has been blogging about the Reds longer than practically all of us. I guess that makes him one of the godfathers of the Reds blogosphere.
–Doug has some Pitch F/X data from the professional debuts of Mike Leake (1st round) and Brad Boxberger (1st/supplemental) in the Arizona Fall League a couple of days ago. I am a sucker for stuff like this.
–This weekend, Goodyear, AZ, and the Reds are celebrating the grand opening of the new spring training/player development complex. There was a VIP party last night; here are some photos of the festivities. You’ll notice that I am not in any of the pictures.
I’m crushed that the Reds don’t consider me a VIP. Crushed, I tell you!
–Are you in the Red Cap Club?
–Saulton says: “Hey, Reds, I have a good idea.”
–Nineteen years ago today, Joe Oliver pulled the ball down the line against Dennis Eckersley in the bottom of the tenth inning, scoring the speedy Billy Bates and giving the Reds a commanding 2-0 lead in the 1990 World Series.
Memories…….
This is the only “Red Hat” group I was aware of.
Reds sign Bryan Price as new pitching coach
http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091017&content_id=7480892&vkey=news_cin&fext=.jsp&c_id=cin
http://cnati.com/cincinnati-reds/reds-name-price-pitching-coach-00482/
In the article it mentions Bravasi as one of the people he met with. I don’t like that at all. Then if you read this by McCoy:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/10/13/for_those_with_their_fingers.html
It sounds like there will be a lot of movement around the front office. I think Buckley has done a good job, and I hate to see him moved out of his position. If people like Bravasi is going to have a huge impact on this team I have NO faith in Jocketty.
The new pitching coach might be able to entice Brandon Webb to follow if the Diamondbacks fail to renew his contract. brandon would be coming home…….
“Longer than practically all of us”? Dude, I was the first Reds blogger! J.D. Arney followed more than a year later with the forerunner of the Red Reporter site.
Heh. Yeah, I thought you were the first one, but I was too lazy to go check. Okay, you are THE GODFATHER!
I enjoy the Better off Red blog. It’s nice to see material from a guy who knows the Reds players. The material is always going to be positive, which is OK for a change of pace. I liked the piece about bowling with BP, it seems that BP really is a good bowler (but it doesn’t give his score for the day) and gave some fans a good time.
Billy Bates!!! What ever happened to that guy.
Amazingly, that 10 inning game took 3:31 to play. Now? It takes four hours to play nine inning of a playoff game.
@per14:
Probably still trying to outrun a cheetah, or a racehorse, or whatever it was he raced.