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When it works, it looks good,….when it doesn’t work,..you look like a jackass! This one worked!
Baseball Season is in full “swing”, particularly against our beloved Reds. We turned a pitching strength into a mighty weakness, once again! Oh Mr Chapman, when will you come and save us? When you lose 3 straight against the Pirates, you know early its going to be a LONG season.
How can a team like the Reds afford to pay Harang 12.5 million a season, and hand him another $2 million to leave us alone next year? Thanks to that GREAT Union we have running Baseball. How ’bout this, when the US actually is the best country in Baseball, how ’bout THEN we justify paying a failure 12.5 million a year to go 12-33 over the last couple years plus. Sure, none of this is “news”, but there’s also nothing that can be DONE about it! The Union runs the show, and quality baseball is NOT a concern with them.
As Reds fans we have to wait out bad contracts, then HOPE for little mini-miracles to happen just to get a shot at the playoffs! -NOW, Pro FOOTBALL is going to run their game w/o a cap?; and some of us still wonder why so many Steeler and Colt fans live among us?….Oh, and I haven’t even GOTTEN to Chud Ocho-stinko yet!
How long is it until Xavier Basketball starts up again?…..
Ha-rangutan pitchs BP to Marlins
Unfortunately for Aaron Ha-rangutan, me and Al Gore invented the internet a few years ago. Otherwise, his little secret about how much he sucks right now could’ve been held by himself and the 2000+ fans that apparently didn’t have shit else better to do tonight in Florida. Is it really any shock that our Opening Day loser, our numbero uno batting practice machine got lit up for 8 runs in just over 4 innings? The real story here isn’t that Harang is sucking in April again. The story is that Cantu could’ve broken the single season “hit & RBI in the same game” record. But Harang decided to turn 5th grade on his ass and walked him. Cantu was up with 1 out and runners on 1st and 3rd, the the big jerk on the mound walked him. You know Cantu was trotting down to first thinking, “what a fuckin’ dick”. And he’s right! Harang should’ve pitched to him, hung one of those lazy curve balls over the center of the plate and let Cantu at least swing at it.
Side note – Unreported confirmed and invalidated reports say that you could hear the 2000 people chanting, “We want a pitcher not an underwear stitcher”.
PIRATES = Yankees vs the Reds
Another uncompetitive loss to the flippn’ Pirates????…12-2??? TWELVE TO TWO!?!?!?….We lost to the GAWD damn Pirates!…12-2????? …Holy $12.00 Hot Dog Batman!!!.Have we REALLY slipped that far down the slope of mediocrity?…..Can it be that bad? I ran across an old newspaper today. One from July 4th, 2009. The Reds were 39-39, and limping towards the All-Star break, after flirting with competing for the division! One player from Cincinnati represented the team in that All-Star game, and he was (still is) the man we refer to as Coco Codero. The Reds have 49 million wrapped up in this guy, and despite his good work this year, he’s way over-paid by this team and a drag on our future. The Reds were unable to deal him, and now look like they’re gonna be limited in 2010 by his stupid ass FAT contract.
Meanwhile, the team will finish a ninth straight season under .500, and this year a horrible fall of near epically embarrassing proportion. By the end of June they were in the race, but since the All-Star break they are, like, 6-25? Six wins, and twenty-five losses! ?!?!? Me and 9 guys on this web site would have gone 6 and 25!! There is simply NO ACCOUNTABILITY in this town…Losing is just too easy! Its accepted as a birthright, and its freakin’ time to make it stop! Sell the team!…move the freakin’ team to a city that will demand they play ONE freakin’ season out of ten as a contender! SAVE the franchise! The current philosophy is NOT WORKING! SET the team free, and let them compete!
I’d take my kids to more Reds games but the last 10 we went to, they left thinking winning wasn’t a reachable goal. That’s all nice in those patsy-time leagues they play for “funzies” these days, but the ones we pay $191.92 a game to watch, NOT!! This town enjoys losing, its really the only way to explain the YEARS of sucking and the little change that follows. We take “it” like a New York Hooker takes to Linkin logs! The odd thing is you could HAVE the New York Hooker for the same price, if you ditch the beers at the game!…and, of course, YOU’D be “winning” with the hook!….OK, so maybe either way, its a loss!…still, losing is losing! At least here its close to disease free!
Still, can you name another town is such dire straights than this one, from a Sports perspective?…..Thank gawd for the cyclones, huh !?!?!? We make the Sacramento Kings look like Ohio State Football!….at least THEY get to the post-season!
We got a LEMON!
No,..not Chet Lemon,…that would have been an UPGRADE!…We got DUH’sty Baker,…..the guy who leaves .200 hitters in the line-up, when he has players hitting +.340, so he doesn’t harm a guys confidence!…a PAID players confidence…Well, if his CONFIDENCE is that easily disrupted, by sitting a few games, then is he MENTALLY a guy we want ANYWAY?!?!?!…”NO”!…the answer there is, No!
He won’t take out the dude hitting .217, even for a couple games a freaking WEEK, to play the hot hand hitting .344! WHY?….again, we roll to the newspaper, for more stupid ash shit Dusty Baker says. “What am I gonna do, switch the hot guy for the guy struggling every week?”…”What’s that gonna do for the guy’s confidence?”…SHIT Duhsty, I don’t really think I care much about THAT!..(This ain’t T-ball, man!).Heck, I thought WINNING games was more important than a PROFESSIONAL ball player sitting down for a few games a week, cause he’s hitting .217!!!!…(HIMz FEELINGs GET HURT, did they, DUHSTY??). IF there’s a guy hitting, and sitting, and there’s a guy playing and NOT hitting,….YOU PLAY THE HITTER!….that’s not a tUFf call, Mr Lose games over hurt Dickerson’s “wittle” feelings…..
I’ll be intersted to see that, when he does start Nix,…what kind of chain he’s gonna have on HIS neck……Think Nix will be allowed to dip under .200, and STILL start 6 games a week?….I’m gonna bet not. Patterson and Dickerson seem to be the same guy, in Duh’sty’s eyes. I’m not discounting Dickerson as a player,..and if there wasn’t a dude on the bench, hitting like Nix is right now, I’d say he should start 5 or 6 games a week….AND, if he were the only one STRUGGLING!..it’d be more acceptable. BUT!…”EE” was suckin’ ass, Gonzo was sucking ass, Hernandez was sucking ass, Bruce, Dickerson and McDonald’s Hot Apple Pie, were ALL sucking ass….so, Baker, does nothing….rides it out, as if winning is something we’ll just worry about later. If “EE” were still healthy, and Gonzo?…..we’d be 2-3 games under .500 right now, and he’d be the guy KILLING this super pitching staff we’ve got going right now. He’s not managing, here,…he’s just rolling out the status quo, asking people to bunt who he KNOWS can’t, riding his starters too long, and accepting poor play because he “likes that guy”!…That’s not managing. Managing means DEALING w/the player who is struggling, and keeping HIM sharp while he sits the bench,….NOT telling the guy hitting .344, “Oh, stay sharp in case I need you to go in a get a pinch-hit”…..I know you’re hitting the HAIL out of it now, but hopefully I can ruin your BA by ONLY using you as a PH and playing the .217 hitter in your place, -regardless!
The Cub fans were dead on,…he’s a BOZO!
Reds fans,..its gonna be a LONG summer….
…This team sucks!….and that’s categorically the problem in every phase of the game. They make it hard to watch a game,…well,…watch with the ( early season) notion that winning is possible anyway.
Two games do NOT define a year….0-2….I agree, and in the case of the 0-2 Yankees,….that’s dead-nutts on. The Yankees don’t accept mistakes quite like we do here. The Reds don’t do the things it takes to win! This is a Coaching issue, and Baker has his mind on other things, like not benching starters for that BULLSH.T ”ab” Double “E” took with Phillips on 3rd and one out. Then later on he did it again with runners in scoring position. He does NOT give quality “ab’s”, and he does not think while he’s up there….unfortunately, management just gave him a big ass raise, so he’s ours for a while. The kid should not be a starter in MLB.
Volq and Lincoln BOTH threw meat when ahead 0-2 on GOOD hitters, and no one on base….then Schnieder gets his with the bases juiced….(Bruce slipping wasn’t technically an error, but….) This isn ‘t good baseball, and no one seems to be held to any standard, here. How is it this city just continually accepts crap from its Sports teams. I’m not saying they need to win-win-win, but they should be held to professional expectations when calling themselves “PRO”-Ball players!…..Italy (from the WBC) would beat this Reds’ team like a three dollar whore! -What a waste!
Mrs UFreak was caught downtown the other day by a FOX camera crew asking people about what they expected from the Reds this year…When asked how many games she thought they’d win, she said “50″….I laughed at her (when it was shown on TV later that night)…..yeah, well, they’ll win more than 50 games, but not MUCH more!….They still need to be taught things. I know a lot of people dis-like Brantley,..but he and Baker should switch jobs. Of course, I’d never turn up the volume on a game, but I’d deal with that!