April 11, 200718 yr Poor Pitch Leads to Cincinnati Sandwich CINCINNATI — The mayor's errant ceremonial first pitch on baseball's opening day has inspired a sandwich with a fitting name: The Mark Mallory Screwball. The ingredients for the sandwich at Izzy's deli will be "any two meats tossed in the general direction of a bun or two pieces of bread." The Screwball will be served with a potato pancake and pickles for $7.75. "This is wonderful," Mallory said Monday. "Who wouldn't want a sandwich named for them?" Mallory's pitch in front of a sold-out crowd April 2 at Great American Ball Park didn't go great. It was several feet to the first-base side of home plate, making him the butt of jokes among some late-night comedians. Video of the pitch has been played repeatedly on Web sites. Full story at http://www.middletownjournal.com/n/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/Mayors_Pitch_Sandwich.html
April 16, 200718 yr Reds extend Freel's contract BY JOHN FAY | [email protected] April 16, 2007 CINCINNATI - Ryan Freel has always said he was willing to play for the major league minimum. So you can guess how happy he was today when the Reds rewarded him with a two-year, $7 million contract extension. The contract pays Freel $3 million in 2008 and $4 million for 2009. Freel, 31, came to the Reds as a minor free agent in 2003. His style earned him the love of the fans. His ability to play several positions earned him a full-time spot in the majors, and ultimately the starting center fielder job.
April 16, 200718 yr [quote"I hear from people all the time saying they love the way Ryan Freel plays," he said. "I'm tired of that. I want to say they love the way the Cincinnati Reds play." Let's hope the Freel style doesn't catch on. He has got to be one of the dumbest players I've seen in some time. There's a long way between hustle and recklessness, and Freel is the latter. I blame Farney.
April 21, 200718 yr Classy move! Reds' voices to be honored Hoyt, Marty and Joe to have microphones 'retired' BY KEVIN KELLY | [email protected] April 21, 2007 CINCINNATI - A wishbone C adorns the concrete facade below the WLW radio booth at Great American Ball Park. The Reds announced Friday that three replica radio microphones honoring past and present broadcasters Waite Hoyt, Joe Nuxhall and Marty Brennaman will be unveiled there for permanent display during a pregame ceremony June 10. "We've recognized significant players over the years with the retiring of jerseys, and I put this on the same level with that," Reds chief operating officer John Allen said. "It's something we've wanted to do for a long time. We felt like now was the right time to do something." The replica microphones will join the eight retired uniform numbers belonging to Fred Hutchinson (1), Johnny Bench (5), Joe Morgan (8 ), Sparky Anderson (10), Ted Kluszewski (18), Frank Robinson (20), Tony Perez (24) and Jackie Robinson (42).
April 23, 200718 yr Dear Mom, Finally got some decent starting pitching working for the first time in years. Can't hit and can't field. Bullpen awful--some pitchers older than me. Love, Jerry
April 30, 200718 yr Reds retire No. 13 BY JOHN FAY | [email protected] April 30, 2007 CINCINNATI - The Reds announced today they will retire Dave Concepcion’s No. 13. The Reds will formally retire Concepcion’s number before a July 28 game against the Chicago Cubs. Concepcion spent his entire career with the Reds. He, Pete Rose and Barry Larkin share the record for seasons played with the Reds at 19. Concepcion played for the Reds from 1970 to 1988. No one has worn Concepcion's number since he retired. He hit .267 with a 101 home runs and 950 RBI in his career. He was a nine-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner. The other retired numbers: 1 Fred Hutchinson, retired 1965 5 Johnny Bench, retired Aug. 11, 1984 8 Joe Morgan, retired June 6, 1998 10 Anderson, retired May 28, 2005 18 Ted Kluszewski, retired July 18, 1998 20 Frank Robinson, May 22, 1998 24 Tony Perez, retired May 27, 2000 Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 is also retired.
April 30, 200718 yr Go Pirates! Go Pirates! It's your birthday! Go Pirates! Thanks for breaking the Reds' collective scoring slump!
May 1, 200718 yr I posted that after the Pirates won the first game... I shouldn't have been so hasty. :(
May 1, 200718 yr I posted that after the Pirates won the first game... I shouldn't have been so hasty. :( Uh yeah, they are the PIRATES. ;)
May 18, 200718 yr Yeah well I used to live in Boston and I think that place is hilariously overrated. I think Fenway Park is a dump and it's so overpriced real fans can't even get in the door. Tiger Stadium was an even greater dump but at least the people who actually know who the players are could take their kids to a game. The Red Sox don't even put money into that place, they want it to deteriorate so that they have an excuse to build a new stadium since they're losing out on so much luxury box revenue.
May 18, 200718 yr ^It did have the Braves until they moved to Milwaukee I think around 1953. There also used to be the Boston Bean-Eaters but that was back when the New York Highlanders, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, and Cleveland Naps were still playing.
May 18, 200718 yr Interesting fact: the Braves are the oldest professional team in baseball, a direct decendent of George and Harry Wright's 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings.
May 20, 200718 yr Interesting fact: the Braves are the oldest professional team in baseball, a direct decendent of George and Harry Wright's 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. That doesn't really make sense...if they were direct decendents of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, that would make them the second oldest professional baseball team behind the Red Stockings. I've never heard that statement before...I've always understood that the Red Stockings were the first/oldest professional team.
May 20, 200718 yr Interesting fact: the Braves are the oldest professional team in baseball, a direct decendent of George and Harry Wright's 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. That doesn't really make sense...if they were direct decendents of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, that would make them the second oldest professional baseball team behind the Red Stockings. I've never heard that statement before...I've always understood that the Red Stockings were the first/oldest professional team. The 1869 Cincinnati team was the first fully paid (i.e. professional) baseball team. In 1870, the club dropped it's professional status, and Harry Wright (the manager) was hired to organize a new team in Boston, for which he hired three old Cincinnati teammates including his brother, George. He brought the nickname with him as well, calling his team the Boston Red Stockings, which was fielded in 1871. When the National League was organized in 1876, the Boston Red Stockings were one of its original teams, eventually their nickname changed before finally settling on Braves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Braves The original name of the Chicago Cubs was the Chicago White Stockings. When the American League began invading old National League turf in 1899-1900, the teams they put in Chicago and Boston took the old nicknames of the National League teams in those cities.
May 20, 200718 yr what no talk of interleague? tribe wins one, reds the other. an ex-tribester cracks a revenge tater? c'mon we got ourselves a real fun series going here.
May 20, 200718 yr I despise interleague play, so I pretend it doesn't exist. Just like the fact that the Braves can trace their lineage to the Red Stockings.
May 20, 200718 yr Some more fun baseball facts. The New York Yankees were originally a Baltimore team called the Highlanders and it was a few years in New York before they became known as the Yankees. Today's Baltimore Orioles were originally the St. Louis Browns who were originally the Milwaukee Brewers. Today's Milwaukee Brewers were an expansion team that named themselves after the team that left for St. Louis sometime around 1898 but of course today's Brewers were actually formerly the Seattle Pilots, a failed expansion team that entered the majors at the same time as the Mets, Padres, and Expos. A friend of mine remarked during the whole Broadway Commons thing that Cincinnati should get the Expos, that way we could keep Riverfront Stadium for them and send the Reds to the new stadium. That would have ruled! Perhaps one of the greatest bits of Reds trivia is that their farm system in the 1950's included the Havana Sugar Kings. Unfortunately due to the communist takeover of Cuba the Sugar Kings moved to Jersey City, New Jersey and were known as The Jersey City Jersey's.
May 22, 200718 yr Yeah well I used to live in Boston and I think that place is hilariously overrated. I think Fenway Park is a dump and it's so overpriced real fans can't even get in the door. Tiger Stadium was an even greater dump but at least the people who actually know who the players are could take their kids to a game. The Red Sox don't even put money into that place, they want it to deteriorate so that they have an excuse to build a new stadium since they're losing out on so much luxury box revenue. have you been to fenway in the last two years? they've dropped a considerable amount of coin in that place (but yes, it still is freakin old. All the leaded paint in the world ain't going to change that)
May 22, 200718 yr Yeah, you've mentioned a million times how Fenway Park is a dump. Perhaps they didn't want some state-of-the-art thing with a retractable roof right in the heart of old historic rowhouses? Some cities value their history and it seems to be working for Boston..they're making money so who really cares? Baseball period is a dump. I wouldn't be surprised to see a DRASTIC decline in its popularity in the near future. Its nowhere near America's favorite pass-time.
May 22, 200718 yr >Perhaps they didn't want some state-of-the-art thing with a retractable roof right in the heart of old historic rowhouses? Well actually they more or less do. There have been numerous serious efforts to build a new Fenway Park right next to the current one, in South Boston, wherever. Fenway doesn't have many luxury boxes and that's what it's all about. All these new football and baseball stadiums and basketball arenas were all built primarily for luxury boxes, since teams get all the revenue from the boxes whereas ordinary seating falls into revenue sharing. >have you been to fenway in the last two years? No. I was last there in 2002. But my point is for how hyped up that place is it had better be mind-blowing and instead you feel like you're in a minor league stadium. Tiger Stadium and Yankee Stadium don't feel like that. You're aware that you're at a major league game. I've walked around but haven't been inside Wrigley so I can't comment. Also the area around Fenway Park is not very nice. To compare it to Cincinnati, it would be like going to a game in Lockland or Silverton or Madisonville. I-90 is as close to Fenway Park as Fort Washington Way was to Riverfront and to GAB. Also most of the bars right around there are totally typical college bars with bad cover bands playing like Main St. in Cincinnati or the Arena District in Columbus.
May 27, 200718 yr Wow this team is Horrible. The GM and manager has to go. I can't see how ownship can let this continue. It would be their fault if the start losing money.
June 1, 200718 yr How Right Trades Turn Wrong for the Reds BY BILL PETERSON | CITY BEAT May 30, 2007 CINCINNATI - The baseball season, if nothing else, is a drama, and most good drama has a three-act structure. The first act introduces the dramatis personae, the second act sets up and deepens the conflicts between them, then the third act resolves the conflict. As the baseball season reaches the one-third mark this week, we've now been introduced to the characters on each of the big league stages. Locally, sad to say, the productions aren't among the best. The cast of clubs in the National League Central Division is the least acclaimed in the business, due to its inability to stand up against counterparts from the other divisions. Full article at http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A139409
June 1, 200718 yr Reds open ticket kiosk in Kenwood Friday, June 1, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER BLUE ASH - The Cincinnati Reds will open the team's first off-site ticket location Friday, at Kenwood Towne Centre. Fans will be able to order, purchase, print out and pick up tickets at the kiosk, located at the mall's ground-floor food court, according to a news release. The team's only other ticket office is located at the Great American Ball Park downtown. To celebrate the kiosk's opening, the Reds are giving away prizes from 3-4 p.m. Friday, including 40 field-level seats for the team's June 15-17 series against the Texas Rangers. The event will include WLW-AM talk show host Bill Cunningham, former Red Tracy Jones and mascot Mr. Redlegs.
June 1, 200718 yr But you have to risk life and limb pulling your wallet out into the open like that downtown. I guess this makes sense for the team, but I have a negative feeling about it.
June 2, 200718 yr But you have to risk life and limb pulling your wallet out into the open like that downtown. I guess this makes sense for the team, but I have a negative feeling about it. Why does this give you a bad feeling? If anything, it should just sell more tickets, which is a good thing.
June 7, 200718 yr From the 5/29/07 Cincinnati Post: Reds Slump: And not just on the field Many fans steering clear of the ballpark By Kevin Goheen, Post staff reporter The Reds are owners of the worst record in the National League. Their place in baseball's attendance standings isn't much better. Through the first 28 home games, or approximately one-third of their home schedule, the Reds are on pace to draw fewer than 1.9 million fans to Great American Ball Park. That would be the smallest attendance figure in the park's brief five-year history. Season attendance figures Top 12 season attendance figures for the Reds, ranked by average per game. Only the first season of Great American Ball Park, 2003, ranks in this list. The rest were from Riverfront Stadium/Cinergy Field, which had a higher capacity. Year Attendance Avg. 1976 2,629,708 32,466 1994 ¹ 1,897,681 31,628 2000 ² 2,577,351 31,431 1978 2,532,497 31,265 1977 2,519,670 31,107 1993 2,453,232 30,287 1990 2,400,892 29,641 1991 2,372,377 29,289 1979 2,356,933 29,098 2003 2,355,259 29,077 1992 2,315,946 28,592 1975 2,315,603 28,588 ¹ - 60 home games played because of players strike. ² - 82 home games played. Full story at http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070529/NEWS01/705290353
June 7, 200718 yr From Business First of Columbus, 6/4/07: Reds move up in money standings Business First of Columbus - June 1, 2007 by Steve Watkins For Business First The ownership rule of Bob Castellini has not only improved the Cincinnati Reds' performance on the field - although not this year - it has improved the financial results, too. The Reds were the seventh-most profitable team in Major League Baseball last season, despite playing in one of its smaller markets. The club netted $22.4 million in operating income last year, according to Forbes magazine's annual estimate of teams' financial results. That was up 22 percent from $18 million in the prior year and just $1 million shy of the highest level since at least 1998, Forbes said. The profit came in a year that saw the Reds place 22nd among the 30 teams in revenue, with $146 million. But considering the team plays in the 28th-largest MLB market - only Kansas City and Milwaukee are smaller - that ranking doesn't look bad, either. Steve Watkins is a reporter for the Cincinnati Business Courier, an affiliated newspaper. Full story at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2007/06/04/story16.html
June 7, 200718 yr The entire NL Central is one pathetic mess of crap. Yeah, and Milwaukee lost today, making them 33-27. This is anyone's division to lose!
June 9, 200718 yr Well Homer made his debut and looked quite poised for his very first start...and oh it just happened to be in front of 38,000 people for the Cincinnati v. Cleveland rivalry. His fastball looked electric...something I haven't seen from a Reds pitcher in some time.
June 9, 200718 yr ^ I was there too! I sat in sec. 136. It was great! At I believe his 112th pitch, it reached 93mph!
June 15, 200717 yr Reds could get more control in new deal with WLW BY DAN MONK | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER June 15, 2007 CINCINNATI - After flirting with rival bidders, the Cincinnati Reds are close to signing a new five-year rights agreement with 700 WLW-AM parent Clear Channel Communications Inc. Phil Castellini, the team's senior director of business operations, confirmed a rights deal is close. Castellini told the Business Courier's editorial board June 12 he hopes to renew the team's contract with the Big One by month end. He wouldn't reveal terms of the deal but confirmed the team explored potential deals with Clear Channel competitors. The new five-year deal might differ dramatically from prior radio-rights agreements signed between baseball's oldest franchise and the 50,000-watt station that has owned the Reds radio rights since 1969. According to local media buyer Rob Riggsbee, owner of Newtown-based Inside Media, the two parties are pursuing a deal in which Clear Channel would avoid a $4 million annual rights fee in exchange for giving the Reds control of most of its air-time inventory. That would let the Reds package radio commercials into larger sales contracts with sponsors and ticket buyers.
June 30, 200717 yr What we could really use in the first 10 picks in the next draft. We suck, and it's not even like we can say that we have an abundance of talent coming up through the minors...because we don't. We're going to suck for the next 5 years at least. :x
July 2, 200717 yr Well it's about time they fired the manager. It took them 2 months too long. Actually i wanted him fired last year.
July 2, 200717 yr Reds fire manager Narron Advance scout Pete Mackanin to take helm of losing team BY JOHN FAY | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER July 2, 2007 CINCINNATI - The Reds fired manager Jerry Narron on Sunday, hours after the club suffered its 51st loss of the season. Reds advance scout Pete Mackanin, 55, takes Narron's place. Mackanin managed the Reds' Triple-A team in Nashville from 1990-92. He was the Pittsburgh Pirates' interim manager for the final 26 games of 2005 after Lloyd McClendon was fired. Narron was a casualty of the Reds' awful first half, which has left the team with the worst record in Major League Baseball. Much of the meltdown has been out of Narron's control. The Reds' bullpen has been especially shaky this season, repeatedly losing games in late innings. Sloppy play on defense didn't help matters, nor did the Reds' inability to close the deal during three-game series that the team had a chance to win. Cincinnati hasn't won a series since taking two of three from the Indians at home June 8-10.
July 2, 200717 yr well sheesh no one saw that coming! i wonder if a new manager will help any? sometimes it does.
July 2, 200717 yr LOL 30-50 wow. Well they might as well lose 100 games and get the #1 pick. only one problem, the baseball draft is nowhere near as important as the football or basketball draft
July 3, 200717 yr LOL 30-50 wow. Well they might as well lose 100 games and get the #1 pick. only one problem, the baseball draft is nowhere near as important as the football or basketball draft and the number one picks are consistently demanding a lot of money out of the gate, don't know how thrifty your owner is........
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