July 27, 200618 yr IMO, Bill Bray is going to turn out to be a great acquisition! That kid is a monster. He looks like he would be very intimidating to a hitter. Reds closer of the future? And for those who didn't like the trade consider this. Right field may be Ryan Freels now and they say its Chris Denorfias in the future ......but.... seeing as how Adam Dunn and Austin Kearns are best friends and Austin Kearns seemed to be very depressed about leaving the Reds, I wouldn't be surprised to see Austin Kearns in a Reds uniform again next year. ( His contract is up at the end of this year ) Also Adam Dunn is hitting so much better now that he has stopped swinging for the fences all the time. He's hitting so good now that I haven't heard anyone talk about wanting to trade him lately.
July 27, 200618 yr seeing as how Adam Dunn and Austin Kearns are best friends and Austin Kearns seemed to be very depressed about leaving the Reds, I wouldn't be surprised to see Austin Kearns in a Reds uniform again next year. ( His contract is up at the end of this year ) Wow...never thought of that, but I just dont think he is worth the money that he is going to be asking for. However, I appreciate your boldness....it is indeed an intriguing situation to think about.
July 28, 200618 yr ^And 7 in a row at one point, and retired 13 straight...6 2/3rds, 1 earned run...woo frickin' hoo.
July 28, 200618 yr Yeah, that was pretty cool last night! Meanwhile, I am extremely disappointed because I was going to go see the Reds play in Milwaukee this weekend with some people but the games are freakin' sold out! And it's just got to be because of this new racing sausage they're introducing... effin' Brewers. Now I don't get to see the Reds for the whole rest of the season. :cry:
July 30, 200618 yr We sat next to some reds fan decked in Griffey Jr. Gear. They were quiet the whole game(who could blame them!) until Turnbow came in and walked Dunn. The reds fans said "This is the turnbow I like!", they were quiet for the last 2 outs. :)
July 30, 200618 yr If I may go back to Friday's game for a moment (since it had a happy ending :wink: and since there's a Brewers fan in the house) I just want to mention that as much as I'd like to have seen the run score, I had to applaud Damian Miller surviving being bowled over by Adam Dunn at the plate and then casually dropping the ball right in front of Dunn's face. Good show! :-D
July 31, 200618 yr Sounds pretty good to me....didn't really lose too much, and we got some quality in return. I guess we brought Germano up on Sat. to shop him around a little bit. PHOTO: Kyle Lohse was 2-5 with 7.70 ERA with the Twins. ASSOCIATED PRESS/ PAUL SANCYA Reds trade for Lohse Cormier also added for playoff run BY JOHN FAY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The Reds made two trades today and acquired starting pitcher Kyle Lohse from the Minnesota Twins and relief pitcher Rheal Cormier from the Phillies. The Reds gave up two pitchers, Justin Germano to Philadelphia and minor leaguer Zach Ward to the Twins. Lohse, 27, is 51-57 with a 4.89 ERA in his career. His best years were 2002, when he went 13-8 with a 4.23 ERA, and 2003, when he went 14-11 with a 4.61 ERA. He slipped to 9-13 with a 5.35 ERA in 2004, and was 9-13 with a 4.18 ERA last year. Lohse has had his problems in Minnesota. Last season, he damaged manager Ron Gardenhire's office door with a bat after being pulled after two innings from a start. Full story at http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060731/SPT04/307310071/1071
August 1, 200618 yr willy mo is a double away from the cycle For the season? (I've rarely seen him play in Boston this year)
August 2, 200618 yr jeez i just looked at the wild card race: in the NL: nine teams within 5 1/2 games of cincinnati conversly, in the AL: three teams tied, and one within two games. Next closest, six games.
August 3, 200618 yr Get your half-price tickets Reds also offering $1 hot dogs for games vs. Cards BY JOHN FAY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER In his latest effort to help the club win, Reds chief executive officer Bob Castellini is trying to fill up Great American Ball Park for next week's series with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Reds are offering half-price tickets in 10 seating locations for three games in the four-game series that runs Monday through Thursday. The exception is Wednesday's game, which is Dave Concepcion Bobblehead night. The Reds also are cutting the price to $1 on hot dogs for the series. The tickets discounted range from the Terrace Box seats (now $15) down to the bleachers (now $4.50) and all of the seats priced between. Tickets originally priced $36 (Terrace Infield Box) and above are not discounted. Full story at http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060803/SPT04/608030335
August 3, 200618 yr This is the first year I've really followed the baseball blogs, and I've learned one very important truth - nobody who blogs about baseball likes any trade, ever. We could have dealt LaRue to the Mets for Pedro Martinez, and they'd bitch about dumping the future for a has-been. Just look at the bullpen from the beginning of July: Weathers, Mercker, Yan, Standridge, Coffey, Shackelford, Hammond and sometimes Belisle. The bullpen today: Guardado, Coffey, Cormier, Bray, Majewski, Weathers, Lohse and maybe Belisle. And we've still got Mercker, Standridge and Shackelford 2 hours away in Louisville. And for this we gave up Kearns, "Oops" Lopez, Germano (a future #4 or #5 starter), a single-A pitcher, and what, another handful of minor leaguers here and there? Haven't touched our top prospects, improved the infield, got Freel and Denorfia more playing time, gave up some power, and have a bullpen that can actually perform. And on the blogs, Krivski is the dumbest man on the planet. Amazing...
August 4, 200618 yr the half priced ticket thing should work. Everyone that i have talked to has said that they are going to go to a game next week....i plan to as well...MMmmmmm $1 hot dogs....
August 4, 200618 yr ^Well I have enjoyed the trades thusfar. Take that for what its worth. Oh, I meant the blogs specifically, not the folks chatting here...unless you mean you're a Reds blogger, in which case I hadn't seen your blog yet! I normally check in with RedLegNation, especially gameday threads, then Shawn's place and RedReporter, then I'll follow links from there...
August 6, 200618 yr Yeah, we had Yan. Then he was designated for assignment and released. I think he pitched maybe a dozen games.
August 7, 200618 yr Majewski sucks? Obviously Jerry Narron doesn't think so. He keeps running him out there in critical situations. If this team is lucky enough to make the playoffs or finish over .500 for that matter, it will be in spite of their manager who has proved to be pretty dumb. It is pretty clear that he manages with his heart and it's not working. It seemed like he wanted to show Majewski that he had confidence in him, so he sent him back out there to pitch the 8th inning and it blew up in his face.....again.... every time he makes decisions like this it doesn't work out and all the fans can see it coming....which begs the question. Can't the Reds just hire one of the fans to manage this team? I honestly think that someone sitting in the stands can make better decisions.
August 7, 200618 yr Do you guys realize how important this series is right now against the Cards? All 4 games should be SOLD OUT! Who's going to the game? I'll probably be at 3, maybe 2 of them. We've got to sweep them! What are your predictions?
August 7, 200618 yr SOLD OUT!!!! http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/MLBEventInfo?gameid=2006/08/07/slnmlb-cinmlb-1
August 8, 200618 yr Do you see what we get when we sell out? They play like garbage. 1-5 now 1-6 in sell outs.
August 8, 200618 yr ^ don't post while drunk and or drinking Did you notice how the whole upper deck looked like their was no one in the seats for the first 3 innings. Gota keep the hopes up, now we just have to take the next 3 games this week and 2/3 next week.
August 8, 200618 yr GARY MAJEWSKI SUCKS!!! Can someone please arrange a tour of Louisville for him? Hmm...shoulder injury? DL? Or just a 15 day cooling off period....
August 8, 200618 yr Would explain his performance...I used to be more suspicious of these things, but I guess I'm not so much anymore...but then, I really don't know anything about Inside Baseball, so I shouldn't even speculate...
August 8, 200618 yr Bronson Arroyo now has corn-rows for luck in getting his 10th win Thurs. (Bo Derek in "ten")
August 8, 200618 yr There have been rumors that Jim Bowden and the Nationals failed to disclose cortisone shots given to Majewski for his shoulder not long before the trade. Stay tuned. Also, the Reds are considering starting a Spanish-language radio broadcast: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/08/07/story1.html?b=1154923200^1326288
August 9, 200618 yr the reds are For REAL.... why cant me and my Friends get to a game we'll the computer keeps saying a sellout and the TV says about 35k.
August 9, 200618 yr Ryan Freel's catch has to be one of the greatest in baseball HISTORY!!! That one deserves an ESPY award.
August 9, 200618 yr If Ryan Freel had gotten the out at 2nd on that amazing catch, I would have died right where I sat. And then my rotting corpse would be discovered a month later because I have no friends to come looking for me. I'll settle for freaking AWESOME instead.
August 10, 200618 yr This team is playing with my emotions. I'm sure their taking years off my life. :-P They SUCK and then they KICK ASS...SUCK...KICK ASS....SUCK...KICK ASS. Man, another exciting game with a game winning walk off homerun. Another couple months off my life.
August 10, 200618 yr ^Just wait until you see what tonight's win netted us from ColDayMan...someone was at Newport Central Catholic tonight, with appropriate timing, due to the egging-on of a fellow forumer who likes to view rivers, and Mr. CMH...I'm almost more excited to see Chris's pictures than I was about the game, and I was jumping up and down about the game!
August 10, 200618 yr ^We were so frustrated that we would experience our 13th loss, we left at the end of the eighth when the score was 7-6. I wonder what would have happened if we had stayed.
August 10, 200618 yr Here you go, Riverviewer: "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 11, 200618 yr OMG thats fantastic :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :banger: I want that first one for a poster
August 11, 200618 yr Wow...just phenomenal! So fantastic... The second shot was of the massive cloud of smoke from the fireworks - it was a pretty still night, so the smoke just kinda sat... Fantastic shot!
August 12, 200618 yr MAN NARRON SUCKS. Men on 1st and 2nd in the 14th and he orders an intentional walk to load the bases with NO OUT..
August 14, 200618 yr MAN NARRON SUCKS. Men on 1st and 2nd in the 14th and he orders an intentional walk to load the bases with NO OUT.. wait, what? who was batting, babe ruth? are you kidding me? wow. my fourth grade little league manager could have done better.
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