Tuesday Links

by JD Arney on Jun 13, 2006 2:47 PM EDT in Events

This has nothing to do with baseball, but I found it amusing. J.J. Redick was arrested and charged with a DWI last night. Those Dukies, such clean kids.
Dean Taylor has left the Reds and joined the Kansas City organization. This is a good thing.
Adam Dunn doesn't know who Eric Davis is.
This has been a long time coming. I hate the Pirates though, so I don't feel for them like I do for Kansas City. Anything coming out of Pittsburgh is pretty much pure evil.
Jason Grimsley has been slapped with a 50 game suspension. I love the line over at Baseball Primer: "Shocking. No wonder he hit so many homers." That's the great paradox of the whole steroids thing, the fact that so many pitchers were apparently using.
This is an awesome article. I love glimpses of minor league life.

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Dunn

Should hope he turns into half the all around player Davis was.

"There are only two places in the league - first place and no place." -Tom Seaver

by Caleb on Jun 13, 2006 4:08 PM EDT 0 recs

Dunn's right though...

Griffey is still making the plays and he's not hurting the team.

So why move him?

by bigjas on Jun 13, 2006 4:26 PM EDT 0 recs

Griffey

He makes routine plays look hard. He has to dive to get balls that Denorfia, Kearns, or Freel would catch standing up.

He's slow. That happens when you have a bunch of metal in your legs at the age of 36. There's no shame in it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde

by JD Arney on Jun 13, 2006 4:30 PM EDT up 0 recs

Griffey

to right? Could the new and improved slimmer Austin handle center field?

"There are only two places in the league - first place and no place." -Tom Seaver

by Caleb on Jun 13, 2006 4:38 PM EDT up 0 recs

No,

Griffey to left. Denorfia in center.

Rootin' the Reds home.

by sweaver on Jun 13, 2006 5:14 PM EDT 0 recs

agree

Griff to left, Kearns in right, Denorfia/Freel can be more than adequate in center...

I wish Davis or other similar type guys would pick up the phone and call Griff. I agree that Griff has done pretty well in center but why risk it? Griff is being selfish........

Enough with the Homeruns and Strikeouts

by MichaelRed on Jun 13, 2006 5:36 PM EDT up 0 recs

then

What do you do with Dunn? Move him to first?

"There are only two places in the league - first place and no place." -Tom Seaver

by Caleb on Jun 13, 2006 6:37 PM EDT up 0 recs

I'm not sure Grif is being selfish, he's been a centerfielder since the early 80's. He still has a good arm, he hits the cutoff man, he is above avg in positioning, and he doesn't boot the ball when its hit to him. He's lost some range, but the heir is Stubbs not Deno. Grif will finish '07 as the CF then yield to the phenom.

It hurts me that Dunn doesn't know who ED is. He only retired a few years ago, and his return from colon cancer was phenomenal...as was 37 HR/50 steals with gold glove caliber CF defense.

Bullpen arms needed. ASAP. Red alert. Mayday, mayday.

Why isn't anyone calling to acquire Olmedo? He's the shizzle.

Waive Machado. Bergolla is blocked, and his stats are blah.

Dunn. Kearns. Junior. Bruce. Stubbs. Ahhhhhh, the return of the overcrowded OF is less than 2 yrs away, hopefully.

by ohiobobcat on Jun 13, 2006 5:52 PM EDT 0 recs

Dunn and Davis

Could it be that Dunn's comment was really meant to be: I was just trying to figure out which Davis said that? The online headline for the article was "Davis: Move would help Junior" and I imagine the paper's headline was the same (can anyone confirm). Davis is a fairly common name. I think what Dunn was trying to say, "I don't agree and the only reason I was reading the article was to find out which Davis said it." I doubt that he doesn't know who Eric Davis is. I mean, he wears the same number, somebody has to have brought his name up to him before, at least.

by Slyde on Jun 13, 2006 6:33 PM EDT 0 recs

agreed

he has to know who Eric Davis is. Eric didn't retire until after ( or was it during?) Dunn's rokkie year. I think he was trying to figure out which Davis said it.

"There are only two places in the league - first place and no place." -Tom Seaver

by Caleb on Jun 13, 2006 6:42 PM EDT up 0 recs

I sure hope you're right

I imagine that Dunn has been with the Reds long enough to know...and anyway, Davis was working with the players at spring training.

Come worship at the Church of Baseball with Sister Daedalus.

by Daedalus on Jun 13, 2006 8:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

Slyde's right

I was at Eric Davis night when ED played for the Giants and Dunn played in that game. I was also at the game when he was inducted into the Reds HOF and Dunn was obviously there for that. I don't think he's that dumb.

by teb7 on Jun 13, 2006 9:35 PM EDT up 0 recs