Looks like I picked a good night for the kids to have bronchitis. (Not gonna lie. I did see some of Belisle’s flat performance. Ugh.)

Votto needs a nickname. A good one.

didn’t Belisle pitch 1 game in A, 1 game in AA and 1 game in AAA? So ( I’m hoping here) that Bailey has a little more credibility to his start than Belisle

It is amazing that Belizzle IS worse than Fogg. Un-fucking-believeable.
Boy of fucking boy oboyo – There’s no other course take – Fire Dusty. The VP malaise has set in and it will be a long lonely summer…so let’s get on the BLAME DUSTY bus. I’ll drive.

Tonight’s scores at the lanes
211
194
188
Not bad for an old guy. Bet I can beat Obama and Dusty together.

every one of us are thinking the same thing. “when the hell are these guys going to start hitting”? i know part of it is being spoiled by the aurelia’s of years passed, watching this team put up 6 runs a game only to lose 9-6. but the precipitous drop off in production, coupled by the new-found strength of the pitching, is making this team just gut-wrenching to watch. the leadoff spot is worst in the bigs. i dont need to look up the stats. even a michael or a ctownboy could see that. BP looks hopeless. Jr is ok, but his bat needs to be solidly above average. Dunn cant hit. so thats 1-4 in the lineup doing nothing but leaving greeting cards in the visitor clubhouse saying “how can we make your stay more comfortable?” Slyde is so right (for once). this lineup needs a complete overhaul. i propose:

Kepp
Dunn
Votto
EdE
Jr
Bako
Phillips
P
CF

unfortunately, to bat 1-2 in the lineup for Dusty Baker, you have to be either a minority or a middle infielder (or both, ideally). im not willing to crap on Dusty just yet, but damn, his leash was short to begin with.

and another thing: i cant BELIEVE how much money we are spending on CoPat and Freel this year to fuck it up out in CF. i mean, im not prone to profanity-laced rants on blogs, its just not my style, but shit. with the BEST PROSPECT IN THE WHOLE DAMN SHIT-EATING UNIVERSE having his way with AAA what the hell are corey patterson and ryan freel (and lil’ norris hopper) doing playing CF for this team, making the money they are making? if Big Bob is so willing to eat bad contracts, how about tanking CoPat and his 3 large a month into the season? you wanna win, then start fucking doing something about it. it makes me so goddamn mad because this is not a difficult job. knowing baseball is not difficult. talent evaluation and roster construction are so easy a 16-year-old kid in high school knows how to do it (im nudging you in the shoulder, crolfer). i mean shit folks.

The highlights:

- I psychically called both Votto’s walk and Edwin’s homer. Magic!
- Uh…Votto walked (and homered) and Edwin homered?
- Andruw Jones is incredibly fun to heckle because he constantly turns around to stare you down. It’s even better when the guy behind you was at the same bar as him last night and mocks him for his “tall, black, ugly girlfriend” (the drunken consensus was that she was at least 6-4 and certainly ugly) and his propensity to only drink vodka and Red Bull.
- I have never seen an entire section so handily turn on a group of little kids as much as my section turned on the absolutely obnoxious group of about 20 little girls wearing their little baseball outfits singing their incredibly annoying and cheery chants while the Reds were down 9-2. The wee lasses may have been the only ones being heckled more than Andruw, although they were considerably more oblivious to it than he was.
- Yeah, 9-3. Belisle still can’t pitch early or with men on base. I say bring on Tom Shearn!

HitTrackerOnline puts Votto’s homer at 446’. According to them, EE’s homer was actually hit harder: 450’.