Paul Janish made this open thread possible

was Freel doing? He kicked Janish in the face. That guy is dangerous…

Brokeback baseball

I missed a heck of a game.

man, this is what this team needs – the young guys who want to be on the field to fire it up. the old guys are stale. they need the young uns to blow some life into them.

appears to be pretty fast. i had no idea

The question is, do we keep this going during the weekend or do we slip back into a losing streak? I don’t expect us to sweep again, but taking two series in a row would be a nice step forward.

But I’d REALLY like to have one of the “600” bottles – Charity Hop Wines

Fun times until the 9th. Each time I’ve seen Cordero pitch in person, he has blown a save. (last year for the Brew Crew and now this)

Nice to see the rookie step up when it counted.

In other incidents, Bako hit a screaming foul ball that hit a little kid in the jaw. You could hear the crack from the other side of the bullpen. The kid stood stunned for a few moments but he knew he took a shot. He turned out to be o.k. in the end and even got the royal treatment from the GABP staff for the rest of the game. The section started a chant to get Bako to sign the ball… but I didn’t see anything come of it. ;)

You also can’t help but like Griffey. If you hadn’t heard of this incident, it’s classic stuff. Someone from our section called out to Griffey and asked if he had any pennies for us. That got Griff smiling. After hat he asked if it was a full truckload, and Griff turned around and said, “Nope. Just a trunk load.”

As said, fun times. :)

The Reds have won they in a row.

Indeed.

for… $45 million. Though it’s the largest contract in Brewers history, it’s really a coup for management. It’s less than $6 million a year for one of the best players in the national league. it buys out his remaining 2 years of pre-arb, three more years of arb (during which time he would have almost certainly gotten more than $18 million) and his first 4 years of free agency, when he could have likely made 2-3 times as much as he will now make for the Brewers.

Braun said the contract negotiations have been hanging over his head and led to his slow start.

“Anybody who says that contract negotiations aren’t a distraction is not telling you the truth,” he said. “It definitely comes into play, it definitely factors in and for me, it’s just great to have that out of the way and just be able to focus on baseball and know financially I’m secure for the rest of my life.”

I hope we pull this kind of deal very early in jay bruce’s mlb tenure.

Was tempted to leave the bar-gambling establishment after we hit 6 runs but stuck it out for some reason. It was really painful to watch the 9th but when the Marlin didn´t take the lead I had a good feeling that the game was still ours. Something about the Marlins being overly content with just tying the game. On the road, you gotta play for the win. I am only half serious here, obvioulsy they were trying to win it, but the fact that they only could tie it was crucial to the Reds chances. 3 run rally killer?

I think this Janish guy needs a nickname…

I said Wednesday after the game that I was at a game when Eric Owens hit a walk off in his debut. According to Fay, Eric Owens was the last Red to do so in his debut – June 6, 1995. Wow! If I remember correctly, it was a hard groundball up the middle to score Larkin from second. Of course, I don’t have to remember because I can go to retrosheet or whoever posts those things and find out. But it’s late . . .
I was also at the game for Josh Footpenis’ first win, and extra innings’ affair.