Try again
Jannish
Dunn
BP
EdE
Griffey
Votto
Bruce
Ross
P.

Now THAT’S comedy.

And regardless of his 15 plate appearance or whatever sample size, Paul Janish isn’t much of a hitter. I do not dig him leading off.

I’m still concerned about the strike zone judgement (12BB, 41K), but Patterson has looked awful. Of course, so has Jr, and he’s not going anywhere soon.

Some here seem to be concerned about “Who should leadoff?” Only once in the past 7 years has the NL had an average OBP over .340 from the leadoff position, so the Reds could stick almost anyone there and get average or better production. I’d hit any middle infielder (BP, Janish, Cherry) or Freel there.

Of course, I’m a car salesman, not a major league manager.

...read the news:

By Hal McCoy

Staff Writer

Thursday, May 22, 2008

LOS ANGELES — It is like an old movie poster: “Coming Soon, Jay Bruce.”

Cincinnati Reds general manager Walt Jocketty saw Bruce play Sunday in Louisville, “Saw him ground out twice and hit a home run over the right field fence.”

So he knows, first hand, how well the 21-year-old outfielder is doing — ripping Triple-A pitching to shreds.

“If he keeps playing like this, we’re going to have to get him up here some time soon,” said Jocketty. “What we don’t want to do is bring him up and not have him play.”

There are cynics who believe Bruce is being held back so the Reds can save a year of arbitration. If he is called up before a certain date this year, the clock on arbitration starts immediately.

If they wait until that date, arbitration won’t start until next year.

The dates? May 25? June 1? June 15?

“I honestly don’t know that date,” said Jocketty. “I’ve heard sometime in June but it doesn’t play into anything.”

Bruce is hitting .369 with 10 homers and 37 RBIs in 45 games. He also has 41 strikeouts.

I saw Indiana Jones this afternoon. I won’t go into any details/spoilers, but I give it 4 out of 10. Not a complete steaming pile of turds but it sure smelled funky.

I always went to watch her:

Harang isn’t winning
Ceuto isn’t winning
CoPat is a joke
Hairstunned is AAA
Freel is on the bench
Ross is on the Bench
Bako is playing against lefties
BLAH BLAH BLAH
My picture of Karen Allen wasn’t good enough Brian
Bring up Bruce
Fire Dusty

It’s a pity that it took over a quarter of a season what anyone could see back in March—heck, back when Dusty was living the fool’s paradise that Corey Patterson was a viable starting center fielder and leadoff hitter. He’s the modern day Marvel Wynne. Of course, the problem with this team is that they do not have a natural leadoff hitter. Janish is hitting OK now, but he’s a 25 year old rookie with a career .265 BA and .740 OPS in the minors. Something tells me he is not going to be the second coming of Rickey Henderson. Also, Bruce is not an option because while I love his skills (speed, power, throwing arm), he possesses a couple of notable flaws (over 3 to 1 K/W ratio, strikes out a quarter of the time he comes to the plate). There is no way he is going to hit over .350 in the bigs with those numbers. He needs to be given space to develop as a hitter, in a lower end of the batting order. I guess that leaves Freel, regardless of where they have to put him to rationalize his playing time, although with Ryan you always know he is just one collision away from self-decapitation.

Mrs. M. is determined to ruin my Memorial Day and 1/2 weekend by expecting that I will joyously go camping w/her. (Which of course I’ll do BUT) – This means missing the Saturday and Sunday games as she wants to ‘ruff it’ w/out radios etc. So have fun here at the ol’RR Ranch and bring home a winner!

That’s Mrs. w/gun.

however the scenery made it all worth while!