Game 53 Thread: Part 2

i hope dusty gives ross some PT while he is hot because bako has really come back down to earth

and yes, i am captain obvious

this is truly the only role i’m comfortable seeing david weathers fill

15k at the old ball park tonight. Not many witnesses.

If you can’t put the scrubs in now, when can you put ‘em in?

in an inning and a half, this team won’t be in last place.

looks like a nice start. Although the Clippers are really, really bad

ryan franklin is the cardinals closer!?

Yahoo’s MLB site has this picture up:

With the title: “Pick up the Pace“

What a crock. That game was 18 innings long. Six hours isn’t excessively long to play 18 innings. That picture is intentionally deceptive.

This team is close to being competitive. Esp. if Ross gets some PT and keeps his compact swing.

Uhhh….. why?

9 in a row at home

OUT OF THE CELLAR!!!

Aaron Harang hates his teammates.

anything happen the last coupla days?

Just wanted to stop in and say hi. I’ve been watching the games on FSN pittsburgh so haven’t been posting much during the game.

And Dusty and Jay were in the Dugout today.

Really?

Somebody please fire this asshole. I haven’t been able to comment during the games lately because I’ve been following along a couple hours behind on tivo. Brantley won’t shut up about about how dumb young players are right after they do something good, and how good young players are right after they do something bad. And everything comes back to verteran leadership.

Last week I was watching TV while Thom and Chris Welsh were praising Volquez for having such a good idea what he was doing out there on the mound. Then I left and went out into the car and turned the radio on. Volquez gives up a home run and Brantley
says “two changeups back-to-back . . . some pitchers just don’t have ANY IDEA.”

Earlier in the year, Brantley was going on and on about how the Florida Marlins just know how to run an organization. Yes, the Marlins. They’ve won two World Series in the last 10 years because they’ve always brought in veteran leadership to teach their young players how to play the game right. But no one EVER mentions that the teams who lose ALSO HAVE VETERAN LEADERSHIP! Yes, even the Reds!

He tried to analyze Adam Dunn’s swing yesterday, comparing his recent swing with a swing from earlier in the year. After Dunn’s homerun, they showed us his homerun swing, and it looked exactly like the swing from earlier in the year (with Adam’s torso slanted). My wife was really confused.

My wife was cracking up the other day because Brantley actually said that the secret behind winning is losing so many times that you just can’t take it anymore.

This hasn’t been a very organized rant, I know. I’m to the point where I feel like I should keep a log of how ridiculous Jeff Brantley is, like I did with Bob Boone. I just can’t believe how bad he is.

The reds are .800 when I am there on hand to watch the game. The crowd was pretty sparse for such a lovely day but who knows. Many of the fans were pumped for Bruce and I haven’t heard such a Boo-urns since the days of Wookash Orbzut. The only unfortunate things with the game were that I took the ferry for the 2nd time ever, it took forever and I was surrounded by drunken douchebags in white sunglasses. Men should not be able to wear white sunglasses unless their name is Kanye West. Also, what is the deal with people wearing basketball jerseys to baseball games? Stop it you look like a jackass and deserve to get your ass kicked. Also, whats the deal with airplane food…........