plagiarism is bad.

Norris Hopper. Despite the fact that NoHo can barely hit the ball out of the infield and that he hasn’t hit a home run in his entire life, including T-ball and High School, his ability to get on base via the bunt surely is a vast improvement over CoPat (who should be sent down when the Thompson is brought up). When Kepp is back I could see interspersing these guys through out the lineup. like:

Noho – CF
EdE – 3B
Bruce -RF
BP – 2B
Kepp – SS
Dunn – LF
Griffey – RF
Bako/Ross – C
P.

Now where to put Jerry Jr. when he returns? Hopefully he’ll continue his career year.

Thompson is the guy that should get this next start. He looks like the real deal and it will be good ‘09 experience for him to get a taste of the ML level as much as possible this year.

where’s the game thread?

wow
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Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi took some shots at Adam Dunn while answering a call on his radio show Wednesday night. Here’s what Ricciardi said:

"Do you know the guy doesn’t really like baseball that much?" Ricciardi said to the caller. "Do you know the guy doesn’t have a passion to play the game that much? How much do you know about the player?

"There’s a reason why you’re attracted to some players and there’s a reason why you’re not attracted to some players. I don’t think you’d be very happy if we brought Adam Dunn here …

"We’ve done our homework on guys like Adam Dunn and there’s a reason why we don’t want Adam Dunn. I don’t want to get into specifics."

Dunn’s response:

“I really don’t care what the clown had to say. You can use the word clown. I don’t know why anyone would go out their way to discredit a player.”

“It pisses me off.”

Will he take it out on Toronto when the Reds play there? “The players didn’t say it. Some clown sitting in an office pushing papers. I don’t play for anyone other than the guys in here. He doesn’t know me. . . He has no idea what goes on in this clubhouse. He’s not even in our country.”

“I guess if something happens I can eliminate one team. I’m not going to Toronto.”