BA-ZING!

I’d drop him down in the order

Maybe he’d do better with less pressure. If he just has to get on base, rather than get a big hit.

And he’s actually a pretty good baserunner, though you’d never guess it to look at him.

Can he play shortstop?

as it is to let the young guys get as many ABs as possible and to let them get into the role of middle of the line up producers.
Wht not have -Bruce – EdE – Votto – BP as the heart of the order?

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8276984/Dunn-doesn‘t-show-it-much,but-he-loves-baseball

Rosenthal talks to Dr. Poke’em, who attests to Dunn’s scrappiness and grit. i knew he had played through a number of injuries, but that bit about the broken hand pretty much floored me. i pictured Dunn looking at the Doc and, with a wad of chaw in his cheek, saying “I aint got time to bleed”.

I heard yesterday that he was guy that called the banana phone during that rain delay Sunday looking for his horse, “Bruce from Maine”. I’m trying to find confirmation on that somewhere, because I don’t think it’s true, but if it is, that may be better than Adam from Milwaukee.

!st by Daugherty is beyond insipid
the 2nd About renewal is a no news on a slow day article.
You’ll have to look it up as i’m having linkage problems today.

BUT NO THE GUY IS IN A HAZE- WAKE UP ADAM – CHRIST ON A HUBCAP – WAKE UP

It is not in a mess -the organization is the mess; not in a quagmire of a malaised stupor…no they are a malaised stupor. Look it up in the dictionary right below the words maliased stupor is a picture of the entire Red’s organization.I don’t blame those RRs who’ve taken a hiatus to be w/family or travel etc. maybe Alan, Andromach, RedMennace, JD etc etc etc – even Zach will come back with a fresh and invigorating point of view…but for now let’s just continue blaming Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey Jr. for the Red’s failures.

I, however, am going to visit my 98 year old mother and get her and Lloyd’s (her 105yr.old boyfriend) take on the whole thing. See you all later.
Mads

Adam Dunn called Riccardi to apologize. Only it wasn’t actually Dunn. Someone prank called him, and now its getting even more bizarre.

Or just amusing. But either way, its strange.

I’ll elaborate more later but:
Lloyd was in and out of reality tonight = during his lucid moments he ranted about how Dusty Baker was a terrible pitcher’s manager and Dusty was (somehow) responsible for the poor showing this year by Bronson and Harangatang.

My mother was really incensed after we had the 5 run lead and Toronto came back score 4 then next inning. her comment – What is wrong with this Herrin guy (Aaron Harang) – He’s need to get rested. Why isn’t a reliever up, as soon as he begins to have problems? She want the Reds to a good catcher who can hit and she convinced that Dick Pole doesn’t know anything about pitching.

In the 1920’s he was general manager of a medium level minor league team for a a couple of years, before he went into finance and got rich. I don’t know what team or where he was and I couldn’t get him to tell me much about that other than to say that today’s talent pool is quote” terrible, even with all the great black and Spanish players available’”. Lloyd is convinced that today’s players are better than the the guys in the old days but the number of teams and the kind of specialization that goes on now requires a much bigger small population to draw on than in the old days.And of course there aren’t as many athletes playing baseball. He blames this on the pro football! He has no use for Baker, partially because Dusty was a Dodger and partially because LLoyd really is convinced that Dusty has never had an original idea in his life.

As I said before my Mother is 98, never really became a fan until my Dad retired about 40 years ago and has really gotten interested over the last 18 years since Dad died. She is not an old schooler or is she a sabremetrician. She just loves the Reds. She is a big big big big big KG Jr. fan and especially likes following the pitchers. She has no use for Bronson Arroyo, partially because he is “so unkept” but she think he has a ‘silly’ windup. But she love Cutey Ceuto) and Eddie Vokest (Voltron) and she’s a big big big big Jay Bruce fan. Her reasoning is that these are the players who seem to be performing well. She definitely thinks Adam Dunn should be traded! He never hit in the clutch, or so she says. Can’t Keep Kepp and Jerry Jr. straight, loves Ryan Freel and hates all the catchers on the team I cannot have a logical discussion with her about line ups etc, all she cares about is what she knows “Get more good pitching and a good catcher and get a decent manager and we’ll be all right!” Pretty close to a direct quote. I think she’s been influenced by Lloyd.

3 doubles
2 RBI
2 Runs
2 BB on balls
4 – 12 .250 average
5 Baserunners.

No rally killers!

Now if Dusty will just move Jr. Down a bit more and Votto and Bruce up.things could get interesting.