Trade day thread, continued

I will be more excited to see what it leads to this off season.

Affeldt and Weathers are STILL here! i cannot be this hard to run a baseball team. it CAN NOT!! im just so tired of watching this team do wrong things.

Sad.

I wish him well.

Bruce or Dunn? Here’s the lineup I hope to see:

Hairston CF
Bruce RF
Dunn LF
Phillips 2b
Votto 1B
Edwin 3B
Kepp SS
Catcher
Pitcher

Unfortunately, I think Kepp will hit No. 2, and Votto will be stuck batting No. 7

although louisville has no chance—they’re facing tomo ohka

the white sox are in kansas city tomorrow, so Joey Poz will get to write something bad-ass about Griffey’s first day as a Sox.

I’m actually not at all upset with this deal. Griffey just isn’t the stud he used to be. He’s still a decent player, but I feel like the salary this frees up needs to be used well to get the real idea oof this trade’s importance.

i realize it is what is best for the team. he wasnt any good any more and any return is better than none, but he was still my childhood hero. it just seems like he was discarded, tossed the curb unceramoniously.

after reading what has been written about his time here and how scorned he was, its just hard being one of the few who will really miss him, for better or worse.  his time with the team really left a sore spot its true, but the way he left just rubbed salt in the wound.

but i will never forget that upper deck shot he hit last night, and that i was blessed enough to see the great Ken Griffey Jr play baseball for my team. its so weird; i advocated trading him for a while, but now thats its happened im very emotional about it. like there was always a slim ray of hope that the Great Ken Griffey would come alive and lead this team to redemption, but now that hope is all gone. i dont know. we’ll play another one tomorrow.

Speculation that Kearns is the next to go, with Bowden fired after this year.

quite a fall from grace!

Reds fans will remember the excitement that February day in 2000 when the Reds announced the team had acquired hometown hero Griffey from Seattle for Brett Tomko, Mike Cameron, Antonio Perez and Jake Meyer.

At the press conference Junior was beaming, GM Jim Bowden was grinning like a 1950s Buick…

Huh.

Huh?

Jerry Jr, CF
Kepp 2B
Dunn LF
BP 2b
EdE 3b
Bruce RF
Votto !b
BLahko C
P

My Batting order/line up

Jerry Jr. SS
Bruce RF
Dunn LF
EdE 3B
BP SS
Votto 1B
Ross C
Keppinger 2b
Pitcher

I like mine better than Dusty’s (proposed order) I’ll be interested to which, out of all the lineups that have been posted comes the cosed to DB’s.

Does Copat = Butt Boy, Paul ?

Could these guys on your team Dusty,,,they look like butt buddies

your prison bitch Mr. toothpick

and your witch Mr, Ross

WE can no longer rely on Logic, common sense or sabrmetrics…Let us carve funereal figures,masks of power, create bold fetishes and bring the light of informed reason to the Infidel Dusty Baker. These indigenous African tools were very powerful and the chosen person can still wield then today, Some say I am Madville ?

After sleeping on it for a night, I’m fine with this deal. I think emotions were hidden below the surface that caused me to dislike the deal. For as poorly as he’s played, Griffey is still a Hall of Famer and emotionally you want him to be worth more than he really is worth. The Reds are saving money AND somebody gave them some replacement parts as well. It’s not a great deal, but as Fay says, “the White Sox did the Reds a huge favor here.”

Then Fay also says, “I think the sentiment inside the baseball department still is to Dunn him go, but if he continues to hit close to what he’s hit in July that could change.”

Obviously the first half of the sentence is gobbledygook, but it’s the second half that really bothers me. If they need two more months of Adam Dunn performing well to be convinced that he’s worth keeping then the organization is screwed. Dunn is one of the 10 most consistent hitters over the last 5 years. Every year his numbers look ridiculously similar. If you don’t know what to expect from him, then you haven’t been paying attention.

Lineup for Reds at Nationals, 7:35 p.m.

Jerry Hairston Jr. cf

Jeff Keppinger ss

Jay Bruce rf

Brandon Phillips 2b

Adam Dunn lf

Edwin Encarnacion 3b

Andy Phillips 1b

David Ross c

Homer Bailey p

he’s given up 26 hits, 14 ERs, 3 BBs, while striking out 13.

Will we get the hits or the Ks?

Three things.

1) The fact that there’s some straight-faced debate of the merits of Griffey versus the merits of DeWayne Wise makes me sick to my stomach.

2) They seem to universally regard the loss of Masset as “addition by subtraction.” Yippee.

3) Holy crap! Chicago baseball blogs can have people with demonstrable intelligence, wit, and sense of humor! I now hate Cubs fans even more.

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