Its been a long time coming. It seems to me that a lot of what you say has been true for as long as a few left-handed outfielders have been the dominant on-field personalities. Get some more youngsters and you might have a change in attitude and effort that can make up for some of their production. I suppose at least Toothpick gets another year though.

This team needs an MRI.

DRINK!!

One thing that’s bothered me is how EdE’s been (not) used.

On a team starved for RH power, Dusty’s been sitting him to play Kepp, who has as many XBH (13) than EdE has HRs (granted, in 81 more AB, but EdE has 17 more XBH in those AB). In fact, for as much love as he gets (with cries of “We need his bat in the lineup!”), Kepp’s OPS+ is only 94 while EdE’s is 103.

I know the OF is a mess – Jr really should be benched, and it now looks like Bruce really could have used some more seasoning in AAA – and Hairston does need to play everyday until the witch’s potion wears off, but I don’t see how sitting EdE for Kepp is a good move.

if Cock Penis (the pitching coach) and/or Jacoby were changed? Jr.’s still hitting 3rd and all of the micromanagement shit will still happen.

I agree wholeheartedly

fire the whole coaching staff !

And during that time the Reds won 4 in a row, of course was it me being on Vacation or the fact they player the nationals? We’ll never know.

I think Pole and Jacoby are not doing so well but their third base coach is horrible (Berry?). So many times Reds get thrown out at the plate easily, or stay on third when there is no chance to get them at the plate. If you asked me who to look at replacing it would go Dusty, Jacoby, Berry. Remember we are talking about the Reds who sometimes feel a replacement should actually be worse than the guy they let go for poor performance.

Do you think Dusty wore his armbands to his job interview, and that was what impressed Bob and Wayne so much?

I don’t think Griffey’s problem is a lack of leadership, heart, hustle, etc. I just think his old body is not very good anymore.

And I can’t exactly defend the coaching staff, but if they’re responsible for losing 9-12 games in half a season we’re seeing the worst coaching jobs ever.

does it make sense to have a pitching coach whose career ERA average was over 5 ??

I would like to fire Dr. Tim too
Boy this team is like a soft pile of elephant shit…when it is good it hard
When it stinks it is soft and gooey. Right now and for most of the season its been one fresh dump after another.

If coaches don’t make a difference then why the hell do all the best teams have them?
We don’t think coaches make much of a difference because we’ve only had a couple good ones recently…Don Gullet and Chris Chambliss. I wonder why guys like Sparky, Pinella, Bobby Cox, Tony LaRusa, Tommy LaSorda always seem to have more wins than losses…but guys like Miley, Coach Narron, Dave Shula and Dustnuts Baker don’t do as well? Could it be that the former are just plain better a getting players to play , to create a winning attitude and maybe make less stupid mistakes than the latter? Or do the former just always ‘seem’ to have better players.

Sparky won it all in both leagues….

The Reds have been outscored 61-19 in their last nine losses.

Remember the days when we had a good offense? I would say but now we have good pitching, except we don’t even really have that. Our team is pants.

With some exceptions today’s Reds were working the count, making the pitcher throw strikes and they beat a fairly decent pitcher in Ted Lily. Why aren’t they mandated to show more AB maturity by this kind of showing?

2008 Red’s players ( for the most part) are good enough to be in the race.
But the Manager and coaches are not. Ergo – If the Reds win 40 more games it will despite the staff, not because of it.
Revealing quote by Dusty: Dusty Baker is showing he is no judge of pitching talent thus far this … “Dick Pole (current Reds pitching coach) is the best pitching coach I ever had. ...www.journal-news.com/s/content/oh/