Game 126: Reds at Cubs

sub-100 comment game thread of the year!

BOO!

this is my comment for the night.

oh and whoever suggested to google “this shit is bananas” (im sure it was Pops) needs to get their mouth washed out.

The Reds will have money to spend if they want to raise their payroll. In terms of 2009, the combined $25 million for Griffey and Dunn will be off the books, but it doesn’t mean the payroll is shrinking or there is an influx of fresh cash to spend. Closer Francisco Cordero will go from $8.5 million to $12 million. Aaron Harang goes from $6.75 to $11 million. Alex Gonzalez goes from $4.6 to $5.375 million. Bronson Arroyo moves from nearly $6.5 to $9.5 million. Brandon Phillips increases from $2.75 to $4.75 million and Ryan Freel ups from $3 to $4 million.

That’s six players that will make a combined $46.625 million

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I vaguely remember the last time…..something about screwing the cow?

Go Reds – whoever you are now

Dickerson LF
Kepp SS
Bruce RF
Phillips 2B
Votto 1B
Encarnacion 3B
Patterson CF
Bako C
Cueto P

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i think i speak for all of us here at RR when i extend my deepest sympathy to Joey and the entire Votto family.

(At least until gymnastics comes on.) Go Cueto go!

I hate the Cubs. I hate hate the Cubs.

just a little.

horseshit

this thread is gonna rawk!

Somebody’s been reading RR…

It’s very clear the coaches don’t read scouting reports and don’t bother telling the players anything about pitchers they’re facing for the first time.

(trying to jix it)

just like the last few times i’ve gone there, there is some kinda white powder on the bun of my roast beefs. has anyone else noticed this, or can you tell me what it is/what its purpose is?

Way to pick off Sori!

I have Something Against You

…and offense

finish off this great game you have going

after Corey hacked at the first pitch to end the last inning.

Then he throw his body at the ball instead of catching the damn thing, and Bob Brenly blames Bruce after Corey’s “nice effort.”

I’m so sick of this Patterson shit.

that is all

Ede my new favorite player on the Reds

Fuck you. He should have OUT but we can’t throw or catch.

That’s half on EdE for not checking the runner and half on Bako for pointing to first.

out of the closet finally, just to keep ratings up

ASAP

cheshirecat was wrong!

(I’ll be trademarking this new twist on the first! craze, BTW.)

That was NOT a swing on strike three to Kepp. Fukodome had a bigger swing than that in the previous inning on a pitch that was called a ball, and he actually RAN through the strikezone with the bat straight out.

He just really not going to work counts is he?

AND STOP SWINGING AT THE FIRST PITCH!!!!!!!

STOP LISTENING TO YOUR IDIOT COACHES!!!!!!

that is all.

Rich Harden has no business being that efficient. This only shows that pitch counts often have more to do with the batters than it has to do with the guy on the mound.

Still steady rollin’

for the righty from San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. He may lose tonight, but he’s gonna be a damn good pitcher

Keppinger is just as at fault for the run scoring than EdE is. He was standing over by 2nd for some reason, instead of covering 3rd when EdE charged the bunt.

He almost throws one into left field here in the 8th, and he should have had Soto at the plate back in the 5th.

feeling it

A half-way mediocre team beats the Cubs tonight.

Unbelievable.

This is bullshit.

the rain again.

I’m telling you, I have forgotten what it is like for this team to be good. ’99 seems like such a long friggin time ago.

I’m not even pissed off about the ’pen’s implosion to rant about it.

Just feels like we’re marking time until the end of the season just to see what the hell next year can bring. And that is a sad place to be in, particularly in August.

Must be fun to be a Rays fan now

And our leadoff hitter hacks at the first pitch over his head.

for futility?

out of first place at the end of the season?

Stop swinging at that pitch in your eyes. You cannot hit it. You know you cannot hit it it because you swing at it in every at bat and have NEVER hit it. Please try to lay off next time.

Or would a letter from your owner help you remember? Nah, forget it.

I just left and came back to this page and now all of your comments appeared.

Can we go back to the old RR site? This one hasn’t improved since we got here.

When the dancing and smiling will be in the Queen City.

I may not be alive to see it, but I have to believe that it will come someday.

That will be a sweet, sweet day. Hopefully, it will involve someone pushing Jim Edmonds’ wheelchair off the upper deck with him in it.

If for no other reason than the irony

and you still have a crappy bull pen.

But NBC focuses on the fact that Lolo Jones lost . . . because she’s hot and white. Shame on NBC. Harper is so excited, and she barely gets an interview on the track. That’s sad.

And it’s almost a no hitter.