from the Fay:

Jeff Keppinger SS
Joey Votto 1B
Jay Bruce RF
Brandon Phillips 2B
Adam Dunn LF
Edwin Encarnacion 3B
Corey Patterson CF
Paul Bako C
Josh Fogg P

He says Hairston may be going back on the DL. Maybe Dickerson will get his chance after all…

Buster Olney said, “I talked to one GM today that said he wouldn’t give Dunn more than a one or two year deal at 5-million a year when he becomes a free agent this offseason.”

how could he turn that down?

and was replaced by dwayne wise

Via the Fay:

I would like to thank the Cincinnati Reds organization for allowing me to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing for my hometown team. I will always value the lasting friendships I have with the Lindner, Castellini and Williams families.

While my nine seasons there were filled with personal highlights – like hitting my 400th, 500th and 600th home runs in a Reds uniform – and the negatives of having to fight through too many injuries, my biggest regret is that we were not able to win a world championship while I was there.

I also would like to thank my many teammates, managers, coaches and Reds employees for their help and support and to acknowledge the many friendly relationships I had with most of the members of the local media. I will miss the banter.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank Reds fans for their support. I really do understand that the overwhelming majority of fans wanted so badly for me to succeed. Additionally, I would like to sincerely apologize to those fans offended by my wrongful actions last Saturday night. It was an overreaction on my part to what I felt was a series of public inaccurate and unfair remarks about me.

I wish nothing but success for the Reds both on and off the field.

Sincerely,

Ken Griffey Jr.

Classy move by The Kid. Hopefully this heat cramp thing is nothing serious and he can get his ring with the Sox this year.

go reds!

Josh Hamilton or something

What’s sad to me is that the GM who thought it was a good idea to sign Josh Fogg isn’t around anymore to learn from it. So that means we’re going to do the same thing this offseason.

Lucky he got a hit.

Reds suck

challenge him, let him get him self out

please get him out

that’s batting Jesus Flores and Kory Casto 5-6 in their order. Fuckin’ Christ, Reds!

I refuse to lose to a team who has our former Attorney General batting 6th.

I guess I am watching so I can see this guy fail

A couple feet away from a GS. I’ll take the three-run double.

upper tank shot!!!

as long as he’s going to be seeing at bats for our team.

After throwing 59 pitches in two innings, Bergmann is only up to 67 after 3.1.

I haven’t been watching all game, but it looks like most guys have hit the ball pretty hard against Fogg.

Drag bunt, pitcher overthrows first, Patterson goes all the way to third.

a squeeze from the witch?

I still wanna win a few

I’m full of sangria, we’re barely beating the nats, and the thread is crawling. What more could a girl ask for?

are at the ballpark today. Only us scrubs here tonight.

At least Brendan & Co. are getting a good game.

Dear Mike Lincoln

Please stop sucking.

Thanks.

Apparently, it’s bad bullpen night.

I just turned it, and I see a team involved in, insider selling, Lincoln, Phillips, Dunn, the catcher, one error or muff after another. Help me. Dusty Baker didnt know what he was getting into, did he? HolyMoly.

BP error? FTH? And now he gets robbed.

Or is it just a sad coincidence?

have really shown Washington what they’ve missed.

Why isn’t he batting higher in the order?

I see the Reds have gone form 6-2 when I left to 6-10. Very fine.

this thing is crawling! wake up mods!

Clottey v. Judah?

when Patterson got his bunt single (which greatly disapointed me in my hopes that he will continue his possibly historic bad season) and than Bako came up. I couldn’t understand why Bako was hitting second.

saying that Dusty was hellbent on fucking up. Well, it wasn’t Dusty, it was just the whole team, which has now turned into a steaming pile of dog crap. And fitting, isn’t it, that Corey busted out and went 2-4? Now I have nothing to look forward to because he’s all the way up to .189. No way he catches the hard hitting Andruw Jones out in LA now. All the optimism has been crushed out of me for this year. Not even a real shot at a .500 record now. We’re the KC of the NL now. for shame, Reds, for shame.

Guh.

• Bruce hit a home run.

• Corey made a pretty sweet throw.

• Fogg wasn’t terrible after the first inning.

That’s about all for positives.

We had runners on the corners with one out and Dusty called for a bunt. What. The. FUCK? Because getting the runner to second is much more important than bringing the guy on third home? And now you have two outs, so he can’t score on a sac fly? I hate Dusty. I hate him so much.

Keppinger is pretty useless as a shortstop. Bruce might actually be a worse defender than Adam Dunn. The Nats’ infield defense puts ours to shame.

I was so upset that I didn’t even bother to stick around for the free screening of “Rookie of the Year.” Funky buttloving!

I hate seeing the Reds lose to the Nationals. They were swept in DC last year, and it’s looking pretty probable that it could happen again. What in the ever loving hell?

I’m cranky and need to go to bed, but I wanted to thank sonant for coming out to the game. Great to meet him, and yet another person I’ve met off the internet without incident!