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Game 134: Reds at Astros

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Cincinnati Reds
@ Houston Astros

Thursday, Aug 28, 2008, 2:05 PM EDT
Minute Maid Park

Aaron Harang vs Brandon Backe

Mostly sunny. Winds blowing out to right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 90.

 

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W-L ERA WHIP K BB
2008 - Aaron Harang 4-13 5.35 1.48 119 41

W-L ERA WHIP K BB
2008 - Brandon Backe 8-12 5.54 1.60 116 71

Afternoon game today.  Man, I really wish Harang had been shutdown.  I hope he's actually healthy and not just being a trooper for this shitty team.  No way this team is competitive next season without a healthy Harang.

Reds NL Central magic number is down to 5.  They are really trying to make it tight, aren't they?

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Did you guys see the Chicago Sun-Times tear Jay Mariotti a new one?

It’s awesome! (hat tip CTR)

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 12:14 PM EDT   0 recs

yeah i saw that yesterday on fark

and couldn’t believe that it was a true story. That’s as good as it gets!

I ain't often right but I've never been wrong.

by chandrathan on Aug 28, 2008 12:16 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I get my sports news from "humorous" websites

So I read that and thought it was made up. God, that’s good. “I’ll miss him around here. Not personally, of course.”

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 12:23 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

When Mariotti was leaving, I thought I'd miss him

but it turns out that I’ve got pretty good aim and I hit him squarely with the front bumper.

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 12:29 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

Maybe..

The Enquirer could follow suit and get rid of some of the dead weight around there too.

Sept 6th - Duffers Open - http://duffersopen.org/ - Play some golf with your fellow RRs.

by snohio on Aug 28, 2008 2:17 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Awesome!

He still has a gig with ESPN though! Although he is not even the biggest douche on ESPN!

1. Jim Rome
2. Skip Bayliss
3. Stephen A. Smith
4. Woody Paige

are all ahead of him.

Norris Hopper's #1 fan!!!

by Zach K on Aug 29, 2008 12:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Gonna Have to disagree zach

Every person you listed there has at some point entertained me.

Mariotti has never done anything that didn’t make me want to change the channel.

Jim Rome’s radio show is actually really good.

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

by chandrathan on Aug 29, 2008 12:16 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

What!

Jim Rome’s radio show is him blabbering on the whole time.

Skip Bayliss is like Reynard and Micheal x100 but except he gets paid lots of $ to do it

Stephen A. Smith ruined the 2007 NBA Draft with his non stop blabbering

Wood Paige always tries to make a “Good Ole Day” story out of everything.

Norris Hopper's #1 fan!!!

by Zach K on Aug 29, 2008 12:34 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Ok
  • Jim Rome’s radio show is him blabbering on the whole time.

Yep, that’s what you do when you host a radio show.

  • Skip Bayliss is like Reynard and Micheal x100 but except he gets paid lots of $ to do it

At least his is clever and funny in his wrongness. Mariotti is neither.

  • Stephen A. Smith ruined the 2007 NBA Draft with his non stop blabbering

Not a huge Stephen A. Fan, but I still like him better than Mariotti.

  • Wood Paige always tries to make a "Good Ole Day" story out of everything.

He is a buffoon, but he embraces playing the part. I’d say that them making fun of him is what made Around the Horn.

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

by chandrathan on Aug 29, 2008 12:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

If Jime Rome blabbered all the time on his radio show it would be a huge improvement

The thing about Rome’s radio show is he takes long pauses.
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He takes these huge pauses on his radio show.
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He takes them to fill time and he repeats himself a lot.
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He repeats himself! And takes long pauses.
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To fill time.
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Sincerely,
Someone famous and not very funny
/faux attitude

by Red Menace on Aug 29, 2008 2:47 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm ahlso not gonna read...

…any posts by Red Menace…..So don’t bother sending ‘em….yeah, we’re not doing thaht……..I’m not gonna read them, clones….the ones thaht say how I take long pauses….so I’m telling you right now, don’t bother senthingthemincuzI’mnotgonnareadem…loved the conversation with Chan Gailey b’theway…

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 29, 2008 3:15 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

you guys are spot on!

but you forgot about playing the same audio clip over and over for about fifteen minutes.

boom…outta here

tell me how my ass tastes

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

by chandrathan on Aug 29, 2008 3:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The push for 29th best in the majors begins today!

Come on Reds, you can do it, San Diego is starting to heat up. Only 7 games back!

Politickin' in God's Country

by chesirecat on Aug 28, 2008 12:30 PM EDT   0 recs

Rosales starts!

Dickerson LF
Kepp SS
Phillips 2B
Votto 1B
Bruce RF
Rosales 3B
Patterson CF
Hanigan C
Harang P

Dusty Baker is dumb.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Aug 28, 2008 12:57 PM EDT   0 recs

i guess Dusty wanted him to be "comfortable"

so he put him close to shortstop. Dusty Baker is dumb.

Dusty Baker is dumb.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Aug 28, 2008 1:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Why not Jolbert in CF?

Is Dusty just trying to personally piss me off now?

by PeteyHendrix on Aug 28, 2008 1:33 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

edit:

Votto is batting 3rd, Phillips is batting 4th.

Dusty Baker is dumb.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Aug 28, 2008 2:06 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

That's mulletist!

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 1:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

If you'd said "mullattoist,"

that would have been racist.

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:01 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I thought that was a type of coffee.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

No, they're cookies made by Pepperidge Farm

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 2:04 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Delicious!

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:06 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Pepperidge Farm remembers

When certain folks weren’t allowed to mix with other folks without ostracization.

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:08 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Wait, what?

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:10 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

Basically riffing off a Futurama joke

TV Voice: “Do you remember a time when cookies came fresh from the oven? Petridge Farm remembers!”
Fry: “Ahh, those were the days.”
TV Voice: “Do you remember a time when women couldn’t vote and certain folk weren’t allowed on golf courses? Petridge Farm remembers!”

Throw the mulatto talk into the mix, and voila! Poorly executed joke!

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:18 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I got it.

i just wanted to post a picture of an ostrich.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:19 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm reading a case in Torts

About Cunningham egging on a guy to blow smoke in the face of an anti-smoking activist on his show, and being liable for battery.

I’m not doing a really good job of staying unbiased

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:02 PM EDT   0 recs

Woo hoo! Work distractions!

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Aug 28, 2008 2:09 PM EDT   0 recs

Amen

and my boss is leaving for vacation in half an hour.

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Game's on

Keppinger on first with a single!

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:10 PM EDT   0 recs

Last night I listened to a half inning of the game on the radio

and Brantley said flat out twice in a 6 minute inning. It included this gem, “That’s how you get flat out of a double play.” (in regards to Joey Votto breaking up a double play) It’s like his mind knew the word “out” was coming up so it naturally threw a “flat” in front of it.

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 2:14 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

love it

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:17 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

My father and his family use "flat out" a lot

and they’re Cincinnati back to the 1900’s.

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

William Howard Taft

can flat out bust trusts.

by ken on Aug 28, 2008 2:32 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

that's interesting

could be perception bias on your part.

But I did hear an Englishman in my dept. use it when talking about some EPL team on Monday.

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:35 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

How Fulham flat out embarrassed Arsenal?

After they themselves were flat out embarrassed by Stoke City?

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:36 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think he was talking about the Villians

He’s a fan, though I believe he may have been talking about how they were embarrassed by Stoke.

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:40 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Ah, Villa

Flat out owned by Americans with an American flat out keeping goal, and another one flat out backing him up. They are flat out the new Team America. Fuck Fulham.

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Even more surprising:

the number of Englishman starting

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

*men

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Votto

GIBP. weird dude.

Dusty Baker is dumb.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Aug 28, 2008 2:12 PM EDT   0 recs

Wigginton, out

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:14 PM EDT   0 recs

That's wiggeda-wiggeda-whack

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 2:16 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Well this is going well, Adam

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Aug 28, 2008 2:15 PM EDT   0 recs

Fuck Fuck Fuck Berkman

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:18 PM EDT   0 recs

Berkman doubles

also, gas prices are too high.

Dusty Baker is dumb.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Aug 28, 2008 2:18 PM EDT   0 recs

I hear the commodity market price for Berkman

has risen over $100 a barrel.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:20 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

heh

Berkman’s fat

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 2:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hot Damn!

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:22 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I was half hoping that Harang was healed, hale, and hearty

But hurling heroically, though hazardously? Heaven help us!

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:21 PM EDT   0 recs

heh

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 2:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

BP works fast.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:21 PM EDT   0 recs

At BP, efficiency is job one

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 2:22 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Games at Minute Maid are lit like a strip mall

it really annoys me

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2008 2:22 PM EDT   0 recs

plus

Tiffany plays shows there every Wednesday night.

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Aug 28, 2008 2:23 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

She and Darin Erstad

are running just as fast as they can.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

whoo

Harang rolling.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 28, 2008 2:30 PM EDT   0 recs

Harang

studied efficiency under the illustrious Brandon Phillips. 23 pitches through 2 innings.

Dusty Baker is dumb.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Aug 28, 2008 2:30 PM EDT   0 recs

Patterson sees 2 pitches

dude is flat out consistent

Dusty Baker is dumb.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Aug 28, 2008 2:33 PM EDT   0 recs

If he were to fall

would he be flat out, flat out?

Overserved and underwhelmed.

by Pops Daniels on Aug 28, 2008 2:34 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Dear Dusty,

WE SUCK AT BUNTING. Everyone on the team. ‘Cept maybe Hopper, but he’s hurt. Stop calling for us to bunt, for we are terrible at it. Don’t. Bunt. Anymore. Got it? Good.

Sincerely,

’Nukkah

by Brendanukkah on Aug 28, 2008 2:37 PM EDT   0 recs