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Game 148: Reds at Diamondbacks

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Cincinnati Reds
@ Arizona Diamondbacks

Saturday, Sep 13, 2008, 8:10 PM EDT
Chase Field

Edinson Volquez vs Randy Johnson

Clear. Winds blowing in from left field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 95.

 

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W-L ERA WHIP K BB
2008 - Edinson Volquez 16-5 3.23 1.33 184 80

W-L ERA WHIP K BB
2008 - Randy Johnson 10-9 4.21 1.28 156 38

The Wagon vs. The Unit.  I was surprised to see Johnson's numbers look as good as they do.  I thought he was washed up.  Guess I was wrong.

I'd like to see the Reds win tonight, but I'd also like to see the DBacks make the playoffs.  So, I declare that both shall happen!

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Let’s get #17 for big E!

by ctnyc on Sep 13, 2008 6:08 PM EDT   0 recs

So, um.

Where did the “unit” nickname come from?

I think we overmeet as a society.

by Gray on Sep 13, 2008 6:09 PM EDT   0 recs

heres something witty and subtle

his dick. Try that on for size Steven Wright

Are there any more dinner rolls? -President Ted Kennedy

by The Crushinator on Sep 13, 2008 6:15 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh, the horror

Global warming could cost Ohio its buckeyes

It’s not the best-researched global-warming theory, but it could be the most horrifying to certain fans of college football: Environmentalists said Friday that climate change might push the growing range of Ohio’s iconic buckeye tree out of the state, leaving it for archrival Michigan.

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by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 6:35 PM EDT   0 recs

Awesome news

I wonder if Ohio A&M will change their mascot if the Buckeye migrates north. No worries, Bobcats are better to retain than trees that bear worthless nuts.

(This story cracked me up. Directly after I heard this earlier today there was a report that 24% of married people sleep in different beds. Re he eally? Im not buying that one….)

by obc2 on Sep 13, 2008 6:39 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

As opposed to...

…athletes that bare worthless nuts?

And bobcats…they’re benefiting from the mortgage crisis in California, moving into foreclosed homes.

I’m kind of surprised they’re that bold. Around here anyway, bobcats are so shy you never see them. There are supposedly quite a few around, but people never see them.

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by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 6:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Fifth!

You know, like where the Reds are.

I can’t believe I’m going to pay attention to tonight’s game.

Phone's ringing, Dude.

by rjdio on Sep 13, 2008 6:38 PM EDT   0 recs

already a good day...

Michigan is 1-2; should be 0-3 if my alma mater could have mustered some offense !

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:05 PM EDT   0 recs

DOUBLE POST

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:17 PM EDT   0 recs

DOUBLE POST

way to go Votto

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:18 PM EDT   0 recs

* crickets chirping *

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:22 PM EDT   0 recs

I imagine once the USC asskicking commences

folks will trickle back in.

I’m listening to the LSU game, 10-0 over the stalwarts of North Texas in the first quarter.

How did the reds score?

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 8:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hairston walks, votto doubled

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:26 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I do like this Cherry guy - Ido - Cherry was driven by a Votto double

If Votto, EdE and Bruce keep increasing their power numbers and Gonzo comes back healthy and actually hits…Maybe we’ll see Jerry in LF in 09 ?

Oh and Go Bucks

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.
Dusty Baker

by Madville on Sep 13, 2008 8:26 PM EDT   0 recs

On my reds wishlist for 2009

A right handed power hitter
Some plate discipline
A catcher that can hit, catch and throw runners out
a one way plane ticket for Corey Patterson.
A new 3rd base coach
A new manager ( or at least Joe Lieberman to whisper in his ear when he screws up )

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:35 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You've read my last will and testament

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.
Dusty Baker

by Madville on Sep 13, 2008 9:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I should probably root for the D-backs

They’re standing in the way of a protected pick for the Yankees.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 8:30 PM EDT   0 recs

Holy Moses Rosales is the ugliest guy ive ever seen

that was kind of shocking once they put him up there on the screen

Are there any more dinner rolls? -President Ted Kennedy

by The Crushinator on Sep 13, 2008 8:33 PM EDT   0 recs

uglier than Randy Johnson ??

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 10:07 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Buckeyes draw first blood

and chew up most of the 1st quarter 3-0 OSU

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:45 PM EDT   0 recs

is there a football game or something

whats football? is it like baseball?

Are there any more dinner rolls? -President Ted Kennedy

by The Crushinator on Sep 13, 2008 8:47 PM EDT   0 recs

Yes

in that Jane Austen thinks young ladies should forswear it in favor of novel reading.

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 8:51 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Drooool

young ladieeeeesss!

Are there any more dinner rolls? -President Ted Kennedy

by The Crushinator on Sep 13, 2008 8:53 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

now 7-3 trojans

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 8:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Sound a bit like my hi gh school love life....back in the 60's one had a difficult time

getting sex and an even harder time getting prophylactics.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.
Dusty Baker

by Madville on Sep 13, 2008 9:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Tackling sounds very poor

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 8:58 PM EDT   0 recs

now its 14-3

oh well, better now than in January

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 9:16 PM EDT   0 recs

This place is a ghost town tonight

Photobucket

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 9:20 PM EDT   0 recs

bases loaded for Dunn

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 9:24 PM EDT   0 recs

gidp

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 9:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Bucks down 14 - 3 8 minutes left in the 2nd qtr.

Meanwhile I’m taking a break from repairing my ice maker…Votltron is on. I heard clownboy and Mark Sheldon talking about Micah’s surgery etc. sounds like they think he’ll be Okay and bring some more depth to the rotation…

The kid’s got good form

Oh and what is Hobart doing in the line up…if I didn’t have to fix this ice make,r I’d call Bob and give him direction on how the manager is supposed to the play and evaluate the ‘young’ guys this time of year. If Walt and Dustbag don’t know Hobart by now, then they’re never gonna know. never gonna know….

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.
Dusty Baker

by Madville on Sep 13, 2008 9:39 PM EDT   0 recs

Hats

The Yankees and Rays are wearing their 4th of July hats. For 9-11, maybe?

Are the Reds wearing their normal hats?

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 9:44 PM EDT   0 recs

yes..

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 9:52 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hmmm

Maybe it’s a NY thing.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 9:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

34 comments through 6 innings

is this a season low ??

and its 21-3 USC now so that shouldn’t be the reason

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 10:06 PM EDT   0 recs

Well Ohio State is taking it up the butt

looks like not much is up here… mourning?

Politickin' in God's Country

by chesirecat on Sep 13, 2008 10:07 PM EDT   0 recs

Hey guys!

I’m not here to taunt you OSU fans…

i promise

What's the ratio of Stanley Nickels to Schrute Bucks?

by chandrathan on Sep 13, 2008 10:08 PM EDT   0 recs

Nah I had no expectations

And let me tell you they are delivering!

Politickin' in God's Country

by chesirecat on Sep 13, 2008 10:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

you shouldn't

not after the way michigan played today

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 10:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

not so fast

I don’t think tHan has announced his allegiances for this season. Perhaps Michigan is not on his list.

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:13 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

well

it is hard to root for a punk like rodriguez…

i still hope kentucky wins…

but most of my college football rooting is for OSU to lose…

What's the ratio of Stanley Nickels to Schrute Bucks?

by chandrathan on Sep 13, 2008 10:15 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The Reds Suck, The Bengals are an embarrassment, UC basketball stinks

and now OSU is taking it up the butt. To top it off my fucking ice machine is not co-operating. I am setting off a small nuclear device in my fridge…and while we’re at it fuck Michigan.

Christ on a hubcap traveling on a1949 Chrysler Windsor with fluid drive 2 speed (the first real) automatic transmission heading on the road to Mecca. Allah be praised

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.
Dusty Baker

by Madville on Sep 13, 2008 10:16 PM EDT   0 recs

wonder if they'll have Tina Fey as Sarah Palin

so says yahoo

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 10:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Sarah pahlin looks alot like Tina Fey..

but she sounds like the school secretary in ferris buehler

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 10:23 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

totally agree

nice

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

grande and stache talking about the new reds spring facility...

i still can’t believe spring training will be in Arizona. theres probably all of a half dozen reds fan in the entire state

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 10:20 PM EDT   0 recs

yeah

I don’t like it, either. It’s really too far to drive. And flying is such a pain these days.

I really wonder if they are making a mistake. Airlines are dropping like flies, due to high fuel prices. Something like 100,000 Brits were stranded when a British airline went under today, and the CEO of British Airways said he expects 30 more airlines to fail before Christmas. The days of casual air travel may be coming to an end.

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by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 10:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Help is on the Way!!

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080912-solarpower-beam-test.html

WASHINGTON — A former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a distance of 92 miles (148 km) between two Hawaiian islands, an achievement that he says proves the technology exists to beam solar power from satellites back to Earth.

John C. Mankins demonstrated the solar power transmission for the Discovery Channel, which paid for the four month experiment and will broadcast the results Friday at 9 p.m. EDT. His vision is to transmit solar power collected by orbiting satellites as large as 1,102 pounds (500 kg) to lake-sized receiver stations on Earth.

Mankins, who worked at NASA for 25 years and managed the agency’s space-based solar program before it was disbanded, transmitted 20 watts of power between the two islands in May. The receivers, however, were so small that less than one one-thousandth of a percent of the power was received, Mankins said.

The experiment cost about $1 million, and Mankins said larger arrays could be constructed with more money.

Each of the nine solar panels used was built to transmit about 20 watts of power, but the transmission was scaled back to two watts per panel in order to obtain U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval for the test.

Despite the miniscule reception on the receiving end, Mankins said the ground-based test proved it is possible to transmit solar power through the atmosphere.

“The test was in no way fully successful,” he said. “I think it showed it is possible to transmit solar power quickly and affordably.”

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:29 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

and i'm flying to jacksonville tuesday for $95 dollars

have to fly out of Indy though

it makes no sense, the airlines deserve to fail with stupid pricing schedules like that

AKA redsfan68 Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 13, 2008 10:29 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Who knows

It’s such a crapshoot.

But I wanted to go to Arches National Park in Utah this fall or winter, and basically, you can’t get there from here. Even if I leave from NYC…I’d have a 10-hour layover in Dallas or Atlanta to get there. It’s nuts.

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by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 10:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I looked into that

But it would be 5-1/2 hours drive from Denver – each way. And 4 hours from Salt Lake City. Might as well just get comfy for ten hours on the floor of an airport somewhere. Preferably one with free wireless.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Sep 13, 2008 10:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Dallas does if you're in the AA Admirals Club

though I think admission to that might cost more than I could earn by spending ten hours on the floor of an airport.

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:51 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Apparently, it looked like Brad Lester had been killed on the field

on his back, not moving, eyes closed, neck immobile.

Scary

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:26 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think so

I heard via another blog that is “just” a neck sprain. Which is bad, but considering it looked like he had died on the field, it’s obviously a relief.

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, I wonder

what the take will be on football 100 or 200 years hence. It could be seen as a pretty unforgivable “sport.”

But I have a suspicion that the game has gotten somehow safer over time. I wonder what the death/serious injury figures are compared to the number of people playing organized football.

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:38 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

That was a terrible sentence

What I meant was, I wonder if there are fewer serious injuries today then say 30 years ago — when adjusted for increase in popularity.

It’s probably an impossible task to know for sure; there are just too many variables and too little information.

But it strikes me as one of those situations that turn out to be counterintuitive. The easy thing to say is “the speed and size of the game have lead to more and more serious injuries.” I could just see the opposite being true.

Or not.

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Kentucky just squeaked by Middle Tennessee...

You wanna hear some bullshit?

UK’s last two weeks they have played Norfolk State and Middle Tennessee.

Neither has been on local television, but both have been available on UK PPV.

That’s right for only 25 you can see a mediocre UK team play lower level teams, with UKTV’s shitty production values and horrible announcers. What a deal!

What's the ratio of Stanley Nickels to Schrute Bucks?

by chandrathan on Sep 13, 2008 10:29 PM EDT   0 recs

If you want to see them live....

we get the re-broadcast over SNL. I don’t know which is worse

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by xjjeep90 on Sep 13, 2008 10:32 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

SNL

hands down

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

by Man Mountain on Sep 13, 2008 10:38 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

So the Astros-Cubs series is moving to Milwaukee

and the Astros lose home field advantage even though they will bat as if they are at home.

Total bullshit.

www.crosleyfieldterrace.wordpress.com

by xjjeep90 on Sep 13, 2008 10:35 PM EDT   0 recs

I blame Al Gore

Or whoever decided it was a good idea to build a city in a hurricane zone.

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