Game 138: Reds vs Pirates
Pittsburgh Pirates @ Cincinnati Reds
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A matchup of two very disappointing pitchers. The Pirates had hoped that Snell would perform like an ace this season, much like the Reds expected from Harang. Despite Harang's consecutive good starts, I'd still like to see him shut down for a month, but I'm overly cautious when the season doesn't matter any more.
Then again, the Reds STILL haven't been eliminated from the division. If they keep winning and the Cubs keep losing for the rest of the season, who knows, right? Stranger things have never happened.
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FIRST!
The Dusty Path to the World Series!*
*Note this is not an endorsment of Dusty Baker.
by justin007000 on Sep 2, 2008 5:03 PM EDT 0 recs
Stranger things never happened, huh?
Then how do you explain that every time I type a zinger in a game thread it spontaneously turns to gold?
Count it.
by Brendanukkah on Sep 2, 2008 5:05 PM EDT 0 recs
I feel committed to having a good game thread today
250 comments or bust!
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 5:12 PM EDT
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if there was ever a game worthy of a good game thread, this is it
if we get to 250 comments, will that be more than people at the game?
by chandrathan on
Sep 2, 2008 5:14 PM EDT
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Most likely
Will there be more people attending the Cincinnati-Pittsburgh game tomorrow night, or the US Open Cup Final between DC United and the Charleston Battery? I can tell you which one I’m going to.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 5:16 PM EDT
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It varies
DC will typically draw around 20,000 for a Saturday game. Some teams will have attendance down around 10,000 but the average yearly attendance works out to probably between 17,000-19,000 a game.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 5:26 PM EDT
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how many red blooded Americans go to watch soccer
and i don’t count those latte drinking, new york times readin commie bitches.
The Dusty Path to the World Series!*
*Note this is not an endorsment of Dusty Baker.
by justin007000 on
Sep 2, 2008 5:27 PM EDT
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New York gets really bad attendance
But they’re finally getting their own stadium, so they don’t have to play in cavernous Giants Stadium anymore. United still plays in RFK, and will for the foreseeable future, since Nationals Park caused the DC Council to sour on building stadiums. But even though it’s big, United often sells out the lower bowl, and visiting fans will often sit in the top bowl behind the north goal. Lately, a pretty big contingent of the Sons of Ben – fans of the to-be-formed Philadelphia MLS franchise – have been coming to games.
The great part about going to see games at RFK is that the seats for the supporters sections aren’t fully secured (thanks, dual-purpose stadiums!), so they shake and bounce like crazy. It’s amazing.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 5:33 PM EDT
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im looking for tickets
for the Crew game against the Galaxy on Oct 4 and ticketmaster is sold out. at least, i think it is. i dont know. but Crew Stadium is a damn nice place to see some sports.
Dusty Baker is dumb.
by Charlie Scrabbles on
Sep 2, 2008 5:53 PM EDT
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I have a soft spot for Crew Stadium
Since it was the first soccer specific stadium ever built in America. I’ve seen some Crew games there, the US Men’s National Team beat Mexico 2-0 in a World Cup qualifier, and some Women’s World Cup games. It’s definitely fun.
The Galaxy game will be tough to get tickets to, cuz that’s the Traveling Beckham show. Never mind the fact that the Crew have the best record in MLS this season…
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:07 PM EDT
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i am kind of against shutting Harang down for the season
mostly because I feel that if there is somethign wrong with his tendon the damage has already has been done. We might as well see if his arm is sound, if it is he will be fine, if it isn’t well, he cna get the surgery done now, and will have more value for 2010, then if nothign happens until next Spring.
The Dusty Path to the World Series!*
*Note this is not an endorsment of Dusty Baker.
by justin007000 on Sep 2, 2008 5:07 PM EDT 0 recs
harang
im ok with him finishing out the year, he’s got plenty of time to rest in the offseason. fogg however, has to go for either thompson or ramirez. its been fun foggy but its long relief time.
by shark8 on
Sep 2, 2008 6:05 PM EDT
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In honor of Crolfer's return from Texas
I submit the following:

maybe I should be submitting this:
Someone said he was doing ‘missionary’ work somewhere….Texas or Alaska
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 2, 2008 6:10 PM EDT 0 recs
what the hell is that 1st picture...???
it looks like a plane wing or a burning kite. is it a raft?
by shark8 on
Sep 2, 2008 6:14 PM EDT
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Could be a dolphin.
Hey Dusty...Are you sure you're OK? You might need an MRI.
by Paul Householder on
Sep 2, 2008 6:36 PM EDT
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Obviously your new around these parts....
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 2, 2008 6:32 PM EDT
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You're not the plumber.
I didn’t call for a plumber…
Hey Dusty...Are you sure you're OK? You might need an MRI.
by Paul Householder on
Sep 2, 2008 6:33 PM EDT
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RIP Jerry Reed
eastbound and down for the last time.
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by Man Mountain on Sep 2, 2008 6:25 PM EDT 0 recs
Amos Moses was a man! The man could play the guitar pretty good too
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 2, 2008 6:31 PM EDT
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lineup
lifted from gameday:
Dickerson LF
Kepp SS
BP 2B
Votto 1B
EdE 3B
Bruce RF
Hanigan C
Patterson CF
Harang P
Dusty Baker is dumb.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Sep 2, 2008 6:43 PM EDT 0 recs
8th for Dusty's Pet?
Politickin' in God's Country
by chesirecat on
Sep 2, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
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Why is C-Pat playing?
It should certainly be Wilkin Castillo in LF, Dickerson in CF. No excuse not to play Wilkin over C-Pat. Dusty will give a lefty-righty matchup excuse, forgetting that his favorite new “tool” is a switch-hitter.
I get Dusty trying to defend his players – good managers do that. But there’s no explaining this contradictory action of playing a veteran who might be the worst player in the game INSTEAD of playing qualified youngsters. What’s more, we DESPERATELY need to know if Dickerson is “for real” and can play CF in the bigs. Not knowing this will CRIPPLE us in the off-season player personnel search.
If Jerry Narron would have dropped dead at the right time, Piniella would be our current manager. Unfortunately, Jerry’s wife always reminds him to wear a jacket so he “won’t catch cold”.

Thanks for nothing, Mrs. Jerry.
by PeteyHendrix on
Sep 2, 2008 7:08 PM EDT
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Defending his players
And yet, he’ll rarely come out and defend them to an umpire during the course of a game. And he tells the press they have injuries that they themselves are unaware of. Dusty’s a peculiar cat.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:11 PM EDT
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Seriously, Patterson can't play left field?
There’s no reason he should figure into our future, whereas Dickerson at least has a chance to. He’s been pretty decent in his time up here, and I’d like to see him as a bench player next season. But I’d really like to see what he’s able to do in centerfield. So how ’bout we play him there, Dusty, instead of CoPat?
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:09 PM EDT
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CC Sabathia: Hit or error?
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by xjjeep90 on Sep 2, 2008 6:50 PM EDT 0 recs
There is nobody there.
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on Sep 2, 2008 7:10 PM EDT 0 recs
You mean game thread, or stadium?
There’s a guy named Nyjer at the stadium. He just grounded out to second.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:12 PM EDT
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There are more people here than there are there
It looks depressing
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on
Sep 2, 2008 7:15 PM EDT
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I haven't paid attention to the Pirates at all
How many of these starters are September callups?
by Brendanukkah on Sep 2, 2008 7:13 PM EDT 0 recs
He's their best player!
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
by andromache on
Sep 2, 2008 7:15 PM EDT
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Thom is already talking football
in the top of the first
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by xjjeep90 on Sep 2, 2008 7:14 PM EDT 0 recs
Maybe he could talk about Hanigan gunned down a baserunner
Paul Bako didn’t know you could do that.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:16 PM EDT
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He's the best in the biz when it comes to working with young base stealers
that’s the kind of stuff that you don’t see show up in the box score if you don’t read them.
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by Man Mountain on
Sep 2, 2008 7:19 PM EDT
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Reminds me of Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me" skit
“Go on. Take it!”
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:21 PM EDT
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I've got a lot of friends
…and we’ve got a lot of makeup.
by PeteyHendrix on
Sep 2, 2008 7:21 PM EDT
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oh, and welcome aboard
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by Man Mountain on
Sep 2, 2008 8:06 PM EDT
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oh, and welcome aboard
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by Man Mountain on
Sep 2, 2008 8:07 PM EDT
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If he helps 'Zona win the World Series?
I think it has a fair shot of happening.
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by Man Mountain on
Sep 2, 2008 8:12 PM EDT
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Ian Snell is an anagram of "Alien Lns"
Knowing that, I kind of like him more.
by Brendanukkah on Sep 2, 2008 7:20 PM EDT 0 recs
let's hope tonight it's chicken blows
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by Man Mountain on
Sep 2, 2008 7:26 PM EDT
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This is already better than any at-bat Corey Patterson has had all year
by Brendanukkah on Sep 2, 2008 7:21 PM EDT 0 recs
QUICK!!!!
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by Man Mountain on Sep 2, 2008 7:22 PM EDT 0 recs
Oh man,
my computer doesn’t even think the inning has started yet
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
by andromache on
Sep 2, 2008 7:23 PM EDT
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Did Dickerson just go yard on pitch #10 of the AB?
by PeteyHendrix on Sep 2, 2008 7:22 PM EDT 0 recs
Yessir
And Keppinger flew out on the first pitch of his. What can we learn from this?
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:23 PM EDT
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In Kep's defense,
There’s no need for him to be patient once Dickerson got Ian to throw 10 pitches and he wasn’t wild. If we were between innings after our starter had taken the hill…perhaps a different story.
by PeteyHendrix on
Sep 2, 2008 7:25 PM EDT
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?
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by Man Mountain on
Sep 2, 2008 7:28 PM EDT
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Uh. do people bat between innings?
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by andromache on
Sep 2, 2008 7:28 PM EDT
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Let's try that again....
If Dickerson has already worked Pittsburgh starting pitcher Ian Snell for 10 pitches before the first out, I think it’s OK for Keppinger to be aggressive and swing at the first pitch of the SECOND AB of the game when we’re at home – perhaps he’ll sting a get-ahead fastball.
If we’re on the road, I’d want Kep to be a bit more selective, as he’d be batting while OUR starting pitcher was trying to rest in the Reds dugout.
I hope that’s much clearer…cuz my previous post was about as clear as a fogged-up car window at a drive-in….or the reason C-Pat is playing today.
by PeteyHendrix on
Sep 2, 2008 7:32 PM EDT
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I think you're still mixed up on home/road
We’re at home tonight, and Harang pitched first – he WAS resting in the dugout while Kepp was at bat.
Not to mention that if we had a team of 9 CDicks, we’d be through the starter before the fifth, every game.
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by andromache on
Sep 2, 2008 7:39 PM EDT
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You're right.
I wasn’t watching the gamecast carefully enough at work…shut my hole. So Kep should have been more patient, maybe.
Just hand me the gun. I’ll load it myself.
by PeteyHendrix on
Sep 2, 2008 7:45 PM EDT
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Fire it, then load it
Wait. Strike that. Reverse it.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:46 PM EDT
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We are the music makers...
and we are the dreamers of dreams.
by PeteyHendrix on
Sep 2, 2008 7:48 PM EDT
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Uh, Is that a Missy Elliot song?
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
by andromache on
Sep 2, 2008 7:49 PM EDT
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Gene's a straight-up Mack
Straight outta Chocolate
by PeteyHendrix on
Sep 2, 2008 7:54 PM EDT
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dickerson
on the 10th pitch? his plate discipline (taking pitches, not SO) has been the most impressive thing about him. he spoils plenty of pitches
by shark8 on
Sep 2, 2008 7:34 PM EDT
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Well, it might have been the 9th pitch
But it’s a far cry from what Patterson was giving us from the top of the order.
by Brendanukkah on
Sep 2, 2008 7:35 PM EDT
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I was all set to talk about how Harang was cruising.
Who the hell is Brandon Moss? And two LaRoches? Huh.
by Brendanukkah on Sep 2, 2008 7:34 PM EDT 0 recs
at least this game will be over early
so i can watch the RNC
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by xjjeep90 on Sep 2, 2008 7:34 PM EDT 0 recs
the younger laroche was in the man-ram trade
he sucked it up for the dodgers. figures that he’d be the one to hit a homer off harang.
by shark8 on Sep 2, 2008 7:36 PM EDT 0 recs
i personally doubt we get burrel
likely he’ll sign back with the phils, unless they decide to dump some salary
by shark8 on
Sep 2, 2008 7:57 PM EDT
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