Red Reposter - 4/29/09
by Charlie Scrabbles on Apr 29, 2009 12:45 PM EDT
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PrintBecause my real job has been keeping me pretty busy this week, Ive had to neglect my duties with the Reposter. This will probably be pretty quick today, but hopefully it can give us something to talk about before the game this evening.
- Dusty Baker had this to say about the way Wandy Rodriguez is subjugating the Reds so far this year: "He wasn't as sharp tonight as he was the other night, but those early runs really helped him," said Baker. "We swung better against him tonight than in Houston."
- This is a gem: "Water seeks its own level all the time," Baker said. "My theory is (Brandon Phillips) didn't take two days to get in this funk. It usually takes twice as long to get out of it. If he can get some hits, some bunts maybe -- hits cure everything. I tell guys two hits a day for a week will cure almost any ills you've got, especially before you get a bunch of at-bats on you."
- In less frustrating news, Adam Rosales is rarin' to go. When asked about his call-up he said, "I got excited. This is the place you want to be."
- Chris Dickerson likely will not need a trip to the DL. Early word is that he may be ready by Friday.
- Interesting stat from Fay: "One thing that's been very clear this year is when the Reds don't get good starting pitching, they don't have much of a chance. They are 7-1 when they get a quality start; 3-9 when they don't."
- Fay also gives us an update on Ricky Stone, who is battling brain cancer. Stay strong, Ricky.
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two hits a day for a week will cure any ills?
Great advice Dusty. Hey, I’m seeing a ton of Cialis commercials on Reds FSN broadcasts, evidently erectile dysfuncion is fairly prevelant in society. What advice does Dr Baker have for those poor lads?
"I've actually never had a drink before, tonight I might try it out. We'll see."
—Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, on turning 21
I guess we could take the same advice for this
Two hits a day would surely cure any ills.
by fourrunhomer on Apr 29, 2009 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
'Sometimes life is not as hard as you were led to believe it would be..."
Just a paraphrase…
I want to be there when a trailer full of coffins slams into a an ambulance full of terminally ill Bolivians. Or when the Reds win a WS..whichever comes first....
bummer
I saw this on a BBTF thread today.
Through April 28:
Reds LFers – .192/.284/.321/.605 OPS w/9bb, 20k and 4 errors
Adam Dunn – .328/.488/.656/1.144 (leading league) w/20bb (leading league), 13k and 1 error
sounds like you need to build a bridge...
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
I watched the Nats=Phils game the other night that ended 16-14 or something
And watching Dunn hit a bomb to right field made me feel physically ill. I miss him.
Will you stop it with the vegetables
by Man Mountain on Apr 29, 2009 6:43 PM EDT up reply actions
does Dusty think before he speaks
2 hits a day for a week, is probably somewhere between .400 and .500 batting average.
Bloop
talk to the rotation also, Johnnie B.
a couple wins a week from each of the starting five would be 10 wins a week!
"I've actually never had a drink before, tonight I might try it out. We'll see."
—Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, on turning 21
I'm excited
To see what rosales can do. I’m hoping he can help jump start the offense. That said, I hope EdE gets better soon. I like him a lot and want to see him have a good year. I can’t believe they let his wrist go as long as they did.
He's never going to start...
so I’m avoiding getting excited.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
I bet he starts today
Seriously.
"I can eat mayonnaise with a spoon." - Jeff Brantley
by BK on Apr 29, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah
Rosie is the 3B. mark it.
Consider the Eskimos.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Apr 29, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
concur'd
But I really, really, really hope you are wrong.
Even if Rosales could hit .250/.330/.400 he’d be a HUGE upgrade from what we’ve been getting from 3B this year.
Isn't there a slanket somewhere you should be filling with your farts?
Yes and I want Dunn in Left and Hobbs in Center and Wagon too
And Heather Mitts is not too young for me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I want to be there when a trailer full of coffins slams into a an ambulance full of terminally ill Bolivians. Or when the Reds win a WS..whichever comes first....
By that wonderful bit of philosophical babbling
Dusty should learn how to manage a baseball team by 2030.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
I got me some good news today
After 6 months of being laid off , I finally got called back to work starting Monday. Thank God. It happend just in time, as the savings is depleted and I’m coming up about $1,000 dollars short a month. Even though it is unlikely to last very long at this time, hopefully I can get caught up before I get laid off again. Or better yet, hopefully things will pick up even more and it lasts.
Congrats man.
So how bad is the job market right now? I was scheduled to start a new job on Monday after being laid off twice in the last two months, but they had to make cuts and now they don’t have room for me. I am not a fan of this economy.
"I can eat mayonnaise with a spoon." - Jeff Brantley
by BK on Apr 29, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
shit, dude
sorry to hear about that.
congrats to 4RHR though!
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
It's not good.
There are actually a lot of people hiring, but for little pay. But, it does not make since to go to work for less than you get on unemployment. If you have certain skills, you will probably be okay, but unskilled labor is not in demand. If I get laid off again soon, I will probably try to take some sort of classed through the unemployment office to try to broaden my job search. I wouldn’t mind getting another degree,but when I’m working I don’t have time and when i’m laid off I can’t afford it.
by fourrunhomer on Apr 29, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
my girlfriend just graduated from PItt with a 3.9 GPA
and is looking for a career track number crunching actuarial type job, she keeps striking out, it is pretty tough for the white collars too.
Bloop
by justin007000 on Apr 29, 2009 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions
She looking at only her region, or nationwide?
I haven’t heard of too many problems with the actuarial field down here in Des Moines, and we have a ton of em.
My dad's girlfriend's kid just graduated from Penn state
with a buisness degree and a 3.9 and he speaks 5 languages fluently and it took him 8 months to find a job, and that was only because he knew someone. The CIA kept trying to get him to spy on his mother russia though… seriously…
Dusty Baker said it was the first [triple play] he’d seen in person. When he was with the Dodgers, they hit into one, but he was in the bathroom.- C Trent
by The Crushinator on Apr 29, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
but congratulations
and i hope it sticks.
Bloop
by justin007000 on Apr 29, 2009 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Good deal.
Good luck.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Apr 29, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Glad to see the Ricky Stone update
I’ve been wondering how he’s doing.
And how cool that he’s staying with Lance Berkman. That guy really seems to be a class act, even if he as an Astro.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Tonight's lineup
notice who is in and who is missing. Dusty’s mind is imponderable.
Taveras CF
Hairston 2B
Votto 1B
Bruce RF
Hernandez C
Nix LF
Rosales 3B
Gonzalez SS
Volquez P
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
Wait, back to back lefties?
Since when is this allowed?
I don't need a hot breakfast to have a good time.
by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Apr 29, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Love Bruce and Votto in the middle, and Rosie Red starting
But Dusty not playing BP today completely contradicts his quote from the top of the Reposter, doesn’t it?
"I can eat mayonnaise with a spoon." - Jeff Brantley
by BK on Apr 29, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions
BP was starting to hit a little better so he's due for a letdown.
I’m okay with sitting him tonight.
I don't need a hot breakfast to have a good time.
by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Apr 29, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions
But he could be saved from that by getting a couple of bunts.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
Oh, i forgot the bunting half of Dusty's theory.
I don't need a hot breakfast to have a good time.
by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Apr 29, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't mind
Phillips getting a day off. It’s just odd after his game last night. Why not let him try to keep some momentum. Maybe, that is the theory with giving Hairston the start.
I do like Nix getting the start though.
by fourrunhomer on Apr 29, 2009 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, I get it.
He needed a #2 hitter. BP obviously can’t hit second, and Nix can’t since Votto and Bruce should be #3 and #4. Rosales can’t bat second since it’s his first start, and Gonzo is slow. Ramon Hernandez is a power hitter who needs to be hitting fifth.
Clearly, Hairston is the only option to bat second. It’s unfortunate that he has to play 2B, since the second baseman should never bat second, but apparently it’s worth that risk.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
Are you sure about this?
It seems like we have our two most productive hitters hitting 3 and 4 and that just doesn’t jive with the Dusty lineups we’ve come to know and love.
by Who's on First? on Apr 29, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Please please please
Let this lineup win today. This is the closest thing to sanity I’ve seen under the Dusty-led Reds.
All it will take is one time for someone to bring in a lefty
to face Votto and Bruce, and Dusty will go back to putting a right handed hitter in between them.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
I would hope
That if the Reds just decimate the ’Stros tonight that Dusty understands this line up works. But I imagine this is just a “BP is out for a rest so we have to make up some random lineup” kinda thing. It wont suprise me at all if we win easily and then Friday that same old lineup is back.
by wishfuldrifter on Apr 29, 2009 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Whoever that is writing on Fya's blog
said that Dusty was going to meet with reporters at 3:30, and obviously they were going to ask about BP.
I didn’t realize that tomorrow is an off day.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
Holy crap what a day from Yovani Gallardo
8 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 11 K and he hit the home run to score the only run of the game. Brewers beat the Pirates 1-0.
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
I guess
the Reds aren’t the only ones who don’t hit well.
by fourrunhomer on Apr 29, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Along similar lines
I’m glad, even with this recent string of suck, that our team isn’t the Mets. All that money spent, all the stress of playing your way out of the playoffs the last two years, brand new expensive stadium, and your team starts off 9-12.
Today Santana pitched another gem: 7IP, 5 H, 2 R, 7 K. He actually got some run support and left with the Mets leading 3-2 after 7. Putz comes in and gives up 2 to blow the game.
Santana’s a guy who has reason to be chucking water coolers around the dugout.
Isn't there a slanket somewhere you should be filling with your farts?
Teeth gnashingly similar
to Cueto’s last start.
by fourrunhomer on Apr 29, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Dusty is kind of an idiot.
From the guy writing over at Fya’s blog:
Phillips is not particulary thrilled to sit.
“I see myself as an everyday player,” Phillips said in the clubhouse today. “I’ll just smile and go with it. … Dusty’s the boss. He makes the decision.”
Reds manager Baker said today it was just time to give Phillips a blow, even though Phillips (.191 BA) was 2-for-4 with a 2B and HR on Tuesday night.
“It was already planned before anyway,” Baker said. “A lot of times, like 20 different times I had a guy (with) a planned day off, then he has a good game. … Brandon is not going to get many days off.”
Phillips has a season-high 3-game hit streak (4-for-12).
With a day off Thursday, that means Phillips would get two consecutive days off. Phillips and Joey Votto have played every inning of every game in ’09.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
I agree Dusty is an idiot
But not really based on this quote. If they had tonight planned for his off day, stick with it. I like giving starters games off before days off, plus last night was a lefty, tonight is a righty, so it still kind of makes sense.
To me, BP is kind of an idiot …. NEWSFLASH: One day off doesn’t mean you aren’t an everday player, genius
Isn't there a slanket somewhere you should be filling with your farts?
...
why do you like giving starters games off before days off?
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
two days off back-to-back
is better than a day off here and a day off there. at least, it is for me.
/livin’ for the weekend’d
Consider the Eskimos.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Apr 29, 2009 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Well guys, I'm heading down to the ballpark
Pass up an impromptu chance to see Edinson, Nix, and Rosales? Never! If anyone else is heading down there, I should be pretty easy to find, being the only guy in the ballpark wearing a Homer Bailey jersey shirt. C you there!
"I can eat mayonnaise with a spoon." - Jeff Brantley
Texas
canceled all high school sports because of swine flu.
Boy, that’s drastic. Texas, canceling sports? Right in the middle of baseball season, no less.
And this scientist thinks the current epidemic may originally be from Ohio. (Huron County, wherever that is.)
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
It isn't at all?
Oh. right. Pfff, Canada – Ohio, two dozen of one, six of another.
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
this shit's going pandemic
and canceling stuff is part of the plan to help control the spread of it. That means you even have to cancel the important stuff.
FWIW, my wife was an author on a paper that concluded that closing schools during an outbreak may not really solve the problem since kids end up gathering together in other ways anyway. I have a feeling that canceling social gatherings though might have a different effect.
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
and here's what Wrigley Field will look like once we all get wiped out
(via History Channel’s Life After People)
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
heh heh
losers
Consider the Eskimos.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Apr 29, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
We'll probably see that
Before we see the Cubs win a World Series.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
I'm not sure
I’ll have to ask her what their data showed on teachers. I seem to recall some indication that any benefit to the teachers may have been lost to the fact that more parents had to stay home from work and they tended to be exposed to more kids. To be honest though, I only remember parts of what she’s told me. I’m one of those bad husbands that doesn’t always listen when my wife talks.
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
I think they've found patient zero
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
Incorrect
This is the bastard that killed us all.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Apr 30, 2009 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions
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