Red Reposter - 5/6/09
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 11:29 AM EDT
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Print- Joey Votto Bobblehead Day is Saturday. In case you havent been paying attention, Votto is hitting .378/.470/.571. That's an OPS of 1.041. He's walked 18 times and struck out only 20 times. His wOBA is .450, good for 12th in all of MLB. He is goood. Put an extra O on there 'cause he's soo goood.
- Brandon Phillips ponders the Marlins intentional walk of Votto to pitch to him: "It makes you think sometimes when they walk a guy in front of you," Phillips said. "The funny thing about it everybody pays attention to average. Maybe they walked me because of right-on-right or maybe because my batting average is lower than Joey's. I would have done the same thing. But you've got to realize I'm a good hitter. I try to go out there and battle. I tried to show them don't do it again, please."
- Florida's pitching coach Mark Wiley had some high praise for Edinson Volquez last night: “This guy is like Pedro Martinez in those couple of years when he was outstanding and you couldn’t touch him,” said Wiley. “He made career .300 hitters look like they’d never swung a bat before and this guy did that tonight against us.”
- The next time David Weathers takes the mound, he will tie Cy Young on the all time list of appearances for a pitcher at 906. Stormy at his finest: "Amazingly during all those times, through the highs and the lows, whether starting and relieving, he doesn't recall ever having any significant arm trouble. "Lot of head trouble, though," he said, smiling."
- Neither Baker nor Janish begrudge Hanley Ramirez for his hard slide in the 14th on Monday that caused Janish's throw to be in the dirt and the winning run to score. Also, Alex Gonzalez received a cortizone shot yesterday for his strained oblique and will be re-evaluated today. No word yet on whether or not he will need to go on the DL.
- Jack McKeon still wants to manage in the majors.
- Zack Greinke is making the American League look like little league, and FanGraphs takes a look at other pitchers in history with similar streaks of dominance. The featured comparsion? The Reds' Jose Rijo. From '88 to '89, Rijo had a stretch of 10 starts where his ERA was 0.68. Unfortunately though, he only earned the W in 3 of those games. It's a song we know too well 'round here.
- Roberto Alomar's wife has dropped her lawsuit against him. If you remember, she alleged that he had unprotected sex with her even though he knew he had AIDS. Alomar said she was crazy and he doesnt have AIDS. But apparently she's dropped the suit. Oh yeah, and she's a competitive arm wrestler. HT to BBTF for this one.
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good job for Stormy
he must’ve forgotten that period a few years ago where he couldn’t feel his fingertips. I remember hearing about that and wondering how he could pitch like that!
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handey
I think you have just seen...
One of the few contexts in which the words “David Weathers” and “Cy Young” will be used in the same sentence.
And Adam Dunn's spirit, ranging for revenge / With Ate by his side come hot from hell, / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice / Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war...
by Paul Householder on May 6, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Anybody heading to a game this week?
I’m thinking about going tomorrow for singles night – free t-shirt baby!!!!
nahhhhhhhh
me, Singles Night and an in-game pub crawl @ GABP seems like a recipe for disaster.
"I've actually never had a drink before, tonight I might try it out. We'll see."
—Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, on turning 21
Is it an inside-out Metallica t-shirt with makeup stains on it?
Will you stop it with the vegetables
actually
its Dokken and the stains are chili.
go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions
and the Reds drafted
Chris Gruler
go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions
/not justin'd
And Adam Dunn's spirit, ranging for revenge / With Ate by his side come hot from hell, / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice / Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war...
by Paul Householder on May 6, 2009 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nate Silver
Has an article in Esquire.
Not about baseball, though. He looks at the stats…and predicts the end of car culture in America.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
he also had an interview in The Economist
im sure its on the internet somewhere.
go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
can't come soon enough!
i’ve dropped ten pounds in three weeks on the i-don’t-live-in-a-place-where-you-have-to-drive-everywhere diet. we could solve our health care crisis by driving less and walking more. and our energy crisis, too.
that's true
Suburbia is very bad for your health.
Heavy? Your neighborhood may be to blame
A new study found that the year your neighborhood was built may be just as important as diet and exercise for shedding pounds. Those who live in neighborhoods built before 1950 are trimmer than their counterparts who reside in more modern communities, the study reported.
"The older neighborhoods had a reduced level of obesity because they were generally built with the pedestrian in mind and not cars," said Ken Smith, a co-author of the study and professor in the department of family and consumer studies at the University of Utah. "This means they have trees, sidewalks and offer a pleasant environment in which to walk."
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
doesn't surprise me
hopefully as we realize we don’t have unlimited energy resources we will create areas that are more pedestrian friendly. My neighborhood is a 1950s suburb, and the only store within 2 miles is a circle K convent store, nothing to walk too at all. I am looking forward to Chicago because I hate driving for simple errands.
Bloop
Cub reporter still sees Reds as the surprise team I guess
His discussion of what’s happening in the NL central includes a fine picture of the Dustmeister.
the Reds have yet to blow a save?
righteous.
go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 12:31 PM EDT reply actions
reply'd
go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions
David Weathers and Arthur Rhodes made it past Cinco de Mayo without giving up an earned run
Color me impressed.
by Brendanukkah on May 6, 2009 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions
impresionado'd
Good for Stormy. As much as I haven’t liked him as a Reds pitcher, he seems like a great dude and would love it for him to stick around the organization once he’s done pitching.
Isn't there a slanket somewhere you should be filling with your farts?
i wonder
what the latest date is that a pitcher with the frequency of appearances of stormy and rhodes has not given up a run.
(if that doesn’t make any sense, sorry. i can’t seem to speak english today.)
And
"The funny thing about it everybody pays attention to average. Maybe they walked me because of right-on-right or maybe because my batting average is lower than Joey’s. I would have done the same thing. But you’ve got to realize I’m a good hitter.….
Phillips went on to emphasize that no matter how many double plays that he hits into it just does not matter because he’s a good hitter. In terms of average, he added, it don’t mean shit because if he gets hits, the average don’t matter ‘cause he’s a hitter first and foremost. He also said that he almost forgot to say that, yes, he believes himself to be a good hitter.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on May 6, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"Please, Yammer. Don't hurt 'em."
"I wanna listen to Elephants Gerald."
by Fat Vegas Alan on May 6, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Jon Heyman
says Dusty is just an ordinary manager with out Bonds.
go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 2:03 PM EDT reply actions
Can i just say something real quick?
I love this site…I have followed the Reds since 93. Before I moved and got access to Fox Ohio, I would sit in my room and listen to the Reds on the radio while playing my Super Nintendo. I thought when I got FSN Ohio that getting to watch Reds games on TV all the time was the best thing for me and the Reds.
I was wrong
Just started on here in March, and this website has completely revolutionized my fandom. I cant imagine watching games now without having this site pulled up. Its a little trickier now cause I have to watch Reds games on my computer, the MLB.TV thing, so I have to constantly flip between screens (I live in Morgantown, WV….I only get shitty as FSN Pittsburgh)
Regardless, I never thought a website like this existed. I am continually amazed at the depth of content on this site, and some of the intelligent posts and conversations that ensue. The site is also hilarious, much more funny than alot of the crap that I find on the internet. Both these aforementioned qualities are both represented in the whole post I just read:
Great stats debate…if you can call it that…..and alot of retardidty…i love it
I thought at one time it might be kinda weird to meet people from the internet at Reds games…but now I think it would be kinda cool to meet some of the people behind the red-colored text names
I’m a little high, so Ill finish up….you guys are great…keep it up
Go Reds
HAVOC...your everyday solution to clogged bases
I like your word, "retardidty"
And, while, generally I disfavor the use of that descriptor for everyday stupidity, it is sort of the best way to describe that thread in general.
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
i dont know
i thought “reytardidity” had a y in it.
go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls
by Charlie Scrabbles on May 6, 2009 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
nix'd
"I can eat mayonnaise with a spoon." - Jeff Brantley
by BK on May 6, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
beware of meeting people from the Internets
right, BK?
"I've actually never had a drink before, tonight I might try it out. We'll see."
—Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, on turning 21
And we all love you too Tee, may i call you T?
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....
yeah, u can call me T
as long as I can be the tanned one on the left
HAVOC...your everyday solution to clogged bases
my bad,
the post
http://www.redreporter.com/2009/5/4/863976/sabermetrics-small-ball-and-loose
HAVOC...your everyday solution to clogged bases
last one promise
its this link that was in that link
http://www.redreporter.com/2008/2/15/12914/7315
HAVOC...your everyday solution to clogged bases
"Oh yeah, and she's a competitive arm wrestler."
I don’t know if John Belushi and Andrew McCarthy ever made a movie together in the late eighties but I’m pretty sure this was a line from it.
"I wanna listen to Elephants Gerald."
by Fat Vegas Alan on May 6, 2009 4:56 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Belushi was originally cast in the Molly Ringwald role from Pretty in pink.
But it didn’t work out. Crazy, huh?
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
From
the Fayplacement:
The Reds enter today leading the major leagues in earned run average at 3.61. Next is San Francisco at 3.64, followed by AL leader Kansas City at 3.72.
The Reds have not led the National League in ERA since 1940.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
The Yankees
are no longer last in ERA!
They’re second to last. Hurray for Cleveland.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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