It's not too late Reds. But you gotta do SOMETHING.

by SullivanSmith on Jun 24, 2009 11:15 PM EDT

This team is driving me crazy.

If the talent on this team was sub-par, I'd be resigned to the fact that we were destined for another sub-.500 season. But it's not. This is a team that played like gangbusters earlier in the season, even without their best players. The Cincinnati Reds are a team that, once they get their collective heads of out their collective sphincters, they can take the Wild Card, if not the division. Now is the time. Tonight's loss in Toronto shows that.

I am all for trading Bronson. I love the guy, I think he's a great pitcher and I think he's a great presence in the clubhouse. But the guy is so hit and miss that it's driving me and everyone else bonkers. He's the guy I would put on the trading block and get someone in there to drive in some runs.

I think we need a new manager. I like Dusty but as Jim Morrison once put it, "the time to hesitate is through." It's one thing to try to help a guy work through a slump. It's another thing to keep playing a guy when he's gone 0-170 (or 0-34 or whatever the hell it is Willy is hitting). You're putting players over the team and that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.

I love and have faith in this team but it's time to stop being ridiculous and start playing baseball.

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I think robby krieger wrote the music AND lyrics to "light my fire"

I think Jim had some influence over the lyrics, as usual for the worse, but I think most of them are krieger’s.

But to your point, this team just isn’t that good. The pitching ultimately won’t be good enough to make up for an exceptionally bad offense, especially with Volquez missing more time. I kind of hope they pack it in rather than do something desperate and dumb…

Will you stop it with the vegetables

by Man Mountain on Jun 24, 2009 11:57 PM EDT reply actions

Come on baby bite my wire?

Eighty-five percent of the f*ckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A f*ckin' playground for the cocks*ckers.
-Lee Elia on Cubs fans

by Farneyismycopilot on Jun 25, 2009 12:16 AM EDT up reply actions

It's too late.

Where have you gone, Johnny Vander Meer?

by Joe Public on Jun 25, 2009 1:06 AM EDT reply actions

CarolKing'd

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Jun 25, 2009 3:36 AM EDT up reply actions

It's all part of the plan

I think the Reds have decided to play for draft picks this year. :-P

Jocketty has a plan, and it doesn’t include winning this year. He said he was going to get a power bat for left field. Instead, we got Darnell McDonald and Laynce Nix.

I think the economy is hurting the Reds a lot more than they are letting on. It’s not just attendance. These days, sports teams from Little League to the Major Leagues are dependent on corporate sponsorships. Jeff Conine’s former Little League system saw sponsorships drop from $40,000 to $3,000. At PNC Field, the prime seats that used to be sold out due to corporate season tickets are now available at every game. You gotta think the Reds are probably facing similar cutbacks. The auto industry and the banking industry are big sports sponsors…and two of the hardest hit industries.

In the off-season, Selig brought Paul Volcker in to warn the owners of economic doom. Supposedly, what he said was so sobering the owners were pale as they left the room afterwards.

The Reds, like many teams, tightened the purse strings. And I don’t think the team has shown us anything that justifies changing that. Trading Arroyo won’t be enough to make a difference. And firing the manager mid-season…how often does that work, to turn a team around?

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

by BubbaFan on Jun 25, 2009 6:41 AM EDT reply actions

ask the rockies

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Jun 25, 2009 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

nice

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Jun 25, 2009 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions

the Marlins and Jack McKeon?

I am an internationally recognized Ghostbusters Expert. - Mads

by Charlie Scrabbles on Jun 25, 2009 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions

they had God on their side, though

by Cy Schourek on Jun 25, 2009 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions

...as a midseason acquisition

by Brendanukkah on Jun 25, 2009 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions

wafer wire pick-up

Will you stop it with the vegetables

by Man Mountain on Jun 25, 2009 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs

I think this could have gone in another post; why start a new fan post? ;>)

by Dude Rock on Jun 25, 2009 9:05 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Why do the stars keep on shining
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t say no, it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodby

Skeeter Davis’d

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Jun 25, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions

I agree

I’d appreciate it if we could consolidate these rants that keep ending up in FanPosts. I’m going to leave this one up because I think BubbaFan’s comment is worth leaving around, though the rest of you…

"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty

by Slyde on Jun 25, 2009 10:02 AM EDT up reply actions

...suck at life.

by jacob brumfield on Jun 25, 2009 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions

can blow me?

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Jun 25, 2009 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

can go hang at Bleed Cubbie Blue?

"We're going to Adonis, son"

jch24

by obc2 on Jun 25, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe just start a fanpost for Random Rants?

They don’t even have to be about baseball.

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 Jun 29, 2009 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions