Game Wrap: Meh.

Chris Dickerson could barely lift his right arm. He said the feeling is similar to when he tore his rotator cuff in 2006. Micah Owings said his shoulder got tighter and tighter. Both will be examined today. I’d think both are headed for the DL.

Lehr pitched well. Drew Stubbs hit a home run. It’s only his third home run of the season. I’ve been in the stands for two of his three homers. I think he’s trying to impress me. ;-)

Also, cheesecake obviously isn’t the fix. I think we should try beefcake instead.

(And no, that picture of Pete Rose in his underwear doesn’t count.)

It’s only six losses-in-a-row. Don’t you feel better?

Haven’t been able to pull myself to post for a while … especially since I attended my first loss ever … the Pujols GS. Ugh …

Let the firings commence …

I got shanghai’d into an opera at the last minute. It was the last showing of “Carmen” it was a top quality production and a good show, but I’m just not much of an opera fan. I prefer theatre.

I feel, at this point, like we can’t even win a game. I don’t remember what winning feels like! Glad to see JV hit a homerun.

reminds me of this lovely article on the Reds death. (Some links NSFW. Whole article NSF optimists or people who have recently coped with the loss of a loved one

It’s unthinkable. Which is where ghosts and gods and happy hunting grounds all come from. Not superstition, just popular physics, a natural idea of momentum. Because this, the one miracle we actually witness, is the one we want not to believe. Funny, if not exactly ha-ha. It can’t be; all that humming narrative momentum, all those Moby-Dick rusty harpoons dragging through the water as the creature drives on—they just aren’t there any more? You wouldn’t believe it about a rock, a runaway train, a flash flood. They don’t just stop in mid-lunge; it’s not even plausible. It’s not what Newton promised, god damn it. If we have to put up with Newtonian physics in all the dull high-school ways, moving your friend’s furniture up the stairs, why is it suspended here, the one place where it might help out? A body in motion can’t just become a lump in a chair. With flies.

which is probably on the first page of the site

Carmen. Ah to have been able to have heard the triumphant march of the toreadors….instead I got to hear the groans and mumblings of RRs as the season falls apart with still two months to go.

I hope that Walt doesn’t resort to pushing guys like Heisey and Frazier too fast…they don’t need to see any MLB action until September callups. I have viewed Stubbs as a less tooled and not as good of an offensive player as C-Dick, but now woulld be the time to really take a look at him. Hopefully he could get a shot and prove me wrong…

I think we’ll see Maloney as Ramirez has seemed top have fallen off the MLB radar screen.

Now is the time to blow it up and get on the phone and BUY…that’s right buy. sure we’ll be sellers too, but now is time to see if any of the FAs or players being dropped can be had. Get them now and see what they can do. If they don’t work out let ‘em go at season’s end. this team will never improve enought to compete on prospects alone.

“This, too, shall pass.”

We’ll be good again, some time. It’s all I’ve got left.

So I can’t force myself to care about this shit-fest of a team right now. I will say Stubbs or Heisey better get called up if crick gets fled.

I can’t decide which is the better looking guy, though I’m leaning towards Heisey.

I think I’d rather see Wood in the hopes he could burst onto the scene, but I guess it’s worth hanging on to his option.

cuz of Volquez and all..so itll prolly be Maloney

and a really bizarre dream I had recently. I dreamt that Bronson (dressed like the Malboro man) was a gunslinger in an Old West town. He was about to be run out too. It might be an indication of things to come. What those things are, I don’t know. Other than I shold not check trade rumors directly before going to sleep lol.

For (in my own descending order of importance) poor team-buiilding, injuries, derelict coaching and bad luck, the season is shot. To a fault, I’ve stayed faithful to the team. Which has meant fandom becoming increasingly an academic exercise. It’s not so bad that way.

What seems frustrating is that the good commentary on this site is doomed to be habitually ignored. I don’t claim to be responsible for any original or particularly insightful bits of it, but I do know the collective knowledge amassed here is being ignored at the peril of the organization. They may be completely unaware of it in the first place – but this seems moot. It’s on a “blog,” mothers basement, so it goes – dead on arrival.

If only there was some way to marshall the resouces here into a functioning think tank – one that commanded the attention of the media and management, releasing white papers to the public that made clear the case that if you acquire Juan Pierre you are a jackass. One that had some teeth. With the signatures of fans who were simpatico and intended to vote with their pocketbooks if we were not heeded.

I’m well aware this is pure fantasy – and I love this site as is. But I’m equally convinced it’s pure fantasy to expect this organization to come to its senses.