Man does this team blow dead chickens in heat on the farm in the middle of a wind storm on a rainy night. they are so bad that even if the tractor pull winner was known in advance we’d all go to the fair anyway rather than see the Deds. The hitting is like Franz Kafka trying to write a romantic love tome. The pitching is toast. The opposition is Toastbusters…who ya gonna call..

Oh well, sigh – I’ll see you guys tomorrow when the big streak is once again duplicated.

7 games where Harang pitched well enough to get the win. He was 0-4 with 3 no decisions in those games.

He has no bad starts where he backed into a win or a no decision. He could be 12-8 right now. I wonder if people would have a different perception of him if that was his record.

And screw Dusty for sending Harang out for the 8th. That was beyond dumb.

Yes or no?

Everytime I watch my baseball team, I can expect to be treated to:

- a horrible offense
- arranged into a horrible lineup
- horrible managerial decisions on a nightly basis, often with respect to pitching changes (or lack thereof)

As long as Dusty fills out the lineup cards and Bob holds the purse strings , we will not see winning baseball in the Queen City ( ashbakerhatechild ). I don’t know what to think of Walt, but his acquisiton of Willy very nearly blinds me to anything beneficial he’s done for this team. Have any players in the modern history of this franchise been allowed to be LEAGUE WORST and START for this long?

other than that, I think this was well done. It was certainly fun.

Move Votto to LF, and stick Gonzalez on 1B.

Still wouldn’t matter because Dusty wouldn’t put anyone in front of them to knock in.

I’m going to the game tomorrow…can’t be any worse than tonight!

If not for him, we’d have been no-hit.

Dusty’s not happy.

Reds manager Dusty Baker has rarely fired on his team.

He did Wednesday after the 7-1 loss to San Diego Padres, a game in which the Reds had a total of one hit.

"This is totally unacceptable," Baker said. "It is embarrassing. It is pitiful. This is terrible."

Baker questioned the team’s effort and enthusiasm.

"You’ve got to get after them," Baker said. "They’re taking it to us. We’re not getting after it. We’ve got to do a whole lot better than this.

"Like I said, this is pitiful."

The Reds have lost two of the first three in the four-game series with the Padres. The Padres, mind you, were 4-19 in the month of July when they came to Cincinnati.

"They’re not a good club," Baker said. "They’re beating us like this. What does that make us?"

Billy Blanks?! Racist!

I’m rooting for slot from here on out

To see two shitty losses and no major trades, although I agree the trade for balentin could be good.

I agree that the team seems to have given up. The injuries, apathetic managing and roster mismanagement would get to me too. I would LOVE to see the kids get a chance but it won’t happen. Mngmt seems to have a plan with the prospects and they won’t deviate no matter what. I kind of respect that even if it’s frustrating as a fan.

As an aside, if anyone ever gets a chance to hike the Kalalau Trail in Hawaii, do it. Most amazing two days of my life.

Why is it that my media market continually forces me to watch the Reds?

My only outlet to “Major” League Baseball is this pathetic excuse for a team. These guys really get PAID for this shit? Unbelievable.

I feel like Ramon Hernandez might be getting the most for his money, since at least he’s got to rehab everyday with stiches in his knee. The rest of these overpaid blow-hards are worthless. WORTHLESS.

If I go 2 more days without a significant shakeup, I’m sending a letter to the front office everyday with just 2 words on it…YOU SUCK. I’ll gladly cough up the postage (arm and a leg) to make some secretary have to open it everyday. That’s exactly what I feel like happens to me on FS-OH every night at 7pm anyway.

God it must be nice to be a Cards/Angels/Dodgers fan…

“They’re not a good club,” Baker said.

referring to the Padres… i know there is more to that quote but the context doesn’t change what those words mean. he was trying to spin it to make the Reds look bad, which is also stupid. negativity like this doesn’t help anybody and he did the worst thing possible by saying it to the media. i’m surprised there isn’t a firestorm in san diego about this.

i used to say shit like this to my cousin when he beat me in nintendo. it’s something that a sore loser says. it’s a bullshit comment and he looks like an asshole saying it. yes, he’s a human being, but he’s got to be a little more diplomatic instead of talking shit about a team that just kicked his team’s ass. if the san diego media was anything like ours, that’s all they’d be talking about—how much of a jerk dusty is. it doesn’t matter if you think it, and it doesn’t matter if they have the worst record of all time, you just don’t say it.

quit being a poor sport, dusty, and worry about your own fucking team. when the red sox kick the shit out of somebody, terry francona doesn’t say, “they’re not a good club—it was an easy win.” he comments on what his team did, not what the implications of the matchup were.

in my opinion, no matter how many more games we lose, this is rock-bottom.

Did the Reds get any hits last night?

i started my evening at rock bottom, had a few beers, and was thourghly buzzed.
The second home run was hit, and i was sober again.
It wasn’t as rainy as i thought it would be.
why did Harang pitch the 8th?
Why did Hairston ruin the no hitter?