A non-HOF Red Reposter
by ken on Jan 7, 2010 11:00 AM EST
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PrintWell, that was fun yesterday. I think I've got the HOF out of my system for another 10 months. On to the news, which is obviously sparse for the Reds:
- As JinAZ and nycreds posted, the Reds signed OF Josh Anderson to a minor league deal. This season's Darnell McDonald, or just another Jacque Jones? We'll see. But I don't like the potential interference with playing time that should go to Dickerson or Balentein.
- Peter Gammons: like Buffalo Springfield, Bronson Arroyo's got soul
Try as he might, Bronson can't escape his glory days with the Sox. This Saturday he's co-hosting the "Hot Stove Cool Music" event with Peter Gammons at Boston's House of Blues. Apparently he's playing wiht the HSCM All-Stars, with Theo Epstein, Gammons, and others. - omgreds.com: What If? White Helmets
Inspired by the Sugar Bowl, omgreds.com takes a look at how the Reds would look in white batting helmets. I agree that this is an idea best left on the drawing board. - 2009 Season in Review: Matt Klinker
Doug takes a look at Matt Klinker's productive 2009 season, which saw him start in Sarasota but end up in Louisville even though he missed a month early in the season with shoulder problems. Sounds like he should be a viable back-of-the-rotation candidate soon. Redlegs Baseball also recently took a look at Klinker. - Holliday agrees to mega-deal with Cards
Matt Holliday is staying in St. Louis with a seven-year, $120 million contract that has a full no-trade clause. This is the largest deal in club history, though I'm sure Pujols' next deal will trump it (and I can't imagine that St. Louis would make this deal without considering whether there will be enough to pay Albert). Even though Holliday objectively seems like he'll age well given his broad set of skills, he's a pretty big guy who looks more lumbering than graceful to me. The contract takes him to his age-36 season, and I can see this not ending well. For the short-term, however, St. Louis solidifies its core and looks very hard to beat next year. - Tribe signs Austin Kearns to a minor league deal
The Indians, looking for right-handed bats in the outfield and at first, have signed Austin Kearns and Shelley Duncan to minor league deals. I didn't really follow Kearns the past couple of seasons, but man has he stunk. In the past two years he's put up a 69 OPS+ in 568 PAs and 0.6 WAR. He is still only 29. Fangraphs makes a good point - both Kearns and Cleveland GM Mark Shapiro have long been admired for their potential but have come up short in delivering results. - Big Unit officially ends 22-year career
Five-time Cy Young Award winner Randy Johnson, who was virtually unmatched in his ability to intimidate and dominate hitters, announced his retirement from baseball on Tuesday night. Perpetual Post salutes Johnson for a great nickname and lists its own sexual innuendo all-star team, which features a certain ex-pitching coach (HT to BBTF). - MLBTradeRumors.com: Aroldis Chapman Decision Coming Soon?
The Aroldis Chapman sweepstakes may be coming to an end. The big Cuban lefty, who throws in the mid to upper-90s, auditioned before 15 teams in December (including the Reds). The Red Sox have already offered 15.5M and the Marlins reportedly raised their 13M offer. According to the latest rumor, the Angels and Blue Jays are the favorites. Kevin Goldstein of BPro has tweeted that Chapman may sign for up to 30M (!). - U.S.-Japan championship series in the works?
Bud Selig recently met with the Commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball to discuss a November series between the WS winner and the NPB champion. Sound great, but I'm a little concerned about the extra stress this will place on the arms of Cueto, Volquez and Bailey. (HT to BBTF). - ESPN unveils 3-D television network in 2010
ESPN has unveiled the first 3-D network for sports. Baseball is not included for now. Meh.
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Thanks, Unit.
Loved him.
I saw him strike out fifteen in eight innings (a no-hitter through seven) in a Sunday afternoon game in old Tiger Stadium. Griffey had a hit and scored a run. A-Rod had a hit and a walk. Edgar drew a walk. M’s won 2-0.
Four(?) Hall of Famers on the field at one time. (And Pinella in the dugout.) My favorite non-Reds baseball memory.
"Why do socks have to match?"
I just thought about this...
Even if I count Edgar as a future Hall-of-Famer I can’t really say “Four Hall-of-Famers on the field at once” because well… Edgar wasn’t ever on the field with Griffey, ARod and Unit.
(And therein lies the question as to whether he’ll ever be a Hall of Famer.)
Soooo… FIVE HALL OF FAMERS IN ONE DUGOUT!
(Maybe.)
"Why do socks have to match?"
by Fat Vegas Alan on Jan 7, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
BBReference'd
Here’s the game, I think.
I miss the Bobby Higginson years. He just looked like and was named like a baseball player. I also always liked Richie Amaral, and don’t really know why.
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
That's the game.
The Red Wings won the Cup the night before. I remember because many of the bars near Joe Louis stayed open until 3am or later. The taps got turned off at the usual time but the party went on BYOB style. In bars. And on the sidewalks. Good times.
I liked those mid/late 90’s Tiger teams. Higginson, Fryman, Damien Easley and Tony Clark were all under the age of thirty and Justin Thompson was really young and really promising and had his one or two good seasons. I used to go up to Detroit semi-regularly to watch them play. And drink beers on sidewalks.
And I think Red-to-be Brain Hunter played centerfield (which was huuuuge in Old Tiger stadium) and stole 80 bases or something like that.
"Why do socks have to match?"
by Fat Vegas Alan on Jan 7, 2010 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
hated him
I wonder if he ever bought his secret daughter a Geo Metro?
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Me too
http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/04/RandyJohnsonIsAPrettyGirl.jpg
People Don't Kill People. Burning Couches Kill People.
His daughter
Does kinda look like him.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Japan series
A notion worth watching, but probably only because somebody in Japan has a zillion yen to throw at the project. It might be curious to see what the players union has to say about that.
Don't try to win every game, just the last one.
i LOVE international baseball, love the WBC
but I think this is a dumb idea. The season is too long as it is, and after the World Series, it would be a big let down. Maybe if they do it in March instead of sending random MLB teams to Japan, but not November.
I think it would have to be in March
After the WS is a terrible idea, and by that time, most people have lost interest and are watching football. In March, you don’t have that to compete with, and as we saw with the WBC last year, with the right advertising and hoopla, the interest will be there, even if it’s just hardcore baseball fans wanting to watch something after a long winter.
"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san
by BK on Jan 7, 2010 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
March
The problem with March is that it’s only an exhibition series. Selig, according to that report, apparently wants to refer to it as a championship series. Winning a spring training best-of-whatever doesn’t strike me as a bunch of games A-Rod and his ilk would be all that enthusiastic about playing.
Don't try to win every game, just the last one.
I think they'll shorten the season.
Get the post-season started earlier. Get the World Series started earlier. Make room for the Cup of the Rising Sun. Share the revenue accordingly so the Royals and Padres can recoup the cash from two weeks of lost Pepsi sales (and so the MLBPA gets theirs).
Everyone’s happy.
"Why do socks have to match?"
by Fat Vegas Alan on Jan 7, 2010 1:22 PM EST up reply actions
it will suck for Bailey Cueto and Volquez
after they go free agent to New York, Boston, LA, and Philly.
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
at least one of them
is gonna have a heck of a commute.
"The USA despite its flaws and corruption and overall messiness is still a great and powerful instrument of freedom and hope for the entire world." - Madville
From "The Writer's Journey" HT OMG Regs
Those throwbacks are real, real, badass. Didn’t the Reds trot them out at some point this year? I really like ’em…not as everyday jerseys, but yeah. Throwbacks:
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
Is a series of posts on uniforms in order?
I think there was agreement here that the early-70s unis were superlative. Of course, everything looks good in Kodacrome. If you could eye-dropper those photographs and convert it into dye, that’s the shade of Red that should be adopted.
Yeah, those guys and the Cincinnati Reds. They're a terrible football team. / Because they're a baseball team? / Exactly. You know who's the worst football team? The Philadelphia Flyers. - Best Show
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Jan 7, 2010 1:10 PM EST up reply actions
jerseys and caps
… all that stuff is designed by the marketing department to spur sales of merchandise. I don’t think these folks have the foggiest notion or interest in what looks good. They learned well from the Pirates, who were the front-runners in kitsch baseball uniforms.
Houston took it from there.
The Reds jerseys from the late 50s were boss! I thought the ones from the BRM era were dreadfully dull. But, that wasn’t why we went to the ballpark, was it?
Just as long as they go easy on the pink.
Don't try to win every game, just the last one.
Speaking of cool unis
From left to right
Bruce, Neil, Duffy, Richie and Stephen
Just look at the size of that drum kit back in 1967.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Larry Mcmurtry
Like everything else
I’m sure we all remember that kit being much larger.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
Not so bad
It ain’t the Village People, but “for what it’s worth,” not bad.
Don't try to win every game, just the last one.
I don't get it Sister D.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Larry Mcmurtry
Mads! It's about bowling!
Well, it’s about nihilism. And bowling.
And friendship.
Hell, read the books…
Dissertations on His Dudeness
By DWIGHT GARNER
Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 movie, "The Big Lebowski," which stars Jeff Bridges as a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker known as the Dude, snuck up on the English-speaking world during the ’00s: it became, stealthily, the decade’s most venerated cult film. It’s got that elusive and addictive quality that a great midnight movie has to have: it blissfully widens and expands in your mind upon repeat viewings.
"The Big Lebowski" has spawned its own shaggy, fervid world: drinking games, Halloween costumes, bumper stickers ("This aggression will not stand, man") and a drunken annual festival that took root in Louisville, Ky., and has spread to other cities. The movie is also the subject of an expanding shelf of books, including "The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers" and the forthcoming "The Tao of the Dude."
Where cult films go, academics will follow. New in bookstores, and already in its second printing, is "The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies," an essay collection edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe (Indiana University Press, $24.95). The book is, like the Dude himself, a little rough around the edges. But it’s worth an end-of-the-year holiday pop-in. Ideally you’d read it with a White Russian — the Dude’s cocktail of choice — in hand.
More than a few of this book’s essay titles will make you groan and laugh out loud at the same time (" ‘The Big Lebowski’ and Paul de Man: Historicizing Irony and Ironizing Historicism"). But just as often, the writing here is a bit like the film: amiable, laid-back and possessed of a wobbly Zen-acuity.
"Why do socks have to match?"
by Fat Vegas Alan on Jan 7, 2010 5:21 PM EST up reply actions
It was a very funny movie...not the Cohens best effort
somehow therefore it has spawned a life of its own.
I would have like it alot better had the main characters not been such well known actors.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Larry Mcmurtry
i was just trying to share something i thought RRs would enjoy
as there was no context to apply it to, and i was about to close the tab, i put it here. to share. because i thought it was grand.
You were right.
That’s great.
"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san
by BK on Jan 7, 2010 7:50 PM EST up reply actions
Kearns
Is this the standard canned comment about a player who really should be coaching somewhere?
“[Kearns is] a plus defender in the outfield,” Shapiro said. “He’s a guy who has had some recent struggles, but Manny was very familiar with him. Due to his age and athleticism, the upside and the potential still exists for him to be a productive Major League player. As a right-handed-hitting outfielder, he complements our existing outfielders well on the corners. I’d expect him to be a guy that competes for a spot on the Major League team.”
Don't try to win every game, just the last one.
Well, he is from Lexington
So that makes sense.
All UK fans are toothless racist hillbillies.
by jch24 on Jan 8, 2010 3:34 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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