This is not goodbye; it’s just, I won’t ever see you again.

Best of luck in everything. Hope you get to stick around on twitter some.

It’s about time you left, you old codger. Your room is starting to smell and those swedish meatballs you left in the fridge are growing mold.

We’ll miss you.

The day to day can be a grind. Looking forward to what you have coming next, starting with the annual, which I’ll definitely be buying.

And thank you once again for taking over the site when I got burnt out, it made the decision to step down much easier knowing that I was able to turn the site over to someone so capable. It’s pretty amazing how much this thing has grown!

I’m a relative newcomer, but thanks a ton for everything. Hope ya stick around on the threads for a bit

And thanks for everything you’ve done around here. I’ve only been a member since early ‘09, but thanks to the great content you (and the rest of the yahoos) provide here it’s become part of my daily routine.

Best of luck with whatever your next project is (I assume a Yankees book since you’re Big Time now?). Game threads just won’t be the same without you…oh, wait…

Cheers (if I were you I’d make jch, the vole, ash, than and the rest of the Festive RRs buy you drinks all weekend)

Good luck in your next adventure. Hopefully there are less bears this time.

But I have enjoyed it very much these last few months. Many thanks!

Hope you stick around as I think it will be a very, very fun year coming up!

i always considered you an older, less attractive, not-as-funny version of me. things just wont be the same around here.

you cast a long shadow, my friend.

I jumped headfirst into the world of Reds blogs over 2 years ago, and it didn’t take me long at all to know this one was my favorite. Thanks for making RR my default way to “waste” a few hours a day with anything from potty humor to stat-based debates…and whatever Mads and Farney get me talking about.

Best of luck, and stop by the ol’ site once in awhile.

Check in once in a while, we’ll miss you. Thanks for everything.

This could be bad for the site, though – who else around here has the wherewithal to keep me in line?

You may not know this—or maybe you do—but you’re a big part of why I got re-interested in the Reds in ’05 and even starting my blogging career (such that it is) a year later. I think yours was one of the first comments I received on my own little blog. I figured if Slyde was going to visit my dinky little blog, I might actually have a shot at getting some traffic! I was wrong about that. But you have since given me a lot of great encouragement, feedback, and even access to many other opportunities over the years. I appreciate it.

Also, holy crap, am I going to have to learn RijoSaboCaseyWKRP’s name now?!?
Justin

Your blog made me the baseball fan I am today. That’s a straight up truth. I’m into reading stats and following baseball and the Reds on a daily basis now. Thanks for that, it’s been cool to be a fan of something besides football. Now I even like the NBA, because it’s like a really fast and athletic version of baseball with 5 players that work together at the same time.

Coming out of my retirement/descent into Lurker Land to say thanks for being a huge part of making the site so great. Good luck with everything, looking forward to the annual!

Even if they are LA Gear. You oversaw a prosperous era on the site, cultivated a community that has few peers on SBNation and set a standard for thoughtful, data-driven content that I will desperate try to rip-off.

My baseball IQ may not measure up favorably in some areas (I know because I clicked on that “Are you smarter than Slyde?” banner ad), but I’m a quick study. And I’ll be taking care to maintain everything good about the site – which is mostly everything. There will be very few additional posts with deliberate misspellings.

So thanks, Slyde. And come around whenever you’re able. I’ll be calling you every night in tears anyway, so head me off at the pass.

Your plan to leave this site and blame it on the Reds not being competitive looked a lot better before Joey went all MVP over everybody. I guess for all your future plans, make sure there isn’t a certain awesome Canadian waiting to spoil your schemes.

Seriously though, I used to co-manage a blog and I had to give it up too-the time it takes can be overwhelming. Good luck with the other things in life, and I’m happy to see that you will continue to write. I’m looking forward to the pre-season annual!

Like several other people had mentioned, I really started getting into baseball stats after lurking here, and I’ve learned so much more about the intriciacies of baseball than I ever thought possible. Thanks for turning me into a baseball geek!

because of you i ruin baseball discussions with stats like WAR, VORP, etc, I use to be cool.

If you need a Planetary Perspective for your spring publication, you just let me know.

Also, for me this also a time of change, after 8 years I have said goodbye to my commune, and I have moved to St.Louis to start a life with a wonderful woman.
How many St.Louis RR’s are there?

Sorry we won’t be reading your insights on a day-to-day basis, but I look forward to seeing what comes next for you.

Here’s wishing the best of luck to you…

Chad

Why the hell is Willie Bloomquist still appear on the 40-man sidebar? Form a fact-finding commission.

I never really knew you, I joined a little past the halfway point in the season. But you seem like a cool guy and good luck with your child.

Red reporter, under your tenure, has been a major part of my reds fandom (althought I started being interested in sabremetrics before I came here, so neeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh) Thanks for giving me an opportunity to write about baseball (for three weeks, at least), and thanks for not banning me. It’s been “real”, as they say.

The inverse of which was all the hard work I never got done while reading this site. Here’s hoping Rijo fumbles the ball.

Oh, and I’ll always remember your video highlights from Reds Baseball Heaven. Thank you.

This site and the information presented has been top notch, informative and occassionally funny.

Best of luck in future endeavors

As a parting gift, from now on we will name all small sandwiches after you.

I hope we get into a fucking car wreck. A motherfucking car wreck and we both die and we can live together in heaven!

I got onto this site for real sometime around when you began running it, after the brief Boobs reign.

I’ve been reading you since Reds (and blues) and I really wish you luck. It’s been a lot of fun, even when it hasn’t been. Hopefully I can buy you a drink sometime I’m in Cincy.

But I dare not. Good luck in your future efforts as a father and writer. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for you in the dewy decimal system in the sky.

I suppose that I will have to brush up on my Sabrematetrics so there will be another crisp analytical mind (not that I could ever take your place) here at the site. On the other hand you have been a scholar and gentleman and a great leader (more than we can say for jch no?) Even more importantly (unlike J.D.) you never banned me once.
Thanks to you (and all those who are mods) for keeping the fires burning here at one of my favorite blogs in cyberville (2nd only to Barely Legal).

Don’t forget if you’ve not already bought it gang:

And thanks, I’ve been a dedicated reader of this site for about two years or so now, and in my opinion it’s the best place on the net to find Reds news, largely in part to the talent writers on this site. I enjoy everything you do RR, keep it up.

Enjoyed your book, and can’t wait for the preseason publication next year.

This guy is waaaaaay toooo smart to be screwing around with anything as statistically questionable as luck…Good Analyzing,Slyde

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CDUQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNTltKbfvnfI&rct=j&q=youtube%20butthole%20surfers%20pepper&ei=0-T2TJLyFoGBlAfikYCqBg&usg=AFQjCNEwfPOzJKi66VqErNBg7GAuFENJfQ&cad=rja

No comments from the Butthole Surfers contingent please.

What, you think you can just pull a Jim Kern and get traded out of here that easily? No sireee, buster!

Thanks for everything, man. Thanks to you, I no longer look at those fancy newfangled stats as plop/splat = 1.79, meaning Juan Castro is destined for the Hall of Fame. You have enlightened me in many a way and I’m a better turtle for it.

With that being said, I can only dedicate this song to you

RR is one of the best-run blogs, bar none. Rijo has some real big shoes to fill. Come back often

Thanks for keeping this blog witch-free all these years.

sell me on education… why?

and the rest of the old guard will be following you out?

just wait till she’s one & you have to start chasing her around the house.
when you take her to a reds game this summer, (or anywhere where there’s plenty of mayhem and foolishness) you may want to invest in some headphones. we took our son (who was around 10 months at the time) to a ball game this past may, and the yelling was just too much for him, and he freaked out pretty bad. did the same thing at a predators hockey game too.
good luck, slyde!
go reds!

When I first started visiting the site a couple of years ago I was impressed by how much info you provided and how well you did it Slyde.

And of course you realize it now, but the 4 month old issue is just too much for one good man to handle by themself. My 15 month old is a handful as well, always thought to myself “cant wait until she can crawl…” then she could get wherever she needed to go without having to be picked up and moved all day by me….Ugh. Now that she is running and all over the place, I just keep waiting for the next milestone like going down stairs instead of up them, etc. Enjoy those days with your kid when you can. I’m already missing the 4 month old ones.

I scouted several Reds blogs before I decided on RR (I’m a one-blog kinda guy) and if not for my aching desire to learn advanced stats, I would have gone elsewhere. You’ve taught me a lot (except which stat to use and when…but at least I know what they all mean now!) Hope to see you at another RR Outing… eh? You’ll probably be wearing some fancy ascot or mock turtleneck and a beret instead of a Coutlangus jersey.

Although I started reading this site a little before JD left, I don’t think I actually registered and read regularly until after you took over, and I love what you’ve done with the place. The camaraderie this place has fostered among us long-suffering Reds fans is really wonderful, and the content is always top-notch. Best of luck to you, and I hope you continue to stop by as frequently as you can. Here’s to more great years under RSCWKRP, our new fearless leader.

you magnificent bastard!

Thank you for everything you have done for Redreporter. But thank you for being my friend. Good luck with where ever the future takes you, with your family, and life. Looking forward to seeing your next project come to fruition and seeing you around next spring!!

RijoSaboCaseyWKRP I can’t wait to see where you take us next in the land of Redreporters!! Good luck!

Go Reds

I’ve seen every web site on the internets and this is the best discussion group out there. Plus, you were the reason for a division title.