This just kinda ruins it. If this is the normal lineup versus righties I’m not happy…not happy at all.

             Stubbs not playing and FUCKING Laynce Nix in LF!!!!!! http://cincinnati.com/blogs/reds/2010/04/04/opening-day-lineups/

Fuck you, Dusty Baker.

I hate Laynce Nix on the Reds roster. I think I remember someone giving Jocketty a pass for signing Nix, because he was roster filler. Nooooope. Thanks, Walt Jocketty, for allowing this to happen.

I’m glad we kept a couple up-and-comers on the roster, so they can rot on the bench.

So lets get two of our better hitters in the spring out of the lineup, and downgrade the CF defense.

Again. Fuck you, Dusty, Fuck…….you.

Give Dusty a fucking veteran like Nix and he can’t help himself

just to come down off the ledge a bit:

Carpenter career slash line against
Right handed batters: .248/.301/.373 .678 OPS
Left handed batters: .277/.339/.443 .782 OPS

That’s pretty substantial. I’m not going to give Dusty credit (yet) for this, but it could be the reason.

             hit a HR against Carpenter last June 4, so I guess it’s “lightning in a bottle” time. That makes him 1 for 7 lifetime against CC. I can see Dickerson; he’s got more hits off Carpenter than he does against any other pitcher; 5 for 10. Stubbs went 1 for 3 against CC last 10/1 and Gomes is 0 for 4.

Dickerson starting in CF AND leading off?

Be still my beating heart!

AND Laynce Nix in the lineup? The only thing that would make this lineup better is if Cabrera wasn’t batting 2nd (or Hell, in the lineup playing SS at all), AND if BP wasn’t batting cleanup.

Aside from those items, awesome lineup!

playing LF with Gomes on the bench.

This platooning stuff is nonsense. Generally, it really only makes sense to sit a lefty hitter against a tough lefty.

but after reading Carpenter’s lines it makes a little more sense. Now if Nix goes 0-4 with 2 Ks I’ll feel slightly differently. I don’t mind Dickerson in CF, he had an equally impressive spring as Stubbs and plays comparable defense (I believe); however I’d still prefer Stubbs in CF and Dickerson in LF.

Why not play your backup CF Nix and have Fransisco defend LF. All of a sudden it doesn’t matter who did what in the past, only what hand they use to write with.

Garbage.

And, if all you Stubbs lovers are correct, then much like McDonald last season, Laynce will be forgotten by May 1st.

In any event, I for one am glad to see Dickerson get his chance. This team needs dudes who make fewer outs and Dickerson should be leading off, even if Drew is in the line up.

I suppose I’d rather see Stubbs over Nix, who shouldn’t even be on the roster, but…it’s nice to see Dusty make one right decision

That is all I can say about Laynce Nix in the lineup for opening day. How can the 5th OF start opening day? I just don’t understand it.

that’s really the only thing that makes sense.

Or Nix in LF > Dickerson in LF defensively to such a degree that it beats Stubbs in CF > Dickerson in CF.

Or this just makes no fucking sense.

that Mr. Clutch is batting eight? We need our RBI men closer to the top of the lineup

Salt in the wound here, but unless Wlad is traded in the next like 15 hrs, he gets picked up on waivers for nothing, right?

He’s got great wheels, no denying that.

And when Dickerson faces LHP.

When Stubbs and Gomes are on the bench! It makes so much sense.

Wlad’s likely to be the better player both now and in the future, but I also don’t think he was ever going to get a chance to start full time for the Reds, and I don’t think he’s really made to be a platoon bat. That, combined with the superior LF prospects coming up behind him, made me disappointed but not particularly angry.

Not so much anymore. This is pretty much indefensible use of your players.

Why isn’t Hanley batting second? Jeez, Dusty’s an idiot.

I didn’t account for the possibility that Nix could play opening day! Dammit Dusty!
-j

but the one one thing that I hope to be struck by is lightning.

It’s not because I think the team is in significantly worse shape by carrying NIx – and starting him vs. “tough righties” – but that one of my favorite sporting days of the year has to be sullied by incompetence I didn’t account for (and of which there will surely be more, in small but frequent doses, throughout the year).

Why not take two good players – Dickerson and Stubbs – who both also played well this spring – and play them on Opening Day instead of working voodoo economics on pitcher splits and starting your 5th outfielder who shouldn’t be on the roster to begin with? What’s that? I’m trapped in the film Shutter Island? Cool, I’ll have one lobotomy please.

I’ve been away for a couple of days but is my mancrush on Leake still a moot point and completely out of the question roster-wise?

boo nix….why not fransico?

I don’t like platooning
I don’t like knifey-spoony
Yet I wouldn’t have been surprised to have seen this same kind of line up from Sparky 33-34 years ago.
That said, this is not the best use of Laynce Nix.
If Dudsy ain’t going to play gomes then C-Dick and Stubbs should be in the line up together.
Stubbs CF
C-Dick LF
Votto
BP
Bruce
Rolen
Hernandez
El Kabrerra
Harang

I am though way more concerned about Aaron Harang’s performance today than Nix’s.

I don’t like platooning
I don’t like knifey-spoony
Yet I wouldn’t have been surprised to have seen this same kind of line up from Sparky 33-34 years ago.
That said, this is not the best use of Laynce Nix.
If Dudsy ain’t going to play Gomes then C-Dick and Stubbs should be in the line up together.
Stubbs CF
C-Dick LF
Votto
BP
Bruce
Rolen
Hernandez
El Kabrerra
Harang

I am though way more concerned about Aaron Harang’s performance today than Nix’s.

I think I’ve told this story before, but, in the middle of last season, I was out having a few drinks with some of my friends and Dusty shows up at the bar with two players. Guess who they were… Clutch Man Monie and Laynce Nix. Coincidence?

makes me sick