The Living Ghost of Pete Rose Compels You: Pre-Game Pump Up

Pete Rose would never wear a hat like that.

…this is counterproductive…
:)

“The Cardinals are a bunch of little bitches. Let’s violate them.”? or something along those lines?

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English ‘C’ on the players’ shirts.

-John Thorn

You wake up, you’re hurting, you just deal with it. You don’t make excuses. You have to find a way. I know one thing: I want to play. You’re not going to keep me out of the lineup.

-Greg Vaughn

I played with a lot of injuries. I had six broken bones in each foot, a broken thumb, a split thumb, a broken little finger, a broken ankle … it’s just a matter of getting out there. We played with groin injuries and hamstring injuries. Of course with my speed, nobody could ever tell that I was hurt.

-Johnny Bench

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

-Johnny Vander Meer

Frank slid into third base hard — like he always does no matter what the score may be — into Eddie Matthews. Matthews jumped on top of Frank and punched him in the eye. It swelled out to here and nobody thought Frank could possibly play the second game of a double header that day. But when the game started, there was Frank in the lineup. Not only did he hit a home run to win the game, but he also made a catch and fell into the left field stands — on a ball that Matthews hit, incidentally — that saved the game. He got a standing ovation, and I guess that’s one of the biggest thrills I’ve ever felt in baseball.

-Vada Pinson on Frank Robinson

But I’ve spent some time at VEB today, and I’ve come to the conclusion that people don’t get RR. The guys/girls over there seem pretty cool and reasonable people, but they think we are a bunch of ignorant, humorless, hostile pricks.

Well, the ignorant and hostile parts may be true, but we are NOT humorless!

Seriously, people read one Geki quote and think we all literally want Skip Schumaker to die. Are all other SB baseball blogs that serious?

I guess if the Reds had actually been good for the last 10 years I wouldn’t have much of a sense of humor either.