Harang has some kid in him. He convinced Jennifer that buying a remote-control car was a good investment because Addison would get some exercise by chasing the car and turning it over when Harang made it crash

the story is pretty precious

On the one hand, 60 pitches as a relief pitcher seems like a lot for a starter who’s still pitching his regular starts.

OTOH, I find it hard to believe it would screw him up for three years. And even if that was the reason…what makes him think he can fix it now?

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Actually, Janish hit a 2-RBI single in the 11th, as a pinch-hitter. Put the Reds up by 2, but the Padres answered in the bottom of the inning. (Shoulda left Janish in on D!)

It was quite a game. 18 innings.

Roster construction might have been the real problem. Matt Belisle only went 4 innings, and the Reds didn’t have a long man. Harang had to pitch, and so did Volquez.

While no one expects 18 inning games, you really need to have a long man, especially with guys like Belisle on the mound. There was a good chance he’d get the hook early, based on previous performance.

The biggest culprits were really the people that had pitched earlier. David Weathers gave up a game-tying run in the eighth inning, and after the Reds went ahead in the ninth, Coco Cordero allowed a game-tying run as well. The Reds scored two runs in the top of the eleventh. Dusty made his crucial error in the bottom of the eleventh. He turned the game over to Josh Fogg. At that point, the Reds had a lead, and the game needed to be closed out. Matt Belisle was the starter that day and only lasted 4.1 innings, so most of the effective “firemen” had already been used. However, Bill Bray was still available. Fogg’s role, in an extra inning game, should have been as a long man, capable of eating innings while the score was tied. Instead, Dusty turned the two run lead over to Fogg, who promplty surrendered two runs, and only managed to last 0.2 innings. It was precisely the wrong way to use Fogg, and the game was prolonged. Bray came in, closed out the 11th and pitched the 12th. Then Harang went his four innings. Let’s remember, though, that in those four innings, Harang struck out nine men. Incredible!

A tip of the hat to Josh Banks as well. The rookie pitched the final six innings for San Diego, the most any pitcher threw that day, and held the Reds scoreless.

The Cards and Mets went 20 in April and after TLR emptied his bullpen he used position players for 3 innings of work. No starters pitched for him, he lost the game but he didn’t destroy any arms in the process.

Dusty misused Fogg, he put in Fogg before he used Bray, and Fogg was the long man. Fogg got into trouble and Bray came in, Bray exited, and the bullpen was depleted. Dusty should have lived and died with Fogg, I would have had no problem with allowing Fogg to throw 400 pitches as his arm was of little importance. Harang was pressed into service. I would have used a position player, because that game was not terribly important (the reds were already out of the race) and the future of Harang (who the Reds owed a lot of money) was more important than winning that game.

but there was a definite choice to pitch him on his normal day after that. he should have skipped a start.

if Harang recants on some of this, being “misquoted.”

In any event, Evan Brunnell won’t report that because he took a few comments and concluded on his own, that another arm was sadly ruined by Baker.

He bought into the masturbatory lie that Cubs media keep pawning off to justify the reality that you can’t win with your hands wrapped around your throat.

All the same, the legend lives.

Fuck Aaron Harang and fuck the CBS “journalist” who concocted his own truth because it was a nice way to sum up an obtuse interview with a washed-up pitcher.

I am no Baker lover but I really got tired of this pissy lie about 5 years ago, living here in the Chicago media shadow.

If he had said that he wondered if Dusty Baker screwed him up because of Dusty’s “reputation” that might merit a “fuck you”, but he never blames anyone, and points to a specific event, and describes how that led to some of his issues. He’s allowed to think that, and he’s allowed to tell that to an interviewer. Don’t blame him for the giant chip on your shoulder.

I mean, it makes more sense than Gapper.

… I agree, that I will pull back on my criticism of Harang generally.

I get it now that it must be terribly frustrating to suddenly not be able to master a craft, when it’s probably something so very minor that needs to be changed. Makes you appreciate the difference between top MLB pitchers and the guys who are on the roster at Catawumpus.

Maybe, maaaybe, if this was coming from a guy who was known for whining to the press all the time, I’d be more down on this, but Harang has been a class act from start to finish with us.

but as long as we’re on that flight of fantasy, I’m having the Reds sweep the Padres.

Black has a great track record so far with a relatively unheralded staff.

Learn yerself up on the 2011 Reds, bromosapien.

on some porn novels that I wrote about 8 years ago. I get a royalty check every 3 months.

Then throws an apple at Dr. Bohmont’s head.

But whatever…and Volquez shouldn’t have putched either.

The day before a start in August, Lizard got the loss throwing in the last inning of a 14 inning game in Philly (Harang had actually pitched the preceding inning). The next day’s start was his last appearance for the year. I think I was at both games.

I think if that game had kept going on another few innings, he might have managed it.

And what did you get LB?

Also, whoever’s in charge here…if you aren’t going to provide any original content, front page badenjr’s FanShot. It’s awesome, and nobody reads FanShots.

When I went over the table.

Signed,

Jim “Chris” Everett

(See what I did there? Bank on it, because Pujols is going to make bank? hahalolz)

Also, this is going to be my favorite non-Reds story of the year. Now, tough question: Would you rather see St Louis re-sign him at 7-8 yrs and $30 mil per, or the Cubs sign him at 8-10 yrs for $30 per? I’m honestly not sure.