Cactus League Game 8: Reds vs. Cubs

For real. It’s been getting me really excited for the season.

I think he feels like he needs Gomes as a slugger in the middle of the lineup. Gomes would be fine in the 5/6 spot as long as he sat against most righties and in pitcher vs. opponent matchups that somehow spray a lot of balls to LF.

Which he has been known to do. I also hope that this is a case of Dusty trying to motivate Lewis. I ALSO hope that Gomes sucks so bad this spring and Lewis is so good that it forces Dusty’s hand. I hate rooting against guys on my own team (Cabrera’d) but I feel forced to in this situation.

I agree that Lewis should start in LF and leadoff against righties.

the problem was when we had delays, I accept delays as a part of travel and understand they do occur, we weren’t told what was going on, when we asked the responses were rude, and things broke down to a screaming match between another passenger (who started out pretty resonablely) and a conductor (who just kept escalating the situation).

We sat for 1 hour in Indy with no explanation, it turned out we were waiting for a bus from Chicago filled with passengers who missed their connection to our train by 10 minutes, so rather than hold our train 10 minutes we left Chicago ontime and waiting an hour in Indy. No announcements were made about the situation, no explanation at all.

We sat for 3 hours 10 miles outside of Cincinnati because the police shut down the line due to a shouting, and the cops needed to do a criminal investigation. Again no explanation for the first hour, I finally went to the lounge car where all the conductors were sitting, asked what was going on, and they said the cops shut down the line. About an hour after that a conductor finally said that the police shut down the line as they were trying to apprehend a suspect, and a passenger who was bewildered by that asked “What does that have to do with our train?” and the conductor snidely remarked “nothing if you don’t mind killing cops.” and he walked away. We sat for another hour with no updates, no communication.

Finally at 7AM we started to move again. Shortly afterwards the conductor came to prep the door in our car for arrival; which lead to the first event I told you about. We were treated like shit, received little information, and were treated like an afterthought. I would have been annoyed but accepted the delays, but the rude and nasty manner of the staff has turned me off on Amtrak.

(see what I did there?)

But the areas where he knows what he’s doing do not include the areas where we feel we are more enlightened.

ok, trade both of them!

if Cozart beat out Janish for the starting job.

Interesting. He just walked, he must be good.

/ignoring that you probably meant Denove

they are very strong

but Baseball Prospectus has them projected for 80.1 http://www.baseballprospectus.com/odds/index.php

It’s probably too late. He’s 25, and had a bad year last year. We’d be selling low, assuming there were any buyers.

he has a some-what high profile AAA gig, and would be the fav for almost any managing job after the snub.

but Burrell in LF? hmmm

I think we might end up kicking ass. We’re basically all people who wanted to join a team. All the girls that were at practice today can mash.