The season may be lost, but beating Chris Carpenter and the Cardinals is always satisfying. Reds win, 11-8.

Despite Fiasco’s great night, I see him another Edwin Encarnacion, occasionally getting hot but for the most part a streaky free swinger and an erratic fielder.

Dusty won’t play him again for another fortnight. I would say the Lewis send down was a message to Dusty to play the kids, but Dusty has proven before he doesn’t speak the same language as uncle Walt

We’ll have to meet up another time!

that is pretty satisfying.

You’d have to say he was the WPA-POTG

His K number are very strong, walks are down considerably and he hasn’t gotten hit much more than in the past despite pitching in the hitter-friendly California League. Sulbaran’s still just 21. He might turn into something, yet.

Ducks don’t wear pants

The kids all had really good nights. And with Heisey/Sappelt on the bench as LIDRs, this Yonder in LF thing just might work out.

do you have a link or something?

Cueto, Leake, Arroyo, Chapman, Bailey and pick one of Willis/Wood/Volquez. Going to need 6 as only Arroyo has ever really made more than 30 starts or thrown 200 innings, plus Bailey/ Cueto could be DL risk. Bailey or Volquez to closer role allows one more name from the back of the list into the rotation.

Doubly strange. They seem to latch on to folks who ever wore a Cardinals jersey. Though I would have liked to have seen Scott Rolen hobble off the bench and sock a dinger.

it did turn out to be a pretty good game for us even though Cueto was uncharacteristically bad

if the balls were flying out of there. Frazier’s didn’t really look like it was going out, and really, END’s didn’t, either. He didn’t get all of it. Maybe he’s just really strong (okay, he is really strong) but that looked like a fly out off the bat.

I wonder if Miggy’s okay today. He was hit really hard, on the wrist, it looked like. He stayed in, but that’s the kind of injury that might not show up until the next day.

Next time we will have to cooridnate better, I thought I saw you guys but I was shy

Cy’s the first RR’r I’ve met in person, and I was happy to find that he was not a murderer or anything like that. In fact, he was a very cool dude. Seeing Carpenter get absolutely blasted around for that inning was pure awesome. LB and I hit the zoo today and then drove back to Columbia this afternoon. Saw quite a few Reds fans around the zoo and greeted them all because that’s what Reds fans do. We so cool.

There were some rather obnoxious children seated near us who tried to get the wave going in the 7th inning or so. And by “tried to get the wave going” I mean they screamed incomprehensible commands and something that sounded like a countdown.

It was damned warm. Very humid. I think it got to LB a bit- pretty sure she was nice and dehydrated, but she still said she enjoyed her first major league game, even if she didn’t totally and completely understand what was going on at all times. I think she was just happy that I didn’t follow through with my pregame threats of punching any smartass Cardinal fans who make stupid comments regarding… anything. I would have followed through, but there were just too many targets. Got overwhelmed. I was slightly confused at one point- after they hit Phillips and we jokingly called someone out after he yelled “Next time disable him!” (We just told him that wasn’t very nice and we all had a laugh about it), some other guy asked us if those were our seats and we just kind of turned around, said “No.” and then turned back around. I’m not entirely sure what he was trying to get at.

As Cy said, the ball was just flying. I didn’t even realize Frazier’s HR was a homer until he was around third. END’s shot was a no doubter, just absolutely crushed, and it was amusing to see the stands empty as soon as it left the yard.

Great night!

I am not saying Stubbs should be thrown away, but Heisey has hit better than Stubbs in 2011, and Stubbs shouldn’t be granted the job based on being a first round pick.

I hope I don’t sound like HLM.

Good job Dustwadfuckpants!

This might actually be a vote of no confidence from Dusty.

Remember, he started Yonder at third base when Homer Bailey was pitching. Because Bailey doesn’t generate a lot of ground balls to the left side.

I think this means he sees Frazier a worse defensive third baseman than END.

Man, I need to brush up on my Jane Austin

I’m to be credited, not blamed, for the Reds offensive prowess :) I planned it this way. We don’t need Carpenter lynched since he’ll be in our rotation in a couple years. /ducks