Richar tore his labrum and is on the 15 day DL but I imagine that he is out for the year and Edwin has been reinstated from the 60 day DL just in time for a huge series against the Cardinals.  He is a big bat that we have been lacking.  We need him to come up and play like good Edwin and not bad Edwin.  How much of an effect on the line up do you guys think that we will have.

Acording to Ken Rosenthal from Foxsports the Blue Jays may be willing to part with Alex Rios. Why not make a move for Rios and let him play RF while Jay Bruce moves to LF while Taveras and Dickerson platoon in CF. The Rios is only 28 and is locked up under contract for a considerable amount of time so it may be worth it to part with the prospects and mlb talent needed to pick him up.

According to Fay, Burton has been sent down and Drew Sutton has been called up to the Reds.  Everytime I try to attach the link, my post gets screwed up, so I'll just copy it.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=blog07&plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3ae57bcc87-152a-4f72-96fb-cc08b1f396efPost%3a9e346123-b327-4cee-9fcf-b891cde7bf41&sid=sitelife.cincinnati.com

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EDIT: It turns out that I have an unavoidable, last minute scheduling conflict.  Anyone opposed to postponing the Burger Night and making it this Thursday???

The Burger Hounds are taking the tour to the people and letting their voices be heard.  From this point forward we will post a biweekly poll with 4-5 establishments and the one with the most votes wins. RR'ers, its up to you!  Jch would be much obliged if you would vote for whichever establishment serves draft beer.  

I believe the consensus has the stops ranked as:

92 - Terry's Turf Club

86 - Zip's

83 - Bard's Burgers

77 - 915

I was in dissent, ranking Zip's 4th actually.   This upsets Ash to no end and its probably the only reason im mentioning it again.  Honk!  So far there really hasnt been a clunker on the tour.  I've heard a lot about Five Guys but i must be honest and state, for the record, it looks likes its going to be Johnny Rockets-ish.  Has anyone out there in RR Land ate there?  Feedback?  I know the other places on the poll but im open to any comments and future suggestions for places to visit, of course. 

Here's a link to a burger article in today's Cincinnati Enquirer put an end to boring burgers. 

I can't find a link to post the new Gold Star Chili commercial that lovingly adorns our Fox Sports Ohio commercial breaks. I'd love to post it here, as the spot completely astonished me. The tag line is "This is Cincinnati Flavor." This might be true - assuming that minorities don't count in Cincinnati. You see, I counted 23 people (including parts of people like hands, and people in the background) in the commercial.

And none of them were black. Not a one.

In fact, there are no minorities to be found...perhaps the one's guy's arm is Asian, and the mustache guy might be Latino rather than Italian, but that's as close as anyone comes to being anything other than white (and pasty)

So next time you see this spot, feel free to go minority-hunting. Let use know what you think.

This SIS is a two headed beast.  That's how we roll on Reds' off days. 

1) Whats the worst movie you ever paid to see at the theatre or rented?  Horrible movies on cable do NOT count  seeing as how there must be some form of financial investement to be considered. I dont recall ever walking out on a film at the cinema.  I've certainly gotten tired of rented movies, however, and popped them out of the player before the film ended.  The last I recall is that aircraft controller movie with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton. 

2) If the Reds had Matt Holliday and you had to trade him for only Reds minor league prospects....whom would you want in order to trade MH?  Billy Beane is an intelligent man with plenty of bravado.  Matt Holliday will not come cheap and i'd say the bidding begins at 3 premium prospects, possibly 4.  

John Paul Morosi at Fox Sports has a column up about how the Reds wanted DeRosa BADLY and how Walt's really looking hard for a RH bat.  He lists a bunch of possible targets.  Here are the players he lists with their current wOBA.

1. Ty Wigginton-.301

2. Josh Willingham-.405

3. Matt Holliday-..357

4. Gary Matthews Jr.(!!!)-.267

5. Julio Lugo-.336

So the question is, what would be your preference of the above players, in order?  No discussions in a vacuum.  You have to consider the package it would take to get each and money considerations.

My thoughts after the jump

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Like one of those belated birthday cards you used to get from your aunt, this latest Reds rundown is neither exciting nor filled with cash.  Also, it’s late.  Now—on to the business of explaining in gruesome detail how the Reds went 7-11 against a very weak slate of opponents.  All stats are through Friday’s games.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-29-cubs-britejun29,0,5303027.story

Looks like Ozzie is being Ozzie again.

After Cubs manager Lou Piniella pointed out the spike in attendance from 22,000 when the Dodgers faced the White Sox last week to a full house when the Cubs visited U.S. Cellular Field this weekend, Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was asked why attendance was so low for the Dodgers series.

"Because our fans are not stupid like Cubs fans," Guillen said. "They know we're [expletive]."

Guillen said Cubs fans will watch any game at Wrigley Field because "Wrigley Field is just a bar."

After looking at the homepage Harang pic again, and his vaguely Amish facial hair, I started to wonder about a few things.  Do the Reds' have some kind of dress code or "hair code"?  Someone told me a while back that Marge Schott would not allow teh players to have any facial hair.  I believed it, but I suppose it could have been made up lol.

This is superficial and pointless, but tomorrow is an off day (sorry if this was double posted I had issues with my browser)

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