Cincinnati Reds baseball

[MaxDepth]

Opening day and they are mathmatically eliminated from post-season play.



Some Big Red [on life support] Machine notes:

• The Reds are 0-2 in season openers at Great American Ball Park.

• Owner Carl Linder was booed when he walked onto the field before the game April 5, a measure of the lingering discontent. Lindner slashed $15 million off last year's payroll -- it's now around $42 million -- leaving little hope of a quick turnaround for the Reds.

• SS Barry Larkin, who expects to retire after the season, went 0-for-4 on April 5 with a walk in his 17th Cincinnati opener, matching Pete Rose and Bid McPhee for most in franchise history.

• CF Ken Griffey Jr. (calf) was out of the Reds' starting lineup for the season opener April 5, starting another season on the bench because of injury.

**** sigh ****

 

[geno]

Hey, *someone's* got to fill that last place spot, guess this year it's Cinci's turn

 

[edro]

At least Marge is gone...

 

[thrashev]

from the looks of it we'll be in last for a while

might as well sell griffey and get 10 young pitchers, it seems to be what they're doing to all our other players

 

[lancestorm]

Stop b!tching. I'm from Cincinnati too. Let me guess you were the a$$hat that started to cheer for Xavier when they made it to the Elite 8. Stupid fair weather fan. I've been a fan all of my years and although I wish they could put together a contending team, I understand that now they are on the right track to producing some top-rate guys in the next few years. You can only do with what you got. It is up to YOU to cheer them on or not.

 

[thrashev]

Originally posted by: edro13
At least Marge is gone...

i'd rather have marge back, along with her dog
the reds were a lot better then

as for the post below, i'm from cincy

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: edro13
At least Marge is gone...

Sad that a human life is gone, but I don't think you'll find anyone in cincy that disagrees with you.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Stop b!tching. I'm from Cincinnati too. Let me guess you were the a$$hat that started to cheer for Xavier when they made it to the Elite 8. Stupid fair weather fan. I've been a fan all of my years and although I wish they could put together a contending team, I understand that now they are on the right track to producing some top-rate guys in the next few years. You can only do with what you got. It is up to YOU to cheer them on or not.

I've rooted for the Reds (and only for the Reds) before you a wet spot in your daddy's drawers. I've been up to the 700 WLW radio booth with Marty and Joe. [And I know what the "big red one" is. ] I've had the pleaseure of stepping on Schotzie 02's paw (sorry) and Marge's foot (not sorry) at the same time walking out of the press elevator. I was there when O'Neil used to short hop and tank the fly ball in right field. Yeah, the field sucked at Riverfront, but he could have least taken one a month for the team.

I'm sad that the penny pinching ways have degraded the team. I am also mad at MLB anyway for intraleague play and essentially letting money decide our national pastime rules and teams. Football's salary cap shows the way.

I miss going to the games. I hate it that I can't listen to a game unless it plays at night (I can get 700 AM after the sun sets) because I have to pay a fee for Internet broadcasts and all I get in this area is either the Braves (WTBS), Cubs (WGN), or Baltimore (local affiliate).

I want the Reds to do well. Really I do. But those in the front office are making it very, very hard to be interested in the team and in the players.

 

[Borracho]

go Cubs!!!

 

[MaxDepth]

BTW, I hate Xavier. Those little pusswhack prima donnas, along with UC Law, can bite my big white hairy arse. Those little mamby pambys talked smack about my team (Marshall Rugby) and then failed to show up for not one or two, but 4 games.

At least I got to stomp the crap out of UC Law in the Ohio Union tourney the one year we actually played them.