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8/20 GC
Hey Toronto, how about a little help this afternoon?
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Ok, that's more like it ...
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Jay to the 2 spot, Wong gets a day off, DD at 2nd base .
Greg Garcia called up; Ellis gets 15 on the DL......
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I'd bet the house on the Reds tonight. Milwaukee loses, Cueto on the mound and Cardinals are incapable of sweeping.
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Plus im watching.
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Cueto looks fat. I wonder if she's pregnant.
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I don't know what Price is yelling at Pierzynski for. The bushest move tonight has been Frazier trying to impede Carpenter from getting to second base in the first inning. I haven't seen a first baseman try that move since Jeff Tillson tried to trip Dan Foley during a Babe Ruth playoff game when I was 14-years-old.
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The benches will empty before this is over.
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See that is fun!
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Five runs in 5-plus. Not good. Maybe she should try douching more often.
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Am I hearing things, or are the TV mics picking up fans singing "Be My Girl" and chanting "USA?" It's not distracting or anything, it just seems kind of random.
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Sorry, had to step away to answer a call. Came back to a rain delay.
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forsberg_us wrote:
Sorry, had to step away to answer a call. Came back to a rain delay.
You may have missed the part where McLaughlin referred to Phillips as an "extraordinary player." I disagree. He was for several years an above average player who is on the back side of a career that may not last as long as it might have because at some point teams who would be otherwise interested in having him come aboard as a veteran presence aren't going to want to deal with his ego and attitude.
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Case in point: Tuesday night, one of the Cardinals, Carpenter, I think, hit a routine ground ball to Phillips with one out and a runner on first. Phillips backhand flipped the ball to the shortstop and then started walking toward the Reds' dugout in what was probably better described as a strut.
Keep in mind this was in the late innings of a close ballgame that his sub-.500, fourth place team ended up losing.
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Phillips was pretty darn good. Other than a healthy Chase Utley, I can't think of a better 2nd baseman in the NL during his prime seasons.
Phillips' schtick isn't my thing, but if you're going to be brash, at least have the talent to back it up. I could tolerate Phillips a lot more than Nyjer Morgan.
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Jon Jay has been very hot lately ......
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Jon Jay has been very hot lately ......
Not so much on that defensive play
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Ummm, I think it's time to go get him Mike.
Can someone check to see if Matheny knows the rain delay ended.
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Why does rosenthall have to pitch every night
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Jon Jay has been very hot lately ......
Not so much on that defensive play
True there........
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Why do it the easy way , when we can do it the hard way.....
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"I could tolerate Phillips a lot more than Nyjer Morgan."
Morgan was off-the-charts annoying. That Tony Plush thing was just ridiculous.
I was listening to Memolo and Hollandsworth this morning trying to explain the condundrum that is the Reds. I think at some point you have to look at their overall lack of character. They seem to be more concerned with making All-Star teams and winning Gold Gloves and individual stuff than they are about winning championships.
Even Jay Bruce, who seems like a decent fellow, tends to get corrupted. When the media was all over Billy Hamilton after that atrocious performance in the first series of the season, Bruce tried to come to his defense by saying something like "I got off to a bad start last year and look where my numbers ended up ..."
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Jon Jay has been very hot lately ......
Not so much on that defensive play
That really wasn't *defense* per se. It looked like he was practicing for a bullfight.
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Why does rosenthall have to pitch every night
It's fucking unbelievable, isn't it? The moment the game enters a save situation, Matheny's response is almost Pavlovian.
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