July 22, 2006
The Red Reporter Is Down Game Thread
By
Amanda
Posted at 7:21 pm
Looks like Red Reporter is down, and I'd hate for you guys to be forced to go over to Redleg Nation or Redszone to discuss the game, so I'm putting up a post for your discussing convenience. Sort of a place to crash when your regular place has crashed.
So, uh, how 'bout that Joe Mays, huh? Yikes.
Joe Mays. Sigh. He’s being taken out of the game now for Standridge, but can’t he just be DFAd directly from the mound?
Thanks for not leaving me hanging, Zeldink. The reason I don’t usually do this is because no one would respond.
Can Standridge earn his “StRandridge” stripes tonight? So far so good…
Ooh, I guess he can. And the one benefit of no one reading this is that I can use that in my game wrap tomorrow!
Looks like RR is back up. You don’t have to hang out here if you don’t want to, Zel.
Go Freel! I love that guy.
No problem. I lurk on RedReporter threads, although I probably won’t do that as much now that NEILYOUNG has been banned. I really liked that guy. Some of his comments were comedy gold.
Banning people? What is that crap?? I guess that’s the luxury of having readers coming out your ears and being quoted in the freaking DDN.
I wonder whether Kriv-dawg will be able to land a starter this season. Or are we doomed to Mays until Wilsome comes back or Claussen gets his head together?
Ha!
I don’t think there’s any reason to let Mays pitch for the Reds again. Of course, I thought the same thing before tonight’s game. Claussen or Belisle could easily suck less than this when they come off the DL. And there’s always Germano and Gosling waiting in the wings and already on the 40 man roster.
Really, could anything be [i]worse[/i] than Mays?
Kearns?
Oh, that’s right. You were the one who wanted to try Kearns on the mound. Given the third base experiment, though, I really don’t know whether that would have worked.
You watching the gameday? Did Strandridge just successfully set up and pop out Prince Fielder?
Who the hell is this pitcher??
Booooooooooooooo…
That. Was David Weathers. You can tell because of the mess in here now. There’s David Weathers everywhere.
Strandridge is on fire right now. I hope he can keep it up.
I just hope I can keep from stepping in the David Weathers.
Woo…Freel almost has home run number seven (but really 8).
Damn, our pitchers are the suck tonight. This feels more familiar than I like.
Hey! Welcome Joel! Don’t worry: we spent good money on Gary Majewski. He’ll take care of matters.
Oh, it’s Bray. I suppose I could say the same thing about him, but it wouldn’t sound as sarcastic.
Oh yeah, and Zeldink, your boy NEIL hasn’t gone anywhere. You just need to see the clues.
I fully expected a shutout inning there. It’s an every other inning kind of night for the Brewers. I hope the Reds aren’t done scoring!
w00t! Double play!
I think I would have had less heartbreak over The Trade if it had just been Bray for Kearns straight up. Maybe the Nats would have to throw in a prospect or something.
Hey, Joel, Kearns has been gone a while. You think he and Dunn have started writing each other letters yet?
Brandon Phillips picture on gameday looks like a kid with that hat.
RHM, I don’t know about the letters. Since I’ve stopped blogging, I’ve lost my inside contacts. I imagine there are some lonely Roxbury suits sitting in closets in the Nati and DC though.
Ooh! There are clues? Is this like a scavenger hunt?! Neat!
What do I win if I find him?
I think Brandon Phillips looks like a kid with that grin. Looks like he just sneaked a chocolate chipper out of the cookie jar.
Ah, the Roxbury suits. Those were the days.
Dunn doesn’t seem to be suffering for the move so much. Of course, he’s been bonding with Griffey a lot lately. Kearns seemed to have it pretty rough, but I guess he hit a home run today.
It’s more like a mystery where the ending leaves you a little disappointed.
Aw, man. I was hoping for one of those plentiful 1975 World Series DVDs.
I’m sure you can get one…I hear they’re handing them out on blogs to any dolt who can type, just about.
I’d offer an autographed Bronson Arroyo CD, but I already gave it away.
Perhaps I could interest you in a couple hundred Red Hot Mama matchbooks?
So I’m watching The Fugitive on TNT and I’m amazed at the cast in this movie. Obviously the big stars Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, but there’s Joey Pants, Tom “The People Person” from Office Space, Zeus, that black woman….it’s star studded. And what a great movie.
Suck it, Bill Hall!
I never saw it. The injustice of the whole situation just disturbed to me too much. I’m very sensitive, you know.
So Todd Coffey. I guess when your starter lasts only three innings, you’re going to see about everyone out of the bullpen.
A matchbook would be pretty sweet.
I see they took Bill Bray out in favor of Todd Coffey to face Bill Hall. I guess that much Bill is just too much for baseball to handle.
This is the inning. Three-run inning. Three tasty runs. Right here.
I’m listening to the Brewers feed. Uecker (or perhaps the other guy; they sound alike) is very impressed with Freel.
OK! Who’s up? Time to break this tie.
I want to see a rally-killer! Castro, don’t let me down.
Never seen The Fugitive??? Turn on TNT, he’s about to jump off of the damn dam.
Stealing with Juan Castro? Seriously?
I can’t handle it, man. Harrison Ford movies are too stressful.
What do you guys think of Dunn in the two-hole? I miss Felipe there, myself, but Dunn aint bad.
NOOOO! Castro, WHY??
I’m back, I’m back! I can’t believe RHM went down for Freel’s second homer of the game! On a post I put up because RR went down!
Ow! My irony-detector!
I love Freel more than I love you, RHM.
What a difference a few days makes. EdE gets to hit for himself and Hatteberg gets pinch-hit for.
Don’t make us regret it, Richie.
Geki! Welcome.
Oh yeah? Did you ever dedicate your S3F signature to Freel? Did you??
Drat.
OK, let’s hold ’em.
I had it dedicated to Freel for most of my time there.
Jerry continues to make poor decisions. He couldn’t honestly think the Brewers weren’t going to bring in the righty there, and Hatteberg is better against lefties than Aurilia is against righties.
Well, I got my rally-killer. I was just off by one batter. It would have been even better, of course, had Castro not been thrown out stealing. That was a weird decision. As was pinch-hitting for Hatteberg.
Well, they didn’t score 3 runs, but one might be enough…hopefully.
Yee-haw! I like when they set up a double play and then turn it.
Hatteberg was 3-for-4 with a 2-run homer. The lefty-righty splits would have to be remarkable to justify that.
Woo! Tricky double play! Maybe we’ll see it on ESPN.
YAY! Go Reds! Go Freel! Go overcoming the pitching!
Winner! Bi-otch!
Hatteberg’s OPS against lefties is .763. Aurilia against righties is a pathetic .685. Jerry just had to get Aurilia in the game somehow, methinks.