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2007
Don’t Worry! Homer’s Here
By Amanda
I was several sentences into a post dripping with sarcasm about how Homer's going to single-handedly win the next 15 consecutive games to bring the Reds back to .500 ball, but I decided against it. There's no way Homer saves the team. In all likelihood, he doesn't even make much of a difference.
But, hey, let's take any opportunity we can to get excited. Maybe I'll actually watch the game tonight instead of playing Solitaire on the computer in front of the t.v.
Go Homer! Go Reds!
Reds
Norris Hopper CF
Brandon Phillips 2B
Ken Griffey, Jr. RF
Jeff Conine 1B
Edwin Encarnación 3B
Adam Dunn LF
Alex Gonzalez SS
David Ross C
Homer Bailey P
(Do you ever think that maybe the reason that Ross has this big “better ERA when he's catching” is because he catches Harang and Arroyo and Bailey while Javy and Moeller don't get a chance to catch until it's Stanton and Weathers on the mound?)
Indians
Grady Sizemore CF
Casey Blake 3B
Travis Hafner 1B
Victor Martinez C
Trot Nixon RF
David Dellucci LF
Josh Barfield 2B
Mike Rouse SS
Cliff Lee P
Well, I’m not playing Solitaire, but I am multi-tasking while I sit in front of the t.v. If all goes well, there’ll be a new Homer Bailey human league entry this very night!
Wow, the crowd is very appreciative of Homer’s every strike.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Uh-oh. Indians lead it 1-0.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Say what you want, it doesn’t change the fact that those Bronson Arroyo caps they’re giving away at the game tonight come with mullet wigs attached. It’s *so* Joe Dirt.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Homer! The other kind!
Brandon Phillips is teh awesome against the Indians.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
So, where is everyone tonight? Did everyone get tickets to the game?
June 8th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Just got here…electricity was out here for the past three hours, I missed a space shuttle launch and the first four innings of Homer’s debut. Grrrr!
June 8th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
The Reds are up 2-3 on the Indians. Bailey is doing just lovely here in the fifth inning. I’m going to some of the credit to Phillips, but even he may just be inspired by the wonder that is Homer.
June 8th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
What? No credit to the guy C. Trent calls JC, PH?
:laugh:
June 8th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
I haven’t seen that reference. Is that in the comments?
June 8th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
No, he often calls him that – Jeff Conine, Professional Hitter
But only in his blog, not in the paper
June 8th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Whoo, scary. But Homer got out of the bases-loaded situation in the fifth inning. A strike-out even.
I wonder how long he’ll go. They certainly haven’t built him up complete-game stamina in the minors, have they?
June 8th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Just looked up Bailey on The Baseball Cube:
2004, Gulf Coast Redsox, 0-1, 4.38 in six games (3 starts); everything you posted from 2005 and 2006 in Human League entry is statistically correct, RHM
June 8th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Yes! Punches out Delucci to end the inning.
I don’t think he’s gone the distance in Louisville. Seems like all the starters down there are on a 90-pitch limit.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Sorry to hear about your electricity, HMZ. We lost power yesterday when a car accident took out a power pole nearby. Jon found out when he tried to come home to take a nap at lunch and couldn’t get in because the garage door opener wouldn’t work and we haven’t had time to make a second key.
What’s going on to take out the power in NY? Thunderstorms?
June 8th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
He’s gone now anyway, Babe Moeller just hit for him.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Yep…thunderstorm dropped a tree limb onto a power line, which dropped the power line onto a chain link fence, which turned my radios off for three hours.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Sta…Stan…Sss…I can’t bear to say it. There goes Bailey’s shot at a W in his MLB debut.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
You need some D cells, my man.
Hang in there. Perhaps the power of the Homer will compel Stanton. Wait…that doesn’t actually sound like a good thing…
June 8th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Hey, Staton held ‘em! Go Mike!
Will Narron ask him to do it again? I sorta bet so.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
#577 for Griffey. He’s on fire. How wonderful to have a not-injured Griffey for a while.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Actually I have a huge deep cycle marine battery and a 3000-watt generator here, but it’s not worth getting all that stuff out and hooked up for just a few hours of power outage. If it gets to like 8 hours or so, then I’m the oasis of light amidst a sea of darkness.
Wow, cool, Stanton forgot his gasoline can, 1-2-3 inning.
Clutch Hitter of the Month to lead it off for the Reds.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Holy crap. Stanton didn’t suck.
Yeah, Junior!
June 8th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I love how Yahoo says, “K. Griffey Jr. homered to deep right.”
Well, duh! Anybody ever homered to shallow right before?
Anyway, how do you like the new abode?
June 8th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Dunner’s turn to go yard
June 8th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
The house is *so* awesome. I absolutely love it. And the commute is wonderful. It is so great to get up in the morning and leave work in the afternoon utterly without the dread of sitting in traffic on I-69.
You know it’s bad if it’s spoiled I-69 for you.
The thing is that we still haven’t sold our old house, so we are having to tighten the ol’ belt to keep up both mortgage payments. We splurged on a new dining room table (and it’s beautiful), but two rooms in the house are still completely empty and the only seating in our basement is a couple of beanbag chairs. Our houseplants are sitting on boxes of books in front of the beautiful bay windows.
It looks sort of like some college kids are staying in the house their parents moved out of a month before.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
LOL I hear ya there, RHM. For a while there when I was younger I had a great bookcase made out of conder blocks and wooden planks…until I upgraded to milk crates.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
That’s it for Stanton…who’s Narron got warming up in the pen for the eighth?
June 8th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Hey, I still have bookshelves made of milk crates and 2×12′s.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
I have bookshelves made of particle board with wood-grain stickers on the outside.
Majewski’s in. Cross your fingers!
June 8th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Narron wants this game. He wants to save it for Homer.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
I would like for him to want every game. Or, say, half of them. That would be a start.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
My, what a professional at-bat that Conine just gave us.
Runner on second in a 2-4 game in the bottom of the eighth. Can EdE make up for his bobble in the top of the inning? It’s be nice, but it’s not necessary; EdE has nothing to prove!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Well, yeah, but what I meant is that he’ll now manage like it’s game seven of the World Series and burn through the whole bullpen trying to save tonight, and then lose the next two.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
OK, let’s hope Weathers and/or McBeth can shut the door here, we don’t want extra innings tonight
June 8th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Gulp. Well, I guess that’s why you don’t want to send Stormy out there with just a one-run lead.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
…or in a tie game.
Griffey’s 577th is now the difference.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Sweet. Stormy came through.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Hafner: What was that that just went by?
Marty: And this one belongs to the Reds.
We’ll take it!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
All right! He pulled it off!!
It’s a win! It’s a win!
And two in a row. Just one more for an actual streak! Just 14 more (in a row) for .500 ball!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Bailey’s unofficial line:
5 IP, 5 hits, two runs, 4 BB, 3 K, 3.60 ERA, and (W, 1-0)
June 8th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Ya know, if they get Bray and Guardado back before somebody else in this division goes on a hot streak……
June 8th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Welcome to the big leagues, kid!
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June 8th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
It’s amazing: Homer doesn’t have much of a Texas drawl. His parents sure do. He must be a man of the world.
Dude, Jim Day was practically screaming in his face in the post-game interview. Perhaps it was much louder in the stadium than we could hear. More likely, he needs to calm the heck down.
Great game. What a nice change of pace.
And thanks for coming by to chat, guys. It’s always nice.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for having us!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I was at the game friday , Homer looked more like a 31 year old pitcher instead of a 21 year old ,especially when your 1st MLB game is against one of the best hitting teams in all of MLB , He was great ,he’s already one of my favorite reds
June 10th, 2007 at 9:20 am