We're trying to sell our house.

It's a 3-bedroom house, almost 2000 square feet, but every time we get showing feedback, we heard that it was too small. Finally it occurred to me that perhaps, since we used one of the bedrooms as a home office and another as a t.v. room separate from our living room, that perhaps we were not doing our best to showcase just how many children you could cram into this place.

Hence, the massive rearrangement effort commenced. We couldn't move our son's bed into the office until we moved the computers. We couldn't move the computers upstairs until we moved our bed. We couldn't move our bed into the t.v. room until we moved the entertainment center. We couldn't move the entertainment center into the living room until we sorted through the 50,000,000 wires, held together with twist ties every six inches.

It was like a huge slider puzzle, only with heavy lifting.

Finally, most of the major furniture is in the correct rooms. Only minor repainting will have to be done and we seem not to have sustained any serious injuries.

All of this is just a big fat excuse for my lack of posting. We still have a couple dressers to relocate tomorrow, but Reds Caravan is on Saturday, so you can be assured that I'll be posting for that.

In the meantime, why not vote in the poll, start a diary, and check out my appearance on the Big League Baseball Report. You'll love listening to me try to be funny while Joe and Phil do their impression of an oil painting. Not so much as a chuckle when I said that the defense would improve because Griffey's injured? Come on!

The Reds have traded for a pitcher:

The Reds traded for RHP Kirk Saarloos and a player to be named later from Oakland for RHP David Shafer and a player to be named later. The team also signed IF Mark Bellhorn to a minor league contract.

Crack Technical Staff likes the idea, thanks to the fact that Saarloos is from Oakland, which you have to admit, is an organization that knows a thing or two about pitching. By that same reasoning, though, you could argue that if they were willing to give him up for Shafer, that's something to be suspicious of.

I like the deal just because of Saarloos's name. Now that Schoeneweis is gone, typing all these names just seemed a little too easy.

This week on the podcast:

• The passing of Vern Ruhle
• The signing of Kyle Lohse
• The not-yet-signing of Aaron Harang
• The fact that Toronto has claimed little Ray Ray
• The new shirt on RHM
• “Faith Day” part of Rockies' promotions lineup
• Rejuvenated Sosa poised for comeback
• The Reds Caravan is coming to town next week, and with it bringing new material!

Episode 42: One More Week ‘Til Real Content (10.5 MB, 15:15)

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If you're looking for a Reds blog that also includes information about teams in three other sports, well have I got a treat for you. I've been looking for a reason to link to RaReMaDev, a blog dedicated to the Raiders, Mavericks, and Devils (Devils?) in addition to our beloved Redlegs, and today I found it in this tiny little post about one of my favorite tiny little players, Ray Olmedo:

Granted the great Ray Olmedo didn't do a WHOLE lot for the Reds, but he was a very capable Triple-A player and always gave full effort when he got a shot with the major league club.

That's all I've been trying to say, people.

Go Colts!