Reds need healthy rotation. Major League Baseball Aug 8 2002 7:20AM ET [Moreover – Sports: baseball news]

Whatever this means,  it seems awfully goofy to have a set of rules that prevent a manager from putting ineffectuive pitchers in the minors and keeping effective ones on the major league roster.  This situation with Reitsma highlights this.  He’s in the minors,  just two weeks past pitching the Reds first complete game in over a year,  and the existing Continue Reading

How do you follow a 15 run 17 hit game in SanDiego with 3 hits thru 7 innings at Coors Field?  To add insult to injury,  the Cardinals are getting trounced,  leaving the Reds blowing the chance to pull to within 1 game.   This is one of those times that “baseball is a funny game” is not so funny.  But Continue Reading

At 46,  stories like these,  and Kile earlier this year are always cause for pause.  I’ll always remember Porter hitting a 2-out Homerun to break up Mario Soto’s 1-0 shutout and tie the game in St. Louis (the Reds eventually won the game anyway, which made me happy,  but that was a pretty dramatic homerun.  I think that was 1983,   Continue Reading

Regarding the impending baseball strike: This is exactly what I think about “they’ll eventually come back” Scanlon Column: Baseball Is Fooling No One: “In regard to baseball’s self-destructive “labor” problems, we keep reading and hearing the same gibberish, repeated by people who seem to be in some kind of baseball cocoon. Much if it is obviously wrong, but is repeated Continue Reading

Dempster is a nightmare.  I think HE needs to be sent down and Reitsma brought back up. The linescore today : 4 inings, 10 hits,  10 runs ,  all earned.  He’s messed up. Big time.   He had the support today,  AGAIN,  and he couldn’t even hold the opposition.  The Reds have scored 8 inside 6 innings,  and may still lose Continue Reading

You don’t see stuff like this reported on the front pages,  but ESPN at least had a link to it.  Makes me not want to trust anybody. ESPN.com: MLB – MLB lawyer: Progress made on revenue sharing  Representatives for the baseball owners and the players’ union met Friday after taking Thursday off and Rob Manfred, the owners’ top labor lawyer, Continue Reading

Take that , Griffey bashers!   Major League Baseball News  Griffey’s home run downs Dodgers 13-inning affair includes a controversial ejectionBy Chris Haft / MLB.com

Griffey wears the laurel of hero FINALLY!   Maybe things will begin to swing his way,  with the health,  and with the fans who have chosen to give him a hard time!  2-run walk off shot in the bottom of the 13th! Just minutes ago.  

Barely over a week after he throws the Reds first complete game of the season,  he’s in the bullpen and now in the minors? Am I missing something?  Reds activate White and option Reitsma to minors. Sports Network Jul 31 2002 4:32PM ET [Moreover – Sports: baseball news]

More “metfans site shutdown”  blogs: SportsFilter | Comments on 659: “MLBP orders a Mets fansite to shut down for copyright violation and cybersquatting. Next all fans will be sued for copyright violation for wearing team shirts and hats. It is getting easier and easier to turn my back on Major League baseball. posted by srboisvert to Baseball at 11:00 AM Continue Reading

Another point of Cluelessness MLB, bouncing off the closing remark from this blog: The Trademark Blog: “Finally, as a practice pointer for folk with clients in the sports and entertainment field, you have to be really careful how you deal with fans, because you never want to see your demand letters posted on a website. It would seem that getting Continue Reading

More blogs on the MLB vs FanSite furor: The Trademark Blog: “Kiner’s Corner on Metsonline.net I became aware of a dispute regarding metsonline.net through Dave via Ernie. Apparently, Major League Baseball has sent a demand letter to a guy who is running a Mets fan site. Ernie asked me for my two cents.“

More crazy stuff about the metsonline.net:  The link to Slate shows a link to a page that is also gone,  apparently also asked by MLB to not post their rude message to “cease and desist”.  What a bunch of bozos.  They don’t deserve to be in charge of baseball.  They’re obviously clueless about the help such sites as this give Continue Reading

Bloggin’ Baseball! I’m lookin’ for a good Reds blog.  I’m bloggin’ a little baseball,  but it’s not my only passion, so it woudn’t be as elaborate.  But I love the idea.  Dave apparently does too. Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link to metsonline.net. As a Mets fan since 1962, I think it’s great that sites like this exist and Continue Reading