USATODAY.com – Carter volunteers to help mediate baseball dispute –  ANYTHING that will help cool their jets,  and this guy seems to be a wonderful mediator.  Please do ,  and please accept his offer.

As the Reds wait on Kenny Rogers to decide if he will come to Cincinnati,  they avoid the sweep,  see Finley win his debut with the Cardinals,  and all of us wait —- whenever we’re thinking about baseball these days—-it’s easier to NOT think about it…… Cincinnati 9, NY Mets 1. Elmer Dessens pitched seven scoreless innings and Kelly Stinnett Continue Reading

This SportsFilter seems like a place I ought to be linking to,  which is what I’m doing here (duh)…..I know its not proper Weblog etiquette to just drop links and run without really writing some review of them,  but I’m just leaerning this stuff, OK?

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Since Saturday,  the Reds beat the Astros 8-3 to avoid the sweep and keep the Astros from pulling to within a half game of their hold on 2nd place.   Since then ,  the Reds have won two in Milwaukee while the Stros lost two to the Pirates.   Bu tthe Cardinals are still winning,  so the Reds remain 3 and a Continue Reading

Reds lose again. No offense.  That makes this section not too much fun.   ‘Course,  in ’99,  I kept wondering if they were gonna hang in there,  and they did,  even with a September swoon that dropped them back to 4 and a half games with 3 weeks left.   2-1 Today,  by some no-name Turkey ( I already forgot his name). 

Reds are in a skid again…..Dempster’s debut nuthin to write home about ……In “Houston we have a problem” : winning.

I thought of this one,  and yet,  the mmemory of Jose Canseco blowing out his arm pitching one inning probably lingers,  and then the suggestions about Bonds giving up a Homerun to Jeter bypass all the rules that made it “more than an exhibition” anyway (since Bonds had already exited from the game…….and then what does having position players pitch do other Continue Reading

Dave Winer from Scripting.com’s Baseball Comments: I’ve seen a spattering of comments about the fiasco at baseball’s All-Star game earlier this week. Time for me to weigh in. First, the All-Star Game is total bullshit. It’s an exhibition. It doesn’t matter. It never did matter, and it’s hardly the end of baseball as we know it when the managers, umpires Continue Reading

Baseball: Let’s hope they don’t strike.  They could put a hurtin’ on the game then.  How many times can they do this to us?  Field of Dreams will really get to me if they do (even more thanit already does),  since that line “It reminds us something that once was good,  and could be again” line James Earl Jones spoke Continue Reading