April 7, 2006
RHM Rewind: Part 4
By
Amanda
Posted at 1:00 pm
Let's finish up recapping off-season stuff that you probably missed. March was a big month.
We've already talked September/October, November/December, and January/February.
- We did a serious, thorough, and fair comparison of Griffey and Barry Bonds.
- I started picking fights with Cubs.
- The Race for Second Base was on!
- Those Cardinals fans really love their signs.
- The family took off for Sarasota.
- I met baseball celebrities including the Latin Love Machine!
- Andy Furman accused me of looking like Madonna on WLW.
- My hubby got the coolest autographs ever for me.
- I reviewed Tom Browning's Tales from the Dugout. Incidentally, check out BrowningBook.com to buy your own copy, even an autographed one if you're so inclined.
- I also reviewed Bronson Arroyo's album Covering the Bases. Reading books and listening to music? You'd think I was on vacation or something.
Now you're all caught up and ready to hang out at RHM every day this season. Glad to have ya.
RHM wrote: The Race for Second Base was on!
Pssst! Don’t look now, but the Reds just obtained Brandon Phillips from the Indians for a player to be named later or cash.
Phillips was part of the booty in the same trade that got the Indians Grady Sizemore and sent Bartolo Colon to the Expos.
Phillips’ problem has been that he can’t hit a lick. He actually won the Tribe’s 2B job in the psring of 2003, but hit like .210 in 88 games and got sent down to Buffalo. He’s played here in Buffalo for the last three years, where I’ve been able to see with my own eyes that he’s a dynamite fielder at both 2B and SS who would be an all-star in the majors if he’d quit trying to hit every pitch 600 feet and learn to be a contact hitter.
That, and LaRue comes off the DL on, like, Monday. I still think there’s going to be a major trade here, the Reds have too many catchers and too many middle infielders.
HMZ