August 7, 2006
You’re Missing a Good One, Girlfriend
By
Amanda
Posted at 7:27 pm
Before the game started, I heard that the Reds lead the Cardinals for the season. The Reds have won six of the eight games they've played. This means two things:
1) The only two major league baseball games I've seen this season were the Reds' only two losses to the Cardinals this year.
2) They're apparently looking to even the score.
The Lizard gave up five runs in the first, and I've never heard Chris Welsh sound so pissed off. And now they're out of the bottom of the inning without so much as a runner getting to second.
Shaping up to be a great game. Since I'm smacking alone tonight, I'll try to be doubly catty.
OK, walking Pujols I guess I can get behind (I’m pretending it’s intentional), but hitting Scott Rolen? That’s just awesome!
Phillips bobbles the ball and then whips it right past Hatteberg? Two errors on one play and the score is 7-0.
This is just…wow.
They’re going to walk Encarnacion to get to Molina, who hit a homer last time up. Genius.
Oh, well at least they are going to a new pitcher. Who’s it going to be? Ooh! It’s the new guy. Go Franklin!
All right. Franklin stops the bleeding; Javy knocks a homer. Things just gotta be looking up.
Oh, what’s up with Eck? They said he’s not at the game due to a family problem.
Oh yeah, no one’s there to answer me.
So, Belly, you must be a fan of Belliard, seeing as you’ve got such similar names and all…
Oh yeah…
Hell yeah! A Reds’ reliever IS capable of putting in a scoreless inning!
OK, sure, Brandon Phillips just left the bases loaded. But they got ’em loaded. Things start falling a little better, and this one will belong to the Reds. You’ll see.
Damn you, Yadi!
Booooooooooo
Hi, RHM! Mind if I join you for awhile?
Or is it obnoxious of me to come talk smack during a 9-1 game?
Hey all we need is a touchdown, PAT and a field goal…..
I go upstairs to put the kid to bed and I come back to find that even two grand slams wouldn’t help my team.
Hey, welcome, guys! Always a pleasure.
Kent Mercker on the mound. Chris and George commented that he didn’t get a rehab start, but I think that pitching in the eighth of a 10-1 losing effort might count.
Chris just commented that though this is a big loss, it’s just one game. Good strategy, I say. Wear out the Cardinal hitters by making them swing and hit so much. They won’t have anything left for tomorrow!
SNAX!
This is tragic. If I didn’t have to wait on the banana bread to come out of the oven anyway, I’d go to bed.
How does Albert Pujols have a 1-for-4 night in a game where the Cards have scored 10? Seriously, people.
OK, 2-for-5
mmmmm banana bread
What the hell freakin’ alternate universe did I slip into where Scott Spiezio hits home runs? Somebody rip that thing off his face.
Oh yes. And the bananas are ridiculously ripe (which is why I have to make the bread tonight). To say it’s going to be better than this game is a vast understatement.
Well, Royce Clayton is aboard, so all we need is Chris Denorfia to his one of those 12-run homers, and we’re back in this!
Oh rats, RHM, I’d given you up! In any case I’ll have you know I never call Hancock anything but “snax” anymore.
Yeah, sorry about that. My boy couldn’t get to sleep, and frankly, I’d kind of given up on the game myself.
13-1. Damn.
I’m glad that the 30,000+ fans in the stadium got half-price tickets and $1 hot dogs, since they didn’t get a game.
And furthermore, what the hell is up with Jeff Weaver not sucking. Did he suffer a blow to the head before the game and forget who he is?
That was downright Twilight Zone-y. Yadi hitting a home run? Weaver totally NOT blowing chunks? I don’t know what the deal with Eckstein is – media just said “family matter.”
Don’t worry, I think Marquis is pitching tonight. He sucks. I’ll be around for the first couple innings.
[i]I’ve never heard Chris Welsh sound so pissed off.[/i]
But George Grande was his normal, chipper, idiotic self. The man never has a negative thing to say about anyone or anything, and people like that, people who are oblivious to everything around them, are soooooo irritating. He could watch a live nuclear bomb explode across a field from him and not say it is a bad situation.