Bynot-George Grande: “The final line on Bronson Arroyo…he can only be the loser in tonight’s game.”
Me: “That’s not true; he could get a no decision.”
CTS: “Sure, if you’re talking about the decision.”
ByAfter this season, Dayton Daily News sports reporter Hal McCoy will be forced to retire. Apparently, that’s what it’s taken to loosen his pen concerning the Reds and their idiocy.
On famed crappy player Willy Taveras, McCoy wrote this.
As far as I’m concerned, and many other fans are concerned, Taveras can rot on the bench the rest of the season. I’ve seen nothing to merit the millions the Reds have flushed down the toilet when they brought this guy in.
Welcome to the club, Mr. McCoy! It’s kind of a depressing place, but it’s always better to let these things out than to hold them in.
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Jay Bruce, Paul Janish, Chris Dickerson, Nick Masset and Adam Rosales can’t help but think it’s more fun to play on the Diamondbacks.
By| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationals (42-75) | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 3 |
| Reds (50-66) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
This year I haven’t really considered the Washington Nationals a real team. They’re just so bad, it’s hard to take them seriously. I mean, they’ve consistently been winning only a third of the team for most of the year. In the world of bad teams, that’s truly atrocious.
So you might think the Cincinnati Reds would be able to beat up on the Nats. If so, you would be wrong. The series started off well, with the Reds finding a magical bat for Johnny Gomes and a magical bag of things for Bronson Arroyo to ingest giving them a 7-0 win.
Then things started to fall apart. Aaron Harang started the second game, received no run support, and the Reds were shutout 2-0.
Last night I flipped the game on to discover it was already 7-0. Wow. What the hell happened to Johnny Cueto? Oh, yeah, he pitches for the Reds.
Still, the Reds did mount a bit of a comeback, scoring 4 in the 7th thanks to Joey Votto and Drew Sutton’s first home run. It wasn’t enough.
With the loss, I at first thought the Reds had lost the series to the Nationals. But no, this is a 4-game series. That won’t happen until today.
On the bright side, Adam Dunn continues his streak of homering in Great American Ball Park every year of his major league career. So there’s that.
ByGoing in to tonight’s game, the Reds and Cardinals were tied in the series. They were also tied in the season, in games against each other. Not only that, but looking at their overall series records, the Reds had the same number of losses as the Cardinals had wins.
Yin and yang. Light and dark. Winners and Reds.
