As if the strawberry Kool-Aid dye job that on that nasty little wad of fuzz on his face wasn't enough to scare any would-be one-night companion away, Scott Spiezio also sports this tattoo of his woman on his arm. According to bumpshack.com, the lady is his girlfriend or perhaps wife, Jennifer Pankratz.

Bumpshack suggests that the tat saves him the effort of buying girly magazines, but since its on his own arm, I'm not sure how he's going to much enjoy it without an elaborate mirror setup. Good thing he got it on his left arm.

If I were Ms. Pankratz, though, I wouldn't be too pleased to see that the tattoo rendition of myself featured The Ladies draggling down halfway to my knees like that. No, indeed, if I were Ms. Pankratz, I would have spent too much good money to keep them skyward-oriented to be happy about that at all.

Go Mets!

JD is being nice enough to encourage people to call in to the RHM podcast line, and is it a coincidence that I got my first non-spam call last night? I'm looking forward to playing it on the show on Tuesday. Keep the calls coming!

I especially appreciate JD's efforts because he must get some five times the traffic that I do. Or rather, I should say that Joel and promoted diaries get some five times the traffic that I do, since that's about 90% of the original content on Red Reporter. Them's delegating skillz!

I wanted to post a comment on RR to thank JD for his efforts, but I can't remember my password. I know I have been logged in from work before, but his blogging software logs you out after about 30 seconds. And really, it's a good thing. Just imagine the chaos if my coworkers got onto my computer and posted sarcastic or suggestive remarks with my account. It might sully my otherwise pristine name!

It's better this way, though, because I realized that I really ought to just put up a proper post here on my own blog to express my gratitude. It's been a long time since I've given JD any love in the form of links, mostly because I already have a link to Church of Baseball in my side bar. Linking to him linking to Daedalus on a daily basis would just be redundant.

I could always link to the wacky antics of the community that has grown up over there. Who would have thought that the copyrighted Reds logo (I'm sure he has permission!) and photo of a stapler that he sometimes finds time to put up before games would inspire such camaraderie. The kids are amazing! Taking over other blogs is a great team-building exercise. Some people might say “mob mentality” but I say it's just good clean fun.

So, thanks JD for doing your part to support the podcast and for providing so much to the Reds' blogging community. What would we do without you to occasionally forward your incomprehensibly prodigious traffic?

That's right: the winner of this game will be awarded a…nevermind. Cards wouldn't have any use for them anyway.

They've actually got me doing work today, but I'll be in to say snarky things in between edits.

Go Reds!

Cornroyo's number of failed attempts at win number ten now outnumber his number of wins. Can he keep the streak going? We're all riveted to our televisions to find out!

All of us except my smack talking partner. But I wanted to put up a smack talking post anyway for anyone who comes by wanting to try to convince me that Eckstein isn't actually a rodent.

In a week, the Reds have gone from four-and-a-half games out of first to one-and-a-half games. Sure, Edwin “Player of the Week” Encarnación had something to do with that, but the collapse of the once might Cardinals ain't hurt. In their last series, the Reds took two-of-three from the Phillies, who are battling for the wild card. At the same time, the Cards were being swept. By the Pirates.

So this is what it felt like for Bellyscratcher to try to talk trash about the Reds last season. It's less “smack talk” and more “current events.”