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Baseball dream of the week
17 hours ago by
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At the Reds game with the family, a meaningless game at the end of another season out of contention. Still, the game is exciting. The stadium is neither Great American nor Riverfront but looks like a combination of both. In the ninth inning, the Reds are winning, but the other team...
Twaseball
8 days ago by
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Hey, I've started a Twitter account for this site - @churchofbasebal - because I want to go back to my original "daedalus" purpose with that account. Yes, it only has one L at the end because of the character limit.Today's tweets:Did you know? The NY Bankee$ interlocking...
The Reds weren't always a poorly managed team...
15 days ago by
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Doing a little research on the Negro Leagues. Night baseball was firmly entrenched in the Negro Leagues by the time the Reds decided to be the first MLB team to try it. The one man who deserves full credit for bringing lights to the majors is Larry MacPhail, a flamboyant baseball executive...
Writing about Josh Gibson right now...
15 days ago by
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Why is it that it took me ten years to realize that the X-Files baseball episode "The Unnatural" was about Josh Gibson, and the alien in the character "Josh Exley" was a metaphor for the alienation black ballplayers felt for not being allowed to play Major League Baseball?
“Oh God, no.”
16 days ago by
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Thus spake Walt Jocketty when asked if Votto could be part of a trade deal.Fewer words more beautiful have not been spoken.___
The name game
16 days ago by
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Was thinking about some of the funny names in baseball and thought I'd create a little game out of it. Players can be current or past. Answers are in the comments.A water management project completed.The ashes on one's head on Ash Wednesday.A canis lupus in heat.A blue colored...
Rubbish
20 days ago by
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The Reds have taken out the garbage recently, getting rid of a lot of the roster fillers and all. However, the thing that's stinking up the rubbish bin is still stuck to the bottom, rotten, moldy, and emitting toxins into the air.Still, there's pleeeeenty of time to take a...
Realignment
22 days ago by
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Red Reporter has some suggestions about how to fix MLB's unlevel playing field.I really like that realignment idea. You could group it according to market size so it looks like this:American LeagueAL LargeBankee$Red SoxAngelsRangersAL MediumTigersIndiansBlue JaysOriolesWhite SoxAL...
In case you're interested...
23 days ago by
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The Bankee$ pukefest is going to be live somewhere on the interwebs. If you want to watch it, google it. I'm not helping anyone who wants to watch the Bankee$ celebrate their $200 million payroll.Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.UGH.
Some baseball links, since I can't seem to find anything to write about
27 days ago by
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The Chub$ get the first openly gay MLB owner.Ok, that's the only link. But I thought it was important enough to share.
And baseball is no longer an Olympic sport?
28 days ago by
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I found this cap for sale in Byblos, Lebanon.
New film about Josh Gibson
October 14, 2009 by
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It's about time someone made a good film on maybe the greatest ballplayer who ever lived. NY Times has the scoop. A new documentary, however, not only tells of Gibson’s legendary baseball accomplishments — historians and former players debate whether he actually hit a home...
I'll say it now...
October 12, 2009 by
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I WANT LaMafia to be manager next year. I can't stand him, but he knows what he's doing. Bob, spend the money on LaMafia and his sidekick Duncan, and you will more than make up for it come October of next year. I really believe that. Position by position, the Reds on paper...
What a game!
October 07, 2009 by
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I was rooting for the Tigers last night, but man, what a game that was! With the Twins win, that leaves two teams I don't care about (Twins, Rockies), five teams I hate (Bankee$, Bread $ox, Codger$, Deadbirds, and Di$ney$), and the Phillies. I want the Twins to beat the Bankee...
Article on Jerry Hairston, Jr. in the Times
October 02, 2009 by
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Lucky guy gets to go to the playoffs this year. This quote makes me sad: “I hate to sound corny, but I dreamt we were popping Champagne,” he said. “Only, I thought it would be with the Reds.”Sigh...Read the article.
I'm gonna miss this
September 23, 2009 by
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Yesterday about 3pm there was a woman in the lobby of my office building with stacks of free Nationals tix, so I scooped up four of them and went to the ballpark after work. Adam Dunn hit a homer - his 38th of the season. He's already hit his 100 RBI. Oh, and he's hitting ...
Pedro!
September 08, 2009 by
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Been pretty busy lately, trying to save the world and all. Or at least the country that seems to be at the center of all of the world's conflicts - past, present, and probably but hopefully not future.I was thinking about the season and how I haven't been to a baseball game...
There's always next decade...or the one after that.
August 21, 2009 by
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A few years ago, well, several years now, I attended a game at Camden Yards commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1983 World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Baltimore Orioles. This World Series was the last one the Orioles appeared in, and I said aloud, “It...
Baseball will not be returning to the Olympics in 2016
August 17, 2009 by
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I blame MLB for not getting its ass in gear and pushing for it and not figuring out some way to pause the season so the best in the world could compete. People don't realize how much baseball not being in the Olympics HURTS the sport. Governments fund the Olympic teams. When a...
Your kids are not invincible
August 09, 2009 by
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NY Times Magazine has an article about Little League pitch counts - or lack thereof - and the sharp increase in the number of kids having Tommy John surgery because coaches and parents refuse to limit the number of pitches their kids throw.It's sad that kids have such competition...
Hal was fired
August 06, 2009 by
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Recent Reds developments make me wonder if I'll be able to get into Reds baseball next year. I already quit this year.Hal McCoy was how us folks around Dayton got our news about the Reds in the pre-internet, pre-every game is televised days. Hal McCoy made Reds fans.Our country...
You know what would make me tune into the Reds again?
August 04, 2009 by
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If Drew Stubbs, Chris Heisey, and others in the organization were called up to play out the season.Smash the arbitration clocks. Get these guys up here to see what they can do and see what they can work on so that they can be good to go for next year (or 2011, if that's what we...
Yay! The Reds won!
July 19, 2009 by
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All right, I'm off to Beirut tonight, won't be back until July 31. If you're interested in seeing my photos of Lebanon and reading about my trip, I'll be posting at http://travellingrox.blogspot.com.I hope the Reds go on a ten game winning streak while I'm gone...
Didn't watch the home run derby
July 14, 2009 by
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Not gonna watch the all-star game, though I would like to watch the president throw out the first pitch.In the last decade, I think I've watched about half of the all-star games. All the pomp and circumstance is a real turn off. Plus with the Reds never getting more than one player...
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