Send This To Dusty and Walt

From Keith Olberman’s MLBlog “Baseball Nerd“
However, Reds’ manager Dusty Baker, sounding exactly like the kind of skippers in Atlanta who limited him to spot work for his first four years, seems totally unimpressed with the prospects of either Stubbs or Haisley, dismissing their performances as just numbers. While an outfield of Nix and Gomes in [...]

Reds Winter Caravan:Louisville

So yesterday was the start of the Reds Winter Caravan and one of the first stops was Louisville Slugger Field.  The event was held in the ballpark’s foyer (think concrete slab floor, florescent lights) as opposed to the last two years at the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory.  The event was moved due to renovations [...]

Free Agents? What Free Agents?

As I sit here in the dregs of winter and covered in blankets to shield me from the cold, I harken back to a much simpler time. A time for reflection of the year past and a time of looking forward with optimism about the future of your Cincinnati Reds.
Remember way back when, October 15, [...]

Dusty Baker Ruins Another Team

According to the San Fransisco Chronicle, Dusty Baker will be coaching his son Darren’s 10 and under traveling team this weekend as a fill-in coach that is located near his California home.  Hopefully they have strict pitch count limits.
“I am so shocked he agreed to do it. Darren sort of persuaded him,” Melissa Baker said. [...]

John Fay Should Do More Research

John Fay, the Reds beat reporter for the Enquirer wrote an article on July 28 about how the words “walks” and “clogging bases” was attributed to Dusty “some years ago”.
HOUSTON – It’s one of the statements forever linked to Dusty Baker.
Some years ago, he said “walks” and “clogging the bases” in the same sentence. He’s [...]

Questions and Rumors

Here we go again. The Reds get slapped around by the Red Sox today 9-0 and lose another series. Poor pitching again by Homer Bailey who looks nothing like the promising young prospect we all hoped that he would be.
How come Dick Pole and/or Dusty don’t get into his face and light him [...]

Fun with Spring Training Photos

Since we can’t be in Arizona or Florida for Spring Training, we try to live vicariously through Yahoo!’s photos.
Corey Patterson and Jayson Bay star in Disney’s newest film, “Failures In the Outfield”

Dusty Baker doing what he does best: shattering people’s arms.

The 2008 Florida Marlins payroll: $35

I get a hit now
On my way to Hall of [...]