Let the dusty Baker era begin!
He is already all over their top prospect Joey Votto (.289/.385/.476).
This guy hits and gets on base and Baker wants him to be more aggressive.
Who needs patience in a lineup that already has a clog with Dunn, Phillips, Encarnacion, Gonzalez, Griffey and Ross (I like to call him F'Ing Dave Ross-His average sucks-and he drops balls!)
A couple of quotes from Dusty "I don't anything about managing" Baker:
"It doesn't matter to me if a guy gets on base if he can't run. If he can't run he's just clogging up the bases"-does anybody remember a speedy Giant's or Cub's team under Dusty?
McPhail traded for speed with Lofton. The Giants just seem slow moving with the times.
You have a team filled with cloggers in cincy! Move them around the horn-that's old school Dusty!
"I'm big on driving in runs and scoring runs"-Who the hell needs anybody on base then!
I forgot-this is not golf-lowest score does not win? This is rocket science to the guy! Is this what this game is bout-outscoring your opponents?
Long live the one run homer in Old Cincy! We loved it in Chicago and look at Barry(HGH/Steroid Savings) Bonds RBI totals the years he was there can tell one the same thing.
They got rid of josh hamilton (out of options kinda move and he is closer to some good mexican shit) and signed our dear friend corey patterson...what the? Patterson has to be one of the most inept major leaguers since Gary Scott. And to a minor league deal!-I have some reason to believe he will be the opening day starter. I also think Dusty is behind all the Ryan Freel trade rumors lately. what about Norris Hopper? The guy hits and gets on base everywhere and has speed (like freel). what about the kid Jay Bruce? The outfield situation has confused me for sometime in Cincy and Baker has confirmed that it is all f'ed up. Now, though, it his doing.
Oh, he added jerry hairston jr. to the roster.
Pitching. He has inherited a great ace: Aaron Harang (one of my fantasy Nl only studs). This guy is great in the park he pitches in. After that, dusty ( i hope ciny don't trusty) baker has to shaking his damn head..."What, this all I inherit? " Yeah-you get Arroyo and that colorado loser (and a loser everywhere he has been) Josh Fogg and two promising youngsters: Bailey and Belisle. Belisle had some upside ago with LA Dodgers, but got creamed out there. I guess he thought pitching in Cincy would be better for his love life.
Let's see how he handles those two young arms (see Prior, Wood, Clement and Guzman)
Bullpen: Well, they signed old Cordero (he's not that old). But he had mixed success in Arlington and Milwaukee and now let's bring into the Great American Barnstorm! And we all know hoe Dusty holds onto to "his man" in the ninth inning...they already had Davey "Steady as Gravy" Weathers! They have a decent bullpen, but dusty always sticks with his "ninth inning money shot"
Dusty is no Torre or Larussa in the way he handles youngsters and veterans on the same ballclub. His lack of knowledge of "having guys on base" might be a good thing if he looks back on the history of the game and looks at the success of past teams. Balance! (and got on base)
At least his white players play mostly at night.
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Dusty is an idiot. I could do a better job managing the Reds and save them money on toothpicks and wristbands in the process.
I can't wait to see what happens to Cincy under Krusty's tenure.
DC could manage the Reds too, but the money saved on toothpicks and wristbands would be canceled out by the money he'd cost them in bourbon.
Reporter to Reds GM: "So why aren't we using money to try and acquire some top flight free agents?"
Reds GM: "Our manager drank it."
If I had to live in Cincinnati, I'd be drinkin' up the entire budget for the pitching staff, and the first 5 hitters in the batting order.
So, essentially, I'd be stuck with a team as threadbare as the Reds.
Well, I guess that works out fine then.
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