John Fay has been the Reds beat writer for the Enquirer since 2001. Prior to that, he served in a variety of roles for the Enquirer: backup Reds writer, UC beat writer, backup Bengals writer and as a general assignment reporter. He is a Cincinnati native and a graduate of Elder High School and the University of Dayton.
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Reds vs. Cards, 7-1
REDS Hopper, cf Phillips, 2b Griffey Jr., rf Conine, 1b Dunn, lf Encarnacion, 3b Gonzalez, ss Ross, c Bailey, rhp CARDINALS Taguchi, cf Miles, ss Pujols, 1b Duncan, lf Rolen, 3b Ludwick, rf Kennedy, 2b Bennett, c Maroth, lhp
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8 Comments:
Conine cleanup is plain old "&^$#*^%#*"
Ugh, I hate Narron!
Hey Narron, Reds fans came to the ballpark today to see CONINE right?
And we have so much offensive power in the lineup that we don't need Hamilton's, right?
FIRE NARRON !!!!!
First and Second, one out, and the Reds down by three runs, and the best Home Run hitter on the bench to pinch hit is.....
VALENTIN???????
Does Hamilton have a tummy ache again today or what?
Conine is hitting .323 with runners in scoring position. He just got a run home with a sacrifice fly.
First and third no one out and the 4th spot up, if Narron had made a sensible lineup to start with, Hamilton would have been up. Instead we got a sacrifice fly from 0-2 Conine. OOOOOOOOO. What a great decision! Nothing like playing a fossil at cleanup when you have one of the top 3 rookie power hitters in all of baseball, sitting on the bench! All the wrong moves Narron is back after taking yesterday off.
Yeah, it's so much better to have a .282 hitter with 4 HRs on the year than a .273 hitter with 13 HRs...
Looks like it will take 3 more sac flies from our mighty cleanup hitter just to tie this one up.
I hope you're right about tomorrow John.
I'm pretty sure that John Q. Fan, as you call him, is a clueless beer swilling "well shucks I just go to the game to hang with my friends and watch the funny people so I don't care if the Reds lose" kind of fan (there was one of those guys DJ-ing WLW yesterday afternoon, making me sick).
Real fans are angry and disgusted with Reds ownership.
This team is an embarrassment. If Bob is really not angry, then the real fans in this town are going to see the Reds camp out in last place for years to come because apparently losing is "okay" for Bob.
Either you hate losing or you make excuses for losing. The Reds are all about making excuses.
I don't hear or see Bob, Krivsky, or Narron with any sort of the proper "fire in the belly" needed to build and deliver championships teams.
Winners don't tolerate losing for long. These guys, by contrast, are MARATHONERS when it comes to tolerating losing.
For the near term, that bodes ill for the franchise.
One more point about dull, duller, and dullest: Pinella is a WINNER because he viscerally hates losing and uses anger to CHANGE losers into winners. Pinella, no matter how juvenile, foolish, or silly one finds his tantrums to be, single-handedly blasted the team psychology out of feeling sorry for themselves and into a healthy state of agitation, and now the Cubs are tearing it up again.
Narron is the exact oppposite of Pinella.
We don't need Winnie the Pooh managing the Reds any longer!
It's just too bad there are so few Pinella-types out there.
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