Why not shots?

I've gotten e-mail asking if the Reds give players flu shots since it seems like every spring the flu marches through the clubhouse infecting everyone in sight.

"We don't," trainer Mark Mann said. "It's up to the individual players. There's conflicting research on how effective (the shots) are in that age category."

And what the Reds get isn't always the flu.

"A lot of times it's not," Mann said. "It's a virial thing. I lot of players bring there family down. They'll catch something from their kids. They'll pass it back and forth. Any time you have 60-odd in one confined place for 12 hours a day, it's very easy for something to spread."