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  1. Bote McBoteface
    Cueto's arm won't fall off till 09, he'll be fine this season, unfortunately =/ How many pitches did he(Cueto) throw today? Dempster will be a fine #3 option if he keeps his walks down. Hell, he could be better than a #3 option if he keeps his walks down. Everybody has always known that. But, it's gonna take more than one start before I'm convinced that he has learned to keep his walks down.
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    By the way, I'm pretty glad to see that the Cubs are once again committed this season to overworking Carlos Marmol. (Unless there was some logic that I missed in having him throw 2 full innings)
  3. Bote McBoteface
    I can't stand his attitude. Trade the bum. He should be sprinting around those bases. But that would be fake hustle. Can't have that.
  4. Bote McBoteface
    By the way, I feel morally obligated to make a clogging the bases joke after today's game. I don't really know how we managed to score 6 runs with all those free baserunners.
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    Kosuke Fukudome really needs to be our #2 hitter, I don't think that could be any more clear than it is Ryan Braun sucks at everything related to putting a baseball into his glove Who the hell started for us today? It sure wasn't Ryan Dempster... That about sums up the thoughts I had watching today's game. I guess we'll finish 1-161 this season.
  6. Bote McBoteface
    I didn't hear what Pat said, but I don't see anything about it on Reds.com. Actually, I see a fluff piece on Patterson. Here's a fun quote: Haven't heard that one before. http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080331&content_id=2476961&vkey=news_cin&fext=.jsp&c_id=cin
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    I'm not going to guarantee it b/c the Brewers won the game, but I'm betting we'll be seeing a bench clearer between the two teams at some point. Weeks looked plenty pissed at his second beaning. There will be some payback on Wednesday. Weeks should try not holding his hands over home plate. I hear that drastically increases your chances of not getting hit.
  8. Bote McBoteface
    I guess it's true that Pierre having legs helped our team. I can't imagine how bad he would have sucked without legs.
  9. Bote McBoteface
    Unfortunately I watched it all. Dusty did not come out after the foul ball non-interference play, but I think Rothshild did after the error by Gonzalez.
  10. Bote McBoteface
    To be fair, some of the key players on those Marlins teams were shrewdly acquired through signings and trades. They might not have had a huge budget, but they picked up guys like Dontrelle Willis, Moises Alou, Derrek Lee, Gary Sheffield, and Kevin Brown in those ways. True, they developed guys like Edgar Renteria, Livan Hernandez, Josh Beckett, and Miguel Cabrera came up with them, but saying their 1997 and 2003 WS teams were built with "their own players" is a bit of a misnomer. A quick look at that 1997 team shows that their top 4 hitters, top 2 bench bats, 5 of the top 6 starters, their closer, and main setup guy were the result of FA signings and trades. Essentially, Livan was the only homegrown player to have a truly positive impact. Renteria had an OPS+ of 80 that year. but then he got lucky and got that one hit off of Nagy's glove :(
  11. Bote McBoteface
    Votto and Hatteberg would put up similar numbers this year, you're right. The thing is that Hatteberg has no future with the Reds and Votto should be starting over him.
  12. Bote McBoteface
    I'd be able to stand Theriot if he at least made attempts to pull the ball sometimes. He's like, the opposite of most hitters and tries to take everything the other way. When I first saw him I thought maybe he was just constantly behind the ball, but after (unfortunately) watching him a full season, it's pretty clear that's what he's trying to do. Using the other field is a good thing, but you can't do it every single pitch you see.
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    We're only harsh if you suck. Luckily for him he's a demigod.
  14. Bote McBoteface
    Oh, wait, yeah this was an april fools day joke. The article doesn't say anything like that at all. I guess it pays to read first, I was actually pretty worried.
  15. Bote McBoteface
    Nah, 2004 was a good team. This team sucks and will go 0-162. EDIT: But Fukudome will kick ass and win ROY, MVP, Silver Slugger, a gold glove, and they'll even give him the Roloids reliever of the year award just because if he were a reliever he'd be the best.
  16. Bote McBoteface
    So, why is it that we always get an off day after opening day? Why not use that off day late in the season when we do our annual "play 20 games in a row at the most inopportune time" thing?
  17. Bote McBoteface
    Great fielder, can't hit. That's the point. He's the leadoff hitter for your team. It's humorous. (Not that Theriot leading off for us isn't humorous as well)
  18. Bote McBoteface
    Didn't look like anybody was playing except for Fuku and Zambrano.
  19. Bote McBoteface
    I've decided that I like Fukudome. F the rest of this team.
  20. Bote McBoteface
    but he's a prototypical leadoff hitter! Is he gritty at all?
  21. Bote McBoteface
    Awesome.
  22. Bote McBoteface
    Patterson and Hopper are platooning in CF and will be leading off. We'll see about Hatteberg. The Reds have their 25 man roster set in stone and Votto is on it. I wouldn't be surprised to see Hatteberg start the first three games because we are facing Webb, Haren, and a lefty and then see Votto start this weekend. Votto wouldn't be on the roster if he's not going to see a lot of playing time. He has also always been a slow starter (hit under .200 in spring this year and April last year), so I wouldn't be surprised to see them spilt playing time until Votto shakes out of his early funk. I have virtually zero problem with Patterson starting in CF until Bruce is healthy. The problem is he has to business hitting leadoff. He should be batting 7th and Votto/Hatteberg should bat leadoff. Patterson, Mercker, and Bako (granted it's only because Ross is on the DL) all made the team. At least Mercker spelled the end of Stanton. Cueto will be the Reds #3 starter and Volquez the #5. Yeah, same with Hee Seop Choi. Oh, wait a minute... Oh, and thanks for the news about Corey leading off. I was starting to get worried that the Reds might live up to the hype around them this season. Brightened my day right up.
  23. Bote McBoteface
    Please have Corey lead off and use Hatteberg over Votto. Pretty please!
  24. Bote McBoteface
    I get them, too. The one I get most often is that the max number of visitors has been reached, which doesn't make sense to me. How am I supposed to stay up until 3am every night if I don't have NSBB to keep me busy :(
  25. Bote McBoteface
    Skimming through, I don't see anybody mentioning good ol' 4-3. Although maybe it's not nice to hate 14 year olds.
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