Know Your Red Menace

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Today: Pedro (0-0, 0.00) v. Harang (14-3, 3.51)
Tues: Ollie P (12-9, 3.39) v. Belisle (7-8, 5.33)
Wed: Maine (14-8, 3.57) v. Tom Shearn (1-0, 4.56)

What can you say. Harang is the shizznit, about the only pitcher in Cincinnati worth a crap. He beat the Mets in the opener of thier Shea series in July. Milledge homered off him.

Reds manager Pete Mackanin coached for Montreal while Pedro pitched there and recently related this to the Cincy Post:

]Martinez signed with the Red Sox after [1997]. In 1998, the Expos were playing the Giants when a San Francisco jeweler approached Mackanin. At first Mackanin waved him off, saying he didn't need anything, but the jeweler said he had something for Mackanin and the rest of the Expos coaching staff. Martinez had bought Rolex watches for each member of the coaching staff that had been with the team the season before. "I was dumbfounded," Mackanin said. "I asked him, I didn't want to sound greedy, just wondered what it was worth. It was a $5,300 watch. Pretty nice gesture on Pedro's part." While telling the story, Mackanin realized he was wearing that very watch. "It still works," he said.

Belisle pitched a (rare) great game at Shea back in July but the bullpen blew it for him. Shearn is a 29-year-old, 11-year minor league vet who used to be a pro diamond groundskeeper. This will be his 3rd career MLB start.

Reds are coming off a 3-game sweeping by St. Louis that officially pulled the plug on any hopes they had of a miracle finish. They were as close as 6.5 games out of first a few weeks back. Now the trick will be to hold off Pittsburgh and Houston for 4th place.

Mackanin called a team meeting yesterday and reminded his team to execute the fundamentals and "do the little things" it takes to win.

Since we last saw the Reds Conine's been traded (to us), reliever Marcus MacBeth has been called up, and more AAAers are expected to be on the roster Tuesday after their season ends. 2B Brandon Phillips was in the dumps earlier this year but has rocked the casbah in the second half. Most recently he called Albert Pujols a "motherfucker" after a basepath play (Pujols didn't slide on a close play, forcing Phillips to throw around him, leading to an error and 4 runs. Pujols vowed instead to "knock him into left field"). Jorge Cantu has been added to the bench. Jeff Keppinger has been playing regularly, even at shortstop (!) and been OPSing at 963, but isn't in today's lineup.

They still have David Weathers(29 saves, 3.33 ERA) and Mike Stanton (1-3, 6.16), which tells ya about their bulppen

[nymr83]

]Most recently he called Albert Pujols a "motherfucker" after a basepath play (Pujols didn't slide on a close play, forcing Phillips to throw around him, leading to an error and 4 runs. Pujols vowed instead to "knock him into left field").

peg him. hard. he'll learn to slide next time.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yeah, that's what he said. As quoted by the Post:

"I'll just throw it through the (m.f.) ... Next time he better get his ass down."

[Elster88]

It's easy to talk trash after the game. Do it the first time ya dumb shit and you won't blow the game.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I missed all that. Pujols is a grade-A cock.

[stevejrogers]

K About TE's great run in the '70s



Great book, encompasses the entire Big Red Machine era, before and even the last attempts at glory in the early 1980s.

And that era boasted probably one of the finest starting 8s in baseball history



Perez, Bench and Morgan are in Cooperstown, Rose would be if not for his gambling habits. Concepcion is a borderline HOFer and that trio in the outfield weren't too shaby (except when the left fielder played in New York)

Concepcion joined Bench, Morgan and Perez as retired number honorees, and all except for Rose (obvious reasons) and Geronimo are in the Reds Hall of Fame.

Others from that era in the Reds HOF are:

Pitchers:
Jack Billingham, Gary Nolan, Tom Seaver (read Mets Guy In Michigan's feelings on that subject), Don Gullett, Clay Carroll, Wayne Granger

Infielders:
Lee May, Tommy Helms,

and Manager Sparky Anderson (also a retired number honoree) and GM Bob Howsam round out that era's Reds HOFers.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Steve, we need to get you laid.

[stevejrogers]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Steve, we need to get you laid.

Apparantly I'm not geeky enough to go through two months of scoreboards to see how many times the Mets have won on the same day the Braves and Yankees both lost before Friday. So I do get out.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I'm just joshin', man. It's me who needs to get laid.

[Guest Edgy DC]

SNAP!

[metirish]

] Reds manager Pete Mackanin coached for Montreal while Pedro pitched there and recently related this to the Cincy Post: Quote: Martinez signed with the Red Sox after [1997]. In 1998, the Expos were playing the Giants when a San Francisco jeweler approached Mackanin. At first Mackanin waved him off, saying he didn't need anything, but the jeweler said he had something for Mackanin and the rest of the Expos coaching staff. Martinez had bought Rolex watches for each member of the coaching staff that had been with the team the season before. "I was dumbfounded," Mackanin said. "I asked him, I didn't want to sound greedy, just wondered what it was worth. It was a $5,300 watch. Pretty nice gesture on Pedro's part." While telling the story, Mackanin realized he was wearing that very watch. "It still works," he said.

I just read this,cool story.