I'm more of a lurker than anything else, and perhaps i missed the news...but is there a redreporter fantasy baseball league this year? And if so, is there room for another team?

If this isn't the best place to post this i apologize.

p.s. and now i have to type more words to get it up to 75...

is that enough?

ten more words about something...

i like demetri martin. oh...and i'm still mad at the reds for trading adam dunn.

I know this isn't baseball related, so my apologies in advance...but...what is the all-time low for points scored in a half by a team in the ncaa men's tournament?

i've been looking everywhere and can't seem to find any information and since it seems like the sports fanaticism here extends way way way beyond baseball i thought there would be someone who knew the answer.

cheers and go bucks.

1. I have never, i repeat never, seen wind blowing as crazy as it was today in Cincy. It was like being at Wrigley on the windiest day of the year.
2. That being said, Dunn needs to have a talk with Felipe about coming in on short flies. In high school ball, it was ground into our heads that it is much easier for the left fielder to come in than the shortstop to run out. The wind was certainly a factor, but those two need to get their you-know-what together.
3. Denorfia and Kearns looked good.
4. Edwin looked awful, in nearly every respect.
5. Harang was unlucky. Zambrano was lucky.

Also, a friend of mine was watching the Washington-NY game and told me Hernandez was throwing complete garbage, 55-65 mph curves and such. Anyone see that?

Only 8 more RBI and Dunn is the only Red ever to have 2 100 walk/run/rbi seasons.

Oh, and don't look now, but his strikeouts are way down. I don't know if Adam is making better contact this year for any particular reason. It isn't showing up in his BA, that's for certain. A quick look at his THT statcard showed that his BABIP (Batting avg. balls in play) is only .278. I'm not sure if that's low or not, but by comparison Casey's was .331 and Griffey .311.

I thought maybe this had to do with the type of hitters they are. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Griffey has the highest line-drive percentage (LD%), that is, number of hits that can be qualified as line drives, and Dunn the lowest; but Dunn only trails Casey by about 2.5% points. I read a while back that the line drive is the batted ball most likely to become a hit (makes sense i suppose, as opposed to fly balls, pop ups, groundballs). So in theory, shouldn't a person with a high LD% also have a high average?

Once again, usually, but not always. I think there probably is quite a bit of luck involved, as well as some strategy on the part of the defense, but I'm guessing if Dunn had a few breaks this way or that his average could vary a good amount.

I realize this is a bunch of amateur, train of thought nonsense, but i need something to think about on my weekly trek from Columbus to Cincy to catch the boys of summer.

I just saw on ESPN.com that the Reds had placed Dunn and Kearns on waivers but both had been blocked.

My question is: Why would the Reds place either of these players on waivers? The chances of them not being claimed have got to be about zero. Both are signed to reasonable salaries (Kearns especially) and thus have pretty good value.

Anyone want to explain what's going on? Is this just another pointless exercise or is it common for teams to try to put good, young players thru waivers?

Oh, and now i see that Aaron Harang was on the list too. What gives?