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Reds lose out on Inoa

boobs — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:16:55 -0000

According to Baseball America, stud Dominican amateur Michel Inoa will sign with the Athletics for a $4.25 million signing bonus.

The Yankees initially were the leader for Inoa, reportedly agreeing to terms with Inoa's Dominican buscon on a deal with a $2.7 million bonus. However, multiple sources have indicated that Katz was then brought into the deal and raised the signing bar to a minimum of $3.5 million. The Yankees reportedly dropped out at that point in principle over having had a deal struck and then taken away.

That left the Reds, suddenly a major player in Latin America after the signing of Juan Duran this spring for $2 million, and the Rangers, who have built a resume as a force in the region in the last three years, along with Oakland, which had fallen back of the pack in recent years internationally. The Athletics have scouted Inoa heavily, with Beane, player personnel director Billy Owens and scouting director Eric Kubota among those who have seen him pitch.

This really is too bad, as signing Inoa, Juan Duran and Yorman Rodriguez in the same year would have really been a coup. Oh well. It would have been nice to pick up another first-round equivalent, but nothing's a sure thing.

Thompson to be called up

boobs — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:16:14 -0000

Thompson

Via the Fay's iPhone:

The Reds are expected to recall from Class AAA Louisville RHP Daryl Thompson (#53) to start tomorrow's game...he will make his Major League debut. Thompson, 22, began the season in the minors and in 14 starts at Class AA Chattanooga and Class AAA Louisville combined to go 6-2 with a 2.22 ERA.

He replaces 22-year-old RHP Homer Bailey in the rotation.

Here's the reds.com version.

Thompson's only had one bad start in Louisville, when he allowed 8 hits and 8 runs in 5 innings against Indianapolis. In his other 3 starts, he's allowed just 2 runs, striking out 18 in 22.2 innings. He had a 1.76 ERA in Chattanooga, with 56K and 14BB in 61.1IP.

I'd also like to point out that Thompson's the last piece of The Trade to make it to the majors. So far neither team has gotten much production from the players in that trade. Maybe we can end up with a solid starter out of it.

Bereavement Pool Update

boobs — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:25:05 -0000

Here are the standings for the Red Reporter Bereavement Pool, which is about a third or so through. Remember, the pool runs through the end of the year.

1. Brian B's wife: 97 points (Charlton Heston, Robert Mondavi)
2. Madville: 61 points (Bob Howsam)
3. BLee: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
3. boobs' roommate: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
3. JD: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
3. JD's wife: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
3. Red Menace: 41 points (Charlton Heston)

Alan actually hit with Howard Dill, who died this week of liver cancer, but unfortunately the Pumpkin King was not important enough to make the front page of CNN.com, or anywhere on CNN.com, for that matter. He actually doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, which should have disqualified him immediately. Anyway, that's one down for Alan with no points.

Here are the updated rosters:

3 fast

Stephen Hawking
Phyllis Diller
Queen Elizabeth II
Mary Kate Olsen $$
Keith Richards
Cesar Laurean $$
Nelson Mandela $$
Dick Vitale $$
Dick Clark
Joe Paterno $$
Fidel Castro
Yogi Berra $$
Ariel Sharon
Stan Musial $$
Jerry Lewis $$
Zsa Zsa Gabor
John Wooden
Jack Kevorkian
Billy Graham
Estelle Getty $$

Alan

Dom DeLouise $$
Jack Klugman
Margaret Thatcher
Gary Glitter $$
Kenny Baker $$
David Prowse $$
Stephen Hawking
Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
Lou Henson $$
Hamid Karzai
Bo Diddley
Diego Maradona $$
Pervez Musharraf
Roger Ebert
Andy Fordham $$
Harold Pinter
Roh Tae-woo $$
Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
Howard Dill $$
Edna Parker $$

BLee

Kirk Douglas
Charlton Heston
George H.W. Bush
Al Davis $$
Billy Graham
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
George Steinbrenner
B.B. King $$
Omar bin Laden $$
James Earl Jones $$
Charlie Watts $$
Ralph Wilson $$
Jimmy Carter
Amy Winehouse
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
Abe Vigoda
Pete Doherty
Paul McCartney $$
Fidel Castro
Eddie Van Halen $$

boobs

Amy Winehouse
Farrah Fawcett
Elizabeth Edwards
Fidel Castro
Tony Snow $$
Tony Yayo $$
Bobby Murcer $$
Muhammad Ali
Soupy Sales $$
George Steinbrenner
Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Billy Graham
Lil Wayne $$
Jack Kevorkian
Doyle Brunson $$
Fyvush Finkel $$
Sen. Robert Byrd $$
Pete Doherty
Bob Barker

boobs' mom

Barack Obama $$
Dick Cheney
Keith Richards
Ernest Borgnine
Phyllis Diller
Ted Kennedy $$
Jimmy Carter
John Travolta $$
Farrah Fawcett
Elizabeth Edwards
Kirk Douglas
Colin Farrell $$
Joan Collins $$
Elizabeth Taylor
Liza Minelli $$
Robin Williams $$
Loretta Lynn $$
Brigitte Nielsen $$
Connie Stevens $$
John Daly $$

boobs' roommate

Elizabeth Edwards
John Wooden
W. Mark Felt
Ariel Sharon
Billy Graham
Ralph Stanley $$
Sammy Baugh $$
Lee MacPhail $$
Bobby Doerr $$
Russell Watson $$
Charlton Heston
Jesse Helms
Fidel Castro
Karl Malden
Prince Philip $$
Margaret Thatcher
Ali al-Sistani $$
Betty Ford
Stuart Scott $$
Kirk Douglas

Brian B

Mike Tyson ## $$
Ralph Houk $$
Billy Graham
Ed McMahon $$
John Wooden
Elizabeth Edwards
Millvina Dean $$
Kirk Douglas
Elizabeth Taylor
Paul Harvey
Ariel Sharon
Walter Cronkite
Orlando Thomas $$
Larry Hagman $$
Andy Griffith
Don Baylor $$
Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
Farrah Fawcett
Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
Gary Coleman $$

Brian B's wife

Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Studs Terkel $$
Jack Klugman
Kirk Douglas
Charlton Heston
Paul Harvey
Bo Diddley
Olivia de Havilland $$
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Britney Spears ##
Roger Ebert
Ron Santo
Miep Gies $$
Hamid Karzai
Amy Winehouse
Karl Malden
Betty Ford
Robert Mondavi $$

ctnyc

Harvey Korman $$
Karl Malden
Andy Griffith
Pervez Musharraf
Fidel Castro
John Wooden
Paul Newman $$
Dick Clark
Robert Downey Jr. $$
Jack Klugman
Monte Irvin $$
Robert McNamara $$
Amy Winehouse
Conrad Dobler $$
Nancy Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Phyllis Diller
Abe Vigoda
Muhammad Ali
Walter Cronkite

Gray

Doris Lessing $$
Rick Majerus $$
Pete Doherty
Amy Winehouse
Haley Joel Osment $$
Jesse Helms
Farrah Fawcett
Betty Ford
Fidel Castro
Pervez Musharraf
Jack Kevorkian
Ariel Sharon
Kirk Douglas
Louis Farrakhan
Billy Graham
Kenneth Arrow $$
Paul Samuelson $$
Ronald Coase $$
Maya Angelou $$
Nadine Gordimer $$

Muhammed Ali
Elizabeth Taylor
Amy Winehouse
Pete Doherty
Andy Dick $$
Bob Barker
Charlton Heston
John Wooden
Barbara Bush $$
Kirstie Alley $$
Queen Elizabeth
Abe Vigoda
Gerald Ford ++
Fidel Castro
JD Salinger $$

JD's wife

Britney Spears $$
Lindsay Lohan $$
Betty White $$
Hillary Clinton $$
Clint Eastwood $$
Gladys Knight $$
Harry Morgan $$
Courtney Love
Charlton Heston
Dick Clark
Elizabeth Taylor
Amy Whinehouse
Mickey Rooney $$
Lady Bird Johnson ++
Fidel Castro

Madville

Bob Howsam $$
Bill Clinton $$
Sally Field $$
Michael Vick $$
Rush Lumbaugh $$
Courtney Love
Wolfgang Puck $$
Stephen Hawking
Morgan Freeman $$
George Lucas $$
Hal Holbrook $$
Boy George $$
David Lee Roth $$
Mary Tyler Moore $$
Jack Nicholson $$
Elton John $$
Dick Cheney
Josh Hamilton $$
David Copperfield $$
Jane Fonda $$

Man Mountain

John Wooden
Ernest Borgnine
Billy Graham
Seamus Heaney $$
Nancy Reagan
Sir Bobby Robson $$
George Mitchell $$
Stephen Baldwin $$
Patricia Neal $$
Maxine Kumin $$
Natasha Lyonne $$
Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
Elizabeth Taylor
Muhammad Ali
Ed Asner $$
Harold Pinter
Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
Amy Winehouse
Bashar Assad $$
Stephen Hawking

Red Menace

Farrah Fawcett
Ron Springs $$
Muhammad Ali
Stephen Hawking
Ron Santo
Louis Farrakhan
George Steinbrenner
Harold Pinter
Ronnie Biggs $$
Jack Kevorkian
Ariel Sharon
Bo Diddley
Fidel Castro
Charlton Heston
W. Mark Felt
Peter O'Toole $$
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Billy Graham
Kirk Douglas
King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$

Check here for the originial post.

An exit strategy for Todd Coffey

boobs — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:28:15 -0000

Game thread III

boobs — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:44:12 -0000

Two in a row, this feels like. Wrong I am, I hope.

True Red QueenCity: Game thread II

boobs — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:48:25 -0000

Come on guys. Spend some time here. We're fun too. Honest!

Reds win 4-3: If it weren't for the sixth inning, this game would have been almost perfect

boobs — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:09:02 -0000

Still, we've won four in a row and face a couple really exciting pitching matchups the next two days: Harang vs. Fausto, and Voltron vs. Cliff Lee in a battle of the AL and NL ERA leaders. It really should be a fun weekend.

By David Kohl/AP

Leitch vs. Bissinger: The "future" of journalism

boobs — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:20:58 -0000

By now many of you have seen the "Costas Now" segment in which Buzz Bissinger, longtime Philadelphia journalist and author of Friday Night Lights, and Costas berate Deadspin's Will Leitch. If you haven't, here's the video.

It boils down to this: Bissinger hates blogs because he thinks they're the "future" of journalism. He doesn't like their tone, he doesn't like their lack of access or their lack of J-school degrees. He thinks Will Leitch -- "Jimmy Olson on Percoset" -- is the general of an opposing army fighting a battle in which Bissinger and his soldiers are sure to lose. What Buzz doesn't realize is that he and Leitch are on the same side.

My profession suffers from paranoia. 40-year veterans like Bissinger feel backed into a corner because they think newspapers are dying. What they don't realize is that newspapers aren't going extinct; they're evolving. A guy like Bissinger will still have a job in another 40 years; he just won't be read in newsprint. But he's so frightened of the Internet that he can't see that he is the also the future of journalism.

It's true that the Internet has changed journalism forever. Before too long, no one will be going to their newspaper box in the morning to pick up 32 pages of paper and ink. But that doesn't mean that journalism won't exist. It also doesn't mean that Deadspin will replace the Philadelphia Inquirer. They're different things entirely, and there's no reason for guys like Bissinger to get defensive. As Bissinger said, he's spent 40 years perfecting his craft, and he'll be damned if he's replaced by a snot-nosed, phone-pic-posting prick like Leitch. But the Internet is the future -- for guys like Bissinger as well as guys like Leitch. For newspapers to survive -- which they will, in a sense -- they have to not only understand but also embrace that shift. The longer they deride bloggers, the worse off we'll be in the meantime and the longer and more painful the transition will be.

In short, there might only be one seat on the bus, but it's plenty big enough for Buzz Bissinger and Will Leitch. Buzz needs to move over and give him room.

Game 29 Thread Part II: Reds down by 5, 3-2

boobs — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:16:32 -0000

One on, top 7.

Reds lose again wrap/open thread

boobs — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:29:26 -0000

Can't say I'm surprised we didn't win this one, but the final score was a lot closer than what the game seemed. There's really not much offense outside our 3-7 hitters, and when half your hitters usually can't hit, you're not going to score a lot of runs. We could use a promotion of Jay Bruce and a catcher with a bat, and the latter could maybe be had with a trade of Bronson Arroyo. Just a thought. It might also clear up our rotation's log jam.

Although his stock might be a little low to sell at this point.