The 2009 Red Reporter Beer League Fantasy Football draft has been completed! Here are the teams for this year.

• Fabio Goes Butch
• Whee Doggies
• Sterling Cooper
• Plax's Prison Bitch
• Mangina
• Kyle's Killers
• Cincy Fo Shizz
• Stepdads
• Snohio Icecaps
• South Milwaukee
  

The games start on Thursday so get your lineup in order. Thanks for joining us this year!

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Eating burgers yesterday with the gang (and it was so nice seeing everyone - I missed you all) we talked about the Fantasy Football Leagues. Since I ran the Beer League (Auto Draft) one last year, it was pretty easy just to set it back up again this year. So that I have done and you can get to it here: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/rrbl

The password is favre since he is beloved. I think I'll put him at the top of my pre-draft list.  I know we still have a few weeks until it begins, but go get signed up. There is a max of 14 teams and I think we had 12 last year.

I'll try not to be a stranger (when the Reds are good again), but my focus has been elsewhere this summer.

As I eluded to in a game thread last week, me and my family will be responsible for throwing out the first pitch for the Wednesday July 1st Reds game. My brother in law won a drawing and was going to have his son throw out the first pitch, but as luck would have it, his ex-wife is taking their children to Florida and leaving that day (to be fair the flights were purchased before the winning.) So Jereme offered them up to me to have Trey throw out the pitch to me. Unfortunately I fear that Trey's throw would be more errant than Malory's so Jereme will visit the mound with my wife and son to toss it to me.

Our seats are somewhere in the middle of the lower first base section, so that is where we will be.. If anyone would like to come on out to that game and hang out, let me know so I can be looking for you. If someone wants to photograph or video it, I would be most greatful. July is going to be an awesome month! First pitch, 9 days of vacation, hot pass at the Kentucky Truck Race. I'm pretty excited!

Ok, so this is the last call for folks heading to Pittsburgh for the Saturday May 2nd and Sunday May 3rd, Reds v. Pirates games. I've got Ash, 'than, XJJeep and myself heading to the Pitts Saturday around 11.. We are staying at the Marriott City Center (about 7 blocks from PNC Park.) If you are coming from Cincinnati, let me know.. I have a full car but we could still head down together..

We hope to get there by 5, go find some tickets and fill the bellies with food and alchohol. If you are going to meet us there, let me know and I'll pick up some tickets for you. If you haven't already done so, drop me an email and I'll shoot you my cell number to get a hold of us while we are there.

I really thought I'd have more to add here, but surprisingly not..Owell..

Ok, it was officially dumped into my lap that I put together all of the details for our first (that I am aware of) Official Red Reporter Road Trip - PNC Park Edition. 

Here are the details -The games are May 2rd at 7:05pm EST and May 3rd at 1:35 EST.

Well, that's about all of the firm details! I will be taking "a" vehicle to support either myself and 3 others or 5 others, depending on said vehicle I can procure. I'm pretty sure there is a car from DC heading there.

If you are interesting in joining us and have not already contacted me, please reply or better yet email me (or both even). I have created an event on Facebook so you can join us there as well. If possible I'd like to keep the majority of the discussion off of the site just because of the nature of these posts getting shuffled down after a few days..

Please let me know soon so we can figure out what we are doing in regards to travel, accommodations and game tickets.. If anyone has any connections in regards to tickets, or hotel client codes or anything let me know!

I am seriously looking forward to this road trip. It is going to be a lot of fun..

First off, that Ben for running the "normal" Fantasy League. Truthfully I would be absolutely lost in that league and a definate bottom feeder (who am I kidding I was a bottom feeder the BEER league.) Anyhow, I have taken over the helm for the Red Report Beer League fantasy baseball league. Here are the details:

It is a Yahoo league (226367) and the password is joeyvotto. (Sign Up Here)

You can go directly there at http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/rrbl.

League rules are the same as the last two years. This is a AL ONLY - Auto Draft league because we have no clue what we're doing anyway. (Well, some of us.)

The league is open to ALL. There is room for 12 teams total and it is a Rotisserie scoring league.

DRAFTING STARTS SOON. The first game is scheduled for April 5th so I am going to flip the "Draft Switch" on April 2nd!

Good luck to all and hope to see the regulars and new folks join our draft..

Has anyone been catching the 30 Clubs in 30 Days programming on MLB Network? I've watched a couple and I think they do a pretty good job of breaking down the teams preseason. They do decent interviews and it is nice to see some of the other teams.

The Reds are coming up on March 5th. You can check MLB's site for the schedule: http://mlb.mlb.com/network/schedule/. It will be fun watching "The Mayor's"  take on the 09 Reds. Casey isn't doing every one, but I'm sure they will have him on the desk for the Reds.

Well, it's been a season all right. Sorry it has been over for a week and I haven't posted the results, but I am still a bit bitter.  I nearly went wire to wire during the regular season, only giving up my lead after the last game to Ash and her two ties.(and points).

The post season was brutal on the top three with us all loosing in the first round of the playoffs. Ash and I then went on to loose the second round in the playoffs and ended up 7th and 8th overall and Caleb (3rd regular season) taking 5th. 

Jacob Brumfield pulled of a couple of upsets and took the overall win! TN RiverRails and Smack of Ham taking 2nd and 3rd.

Congrats to the winners and better luck next year to us loosers. The complete standings after the jump..

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I was listening to Mike and Mike this morning on the way to work and Greenie starts talking about an article written by Paul "Doherty" in the USA Today this morning which was really "our own" Paul Daugherty. His article Baseball's disconnect with fans was reprinted in USA Today apparently. (I can understand the mis-pronunciation of his last name, Brad Daugherty is pronounced Doherty.) 

Anyway, Greenie is basically reading the column which goes on and on about the disparity between real world economics and baseball economics and how Daugherty feels that CC shouldn't take all of that money. Golic was like "So what - what is baseball supposed to do? What are the owners supposed to do? What is the point of the article."

I just thought it was amusing for Golic to rip on him for writings a worthless piece of fluff with a question and no answer. I guess he got some national exposure out of it. Maybe other markets will see what media we have to deal with on a regular basis in this city.

Ok, so now it is decided who will be playing, an nobody will be watching, except the faithful RR bunch.

Now we need to decide when to have the WS gathering and where. I included on the poll all of the first four games since it is possible to be wrapped up by then. All games start at 8pm (supposedly), so they should be wrapped up by the time the bars close.

I would imagine that some folks would prefer to meet in Kentucky this year due to the fact that cigarettes KILL and people in KY just don't care about personal health (or appearance for that matter) (JK.)

So, vote and reply and come out and meet your fellow RRs for a WS game.