Say hey 3 total stolen base attempts were committed, with the same I'm guessing Pirate speedster guy swiping 2nd and 3rd off different pitchers (at times they kinda act like paying attention is not highly prioritized) + 1 CS eradicating precious OBP potential run capital on the Reds' side ... any associated reviews for these?
Home run on the song this time Doc. All joking aside, the Reds may be better than predicted, if pitchers can throw strikes. 75 wins? Young inexperienced talent, yet still talent, makes for possibilities. I will die a Reds fanatic, if MLB doesn’t die first.
There's a very easy way to find out if David Bell is any good. Fire him. Hire a new guy. Keep the same system in place. See if the new guy is any better.
If he isn't, well, then it's nothing ventured, nothing gained. No big deal. Things are the same. But if the new guy is better than Bell, we get better baseball, better results from players, and much more enjoyment in following the team.
It's clear they have gone nowhere under Bell. I have argued for years that Bell is extremely ill-equipped to be a manager. I think he has proven it in blatant, obvious ways that you do not seem to understand, Doc. Furthermore, your logic suggests a manager of a bad team should never be fired, since we can never know whether he's actually bad or not. By that logic only good managers will get fired. If that's sin't the most bass ackwards thinking I've ever heard, I don't know what is.
A manager's job is to get the most out of what he has. I submit D. Bell does not do that nor has he every. He's a terrible enabler, and his buddy-buddy thing with his players is a total joke. There is little harm in firing him and bringing in someone better equipped. to lead this team. It should have already happened 2 or 3 years ago.
I did a CPI calculator inquiry. $15M in 1990 would be $34.345M in 2023. Poverty level compared to the Dodgers’ & Yankees’ today.
I need to research what the MLB average was in 1990 and compare that to the inflation rates in the general economy vs. the MLB. Thanks for looking that up, you got my brain going.
Oh boy. Like most everyone who follows you, I'm a huge Reds fan. Since BPR. (Before Pete Rose). I like David Bell. I think he's a great and honorable man. But he's a mediocre manager. I say this just from watching the games. He's had decent talent and mismanaged them, especially his pitching staffs. In too long, pulled too soon, and so on. Couldn't see the game yesterday, being in Florida and a fellow thinwallet. Not paying 150 to watch the only team I want to see. So I can't comment on that one. I understand him still being the manager of this team, and maybe a light bulb goes off and he modifies his style, but I doubt it.
If a managers IQ is dependent on bullpen maybe Bell should of worked on stretching out starters a little longer that 70- 80 pitches. Also has he ever let a pitcher pitch out of a jam in his stint here? Correct on announcers. I miss the old Brantley and Sadak...every hit is a Bill Mazerowski bottom of the 9th World Series walk off homer.
I only saw the last few innings, and they confirmed what we expected.
Wil Myers has always been a fun hitter to watch. His smash liner up the middle in the 8th was a thing of beauty. He will hit the scoreboard in left this year.
Was it Law or one of the others wearing 47 reminding me of Stormy Weathers without the stuff? Whoever he is he certainly has the body type.
100% agreement about Bell's managing abilities. He's fine. No manager in history would be successful with this squad.
Cubbies? After the beef in 2021, I'm not willing to come around on them. I'll be rooting for the O's on the side. Mike Elias is the man.
Only one comment in reference to "Will We Ever Know" if David Bell is (can be) a good manager? He was given a roster filled with ready to win it players in 2021. Castellanos, Winker, and a ROY Jonathan India who invigorated OG Joey Votto to reach new heights of his old hitting self, Suarez was here Castillo was here, oh, and who was that Cy Young award-winning pitcher? And so on including M. Moustakas who actually failed in epic fashion to contribute, but the front office could not have known that...So, what happened? The Reds competed big time came out of the All-Star break within a game of the first place Brewers, with a three-game series scheduled against those Brewers to start the second half of the season. DAVID BELL completely mismanaged the pitching staff and the position players right out of the playoffs even. End story. Yes, we know all about David Bell and his analytics driven managing style. My opinion: he is not now, nor will he ever be, a good MLB manager - PERIOD.
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God help me, I got sucked into the pomp and circumstance even though I'm 1800 miles away. I got a monthly subscription to MLB so I can listen to games on the radio. First pitch in the land of no DST is usually between 0900 and 1300.
I'm a fan of the Viking helmet for Steer and hope it becomes a thing for any Redleg home run hitter this season. At least have fun.
I'm with you and not paying that much attention to them. If they are at .500 at the All Star Break, I will take the team more seriously. Right now, I have "zero" expectations for the 2023 season (I was a 20 game Reds season ticket holder for 12 years). Baseball has been a top sport for me since my youth in the 1960's. MLB's executives and their antics have soured my love of the league.
I gradually evolved into a soccer fan after being a long-time recreational soccer player, so that's now the #1 sport for me. FCC is doing well, so I'll spend my sports $ on them.
Very good question about D Bell. And, sadly, a pretty likely scenario concerning his fate.
The worst things is that even though his employers know better than to fire a man whom they never gave the tools to perform his craft, they will probably do it anyway. And it will be as financially inspired as most of their foolish actions. In this case, pressure from shareholders to do something -ANYTHING - that might satisfy their dwindling fan base.
I always think of Buddy Bell when it comes to David. It has to torture that arguably HOF level player who never got a postseason at-bat to see his son in such an untenable circumstance. Both father and son deserve better.
Bell stuck with Cruz way too long and it cost them the game…. if you can’t throw strikes you won’t be a successful reliever.
Larkin is excellent, Welsh always lets us know he invented the game and I’m not a huge fan of Sadak. Gonna be a long season…Bell is the Red’s answer to the The Tonight Show’s Tommy Newsom… OG reference - look it up.
Nice mellow tune. Settled me down this morning after that ball game that went on and on. I felt like it was on fast forward and it all looked the same to me. Each player got pitch/pitch/pitch; and each player would swing/swing/swing as hard as they could. This takes Joey's philosophy of reading the ball as it comes over the plate entirely out of the picture. All I saw was 'swing and hope' strategy. It felt like a home run contest, gone bad. It was awful. Actually reminds me of playing on a golf course with women. We are always told by the starter to 'keep moving'. When I first started playing it was hurry up, hit the ball, jump in the cart, hurry up, hit the ball (get out of the way!), hurry up, get in the cart and rush to the green, and then hurry up! Nowdays, we are waiting for the guys on the tee box who are waiting for the people on the green, 500 yards away, to clear off as they have decided to play from the Blues which makes them "appear better than they are". So they wait, chatting away; finally, the green is cleared and the first guy slices the ball over the cart path into a creek; next guy pulls a grounder left into someone's yard; and generally the other two are lost about 15 minutes in the woods. Life takes patience, doesn't it? I hope I live long enough to be patient. The point being, the faster you go, the behinder you get.
Wow the Reds bullpen is like the Mojave Desert of bullpens. There's nothing there. Sims and Antone, both on IL, the rest is....what you described. I hadn't been paying attention in the offseason to the bullpen, and now I have a hard timing wondering how the Reds will ever hold a lead. That said, what an awesome Opening Day. Shout out to whoever kept Phil Castellini off television.
Anyone else try to take in Reds pregame coverage on THE BIG ONE DUB EL DUBYA? Insufferable, unless you're into Will Cunningham yelling at you like you're his TV, then very much your cup of tea. I have never been more thankful for Lance McAlister, who was clearly doing the best he could to humor this lunatic. Will's pipes are usually used to reinforce conspiracy theories like stolen elections. Why is he doing Reds pregame coverage?
The first time in eleven years that I'm not a season ticket holder. I'm admittedly not a David Bell fan. Even a couple years back when he had a fairly good team, he didn't manage his pitching staff well. I'd always bet the "over" on how many pitchers he'd use in a game. He has little personality in the dugout and absolutely no excitement. We got the wrong Bell, it should have been Buddy.
Say hey 3 total stolen base attempts were committed, with the same I'm guessing Pirate speedster guy swiping 2nd and 3rd off different pitchers (at times they kinda act like paying attention is not highly prioritized) + 1 CS eradicating precious OBP potential run capital on the Reds' side ... any associated reviews for these?
Not sure why Bell picked the guy with the WORST resume to pitch in that situation. That’s my complaint... something he’s done often
Home run on the song this time Doc. All joking aside, the Reds may be better than predicted, if pitchers can throw strikes. 75 wins? Young inexperienced talent, yet still talent, makes for possibilities. I will die a Reds fanatic, if MLB doesn’t die first.
There's a very easy way to find out if David Bell is any good. Fire him. Hire a new guy. Keep the same system in place. See if the new guy is any better.
If he isn't, well, then it's nothing ventured, nothing gained. No big deal. Things are the same. But if the new guy is better than Bell, we get better baseball, better results from players, and much more enjoyment in following the team.
It's clear they have gone nowhere under Bell. I have argued for years that Bell is extremely ill-equipped to be a manager. I think he has proven it in blatant, obvious ways that you do not seem to understand, Doc. Furthermore, your logic suggests a manager of a bad team should never be fired, since we can never know whether he's actually bad or not. By that logic only good managers will get fired. If that's sin't the most bass ackwards thinking I've ever heard, I don't know what is.
A manager's job is to get the most out of what he has. I submit D. Bell does not do that nor has he every. He's a terrible enabler, and his buddy-buddy thing with his players is a total joke. There is little harm in firing him and bringing in someone better equipped. to lead this team. It should have already happened 2 or 3 years ago.
I did a CPI calculator inquiry. $15M in 1990 would be $34.345M in 2023. Poverty level compared to the Dodgers’ & Yankees’ today.
I need to research what the MLB average was in 1990 and compare that to the inflation rates in the general economy vs. the MLB. Thanks for looking that up, you got my brain going.
Oh boy. Like most everyone who follows you, I'm a huge Reds fan. Since BPR. (Before Pete Rose). I like David Bell. I think he's a great and honorable man. But he's a mediocre manager. I say this just from watching the games. He's had decent talent and mismanaged them, especially his pitching staffs. In too long, pulled too soon, and so on. Couldn't see the game yesterday, being in Florida and a fellow thinwallet. Not paying 150 to watch the only team I want to see. So I can't comment on that one. I understand him still being the manager of this team, and maybe a light bulb goes off and he modifies his style, but I doubt it.
If a managers IQ is dependent on bullpen maybe Bell should of worked on stretching out starters a little longer that 70- 80 pitches. Also has he ever let a pitcher pitch out of a jam in his stint here? Correct on announcers. I miss the old Brantley and Sadak...every hit is a Bill Mazerowski bottom of the 9th World Series walk off homer.
I only saw the last few innings, and they confirmed what we expected.
Wil Myers has always been a fun hitter to watch. His smash liner up the middle in the 8th was a thing of beauty. He will hit the scoreboard in left this year.
Was it Law or one of the others wearing 47 reminding me of Stormy Weathers without the stuff? Whoever he is he certainly has the body type.
100% agreement about Bell's managing abilities. He's fine. No manager in history would be successful with this squad.
Cubbies? After the beef in 2021, I'm not willing to come around on them. I'll be rooting for the O's on the side. Mike Elias is the man.
Only one comment in reference to "Will We Ever Know" if David Bell is (can be) a good manager? He was given a roster filled with ready to win it players in 2021. Castellanos, Winker, and a ROY Jonathan India who invigorated OG Joey Votto to reach new heights of his old hitting self, Suarez was here Castillo was here, oh, and who was that Cy Young award-winning pitcher? And so on including M. Moustakas who actually failed in epic fashion to contribute, but the front office could not have known that...So, what happened? The Reds competed big time came out of the All-Star break within a game of the first place Brewers, with a three-game series scheduled against those Brewers to start the second half of the season. DAVID BELL completely mismanaged the pitching staff and the position players right out of the playoffs even. End story. Yes, we know all about David Bell and his analytics driven managing style. My opinion: he is not now, nor will he ever be, a good MLB manager - PERIOD.
God help me, I got sucked into the pomp and circumstance even though I'm 1800 miles away. I got a monthly subscription to MLB so I can listen to games on the radio. First pitch in the land of no DST is usually between 0900 and 1300.
I'm a fan of the Viking helmet for Steer and hope it becomes a thing for any Redleg home run hitter this season. At least have fun.
I'm with you and not paying that much attention to them. If they are at .500 at the All Star Break, I will take the team more seriously. Right now, I have "zero" expectations for the 2023 season (I was a 20 game Reds season ticket holder for 12 years). Baseball has been a top sport for me since my youth in the 1960's. MLB's executives and their antics have soured my love of the league.
I gradually evolved into a soccer fan after being a long-time recreational soccer player, so that's now the #1 sport for me. FCC is doing well, so I'll spend my sports $ on them.
Very good question about D Bell. And, sadly, a pretty likely scenario concerning his fate.
The worst things is that even though his employers know better than to fire a man whom they never gave the tools to perform his craft, they will probably do it anyway. And it will be as financially inspired as most of their foolish actions. In this case, pressure from shareholders to do something -ANYTHING - that might satisfy their dwindling fan base.
I always think of Buddy Bell when it comes to David. It has to torture that arguably HOF level player who never got a postseason at-bat to see his son in such an untenable circumstance. Both father and son deserve better.
Bell stuck with Cruz way too long and it cost them the game…. if you can’t throw strikes you won’t be a successful reliever.
Larkin is excellent, Welsh always lets us know he invented the game and I’m not a huge fan of Sadak. Gonna be a long season…Bell is the Red’s answer to the The Tonight Show’s Tommy Newsom… OG reference - look it up.
Nice mellow tune. Settled me down this morning after that ball game that went on and on. I felt like it was on fast forward and it all looked the same to me. Each player got pitch/pitch/pitch; and each player would swing/swing/swing as hard as they could. This takes Joey's philosophy of reading the ball as it comes over the plate entirely out of the picture. All I saw was 'swing and hope' strategy. It felt like a home run contest, gone bad. It was awful. Actually reminds me of playing on a golf course with women. We are always told by the starter to 'keep moving'. When I first started playing it was hurry up, hit the ball, jump in the cart, hurry up, hit the ball (get out of the way!), hurry up, get in the cart and rush to the green, and then hurry up! Nowdays, we are waiting for the guys on the tee box who are waiting for the people on the green, 500 yards away, to clear off as they have decided to play from the Blues which makes them "appear better than they are". So they wait, chatting away; finally, the green is cleared and the first guy slices the ball over the cart path into a creek; next guy pulls a grounder left into someone's yard; and generally the other two are lost about 15 minutes in the woods. Life takes patience, doesn't it? I hope I live long enough to be patient. The point being, the faster you go, the behinder you get.
Wow the Reds bullpen is like the Mojave Desert of bullpens. There's nothing there. Sims and Antone, both on IL, the rest is....what you described. I hadn't been paying attention in the offseason to the bullpen, and now I have a hard timing wondering how the Reds will ever hold a lead. That said, what an awesome Opening Day. Shout out to whoever kept Phil Castellini off television.
Anyone else try to take in Reds pregame coverage on THE BIG ONE DUB EL DUBYA? Insufferable, unless you're into Will Cunningham yelling at you like you're his TV, then very much your cup of tea. I have never been more thankful for Lance McAlister, who was clearly doing the best he could to humor this lunatic. Will's pipes are usually used to reinforce conspiracy theories like stolen elections. Why is he doing Reds pregame coverage?
The first time in eleven years that I'm not a season ticket holder. I'm admittedly not a David Bell fan. Even a couple years back when he had a fairly good team, he didn't manage his pitching staff well. I'd always bet the "over" on how many pitchers he'd use in a game. He has little personality in the dugout and absolutely no excitement. We got the wrong Bell, it should have been Buddy.