Run DLC- Gonna be a bumpy flight but the trip will eventually be among the stars. Another Reds player learning how to make the adjustments in the BIG LEAGUES. He has so much talent and you're right speed doesn't slump. My only hope is that he doesn't suffer from Homer Bailey Syndrome. That is not being able to learn from your coaches or teammates. The book is already out on him, breaking pitches away then sneak a fastball in. He'll be fine once he adjusts.
Strider v Greene, It so happens I have both players on my fantasy team. In my league Strider is the #1 or 2 pitcher in the league. Hunter is mid to lower rated. I still think Hunter will be a star in this league. He has all the tools and once he figures it out he'll be unstoppable. The plus factor is he's a smart young man and he'll take all the coaching he can get. btw. Ritalin Rangers are # 1 in my 10 team league.
Didn’t watch the middle of the game, NBA on here. Kept an eye on the app. Eventually turned back on. Cowboy a treat. The guy on the couch went upstairs before Karcher. Not me. Loved it to bits.
We watched the recap on tv this morning. Not sure it prepared me for yoga, but definitely was smiling going out the door.
Loved the song of the day, and seeing Bobby’s face. Too young to vote for him. Not too young to mourn.
My favorite car was a '52 Dodge, L-6, very deep red maroon color. I owned two during the 70s. We nicknamed them "The Red Couch", due the comfort level of the back seat, for various activities, including, but not limited to sleeping. Listened to a lot of great music back then - from Grace Slick and JA to Bob Segar, 38 Special, Spencer Davis Group and on. I actually think DLC will learn to pick up the curve ball - then look out. But his presence on the team raises everybody's skill level. They make baseball interesting.
Joe Posnanski's upcoming book, Why We Love Baseball, which I can't wait to read, is reportedly completed and due out this fall. I would be willing to wait a little longer if he were to include a chapter on The Ricky Karcher Game!
Used to crank Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys in my 69’ Chevelle as I raced through the streets of Hyde Park like I owned the town!
I like this reds team. I’ve over achieved my whole life though low on brains and skills and with effort. So I like to watch hustle and effort. Always bugs me to see a guy jog to first base and now we see what can happen when you actually run...sometimes a guy rushes a throw or drops a ball!
The 1973 Mets won 82 games and got to the WS. Beat our heavily favored Reds. As Andy Dufresne said to Red "Hope is a good thing, the best of things". We have no chance, but the guys have been a blast to watch, so far.
This is turning into one of those, "remember that night when..." seasons.
I got a kick out of the fan behind home plate in the Hubbard jersey. He brought intense energy the entire game. What a hoot! He was rightfully RIDING that ump hard for his zone in the top of the 10th.
The last half inning was great television. The consistently inconsistent fastball made it even more dramatic. So much credit to Casali. I was convinced Karcher was going to throw the change-up on the last pitch of the game (after he got the guy watching it to start that AB), but he kept riding that slider all the way to the W. A goosebumps win.
I read on Twitter that the guy in the Hubbard jersey is a high school friend of his. Not sure if it's true, but that guy says he'll be there again tonight. Maybe he can "will" them to another win!
I was sure one more slider was going to be too many. But he obviously had no choice. Not even CV Buckner could be could have called any of those fastballs a strke!
After decades of being a Reds fan...after a decade of being a season ticket holder...I didn't renew and have watched very few games on TV. Until recently! They're having fun and that alone makes it worth watching. I know you're a Bell fan (and friend) but I still think he's awful at managing a pitching staff. Karcher should not have been in the game. A four days in a row Diaz or another inning from Farmer (yeah, he just gave up a bomb) would have been better. Glad it worked out...a HUGE round of applause for Calseli! Camaro or Mustang? I owned '67, '69, '71, and '79 Camaros... Mustangs? Eh...
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What you mean is you don't understand the organizational commitment to the OMG pitching paradigm that emphasizes the strikeout via strict pitch count controlled effort-maximized pitcher utilization. This is how the whole organization is set up and why so many washed up 2 pitch starters types find their way to the bullpen operates from the homer haven GASP bandbox
Based on this paradigm, which is the greater risk to the team? Losing one winnable game in a 165 game season when one game might mean the difference between making and missing the playoffs, or risking injury to a relief pitcher by having him pitch one inning in three consecutive games?
Maximizing the effort enhanced performance is the aim here, pitchers get injured all the time. That's one of the features in that replacements can be cheaply obtained from the scrap heap. One team's discarded starter can become another team's one-inning effective cog at any time. You should be able to assign relative leverage confidence levels to the 'A team' unit vs the B. Even the warmup pitches are factored in. And of course competitive and/or necessity circumstances can and will dictate occasionally strategic deviations
It may help make it clearer to co-manage knowing Bell has 2 ever-evolving and quite fluid alternating sets of such entities in the pen. This is also why the bench is always so short
If you think the NL Central is bad, check out the AL Central. Going to go out on a limb and say the WS winner is not coming from either of those divisions this year. I am OK with thinking division winner as long as it (a) doesn't come at the expense of trading anyone who is part of the future away to do it, and (b) it doesn't create a false sense of reality. Winning a bad division is a far cry from being a true WS contender. Reds are getting exciting, but they are a decently long way from the bright lights of late October.
I have nothing for you PDoc on the car front. I never owned a car in the 60's or 70's and by the time I was ready for a car, we were well into the every car looks similar phase. I have an OG running buddy who is about 73 and he can pick out every detail that sets a 57 something from a 56 something. I look at the cars and I might as well be reading Arabic in dark lighting blindfolded.
2006 Cardinals were maybe a game over .500 and won it all. That's the best example I can think of off the top of my head. But it can/does happen. (Not that I think it will :) )
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I fell asleep about the 7th inning and woke up to Bull Durham, and it was as disorienting as it was joyful. The fact that Reds baseball has once again become appointment viewing and not background noise in our house these days is a miracle in and of itself. There is magic on the river for both teams, and of course up the road with FC Cincy. A great time to be a Queen City sports fan.
Waxing poetic about baseball - in this instance linking it to an RFK quote no less - is one of the reasons I have always loved your column. My eyeballs will always read that!
And, I suppose I thought batters always tried to put the ball where "they ain't." That's what we told our little leaguers when my son played ball. I guess I didn't realize it was such a novel idea! Hope that dude keeps doing what's working for him.
And, yes, we're all crazy, sadly. I mean, I cannot believe we have let this go on for as long as we have. And now, let's celebrate by shooting people. It's an upside down world we are living in, there is no doubt.
Funny you mentioned Bull Durham, that's exactly what i was thinking- was he going to drill the Reds mascot? I was expecting him to say the experience was "out there, you know" in his post gamer.
Reminds me of Dock Ellis's infamous LSD no hitter where he walked 8 and hit a batter. This was also part of my own relief pitching strategy for the occasional inning switch over from 1st base on my 1o man Deming Black Devils HS team. At least one of the final warmup pitches would nearly miss the backstop and the first regulation one was at a point just over the batter's helmet
If they could get Lodolo back and Ashcraft on the right track, they could win the division. My preference would be the '67 Camaro unless the '65 Mustang was a fastback, then I could go either way. I was a 16 year old lot boy in the '70s at a local Pontiac dealership and the owner had a '68 Firebird 4 speed with a 400 c.i. engine. He asked me to deliver it from the dealership to his house one day, which was about as sane a management decision as Bell asking Karcher to close out the game last night. I turned down a side street, goosed it in second gear and turned it sideways in the middle of the street. Fortunately I didn't hit anything. The car was a monster.
Set up a DLC LLC, Doc. If I’m not mistaken, the guest Hemingway Most High just might be the man you are looking for.
BTW…Stacy Mitchhart is playing Music in Mason on Friday night. No better way to get through a long flight to Italy than to sleep off a night of cigar and whiskey debauchery.
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The Reds are now 2.5 games out of first, chasing that long-time juggernaut, the Pittsburgh Steelers....er, I mean, Pirates. Pirates? Huh? As Keith Jackson usta say, "Whoa, Nelly."
Cowboy had the best lines. Aside from his "I need a drink" right after the game ended, his 2nd best was when Massey, the nearly killed bunter, had 2 strikes on him. "If I'm Massey and the 3rd base coach tells me to bunt again, I'm telling him NO!" Casali looked like a circus seal on the last "overly high" heater. He snowconed it, it popped out and balanced on the bill of his helmet for a sec or two, then he grabbed it. Craziest thing. Craziest inning of catching I ever saw. Craziest save I'll ever see. For all the blown games in the last years, how much fun was it for them to finally win one they probably shouldn't. Maybe a second level of momentum comes with this. You never know. Odds say no, but............
None of my cars qualify me to ever talk about fancy cars, so I'll reference 2 lines from a very funny sarcasm piece in USA Today about Trumps indictment:
."And of course, you know who’s behind this travesty of justice, right? It’s so-called President Biden, who is both frail and senile and also a laser-sharp master at conducting witch hunts." Suddenly Sleepy senile Joe is so brilliant he has been able to control the DOJ? Laura Ingram and MTG should be doing stand-up, or calling God to report a miracle.
You really should study the FOF model, as logical inconsistency and incoherency of the scripted trollbot amplified echo chambered messaging is a feature, rather than some malapropist bug. This allows these hairs on fire, amygdala hijacked, double digit IQ duped maga minions to more fully ape and parrot their role model/thought influencer performance art parody personifications of scripted IRA trollbots such as Boebert, Carlson and Maggie Greene
I thought you were aware of my punctuation as Shaolin weaponry paradigm? Obviously I've become so subtly skilled in its application that the absence of deployment achieves same results
If you lose the reader, what is the benefit? And readers on a blog don't want to have to work to understand something.
Your links are great, btw. As is the overall thought. Just a bit on the overly challenging side to get through to the point sometimes. You obscure your own brilliance, quite literally.
Keep in mind, my opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it.
Well, sure but is it worth to win the battle but lose the war? I say don't hide the light under a bushel basket. The more people you reach, the further chance your message can spread. Last time I checked, this isn't a spy page. Encrypted messages aren't required. It's all just suggestions. Do as you please, of course. It's just a blog.
The bit about keyboard options as internet ninja weaponry, I've done before ... you must have >>>>>#< missed. It was s'posed to (sorta, kinda) be a joke, sorry. What can I say, I'm just a shamelesly self-indulgent metafictively-voiced wannabe?
The author has it a little backwards in the regard that the prime model of propaganda currently employed (evolution and expansion of Cohn/Atwater/Manafort southern strategy) was devised and refined into its current form at the BMSK lobbying concern in the early '8os
The Reds best move last year was to move on from Hunter Strickland. Dias would mow 'em down in the 8th just to have Strickland blow a save in the 9th. I give the Reds props. How will they respond when the streak turns to slump? That's where Bell earns his pay. Time will tell, but they are more fun than expected.
I'm with you 100%, but I'd point out we've seen slumps. Twice in the past month or so, Reds would get to 2-3 games under .500, only to fall right back to 9 games within a week. And they're knocking on that door again. I've been waiting for the wheels to fall off - it's June, but it's not late June, not even ASB, but one could make the argument they've demonstrated staying power, with a harder-than-average schedule.
I was referring to some of the newer guys that have been called up that have started hot. But in general you are right in that they haven't sustained a long slump. They can't afford it now.
Run DLC- Gonna be a bumpy flight but the trip will eventually be among the stars. Another Reds player learning how to make the adjustments in the BIG LEAGUES. He has so much talent and you're right speed doesn't slump. My only hope is that he doesn't suffer from Homer Bailey Syndrome. That is not being able to learn from your coaches or teammates. The book is already out on him, breaking pitches away then sneak a fastball in. He'll be fine once he adjusts.
Strider v Greene, It so happens I have both players on my fantasy team. In my league Strider is the #1 or 2 pitcher in the league. Hunter is mid to lower rated. I still think Hunter will be a star in this league. He has all the tools and once he figures it out he'll be unstoppable. The plus factor is he's a smart young man and he'll take all the coaching he can get. btw. Ritalin Rangers are # 1 in my 10 team league.
Didn’t watch the middle of the game, NBA on here. Kept an eye on the app. Eventually turned back on. Cowboy a treat. The guy on the couch went upstairs before Karcher. Not me. Loved it to bits.
We watched the recap on tv this morning. Not sure it prepared me for yoga, but definitely was smiling going out the door.
Loved the song of the day, and seeing Bobby’s face. Too young to vote for him. Not too young to mourn.
I was waiting for Uecker to chime in...
My favorite car was a '52 Dodge, L-6, very deep red maroon color. I owned two during the 70s. We nicknamed them "The Red Couch", due the comfort level of the back seat, for various activities, including, but not limited to sleeping. Listened to a lot of great music back then - from Grace Slick and JA to Bob Segar, 38 Special, Spencer Davis Group and on. I actually think DLC will learn to pick up the curve ball - then look out. But his presence on the team raises everybody's skill level. They make baseball interesting.
Joe Posnanski's upcoming book, Why We Love Baseball, which I can't wait to read, is reportedly completed and due out this fall. I would be willing to wait a little longer if he were to include a chapter on The Ricky Karcher Game!
...."Why Not?"....indeed....
(It's pronounced "Puffs" in Cincinnati...not Kleenex...just sayin')
So many look like rolling Star Wars storm trooper helmets to me
Used to crank Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys in my 69’ Chevelle as I raced through the streets of Hyde Park like I owned the town!
I like this reds team. I’ve over achieved my whole life though low on brains and skills and with effort. So I like to watch hustle and effort. Always bugs me to see a guy jog to first base and now we see what can happen when you actually run...sometimes a guy rushes a throw or drops a ball!
The 1973 Mets won 82 games and got to the WS. Beat our heavily favored Reds. As Andy Dufresne said to Red "Hope is a good thing, the best of things". We have no chance, but the guys have been a blast to watch, so far.
This is turning into one of those, "remember that night when..." seasons.
I got a kick out of the fan behind home plate in the Hubbard jersey. He brought intense energy the entire game. What a hoot! He was rightfully RIDING that ump hard for his zone in the top of the 10th.
The last half inning was great television. The consistently inconsistent fastball made it even more dramatic. So much credit to Casali. I was convinced Karcher was going to throw the change-up on the last pitch of the game (after he got the guy watching it to start that AB), but he kept riding that slider all the way to the W. A goosebumps win.
I read on Twitter that the guy in the Hubbard jersey is a high school friend of his. Not sure if it's true, but that guy says he'll be there again tonight. Maybe he can "will" them to another win!
I was sure one more slider was going to be too many. But he obviously had no choice. Not even CV Buckner could be could have called any of those fastballs a strke!
After decades of being a Reds fan...after a decade of being a season ticket holder...I didn't renew and have watched very few games on TV. Until recently! They're having fun and that alone makes it worth watching. I know you're a Bell fan (and friend) but I still think he's awful at managing a pitching staff. Karcher should not have been in the game. A four days in a row Diaz or another inning from Farmer (yeah, he just gave up a bomb) would have been better. Glad it worked out...a HUGE round of applause for Calseli! Camaro or Mustang? I owned '67, '69, '71, and '79 Camaros... Mustangs? Eh...
What you mean is you don't understand the organizational commitment to the OMG pitching paradigm that emphasizes the strikeout via strict pitch count controlled effort-maximized pitcher utilization. This is how the whole organization is set up and why so many washed up 2 pitch starters types find their way to the bullpen operates from the homer haven GASP bandbox
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/relievers-have-broken-baseball-we-have-a-plan-to-fix-it/
Based on this paradigm, which is the greater risk to the team? Losing one winnable game in a 165 game season when one game might mean the difference between making and missing the playoffs, or risking injury to a relief pitcher by having him pitch one inning in three consecutive games?
Maximizing the effort enhanced performance is the aim here, pitchers get injured all the time. That's one of the features in that replacements can be cheaply obtained from the scrap heap. One team's discarded starter can become another team's one-inning effective cog at any time. You should be able to assign relative leverage confidence levels to the 'A team' unit vs the B. Even the warmup pitches are factored in. And of course competitive and/or necessity circumstances can and will dictate occasionally strategic deviations
Last night OMG stood for Oh my God!
It may help make it clearer to co-manage knowing Bell has 2 ever-evolving and quite fluid alternating sets of such entities in the pen. This is also why the bench is always so short
https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/bullpen-usage.php?team=CIN
If you think the NL Central is bad, check out the AL Central. Going to go out on a limb and say the WS winner is not coming from either of those divisions this year. I am OK with thinking division winner as long as it (a) doesn't come at the expense of trading anyone who is part of the future away to do it, and (b) it doesn't create a false sense of reality. Winning a bad division is a far cry from being a true WS contender. Reds are getting exciting, but they are a decently long way from the bright lights of late October.
I have nothing for you PDoc on the car front. I never owned a car in the 60's or 70's and by the time I was ready for a car, we were well into the every car looks similar phase. I have an OG running buddy who is about 73 and he can pick out every detail that sets a 57 something from a 56 something. I look at the cars and I might as well be reading Arabic in dark lighting blindfolded.
2006 Cardinals were maybe a game over .500 and won it all. That's the best example I can think of off the top of my head. But it can/does happen. (Not that I think it will :) )
I fell asleep about the 7th inning and woke up to Bull Durham, and it was as disorienting as it was joyful. The fact that Reds baseball has once again become appointment viewing and not background noise in our house these days is a miracle in and of itself. There is magic on the river for both teams, and of course up the road with FC Cincy. A great time to be a Queen City sports fan.
Waxing poetic about baseball - in this instance linking it to an RFK quote no less - is one of the reasons I have always loved your column. My eyeballs will always read that!
And, I suppose I thought batters always tried to put the ball where "they ain't." That's what we told our little leaguers when my son played ball. I guess I didn't realize it was such a novel idea! Hope that dude keeps doing what's working for him.
And, yes, we're all crazy, sadly. I mean, I cannot believe we have let this go on for as long as we have. And now, let's celebrate by shooting people. It's an upside down world we are living in, there is no doubt.
Funny you mentioned Bull Durham, that's exactly what i was thinking- was he going to drill the Reds mascot? I was expecting him to say the experience was "out there, you know" in his post gamer.
Reminds me of Dock Ellis's infamous LSD no hitter where he walked 8 and hit a batter. This was also part of my own relief pitching strategy for the occasional inning switch over from 1st base on my 1o man Deming Black Devils HS team. At least one of the final warmup pitches would nearly miss the backstop and the first regulation one was at a point just over the batter's helmet
If they could get Lodolo back and Ashcraft on the right track, they could win the division. My preference would be the '67 Camaro unless the '65 Mustang was a fastback, then I could go either way. I was a 16 year old lot boy in the '70s at a local Pontiac dealership and the owner had a '68 Firebird 4 speed with a 400 c.i. engine. He asked me to deliver it from the dealership to his house one day, which was about as sane a management decision as Bell asking Karcher to close out the game last night. I turned down a side street, goosed it in second gear and turned it sideways in the middle of the street. Fortunately I didn't hit anything. The car was a monster.
Set up a DLC LLC, Doc. If I’m not mistaken, the guest Hemingway Most High just might be the man you are looking for.
BTW…Stacy Mitchhart is playing Music in Mason on Friday night. No better way to get through a long flight to Italy than to sleep off a night of cigar and whiskey debauchery.
The Reds are now 2.5 games out of first, chasing that long-time juggernaut, the Pittsburgh Steelers....er, I mean, Pirates. Pirates? Huh? As Keith Jackson usta say, "Whoa, Nelly."
Here's a vid replay of Karcher's pitches in the 10th. Fun, fun,fun. https://www.reddit.com/r/Reds/comments/1487vxw/ricky_karchers_pitchbypitch_save_in_his_major/
Cowboy had the best lines. Aside from his "I need a drink" right after the game ended, his 2nd best was when Massey, the nearly killed bunter, had 2 strikes on him. "If I'm Massey and the 3rd base coach tells me to bunt again, I'm telling him NO!" Casali looked like a circus seal on the last "overly high" heater. He snowconed it, it popped out and balanced on the bill of his helmet for a sec or two, then he grabbed it. Craziest thing. Craziest inning of catching I ever saw. Craziest save I'll ever see. For all the blown games in the last years, how much fun was it for them to finally win one they probably shouldn't. Maybe a second level of momentum comes with this. You never know. Odds say no, but............
None of my cars qualify me to ever talk about fancy cars, so I'll reference 2 lines from a very funny sarcasm piece in USA Today about Trumps indictment:
."And of course, you know who’s behind this travesty of justice, right? It’s so-called President Biden, who is both frail and senile and also a laser-sharp master at conducting witch hunts." Suddenly Sleepy senile Joe is so brilliant he has been able to control the DOJ? Laura Ingram and MTG should be doing stand-up, or calling God to report a miracle.
You really should study the FOF model, as logical inconsistency and incoherency of the scripted trollbot amplified echo chambered messaging is a feature, rather than some malapropist bug. This allows these hairs on fire, amygdala hijacked, double digit IQ duped maga minions to more fully ape and parrot their role model/thought influencer performance art parody personifications of scripted IRA trollbots such as Boebert, Carlson and Maggie Greene
Huh?
Could you consider just one or 2 adjectives per noun, and hyphens where needed? I think it would be very helpful. Just a thought.
I thought you were aware of my punctuation as Shaolin weaponry paradigm? Obviously I've become so subtly skilled in its application that the absence of deployment achieves same results
Not even sure how to interpret that.
If you lose the reader, what is the benefit? And readers on a blog don't want to have to work to understand something.
Your links are great, btw. As is the overall thought. Just a bit on the overly challenging side to get through to the point sometimes. You obscure your own brilliance, quite literally.
Keep in mind, my opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it.
This way the minions won't know I'm talking about them without somebody telling ... except for the more witting practitioners
Well, sure but is it worth to win the battle but lose the war? I say don't hide the light under a bushel basket. The more people you reach, the further chance your message can spread. Last time I checked, this isn't a spy page. Encrypted messages aren't required. It's all just suggestions. Do as you please, of course. It's just a blog.
The bit about keyboard options as internet ninja weaponry, I've done before ... you must have >>>>>#< missed. It was s'posed to (sorta, kinda) be a joke, sorry. What can I say, I'm just a shamelesly self-indulgent metafictively-voiced wannabe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
The author has it a little backwards in the regard that the prime model of propaganda currently employed (evolution and expansion of Cohn/Atwater/Manafort southern strategy) was devised and refined into its current form at the BMSK lobbying concern in the early '8os
The Reds best move last year was to move on from Hunter Strickland. Dias would mow 'em down in the 8th just to have Strickland blow a save in the 9th. I give the Reds props. How will they respond when the streak turns to slump? That's where Bell earns his pay. Time will tell, but they are more fun than expected.
I'm with you 100%, but I'd point out we've seen slumps. Twice in the past month or so, Reds would get to 2-3 games under .500, only to fall right back to 9 games within a week. And they're knocking on that door again. I've been waiting for the wheels to fall off - it's June, but it's not late June, not even ASB, but one could make the argument they've demonstrated staying power, with a harder-than-average schedule.
I was referring to some of the newer guys that have been called up that have started hot. But in general you are right in that they haven't sustained a long slump. They can't afford it now.