Ken Griffey Jr. still plays baseball, I heard: 2007 Cincinnati Reds thread

I went to Great American this past Saturday for the first time to watch the Reds and Indians. It is a great park with all sorts of good seats in the house. Cinci did a good job setting up how fans can get in and out of the stadium, as Riverfront used to be a total mess.

As for the game, it was a pretty good one but the Reds bullpen again let the team down. A backup named Gutierrez made a fantastic catch in the bottom of the 10th to save the game for the Indians. There was definitely a big Cleveland contingent in the stands.

guess who has more wins than us?

hint 1: it's a group
hint 2: it includes the kansas city royals
hint 3: it rhymes with "cheveryone"

I wish I had made the thread title "Now here's a team Pete Rose could gamble against!"

ADAM DUNN FOR JAY WITASICK AND A BATTING DONUT

CAN NOT WAIT

welcome home griffey

lol @ these four headlines from today's local paper

A HERO'S HOMECOMING
The come back Kid
A night of standing ovations
M's suffer worst loss in Safeco history

I wish we could have smeared some of that win over, say, other losses. You know, because like 14 of those runs would ahve been better used getting us out of last place

I didn't hear about Narron's firing for 3 days. If a skipper is sacked in the forest...

Dayum -- Harang pitched 10 strong tonight! 1 ER, 10 Ks, NO walks, 121 pitches.

and I had him on my bench.

Harang is pretty tough. This year he has avoided the big inning. The guy would probably have 15 wins if it wasn't for the Reds cruddy bullpen.

CHICAGO -- If Cincinnati Reds slugger Ken Griffey Jr. has his way, he won't be involved in another double switch.

Griffey was replaced on defense during a double switch in the eighth inning of Tuesday's 6-5 win over the Chicago Cubs. Griffey, who has won 10 Gold Gloves, was surprised by Reds interim manager Pete Mackanin's decision.

"It was the first [time in my career] and it will be the last," he said before Wednesday's game against the Cubs.

Griffey, who ranks sixth on the career list with 590 career home runs, is hitting .274 with 27 home runs and 74 RBIs.

Griffey is definitely not the same outfielder he used to be. I think the Reds would be happy if either him or Dunn could or would actually become their regular first basemen.

I'm kind of surprised that Jeff Keppinger has not really got much of a shot before this year with the Reds.

Adam Dunn has clubbed a couple of moon shots this week.

Dunn clubbed another moon shot to beat the Braves tonight. He is really swinging a hot bat right now.

The Reds have been playing pretty well in the past week or two being a pest to some teams in the playoff hunt.

Encarnacion has been really fielding much better of late. He made a great play tonight. The bullpen has also been improved. Levi Jared Burton has been a nice find for Cinci.

The Reds have the best record in the NL since changing managers on July 3rd.

They had a good weekend sweeping the Marlins. There was a nice ceremony on Saturday night retiring Davey Concepcion's #13 with a big part of the Big Red Machine in attendance. Today's winning pitcher Tom Shearn had his first start in the majors, two days shy of his 30th birthday.

I'm glad they did not send Dunn out. They need to try and keep the lineup together for a run next year.

"Adam Dunn looks like a monkey with a football in left field. He has to have consequences for what he does. That is again a loafing ball player who ... would have blew a .15 if someone gave (him) the intoxilizer last night. I say .15. The son of a gun is drunk. And he's playing baseball in left field for the Redlegs."
--Cincinnati radio commentator Bill Cunningham

"Isn't there a line? I think that goes over the line. We might want to do something about that."
--Reds left fielder Adam Dunn (John Fay, Cincinnati Enquirer)

dunn always seems really reasonable when talking with the press, esp. when it comes to pps knocking him. he's just like "aw c'mon man, hey :("

I think it is funny that Bill Cunningham is getting called out nationally for going after Adam Dunn instead of the hours upon hours of crazy wingnut stuff he has been spewing for a couple of decades on WLW.

Griffey out for the season -- no surprise -- with a pulled groin, but this...

"Hopefully it's not as bad as it feels," Griffey said. "The best way I can describe it is that it feels like someone bungee jumped off my right (testicle)."

Griffey then fell to the ground and balled up as his Reds teammates, trainers and interim manager Pete Mackanin surrounded him.

He looked like he was in serious pain. In the replays it didn't look like his body was doing anything out of the ordinary or strenuous to cause the injury. Very odd.

should have retired ~3 yrs ago

Happy 54th! (Also, of course, would have been Musial's birthday...big day in Donora, Pennsylvania.)

Wow--still active when the previous post was made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXZTw-GtQcY