Baseball Dog Days Contd.

This is about baseball so for you non-baseball fans c-ya-later. Well August also means baseball is winding down and our (ya hear me Tom) Reds are stinking up the joint. Up to today they have lost 8 in a row. They are 45-61 and last in the NL Central. They have lost fourteen of their last fifteen games and are tied with putrific Pittsburgh for last. One year ago they had a modest lineup of Freel,Keppinger,Phillips,Encarnacion,Dunn,Griffey,Votto,Ross,Volquez in their lineup. Now all are gone except Phillips and Votto. Yesterday new pickup Tom Gorzelany stopped the Reds. He was just acquired from the Pirates by the Cubs. The injured list is prodigious. It includes Volquez who is out for a year with Tom John surgery. By the way there is a pattern to Dusty Baker doing this to young arms (see Schmidt,Wood,Prior). Cueto has lost and so has Aroyyo and Harrang. Micah Owings another pitcher is out. So is Jay Bruce a RF, newly acquired Scott Rolen is out after being beaned. Hernandez the cather is out. also out are Chris Dickerson,Danny Richar,and Mike Lincoln, as well as Bill Bray and Jared Burton. Whew call the doctor. Further they aren't hitting can't pitch and generally look like do do. Their current lineup won't scare anyone (Hanigan,Votto,Phillips,Gonzalez,Rosales,Nix,Taveras, and Gomes. I have been playing the Reds in my micro-leaugue for 10 years and they are 69-71 so this has been a down decade. I certainly don't look foward to playing those guys next season.Whats the answer? well you can't change the players overnight so its time Dusty Baker went and Walt Jocketty too. They are manager and GM who are not getting it done. I havenot been to Cincy this year or last. It does not look like I'm going anytime soon. Too far to go for a hot dog. Oh well Shawn said he wanted to go see the Fever tonight, maybe they will be fun?