You may want to take a recount Larry...Originally Posted by Larry Schuler
You may want to take a recount Larry...
With 14 HR he is on pace for 25+ HR. It wasn't looking that way earlier....they snuck up on me.
So... does this thread have to do with the new contract? Did Joey's new deal include some "never ever screw up" clause? Because folks are acting like he doesn't have the right to have off games here and there. Guy is human -- sometimes refreshingly so -- and I don't think we should be getting all worked up if he has a few mistakes.
But maybe that's just me. If so, carry on.
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
HeatherC1212 (07-02-2013),smixsell (07-03-2013)
What does he look like when he's interested? How can you differentiate between an interested/ locked in Votto and one who is distracted or disinterested?
I used to be able to tell the difference. But that was before he was reprimanded for the F-bombs.
Now he just seems to emit a preternatural Zennish calm.
Last edited by malcontent; 07-02-2013 at 02:18 AM.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Hoosier Red (07-02-2013),Larkin Fan (07-02-2013),RichRed (07-02-2013)
I've read what you've had to say about Votto on the Sun Deck, and lets just say you should probably pump the brakes on that before you tell us again up here.
Votto is currently third in the NL in OPS.
He's a bum. Send him down to work on his fundamentals.
They don't pay him to hit for a high OPS. Oh, wait...
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Cursh14 (07-02-2013),Larkin Fan (07-02-2013)
Slacker.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Are we talking about his ops or his boneheaded plays on defense?
When I see the 2016 Reds, I see a 100 loss team and no direction.
edabbs44 (07-02-2013)
According to the original poster, we are talking about both:
max venable:
Votto: where's his head lately?
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He's obviously a great player. Lately, however, he just hasn't been sharp...yes, at the plate, but even more so in the field and on the bases. Today's game vs. Milwaukee is case in point:
Picked off of first in the first inning
the base hit by Yovani Gallardo, he made a very poor attempt at the ball...that ball is snagged by most MLB 1B.
Over the past week or so we've seen him drop an easy pop up and a few games ago he dropped a couple for fairly routine throws to first base.
All the while, he's hitting .229 so far in June. So it's not just his lapses on the field and on the bases, his hitting is suffering, too. So, to me, it begs the question...Where's his head at right now?
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He just saved Bailey's no hitter by having his head in the game.
Always Red (07-02-2013),HeatherC1212 (07-03-2013),Larkin Fan (07-02-2013),Norm Chortleton (07-02-2013)
Huh. Turns out it was right there under his hat the whole time.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
HeatherC1212 (07-03-2013),RedEye (07-02-2013)
I'll see all of you guys in the VOTTO APPRECIATION thread!
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