5/10 Lineups and Game Thread (Aurilia hitting second)

[KronoRed]

Casey reaches on an error

[RedlegNation]

Not saying I agree with that rationale, but it's probably Miley's reasoning.

[OnBaseMachine]

Miley's reasoning for batting Aurilia 2nd per Marty: "I'm just trying to get something going."

Hey Miley here's an idea. Bat Dunn 2nd instead of wasting your high OBP hitter in the 5th spot.

[westofyou]

"I'm just trying to get something going."

Might I suggest?

[Larkin411]

I thought about making a HACKING MASS fantasy team(you try to choose the stiffest players i.e. those that will play badly yet will play often) that just had Reds players. I should've done it. Rich alone would've helped me win.

[TeamBoone]

If Austin Kearns gets traded (a guy with upside and who's very cheap right now), well, I just don't know.

I have no idea what this hatefest is all about, but I can't imagine why DOB doesn't like him... unless it's because he's talked to the media a couple times, but I somehow think it's more than that, and it may be what led Austin to go AWOL for a couple days last year.

He's done what he asked him to do, including the third base experience. Austin spent a whole lot of time on that during the offseason last year; Dan said the plan was a failure (never said why) but regardless, said he'd play him there a bit during ST, but he never did.

And remember how long he was on the DL last year? Wasn't something said about that too? Like he was ok for quite awhile before they took him off and brought him back up. Or was it the lengthy rehab assignment; I can/'t remember exactly.

What ever, I'd just like to throw my hands up in the air and not care... but I do care, and it's making me more sick to my stomach each and every day. I can only speculate how the players must feel.

[KronoRed]

I doubt it RedLeg, Miley has shown he doesn't give a flying flip about previous stats with other lineups.

Unless he just got to that chapter in "How to Manage"

[Virginia Beach Reds]

Might I suggest?

Boy, that's funny.

How about in order to get 'something going' and produce some offense, you position your players in a lineup using statistics to back your moves and not age, height or years of major league service.

[OldCat]

Maybe he's trying to keep Casey from the DP record

[pedro]

It's a god-awful small affair
To the boy with the greying hair
But his manager is yelling "No"
And his past rep has kept him in the show
But his range is nowhere to be seen
Now he walks through my sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And he's hooked to the second slot
But the bat is a saddening bore
For he's lived it ten times or more
He could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask him to focus on
Bunt Hits dragging in the infield
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the coach man
Always picking the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

and....

Will you stay in our losers story?
If you stay you won't be sorry
cause we believe in you
yes you'll blow, but take a chance
With a couple of kooks
not Hung up on the stats thing....

[Virginia Beach Reds]

Not that I rely on the GAB gun, but Claussen only throwing about 86-87 MPH tonight.

(I hope not) but 2nd time through the lineup might be ugly again.

[westofyou]

I thought about making a HACKING MASS fantasy team(you try to choose the stiffest players i.e. those that will play badly yet will play often) that just had Reds players. I should've done it. Rich alone would've helped me win.

I am currently #124

[SunDeck]

On Sportsline game site, Ojeda shows up as a silhouette. Like the mystery man or something...creepy.

[KronoRed]

From game thread Beta

"Hal said he was shocked Aurilia was in the lineup, much less than batting second. Hal says there is talk in the clubhouse that Miley is being told who to play and by more than just a few players"


Wonderful!

[Falls City Beer]

Dude, silhouettes are the worst. Our house was lousy with him; can't get rid of him.