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    Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    From MLBTradeRumors:

    Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer

    •Reds - The Reds have financial flexibility and a willingness to get creative, according to one of Ken Rosenthal's sources.

    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/0...is-summer.html

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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    How's the Reds attendance so far compared to past years?

    That could play a part in whether they're willing to take on some money.

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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    Quote Originally Posted by redsfandan View Post
    How's the Reds attendance so far compared to past years?

    That could play a part in whether they're willing to take on some money.
    From the looks from TV, it's been pretty bad.

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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    Quote Originally Posted by redsfandan View Post
    How's the Reds attendance so far compared to past years?

    That could play a part in whether they're willing to take on some money.
    From John Fay's blog:

    If Bob Castellini is disappointed in the attendance, he’s smart enough not to say so. When I asked him about it, he said:

    “We’re expecting on the biggest walk-up crowds of the year this weekend,” he said.

    The Reds have drawn 554,310 through 27 dates. That’s down 624,071 from the same point last year. That’s a bit skewered. The 27th date last year came June 6 – in the middle of a Cubs series that drew 105,917.
    http://cincinnati.com/blogs/reds/201...k-up-expected/

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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    OBM quoted Fay

    The Reds have drawn 554,310 through 27 dates. That’s down 624,071 from the same point last year. That’s a bit skewered. The 27th date last year came June 6 – in the middle of a Cubs series that drew 105,917.

    So we're a week away from that date, still basically drawing school time crowds, so maybe it will pick up. I think the 4 for $40 promo will help. They've sold out today's and I think tomorrow's, so that adds to the numbers. Then we're out of town until the 7th.
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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    indeed, those numbers look 'skewered'
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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    Quote Originally Posted by VR View Post
    indeed, those numbers look 'skewered'
    Mmmmm.....skewered.
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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    It's going to take them making the playoffs to start to turn the tide in attendance numbers. Castellini's just going to have to accept that fact; consider whatever expenditures on players at the deadline to be downpayments on next year's attendance.

    Promotions are good and smart. They'll need those, but most Cincy fans have read this script of playing well up till June before.
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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    Quote Originally Posted by Falls City Beer View Post
    It's going to take them making the playoffs to start to turn the tide in attendance numbers. Castellini's just going to have to accept that fact; consider whatever expenditures on players at the deadline to be downpayments on next year's attendance.

    Promotions are good and smart. They'll need those, but most Cincy fans have read this script of playing well up till June before.
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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    The attendance tonight indeed was very impressive.

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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    What's interesting about this team is it's lack of glaring weaknesses. If the Reds would just use some of their young SP talent in the pen, we'd be set. I'd love to know what Rosenthal's source meant by "creative". Is that just about compensation or the type of talent we'd potentially bring in?
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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    Quote Originally Posted by RedsManRick View Post
    I'd love to know what Rosenthal's source meant by "creative". Is that just about compensation or the type of talent we'd potentially bring in?
    I think it goes back to the Chapman signing -- finding a way to get a deal done even though we weren't in position to write the biggest up-front check, because we wanted him that badly. That was creative. So was trading for a veteran (Rolen) when we were technically supposed to be sellers, not buyers. I think Jocketty will exhaust every possibility to get the guy he wants at the deadline, whoever that is. I just hope we're in position for it to matter.
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    Re: Teams That Could Take On Payroll This Summer - Reds?

    I firmly believe that this town will turn out if the Reds continue to play this way. They have shown up for the Astros so far and this team is just fun to watch right now. We want a winner so bad it isn't funny.

    I do however believe there is still a lot of folks out there waiting for the swoon that seems to happen every year a little bit before the Allstar break. If we get over that hump, I think it will turn the rest of the skeptics our way.


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