"Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010
Plus it was a "get this guy out of town" move. Wells had become Marge's least favorite player for many of the things he had said. He wanted out, and they wanted him out. People were surprised they were able to get a breathing person for him, considering how badly the Reds wanted to get rid of him.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
19!
Love the sideburns, Tommy!
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Hope isn't a strategy
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
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He didn't play in the postseason due to injury, but he had a great September that helped the Reds clinch the division:
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"I think we’re starting to get to the point where people are starting to get tired of this stretch of ball,” Votto said. “I think something needs to start changing and start going in a different direction. I’m going to do my part to help make that change.”
The last #19 to make the playoffs for the Reds:
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Klu is now on deck.
Sabo is in the hole.
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I love a stat that can improve while the team is still losing! Hopefully if this team backs into the playoffs, they'll get the same results as 1990.
“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
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