http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...|topnews|text|
Doesn't sound good...
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...|topnews|text|
Doesn't sound good...
Prayers for him and his family. He's done more in his 92 years than many of us could ever hope.
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_n...-Jr-dies-at-92
He's passed away.
May he rest in peace.
RIP
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
RIP Carl,you will be missed!!!
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RIP.
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RIP Mr Lindner.
May he rest in peace, but I was not a fan of his ownership of the Reds.
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RIP.
Likewise, not to speak ill of the dead, but for all his business acumen, how he didn't get something as simple as how to finance extended contracts (how do you own a major insurance company and not know this?), needlessly put the club in a financial bind during the Griffey era, IMO. Only a slight step up from Marge Madness.
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Same here. I'm sorry for the family for their loss. I've read that he donated lots of money to worthwhile charities and did much good.
But he was not a good owner for the Reds. They floundered around most of the years he owned them. He never put in the money needed to keep the Reds competitve.
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He was great for the town. Not so great for the ballteam.
"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
I think the problem was that he saw the team like he did the symphony -- it was enough to make sure the city had a symphony and a baseball team. But baseball ownership requires a dynamic constant pushing forward, which he wasn't up to. Most things that went wrong in those years weren't his fault, but someone more dynamic could have taken the '99 Reds, Griffey and the new ballpark and created a new era for the franchise.
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