Phil Castellini surprised that Opening Day tickets still unsold

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Originally Posted by Rdirtypirates

I am a huge Reds fan and i use to be right there defending them. There is no since has said in five different ways he could careless what we think. Think about the madness of you defending a team who hasn't won a playoff series in 25 years with such furor thinking you are the only one in the right. Regardless what you say they are a **** organization and they have been for a long time now. There is no debating that

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I’ve called them incompetent countless times in this thread. I think people are taking the fact that I think they spend enough money to make a winner so long as they use it competently as some sort of reason for me to be cool with them putting a bad to mediocre product on the field most years or as me defending them. This past offseason is really the first one where I think they made the hard calls they needed to make in order to create a winner. Prior to that I think they were mostly pissing in the wind or throwing money at a wall in FA since 2013. If they would have just fire sold this past off-season, I’d be livid. I really think they finally decided cut the sentimentality to make the tough calls on players and create a pipeline of young talent. It’s pretty much the last sliver of goodwill I have left.

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Originally Posted by Sea Ray

You hate on them and they go home to their mansions in Indian Hill "to suffer". They're not weakened. You can't touch 'em. They don't care

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If they don’t care this scumbag wouldn’t be throwing a tantrum on the radio and tv

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Originally Posted by LeatherPants

Imagine defending these knuckleheads today.

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it is certainly a choice one could make I guess

This is what narcissist energy looks like in its purest form.

I'm not sure if he's still with Redleg Nation or not, but Jason Linden just tweeted this:


Jason Linden (@JasonLinden) · Twitter

The current Reds payroll is almost exactly covered just by what they get from revenue sharing. In case you were wondering what “profitable” meant to Phil.

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Originally Posted by LeatherPants

I'm not sure if he's still with Redleg Nation or not, but Jason Linden just tweeted this:


Jason Linden (@JasonLinden) · Twitter

The current Reds payroll is almost exactly covered just by what they get from revenue sharing. In case you were wondering what “profitable” meant to Phil.

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I would absolutely LOVE to audit these books.

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Originally Posted by Wonderful Monds

Holy **** lol!!!! What are they doing?????

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It sounds like he thinks they built a winner and fans should come cheer for them.

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Originally Posted by Old school 1983

It sounds like he thinks they built a winner and fans should come cheer for them.

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Lol what

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Originally Posted by Old school 1983

It sounds like he thinks they built a winner and fans should come cheer for them.

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uh huh, sure, that's what they are saying.

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Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!

...those cities and the surrounding areas are wayyyyyyyyyy nicer than the Cinci area.

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You just admitted a few posts before this one that you've never lived in the Cincinnati area. WTF? You live in Cleveland and somehow know that Charlotte and Raleigh are wayyyyyyy nicer than Cinci?

I mean... is it that unbelievable that dude has spent time in Charlotte and Raleigh? We aren't talking about Paris or Munich here.

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Originally Posted by Slyder

They're embarrassed because not everyone recognizes their "birthright" and aren't a bunch of glad handing yes men. The emperor has no clothes and people are starting to call them on it and they have no answer, that's why the ownership has gone so far off the rails and are self-destructing.

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I don't know that they're embarrassed. I don't think they care. I also don't see them doing anything differently in response to this "pressure".

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Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!

If they don’t care this scumbag wouldn’t be throwing a tantrum on the radio and tv

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He was clearly a little rattled by it.

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Originally Posted by WildcatFan

If that's the case, they certainly don't need your defense.

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I'm not defending them. I think they're doing a very poor job running this team. I see a lot of nepotism. I'm also stating the reality that they're not going anywhere. They're not selling

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Originally Posted by LeatherPants

Imagine defending these knuckleheads today.

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I guess we disagree on defending them. What's your example of me or anyone here defending them?