I have thrown mentions of the potential Curse of Joe Mather in a few threads here and there but thought we might need a comprehensive thread to address this pressing concern. When Mather was signed the Reds were 16-14. The Reds went 27-14 with Mather in the organization. Since his release on June 18, the Reds are 2-6. Some may say small sample size or good teams/bad teams, some blame slumps, others curse the firing of Dan O'Brien, I say it clearly is the Mather Effect.