As Reds fans, we’ve experienced both lately. So what’s more disheartening for a fan? A team without the talent to compete, or a team with talent that underachieves?
As Reds fans, we’ve experienced both lately. So what’s more disheartening for a fan? A team without the talent to compete, or a team with talent that underachieves?
Last edited by chicoruiz; 09-09-2020 at 04:56 PM.
"In baseball, you don't know nothin'"...Yogi Berra
I don’t think it’s either.
Because if you have competent decision makers at the top, you’ll know it will be corrected. Not having folks leading the franchise that can make well rounded, shrewd, baseball first decisions is the worst. In short, the reds are managed, owned, run, coached and directed by a massive group of fing losers.
The reds have had 6 years to rebuild and have failed miserably.
A few trades worked out, most have been laughable
Drafted miserably.
Signed international talent moronically
Developed players miserably.
Can you imagine the late 90s/2000s or the current 6 years happening to a real franchise? No. Because honestly, it’s hard to be this incompetent
Last edited by TreyBall; 09-09-2020 at 11:24 PM.
Agree 100%
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I'll take the team with the talent. A hot streak and maybe you can parlay that into a couple of long term building blocks.
Last edited by mth123; 09-09-2020 at 06:45 PM.
All my posts are my opinion - just like yours are. If I forget to state it and you're too dense to see the obvious, look here!
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Also don’t let the fake narrative that the poor reds are just ‘unlucky’ guide you.
The reds are not unlucky.
They are a short cutting, cheap, short sided organization that has rewarded mediocrity, been afraid to make decisions and has been guided by nepotism And horrible decision making for too long. The whole franchise is rotting
The reds are most certainly not unlucky. They are the product of being a laughingstock-run organization in every facet for decades
Sure, injuries, small samples of babip etc show up. But they do for every team. The reds are just fantastic at being losers
Last edited by TreyBall; 09-09-2020 at 07:14 PM.
Back to the original question: I'd always choose the lovable losers. Underachieving is a culture that can seep into an organization and completely ruin it.
I look at it this way: the Mets won 66 games in 1966, 61 games in 1967, and 72 games in 1968. The Tigers won at least 88 games each year from 2011-2014. I would much rather go through the mental anguish once each season, preferably when it is coldest out, and occasionally be surprised by a miracle. Getting so close to the mountaintop only to repeatedly fall seems grotesque.
Ah the eternal question which the bard posed as:
"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse?"
But what is best in life?
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Revering4Blue (09-09-2020)
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" Alfred Lord Tennyson must have been a REDS fan.
Let's play two!!!
dont critique the club some people here cant handle it,, maybe they are proud of this lustrous performance
There's nobody on this board who can say they're happy with how this team has performed the last decade. C'mon man. Why not be critical if it's warranted. Some fans are tired of this mediocrity and if it offends the sunshine pumpers, then so be it. I love the Reds as much as anyone on this board. But, I see no issue with calling out the obvious.
the guy cant handle any criticism his job is to publish the line up and box score and then "root" for the home team he is a true fan of the debris that this manager and front office have produced for decades
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