3/30 Game Thread: Reds at Red Sox

[Doc. Scott]

Bottom of 3. Man, Butterworth loves him some Dead Milkmen.

ESPN is cannibalizing their own audience with all this steroid talk. Soon someone will have to eat Sir Peter's minstrels. Sorry, Buster Olney, you are the weakest link.

Gonzalez. Quick popout. One down.

Crisp. He's still crunchy in milk. Full count. Hit deep to center, but Freel's there for the catch. Two outs.

Loretta. Flies quickly to right-center, where Austin Kearns makes the play.

1-0 Reds after 3. This is going better than I thought it would.

[GridironGrace]

sorry had to step away a few...

[Gallen5862]

Doc Scott Espn crawl had of Michael Tucker being cut by the Nationals. Have you heard anything?

[NJReds]

I'm so tired of hearing about steroids.

Agreed. Baseball didn't just turn a blind eye to steriods; MLB embraced steroids with it's McGwire/Sosa lovefest back in '98, when the league was trying to get back in the fans good graces.

Now someone writes a book -- a few sponsors start to squirm --and the league gives a Crisis PR 101 response by opening up a sham of an investigation that at best will produce a response that could be summed up as: "Whoops...our bad"

Take away Bonds records? Doubtful. Prove that the pitchers he faced weren't jucing. They didn't take away the Reds 1919 World Series title? Why would they start erasing the recordbook.

Baseball is, and will always be about money. As long as they're making boatloads of cash, everything else (including integrity) goes out the window.

[GridironGrace]

sure ill stop doing PBP i started too but got a few others doing it and i gotta do somet painting in the house soon anyways.

[Jr's Boy]

Tucker needs to follow Grissom, into retirement.

[Doc. Scott]

Doc Scott Espn crawl had of Michael Tucker being cut by the Nationals. Have you heard anything?

[clicks around]

My sources indicate nothing. Or the Reds have signed him and decided to bat him leadoff and play him every day over Adam Dunn. One of those two, still checking.

Tucker may end up the Nationals' style consultant. He's one of JimBo's homies.

[smith288]

Where's CA? He had some stellar PBP

[BRM]

1-0 Reds after 3. This is going better than I thought it would.

Bronson's gettin' it done so far today.

[Spitball]

I've been over on the wrong board trying to get a game thread started. No wonder I was all alone.

[Doc. Scott]

Top of 4.

Lopez (0-1). Called strike. Away, count evens. Knuckler misses high, 2-1. Dirt, ball three. He walked him! First one for Wakefield so far.

Encarnacion (0-1). Strike called. RIPPED INTO LEFT-CENTER! Base hit. First and second, no outs.

Hatteberg (0-1). Taken strike. Hmmm, a trend. Outside, ball one. Called strike two. Bounced foul. Strikeout swinging. One out.

Aurilia (1-1, HR). Real men carry three gloves with them everywhere. Tapped foul, 0-1. Foul fly to left, another shot. 0-2. Another foul. Another strikeout swinging. Two down.

Cruz. Grounder to first again, again turned into an out by Kevin Youkilis.

1-0 Reds after 3.5.

[Gainesville Red]

Man, catching a knuckler's gotta be tough.

[BRM]

EE is unmanly. That single was pulled to left.

[Chip R]

You know it would be quite funny if the re-signing of Aurilia was the thing that led to the release/trade of Womack.

[membengal]

Doc Scott does spectacular PBP, if he is doing it, we all will be happy.

Btw, got to see Arroyo's first inning of work over lunch...pleasantly surprised by the variance in speeds he was getting. The fastball is by no means overpowering, but mixed in with that slow breaking ball, kept them off balance.

As one on the Wily Mo side of the fence, I was pleased, and am willing to reconsider my grumpy stance if we get an Arroyo here who can be 4.25 or better in ERA with around 130 Ks.