The only thing that makes sense is that Phil is in charge now and he’s just using it as an ATMOriginally Posted by Wonderful Monds
I’m gonna go a bit against the grain here and agree with the sentiment a bit, unless I’m just totally missing what you’re getting at here.
It’s kind of mind boggling to me that Castellini is being such a major cheapskate to this degree, because we just came up on the 10 year anniversary of Joey Votto’s mega extension. If I remember correctly, at the time that was the biggest contract ever given out in pro sports. I was genuinely super excited about what the organization was doing and I felt like they had a bright future ahead of them. To their credit, they also gave out sizable contracts to Phillips and Bailey. And hell, even a couple years ago I was warming up to them again after they went on a spending spree and gave out their biggest FA contract ever.
Which makes what they’re pulling right now even stranger and just makes it a bigger kick in the junk. I really don’t understand what could’ve possibly happened, its pretty obvious they didn’t get screwed by the pandemic THAT bad if at all, to where they needed to just blow it up completely they way they did this off-season. I don’t know if Bob is going all weekend at Bernie’s and Phil is calling the shots now and tightening up the purse strings, or if Bob himself is just the wishy washiest dude ever. But in the last 10 years the dudes ownership legacy has been a rollercoaster of being the best owner the Reds have ever had in my life (admittedly very low bar) to being cringe inducingly cheap and embarrassing.
