You know it's bad when ...

[JohnU]

The best you can hope for is to not get no-hit.

How bad does it have to get before the Reds tell Brook Jerkoby to take a job counting North Korean warheads?

This is absurd.

 

[JohnU]

15 innings and 2 hits ... yeah, we're gonna celebrate another divisional title, all right.

 

[JohnU]

6-pitch innings in the 7th ...

 

[Hit-n-Run]

Just a few games ago the concern was the Reds' runners LOB.

They've fixed that problem, they stopped getting on base.

One hit in back to back games for the first time since July of 1900.

 

[JohnU]

I see no evidence it's going to change. Now we have our least effective pitcher coming out tomorrow.
Even if they break out of the "slump," it's not something that is NOT a long-term trend by this team. After the scouting report gets around, just throw the ball ... the Reds will hack away. If you can't hit strikes, what exactly are you swinging at?

Do we continue to just hope the other team's pitcher will be ineffective?

 

[JohnU]

Elias Sports Bureau said the last time the Reds (13-11) were held to one hit in consecutive games came against Brooklyn on July 5 and 6, 1900, at Cincinnati's League Park.

 

[JohnU]

Why do I think the Reds are really the Pinks?

 

[redsfan03]

^I'd be fine with that...

 

[JohnU]

This trip was a litmus test. No Marlins, no Cubs, playing on the road against a top team -- so far, I'd say it's been a Dusty-monious failure.

 

[eburg5000]

John, I saw that CBS deleted your comment inviting Reds posters to come over here. What in the hell did they think we were going to do. They brought this on themselves.

 

[JohnU]

I think the jerkbag Ram99 reported it as spam because I referred to a Retardinal Troll, who clearly is him because he's about the only troll left on the boards. He's all over the Angels boards too. The guy must have some real issues.

 

[eburg5000]

Yea, I think any sane person would have given up by now

 

[JohnU]

The only ones who post on the Reds CBS board are Rams and those other two beefsteaks -- who are bitching at each other.