Cleveland Indians @ Cincinnati Reds GameThread, Jun 8, 2007 7:10 PM EDT

Come on Dellucci

by Ryan on May 16, 2008 9:00 PM EDT 0 recs

Well of course they’ll pinch-hit with Marte here.

by Jay on May 16, 2008 9:01 PM EDT up 0 recs

DH C.C

by pandroid on May 16, 2008 9:02 PM EDT up 0 recs

Pray for the walk to Dellucci.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:03 PM EDT up 0 recs

HIRE SHIP

by Voltaire on May 16, 2008 9:01 PM EDT 0 recs

How huge would Looch be with a knock here?

It's the Arizona talking, really.

by RD74 on May 16, 2008 9:01 PM EDT 0 recs

fist pump huge.

Give Marte a Chance.

by westbrook on May 16, 2008 9:02 PM EDT up 0 recs

I don’t like this matchup with Dellucci, but there’s no place really to go. Affeldt can’t throw strikes. Could find a walk.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:02 PM EDT 0 recs

I thought Winslow was holding out.

by Ryan on May 16, 2008 9:02 PM EDT 0 recs

Anyone else hear “Davida Lucci”? Um, just me, then?

by Julie on May 16, 2008 9:03 PM EDT 0 recs

MAKE HIM THROW A DAMN STRIKE.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:03 PM EDT 0 recs

coulda been 2-0

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:04 PM EDT up 0 recs

boooooo

Give Marte a Chance.

by westbrook on May 16, 2008 9:04 PM EDT 0 recs

To watch Phillips play baseball is to hate him.

by Fiddlesticks on May 16, 2008 9:04 PM EDT 0 recs

seriously. when i saw him start that no-look flip nonsense i wanted the baseball gods to intervene and send it into left field

by mpstable on May 16, 2008 9:05 PM EDT up 0 recs

who comes out, Delucci or Gutierrez/

by palcal on May 16, 2008 9:05 PM EDT 0 recs

gotta be looch.

Give Marte a Chance.

by westbrook on May 16, 2008 9:06 PM EDT up 0 recs

Dellucci should for the bullshit at-bat. Affeldt walks 4.5 per nine innings. Ugh. And he’s swinging at a 1-0 ball…

But rather, make it Dellucci so Gutierrez can play legit defense in the OF. Plus, it leaves the pitcher’s spot hitting last.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:07 PM EDT up 0 recs

Whoever is driving Gameday today has had a few too many…

by pandroid on May 16, 2008 9:06 PM EDT 0 recs

you PH marte in julio’s spot. he strikes out as well, and you have gutz in that situation or looch and bonus, wedge doesn’t have to actually play marte any more the rest of the game. see if marte was in the doghouse, he would have done that.

by Brick. on May 16, 2008 9:06 PM EDT 0 recs

Who’s left? Carroll, Marte, and Shoppach.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:09 PM EDT 0 recs

Kinda sleepy in here. I guess a bunch of the folks from the old thread missed that turn in Albuquerque and ended up in Pismo Beach instead.

by Fiddlesticks on May 16, 2008 9:11 PM EDT 0 recs

nah, it’s the 7th inning stretch. people at have to get up from their keyboards and move around just as much as fans at the park do

by mpstable on May 16, 2008 9:12 PM EDT up 0 recs

I’m contemplating food. Hmmm.

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by AngG on May 16, 2008 9:13 PM EDT 0 recs

Anyone want to enlighten us with regards to the remainder of this Reds pen? We gonna win this puppy?

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:13 PM EDT 0 recs

Ryan Freel is a twirp.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:13 PM EDT 0 recs

hey mario, you’ve been reading up on mental illness, right? what’s your take on the guy at the plate?

by mpstable on May 16, 2008 9:13 PM EDT 0 recs

I’d think he’d benefit from some of Chuck’s 1950s-style thorazine.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:15 PM EDT up 0 recs

Indians will have to rough up David Weathers.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:14 PM EDT 0 recs

Bear down, Perez.

by Fiddlesticks on May 16, 2008 9:15 PM EDT 0 recs

That’s kind of amazing.

by fleerdon on May 16, 2008 9:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

Why is it that game day never shows anyone throwing harder than 85 mph?

It's the Arizona talking, really.

by RD74 on May 16, 2008 9:15 PM EDT 0 recs

It’s occasionally nice being a girl.

by Julie on May 16, 2008 9:16 PM EDT 0 recs

So you’re saying you don’t have sensitive ovaries?

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

They rarely call notice to themselves.

by Julie on May 16, 2008 9:18 PM EDT up 0 recs

You are very lucky.

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by AngG on May 16, 2008 9:19 PM EDT up 0 recs

Now’s the time to be frightened by (or for) international balls.

by Fiddlesticks on May 16, 2008 9:16 PM EDT 0 recs

Cup check on Vic.

Beau Mills with a HR and 2B tonight.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:17 PM EDT 0 recs

poor vic. that reminds me of that (apocryphal?) story about pierzynski in SF

by mpstable on May 16, 2008 9:17 PM EDT 0 recs

gotta give us more than that?

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:18 PM EDT up 0 recs

the story goes that AJ took a foul tip off the jewels and was down on the ground. the trainer came out and said “how’s it feel”
pierzynski supposedly kicked the trainer between the legs and said “like this”
if it’s not true, it should be

by mpstable on May 16, 2008 9:28 PM EDT up 0 recs

by Fiddlesticks on May 16, 2008 9:17 PM EDT 7 recs

This will turn green before I finish typing this sentence.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:18 PM EDT up 0 recs

Well played.

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by AngG on May 16, 2008 9:18 PM EDT up 0 recs

You had to be holding onto that one, right?

by Ryan on May 16, 2008 9:19 PM EDT up 0 recs

Nope, just a sudden inspiration; but I have been holding onto that “Fist of Steel: Reds Hunter” for weeks, so it all evens out.

by Fiddlesticks on May 16, 2008 9:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

You’ve been waiting for that, haven’t you?

by Julie on May 16, 2008 9:19 PM EDT up 0 recs

ballsy call by vic going back to the breaking ball there.

by Brick. on May 16, 2008 9:18 PM EDT 0 recs

MONEY PEREZ

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:18 PM EDT 0 recs

ooh, flashback to AWESOME PEREZ

by Brick. on May 16, 2008 9:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

Interleague play sucks. You get punished for having non-fruitful rallies, since you get that much closer to the pitcher’s spot again.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:21 PM EDT 0 recs

Chad Curtis. Ew.

by Julie on May 16, 2008 9:22 PM EDT 0 recs

For some reason this made me think of Curtis Pride.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:23 PM EDT up 0 recs

I suspect it’s because they are both named Curtis. Just a theory.

by Chemo on May 16, 2008 9:25 PM EDT up 0 recs

Dayum! That’s pretty complicated. Did you go to college?

by Julie on May 16, 2008 9:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

For some reason, this made me think of Charley Pride.

by Julie on May 16, 2008 9:25 PM EDT up 0 recs

and made Hammy think of Charley Manuel

Give Marte a Chance.

by westbrook on May 16, 2008 9:40 PM EDT up 0 recs

Brennaman now talking about the Indians losing 2 World Series in the 1990s. Great.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:22 PM EDT 0 recs

He didn’t know about Wambsganss’s triple play. That pretty much cemented his idiocy for me.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

Work this shit Vic. Work it good.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:24 PM EDT 0 recs

Ugh. 88mph, and blew it by him. Vic trying to hit his first homer.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:25 PM EDT up 0 recs

Into which commonwealth?

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:25 PM EDT 0 recs

BenFran tighten up that goddamn swing.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:25 PM EDT 0 recs

Retract this. If anything they took a ball headed into the stands and made it a tough call for the umps.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

Give those fans credit.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:26 PM EDT 0 recs

Damn groundrule double.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:26 PM EDT 0 recs

Francisco!

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by AngG on May 16, 2008 9:26 PM EDT 0 recs

Anybody want to give me odds that Ryan Garko has an option exercised this year?

by fleerdon on May 16, 2008 9:26 PM EDT 0 recs

The Cliff Lee plan? Then next year, he starts off with a 70 game hit streak?

by Pronktastic on May 16, 2008 9:28 PM EDT up 0 recs

Times like this I wish Pronk was servicable at first.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:27 PM EDT 0 recs

Garko can’t stop fishing.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:28 PM EDT 0 recs

Reds announcers have it right, “Garko has made no adjustment at all this game.”

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:28 PM EDT up 0 recs

No, but Vic surely has.

Oh, you mean “adjustment to his swing,” don’t you. Never mind.

by Fiddlesticks on May 16, 2008 9:29 PM EDT up 1 recs

This Reds colour guy is actually pretty spot-on with his criticism of Garko here.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:28 PM EDT 0 recs

Come on Astro. It’ frickin David Weathers.

It's the Arizona talking, really.

by RD74 on May 16, 2008 9:29 PM EDT 0 recs

Have people forgotten … Garko hit two home runs and a double in the last three games?

by Jay on May 16, 2008 9:30 PM EDT 0 recs

Noted, but he just swung at a ball at his head, never mind he hit it to the track.

by xrickx on May 16, 2008 9:31 PM EDT up 0 recs

I’m not saying he’s “okay” with his hitting, but obviously a series like that buys him a little more time.

by Jay on May 16, 2008 9:32 PM EDT up 0 recs

As I said above, he looked terrible every other atbat during that series, and even during the atbat where he got a double. I know he still produced, three XBH are still awesome, but I’m thinking BIG PICTUREEEEEEEE.

by supermarioelia on May 16, 2008 9:32 PM EDT up 0 recs