No Support for Santana, Off Day Homework.  Halolinks

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we don’t have what it takes to take october, a least not as far as i can tell. trading for an impact bat makes little sense when we get that impact bat back next spring. our farm system needs to mature, and selling off pieces for a very temporary fix doesn’t make much sense to me.

unless someone else likes brandon wood.

“You may run like HAYES (as in Bob Hayes), but you hit like shit.”

Lou Brown wins for me because of his voice. What a tough SOB kind of voice.

Though Tom Hanks’ line stands to this day as pretty damn relevant. Used on my son this past LL season. Cut that crying out instantly!

Gets too much hate around here. Give him enough time, and he really wouldn’t be a bad option as a backup 1b/dh/lf/ph. And he did his job yesterday. He took a walk, representing the go ahead run. Aybar and Kendrick let us down.

who died last July at the age of 70. I always loved the guy in westerns like Silverado and Conagher but he was great in the Major League movies.

for now. I got him on my fantasy squad and he is probably more consistent than Verlander, Hanson or Kershaw. Kinda reminds me of Saundo circa 2008.

just plain can’t get anyone out.

and failed to score following at bats from our #3 and #4 hitters. Just plain ridiculous and cost us the game.

Well that and the fact that Napoli can’t handle the pressure of hitting the ball far with men on base.

not a choice for “Best Movie Manager” ever?

and the dude is intense. He’s said Oppo Taco about 6 times talking about Buster Posey

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That would have been fun to see, scored 14 runs

Maybe he is on to something, but he’s totally contradicting himself. He goes off on how Reagins is basically asleep at the switch and getting out-manuevered by Daniels. He talks about how Reagins needs to make some moves to keep this team afloat, not just in the AL West, but in order to go anywhere in the playoffs. But, then he complains how there is nobody in Farm System that the team deems ready to make a contribution, and he cites McNulty and Aldridge as examples of just how far we’re scraping the barrel.

But, these points are totally self-contradicting, aren’t they? Reagins could make a move in keeping with the Rangers. The Rangers traded one of their best upper level prospects to get Cliff Lee. Does Miller think we had a prospect in our system, as highly regarded as Smoak, who we could have given up to the Mariners? Somehow, i don’t think we could have gotten Lee for someone like Trumbo, for example.

So, we could be making trades that keep us more closely in the pennant race, but that would only serve to deplete our Farm System, which was one of Miller’s complaints. Trading top prospects may or may not keep you in the pennant race, but it will definitely purge your farm system of decent prospects and put us even deeper into that hole that Miller is complaining about. Conger or Trout for Cliff Lee anyone? I didn’t think so.

The argument that the Angels should promote Bourjos, Trout and Kohn (that seem to be making the rounds here) were not really addressed by Miller and I suppose that is a debate for another day. But, I would argue that the Angels have no interest in repeating the mistakes made in Brandon Wood’s development. Bringing him for short stints to the major league roster, to cover for injuries, while not giving him a chance to play everyday, and burning through his player options. That has got to be somewhere in the back of their heads.

I just signed up here and wanted to introduce myself. I am a Red Sox fan and will be here when we play you guys, but I want to get to know the blog now.

SOS?
Scot-y Shields?
Bell?
Matt Palmer (hey, he’s off the DL . . .)
Oswalt?

Almost died on the beaches of Encinitas this weekend
4 days, 4 lifeguards, 6 paramedics, 2 doctors, 5 nurses, 2 dozen needle stabs and about 800 of the same questions asked over and over-later, I was diagnosed with cellulitis after being mis-diagnosed with heat stroke. Leg is all jacked up.
O well, the reaper hasn’t got me yet, but it sure ef-d up my vacation at the beach.

Matsui… even if we are hanging in there at 4 games back and we think we can still win the west… if someone has interest in Matsui we should look to get some better AAA/Major League ready talent that might help our bullpen/bench… more depth is better than an aging, wilting player who we won’t re-sign next season anyways. Even if we get a former high ranked pitcher whose coming off tommy john surgery or something…

Juan Rivera… the guy is OK… nothing spectacular here… if we could get Roy Oswalt and a potential bullpen pitcher/prospect for Wood, Rivera, and say… Scott Kazmir that would be sweet.

I’ve also noticed that the Reds have an abundance of young pitching… Mike Leake, Travis Wood and Aroldis Chapman.. they could spare one of them no?
 
1. E. Volquez
2. B. Arroyo
3. J. Cueto
4. M. Leake
5. T. Wood
6. A. Harang (DL)
7. H. Bailey (DL)
8. A. Chapman

Mike Napoli – The Reds catching situation and bench are not super strong. Matsui could be a good bat coming off the bench for the post season. Mike Napoli would be a nice bat to throw into the mix for bench strength, catching, and Joey Votto rest days at first base.

so yeah…

SELL: Brandon Wood, Mike Napoli, Juan Rivera, Scott Kazmir, Hideki Matsui… might as well throw Scott Shields in there(maybe Bud Black and the Padres will hand us something good so they can reunite and relive the 2002 glory days when the Pads go to the post season)… regardless of whether we are “buyers or sellers” getting closer to the deadline. I can’t see us being worse off if we traded any of these guys.

Any other players we should sell regardless of whether or not we are in the hunt for the west title again?

You have a player(Hunter) Coming out in the media and saying we need Dunn Or Prince. The way I look at it is, if we dont make a move we dont make the play offs. With the addition of lee Texas has gotten even better.

“Dont get the clap”-Jimmy Dugan..“thats great advice kid.”