07-14-2015, 11:11 AM
This has never happened before and good chance it never happens again. First, you have to have the All-Star Game in Cincinnati. In Reds close to 150 years of baseball history, Reds have only had 5 All-Star Games....Second, there has to be a home run derby, and unless 1988 had one, this may have been Reds first home run derby in Cincinnati.....third, a Red has to win the thing. Now the Reds probably won't have another All-Star Game until around 2045 if all the other teams get one. .....So, what we saw last night has never happened before, and will probably never happen again. That my friends is instant history.
So Todd Frazier with the Cincinnati fans roaring for him just in the HR Derby. The roars built as he amazingly beat all the homers hit by Prince Fielder. In the Championship round again it looked like the Dodgers young player put up an unreachable number as Frazier started slow. Then Frazier got hot and the Cincinnati crowd went wild as Frazier caught up, tied and then won. Great American Ball Park was in celebration the likes of Pete Rose getting the hit to push him ahead of Ty Cobb in Riverfront 30 years ago. The trophy awarded to Frazier in on field ceremony in front of the Cincinnati filled crowd dancing in celebration into the dark of the July night as the smokestacks shot off fireworks.
So I now add that any talk of trading Todd Frazier in a scraping of the team move must now stop, because if the Reds front office would trade him days after this, the Reds ticket buying fan base would turn against the Reds in a huge way. If the Reds want to put rear ends in the stands and money in the cash register, they DO NOT trade this player days after such amazing Reds history that we have never seen before, and will probably never see again. So happy for Frazier, so happy for Reds fans who have had darn little to cheer about in 2015.
( I understand there is a thread for the Home Run Derby that it seems people posted on as it happened. This is not just a Home Run Derby Thread. This is an after the derby TODD FRAZIER thread, pointing out that what he did has never happened in Cincinnati before, and don't look for it to happen ever again. You saw a one time only piece of history )
So Todd Frazier with the Cincinnati fans roaring for him just in the HR Derby. The roars built as he amazingly beat all the homers hit by Prince Fielder. In the Championship round again it looked like the Dodgers young player put up an unreachable number as Frazier started slow. Then Frazier got hot and the Cincinnati crowd went wild as Frazier caught up, tied and then won. Great American Ball Park was in celebration the likes of Pete Rose getting the hit to push him ahead of Ty Cobb in Riverfront 30 years ago. The trophy awarded to Frazier in on field ceremony in front of the Cincinnati filled crowd dancing in celebration into the dark of the July night as the smokestacks shot off fireworks.
So I now add that any talk of trading Todd Frazier in a scraping of the team move must now stop, because if the Reds front office would trade him days after this, the Reds ticket buying fan base would turn against the Reds in a huge way. If the Reds want to put rear ends in the stands and money in the cash register, they DO NOT trade this player days after such amazing Reds history that we have never seen before, and will probably never see again. So happy for Frazier, so happy for Reds fans who have had darn little to cheer about in 2015.
( I understand there is a thread for the Home Run Derby that it seems people posted on as it happened. This is not just a Home Run Derby Thread. This is an after the derby TODD FRAZIER thread, pointing out that what he did has never happened in Cincinnati before, and don't look for it to happen ever again. You saw a one time only piece of history )
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