Reds Month of July Game Thread

[Circleville Guy]

(07-21-2019, 05:56 PM)kevin Wrote: At the end of Reds game and few fans in the celebration area on TV. Jim Day says, the crowd must be a little tired.....No Jim, there's NOTHING to celebrate. That was a lousy loss in a lousy series. The Reds hitting was awful today. Iglesias in relief is awful lately. We can add a runner on in the 9th and Votto makes the last out and that makes 2 of the losses to St Louis were Votto makes the last out. 8 home runs on the year. WOW, at that pace he will hit 12 home runs for a First Baseman, which is awful. Iglesias has given up 8 home runs as Reds ace reliever, which is awful.

I wish I could post something positive about Reds this Sunday afternoon. There just isn't anything positive to post. That was a very negative outing. I see Reds posting message that Dish TV and some other thing are not having Reds on Fox Ohio starting Monday. Reds did little today on the field to help their TV situation. Year after year of last place may be starting to hurt TV contract.

So the lost this week to Cubs and Cardinals. Not how you get back in the race. Not how you get to .500 ball. So NO Jim Day, it's not that the fans were too tired from the heat to celebrate after the game, there just isn't anything to celebrate. NO JOY IN MUDVILLE.

I can tell that you’re a passionate fan and that you’re still holding onto an outside chance that the team will claw back into the wildcard. I’m kinda knew where it was headed after the two Indians games right before the half. That’s when you see focus. The Indians were closing out the half and the Reds were seemingly focused on their days off. Another time to focus extra hard is to begin the second half and the Reds fundamentals have been crap while the Cards and Cubs did the little things. Another huge focus time in to begin the year and the Reds didn’t have their heads in it then either. Votto is aging but I think he’s messed up more mentally than physically. The bullpen has had a rough stretch, every bullpen does during 162. There are 30 MLB teams, The Reds have given up less runs than every team but 2. The Reds have scored less runs than every team but 4. There seems to be a lot more glee in their eyes after a homerun than there is after a win. I know that there’s several players into lifting weights. I’m not sure if there’s more of a macho focus on homeruns or what but I just don’t see hitters and fielders being consistently focused.