June Reds game thread

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(06-19-2022, 08:32 PM)kevin Wrote: Then you must not get Reds TV of Jim Day and others who all they talk about is THE WONDERFUL JOEY VOTTO :  THE FACE OF THE REDS.  ...I mean, I get it.  The Reds pay Votto a ton, and so these Reds stooge announcers have to hype Votto every moment of every game to keep their Reds announcer jobs.  I get that part.  

If I was Reds owner, I would pay half of Votto's remaining contract if a team Votto agrees to would pay the other half.  I would not see it as millions lost, I would see it as millions saved.  I would pay half his contract from now to 2025 to go play for another team.  

The Reds hopefully learn and NEVER make another 10 year, high paid, No Trade contract to anybody ever again.  The Votto Contract really shackles The Reds and holds this team back, so I can not agree with Reds Announcers on how WONDERFUL Votto is. 

Kevin I agree with you. Votto isn't that good and his contract is killing them. However, Votto's contract this season IIRC is like 23 million dollars. No sane Mgr./GM/Owners are going to pay like 12 million dollars for a past this prime .200 hitter with little to no pop left in his bat and is slower than wet gunpowder. Votto has never been great at defense, today he's just standing by 1st base until he gets to the dugout again.

His tiktoking isn't going to sway any teams to want him.

As far as the announcers go, what do you want them to say ? Votto sucks, the pitching sucks ? the manager sucks ? ahh screw it the whole team sucks ?

The only way they have any chance to trade Votto is if the Reds are willing to pay like 90% of his contract AND Votto is willing to go to whomever ? The chances of that happening are about like me going out in the yard and pushing a rope.