03-30-2021, 05:59 PM
(03-30-2021, 05:42 PM)kevin Wrote: Castellini has been a million times better than Marge and Daddy Warbucks Lindner. Those 2 got rid of scouts and stopped Reds Hall of Fame voting. I tired of the complete cheapness of Marge. Her not opening gates until last second is Cheap, Cheap Cincinnati nonsense used decades for concerts such as The Who. I took my late Mom to Tony Perez Day and we were there many hours before game time. A sell out crowd grew outside on the hot cement. No place to sit down or get shade. Many in the crowd such as my Mom were too old for that. Then outside we could hear Marty and Joe start the Tony Perez Pre Game Ceremonies. Finally They opened the gates late as if any other game to Marge. 50 thousand people now going through gates off hot cement to see TONY. We got to see end of Tony Perez Day. That was so CHEAP of Marge, refusing to pay ticket takers and such extra time on the clock. Then, when game over, Joe Nuxhall post game ceremony with TONY, but Police and Security telling fans they had to go, they could not watch post game ceremony. Marge was too CHEAP. I would have liked to kick Marge in her butt that day for making my Mom and 50,000 others wait outside on the hot cement to the last second, as if just another game. Lindner wasn't much better.
So Castellini bringing back Reds Hall Of Fame and then building a Hall of Fame and the statues. Fans able to go in park early again. He took a very generic Great American Ball Park, and turned it into a very good Ball Park adding many new features. GABP sucked before Castellini took over. He had the Great 8 Day and made it so PETE ROSE could be part of things, even added to Reds Hall of Fame and Statue.
People who don't agree with this, don't know jack. It's easy to come on here and complain about everything. You better stick to complaining about Mike Brown. You people are way off base on Castellini. Pete Rose and many ex Reds say Reds Fans should appreciate all that Castellini has done, and I agree. He is a million times better than Marge or Lindner were. GABP was the most generic looking garbage ever built, until Castellini came in and made huge improvements to where now Cincinnati has a park and a Hall of Fame they can be proud of.
Yeah, they don't call him "Bobblehead Bob" for no reason. He's great at promotion and non-on field management of the franchise. He just happens to suck at the baseball part. They cry poor every chance they get when it's time to add to the roster, and the minor league system is an absolute
joke. A team that tanked as long as this one did should be crammed with talent waiting to hit the majors, but they aren't.
Fact is, they're facing yet another rebuild. They're simply spinning their wheels to get more fans into the stadium with their roster of 3-outcome hitters that can't produce. This is because the owner wants money more than wins. He has to squeeze all he can out of what remains of the above avg 2020 roster. If he can't play the game and get a 15 mil shortstop, then he needs to go back to being a produce salesman and let a real baseball man take over.
This team has gone from being the sports lifeblood of the city to being yet another depressing Cincinnati loser story. Marge was cheap and evil, but Marge somehow built teams that could win here and there. Linder was a joke. Cast is Linder lite. He's small time trying to be big league. Nothing worse than a billionaire crying poor while the city watches it's once great franchise get crapped on and forgotten by another generation.
