REDS JULY GAMES THREAD

[cinci4life]

(07-18-2021, 07:14 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Yet another extra inning game where the Reds are out of position players because Dumb Bell can't stop making useless changes "to keep the bench players fresh". Watching him make the same mistakes over and over really makes it a chore to watch this team. I'm also a fan of the Angels and for 19 years when Mike Scioscia made a move, I never once went "WTF? Why are you putting in THAT guy?". A couple of times, he pulled a pitcher earlier than I would have and that's it. Let that sink in when watching Bell run this team.

In 19 full seasons

A couple of times

I questioned or doubted Mike Scioscia.

The only reason I liked the DH in the NL last year is because it took away some of the decision making from Bell. And to be honest, the Reds haven't had a good manager since Jack McKeon('97-'00). Brian Price's winning percentage of .419 is the worst by a Cincinnati manager since Bucky Walters' .397 in '48-'49. Dusty Baker had a winning record but was a disaster with a bullpen. It appears to be a Cincinnati thing.

Even if the Reds win tomorrow, the Brewers still won this stretch of games. The Reds started this stretch of seven big games six games out . . . six games later, they are still sitting at six games out. That's a victory for Milwaukee even if they lose the last game to go 3-4 . . . seven straight games against your division leader and you only pick up one game? That's just treading water and our beloved Reds are perfectly capable of dropping that last game to fall back to seven behind.

Yours and everyone else's frustration should be from the bullpen and not the lack of position players late in a game. If the pen does its job the last two games, we're not even talking about this right now.