Reds May 2025 Thread

[The D.O.Z.]

It won't happen, but I'd love to see fans stay home or at picnics / family events this Memorial Day weekend. Spend your hard earned, heavily taxed money elsewhere. Take the kids to KI. The Zoo. Maybe make the three hr drive to Hocking Hills for hikes. The paying fans of this organization should treat BobPhil like BobPhil treats them, with indifference and contempt. Let them Cubs fans fill the coffers this weekend, let them Cubs fans pay $12 for a beer, $4 for a cheap hotdog, $7 for an Aramark possum-meat burger. I wouldn't piss on BobPhil EVEN IF THEY WERE ON FIRE.

[cinci4life]

(05-24-2025, 09:08 AM)Goalpost Wrote:   Also McLain's failure to get an out on a ground ball.

If you're referring to the play where the runner ran on the infield grass to avoid the tag, he should have been called out anyway for being out of the basepath.

[Goalpost]

(05-24-2025, 02:03 PM)cinci4life Wrote: If you're referring to the play where the runner ran on the infield grass to avoid the tag, he should have been called out anyway for being out of the basepath.

Francona's post game comment explaining why he went out there after the play....

“I was hoping," Francona said. "He wasn’t [out of the baseline]. At that point, [I] was just begging.”

[cinci4life]

EDLC BOMB!!!

[Timanky12]

(05-23-2025, 03:31 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote:
First off, i don't like to do it at all. It's just the facts. I'm not fabricating or inflating the level of disgust and anger at all. Look at the Reds history over the last several years. That's what they do. Get below .500, go on a run to get back around .500 then go back in a hole. 

Same with the Bengals. They do just enough to be competitive, but not enough to make them real contenders for a SB victory. And both teams seem to deal with more than their share of injuries. 

I'm not the least bit content with simply winning 10+ games a year or 80+ games a year, making the playoffs a few times and even winning a couple playoff games. I've seen lots and lots of that over the decades. I'm ready for one of these teams to do what's truly necessary to bring some championship hardware home. 

"have a chance to", doesn't work for me any more. Selling out games does nothing for me. The Reds making money does nothing for me. If you're able to mentally reset and be optimistic leading into any new season, great. I don't have that ability anymore because my expectations have been set higher than just some winning and participation trophies. 

Regardless, i'm always back on the train leading into any game, cheering for wins. I just don't have any trouble expressing my disappointment when it doesn't go well. 

Feliz cumpleanos, mi amigo. 

I agree with you 100%.  I have been labeled a sour *****, for complaining about the Reds and the Bengals. But it is what it is. I am not happy with just being average, enough is enough. Either put a championship team on the field or sell it to someone who can. 

[cinci4life]

This hp ump sure loves squeezing our pitchers.

[cinci4life]

Well that was much better.

[*rfaulk34*]

Nice bounce back. Now the search for consistency resumes. 

[Forever Spinning Vinyl]

(05-24-2025, 08:01 PM)cinci4life Wrote: Well that was much better.

They should be going for the sweep and they know it. Let's hope that Lodolo gets pushed by Abbott and comes in lights out tomorrow.

They played some good, solid team baseball today. It's the little things that eventually add up to two run victories.

[*bengalfan74*]

(05-24-2025, 09:18 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: They should be going for the sweep and they know it. Let's hope that Lodolo gets pushed by Abbott and comes in lights out tomorrow.

They played some good, solid team baseball today. It's the little things that eventually add up to two run victories.

YUP

It's killed them in many games already this season. Groving a fat fastball right down the middle with two outs and an 0-2 count. Trying to steal 3rd base with one out, and you know, a runner scores on like 80% of hits from 2nd anyways. Over throwing the cutoff man, not being able to hit a sacrifice fly. The list just goes on.

Come on Tito get these guys in gear.

[kevin]

Reds Have Lodolo and Cubs have Brown on Sunday.  

Reds had over 40 thousand in stands Saturday and expert more of the same Sunday. Add in Friday Night and Memorial Day Weekend will be one of the biggest Money Maker weekends for Cincinnati, and you need Money to make player moves in off season.  Plus this money no longer goes to over paying Votto and Moose. For what he is doing, Reds are over paying Candelario and add in Diaz so far, but neither are Votto and Moose money.  

So if Reds can win Saturday and Sunday and pack the stadium with Holiday Fans as they make a lot of Money, this will be a Great weekend for Cincinnati Reds.  Another sold out Reds ballpark would be huge, and Sunday should sell out like Saturday, and I'm sure they had a good Friday Night crowd also. There is no giant TV revenue sharing as in NFL football, so in baseball, packing the stands with paying customers over Memorial Day Weekend is greatly needed. Next weekend at Chicago the Cubs make the money. This weekend Cincinnati makes the money. It is not NFL revenue sharing. This is a Big Money weekend for Cincinnati.

Need one more packed house and one more Reds win to make some packed house fans want to come back on a non holiday game.  GO REDS.

As for Friday, Greene back from injury didn't go many innings. The more heathy he gets, the deeper into games he will go.  Plus First Place Cubs are a good baseball team and hard to beat.  It will take all Reds have Sunday to beat the First Place Cubs, but Lodolo gives Reds a good chance. Abbott did another fine pitching job Saturday. 

Anybody on here complaining about Terry Francona only proves they don't know baseball.  Francona and Madden did what others couldn't.  Francona brought a World Series win to Red Sox and Madden brought a World Series win to Cubs. Plus Francona did well with Cleveland and Madden got the most out of the Tampa Rays. Cincinnati was lucky to be able to bring in a manager as good as Francona to help rebuild and bring along these young players. I hate to say it, but under Bell the Reds beat themselves a lot with sloppy baseball. Francona is trying to eliminate the slop and get them playing more heads up baseball. Sparky Anderson had to eliminate the sloppy play Reds were use to under Bristol, and Sparky did it at Detroit also. Francona is a winner, and Reds are lucky to have him.  Poor base running and throwing to the wrong man lost Reds a lot of games under Bell. Francona is cutting way down on Reds beating themselves that way. Just as the last years of Marvin Lewis the Bengals made too many delay of game and illegal procedure penalties. Zac Taylor has them almost never getting called for that, as did Paul Brown.  You eliminate the stupid mistakes, and it increases your chances of winning.  That is what World Series Manager Terry Francona brings to the table. 

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(05-25-2025, 05:55 AM)kevin Wrote: Plus this money no longer goes to over paying Votto and Moose

neither are Votto and Moose money.

It is not NFL revenue sharing.

Votto hasn't played for us for two years and you're still obsessed with his money. Glad to see things never change.

It doesn't matter how many people attend, the Reds still still be cheap and poorly run.
They had the 24th payroll in 2023.
Attendance was 18th in baseball in 2023, so should have been a nice amount of money, no?
They still dropped to 25th in payroll in 2024.

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Also no, it's not NFL revenue sharing, but there still is revenue sharing. 

The Reds get >$100m in just TV revenue (national, local, and sharing) before ever selling a single ticket, beer, hotdog, luxury suite, shirt, or patch space on their uniforms.

Forbes had the Reds 2024 revenue at $325m.

[*bengalfan74*]

(05-25-2025, 06:42 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Votto hasn't played for us for two years and you're still obsessed with his money. Glad to see things never change.

It doesn't matter how many people attend, the Reds still still be cheap and poorly run.
They had the 24th payroll in 2023.
Attendance was 18th in baseball in 2023, so should have been a nice amount of money, no?
They still dropped to 25th in payroll in 2024.

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Also no, it's not NFL revenue sharing, but there still is revenue sharing. 

The Reds get >$100m in just TV revenue (national, local, and sharing) before ever selling a single ticket, beer, hotdog, luxury suite, shirt, or patch space on their uniforms.

Forbes had the Reds 2024 revenue at $325m.

Exactly

They're in full blown going to piss away EDLC and Greene etc. while under team control mode.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Rough start for Lodolo, but nice for the Reds batters to get it right back and then some.

[Forever Spinning Vinyl]

Reds are trying to "Jon Kitna" this game. Play good enough to just barely lose.

[Nicomo Cosca]

Absolute implosion. Pathetic.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Reds bullpen feels a bit like it's imploding (or coming back down to Earth?) after a strong start to the season.

Already had dropped to 15th in ERA and now another 5 runs so far in 2.0+ innings.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Alright, I gotta stop watching this after that 3-run homer.

Think I saw somewhere that if we lose this it's been 37 straight series that the Reds failed to win the series after losing Game 1. That's almost incredible.

[samhain]

Figuring out ways to lose.

[Nicomo Cosca]

Yeah…I’m done. Not going to watch this shit show (especially with all the annoying Cubs fans in attendance). Switching to hockey.