One gripe you hear year in and year out is that baseball is getting too commercial, the Reds recent ownership has increased the teams marketing efforts more so then the last ownership group, this includes reintroducing vintage brands that extend merchandising (Hi Mr. Redlegs) or packaging soda pop sales with cheerleading dance troupes that […]
Derrek Dickey stops by to talk about the Reds staff:
The late-1990s Rangers clubs always intrigued me.
Tell me if this recipe sounds familiar. . .They built a power-hitting offense that was helped tremendously by a homer-friendly ballpark. They had a deep bench. They employed an okay rotation that gobbled up innings. And they constructed […]
Reading comments about managers I decided two things,
1. That the consideration of managers was one of the most backward, most cliché-ridden and least valuable discussions within the sports forum.
And
2. I‘m not helping.
Bill James 1985
One common thread in the game is that most managers are not innocent bystanders, they participate in the game and like chess […]