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Reds Off the Schnide - Glass Half Full?
May 18th, 2006 | Thaq Diesel

By Thaq Diesel 

As I found myself cringing during the five-game losing streak, trying not to panic, I kept telling myself that all teams have losing streaks during a season.  I was making that face as the Pirates won the first three games of the series.  It’s the face people make when they have just witnessed a very nasty slam dunk or when someone has passed gas around them.  Bronson Arroyo was saying what we were all thinking when he questioned how the Reds could lose to a team like Pittsburgh.  Now, a sweep of the Tigers and all is good again.

  •  Despite the losing streak, the Reds have the third best record in the National League behind the Cardinals and percentage points behind the Mets. 
  • I sure hope today’s offensive outburst of 16 hits gets the Reds right again behind the plate.  Detroit will certainly be a good litmus test since their pitching and league-leading 3.13 ERA have definitely been part of their great start.

  • I mentioned to my wife that the Reds had been losing to the Pirates and she asked the question she always asks when I bring up Pittsburgh:  “Is that guy with the huge ass still playing first base for them?”  The genesis of this was when we took a tour of East Coast baseball stadiums in the summer of 2001 and saw the Pirates in Pittsburgh and in Montreal, both times with seats on the first base line.  The wife, who looks at different things than I do at ballgames, apparently was checking out first baseman Kevin Young’s ass the whole time. 


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