No, the good news isn’t that this site is going away.  Shame on you.  The bad news is, my clients are dropping quicker then General Motors stock.  Being self employed has it’s plusses, but this looks like it’s going to be one of the lightest years ever for me.  Of course my loss is your gain because I’m going to stop neglecting my duties on providing you top notch content on the Reds (yes, that’s the good news). No more guest writers. You get Blade, unfiltered.

So consider Reds Cutting Edge and Reds Minors back in business.  Reds Minors probably won’t fire up until the minor league season starts (and I’m hoping to make it past late April this time around) but there’s plenty to do here.  We’re over a week into the spring season, the World Baseball Classic is in full gear and I have some old time players to introduce you too.  If you don’t know who Heinie Grouh, Edd Roush and Dutch Ruether are, you will soon.  Unlike my two previous diaries, which were written by fellow blogger and protege Brian Borawski at Tigerblog, the training wheels are coming off because I’m (yes, me) going to tackle a diary on the 1919 Reds.  The very first World Series by the Reds ever.

In the meantime, the Reds sit at 5-4 this spring.  They were held in check today and the end result was a four hit shutout (get used to these kind of games with this offense).  Jay Bruce was the lone Red to reach base twice in the 3-0 loss to the Twins while Aaron Harang was roughed up for two runs in 3 1/3 innings.  Tomorrow, Homer Bailey gets the nod against the Blue Jays and Bill Bray will make his first appearance of the spring.

Anyway, see you tomorrow.

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