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No, that isn’t sarcasm. Baker is 100% on point with this observation, made in connection with Joey Votto’s stress issues: “Nobody knows who it is going to affect and when it is going to affect anybody. You deal with pressure every day in this game. People throw the money issue in your face all the […]

Despite all of my Esaskyesque anxiety about Joey Votto’s dizziness, it turns out the problem was quite minor: And the Joey Votto diagnosis is: INNER EAR INFECTION. After two weeks of testing for everything imaginable it came down to the simplest of the simple. Inner ear infection. First, Votto had an upper respiratory infection that […]

Should Micah Owings hit or pitch?

I don’t know much about what goes into deciding where All-Star games are held, but I can’t recall the process being subject to intense, Olympic-style lobbying, can you? The Reds are pursuing an All-Star date for 2013, Karen Forgus, the club’s senior vice president of business operations, said on Monday. “We’re pushing hard on it,” […]

From Jerry Crasnick’s Reds’ preview at ESPN: But the Reds win out because of their surplus of arms. Edinson Volquez, Johnny Cueto, Aaron Harang, Bronson Arroyo and Micah Owings make for one of baseball’s best 1-through-5 starting contingents. As astute Reds fans and Scrabble devotees have pointed out, you can take the first letters of […]

Tom Browning pitched a perfect game once upon a time. These days? Things are less than perfect: Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Tom Browning has been arrested and charged with not paying child support, according to jail records uncovered by the Associated Press. Browning, best known for throwing a perfect game in 1988 and currently a […]

The Reds are going with a dollar menu at Great American Ballpark this year: It might seem just like a fast-food restaurant when you walk into Great American Ball Park for a Reds game this season. The Cincinnati Reds’ concessionaire is launching a value menu, offering a few food and drink items for a dollar. […]

The numbers say they may surprise

A run of the mill notes column yesterday, with this thrown in: The Reds have let teams know that they will wait and see whether they need to move Aaron Harang during the season. Harang is scheduled to make $12.5 million next season and $12.75 million with a $2 million buyout for 2011. After going […]

It was a slow week as the clubs started trimming the excess fat off their spring training rosters while crossing their fingers that their players playing in the World Baseball Classic don’t get hurt.