Diamond woes

Well, the Reds just lost again to the terrible Washington Nationals. Of course with that loss we are now only mere percentage points ahead of the Nats for the worst record in the league, so I guess we are terrible as well. However, I still don't think we are as bad as we have played; I know we are better than this, but the team is seemingly trying to prove me wrong. We are losing in increasingly creative ways and we can not seem to pull everything together at once to put together any sort of winning streak or set of good games.

The main culprit is obviously the bullpen. As Marty said a few weeks ago after yet another 8th inning collapse against Houston, "this bullpen is awful." They are so bad that they could not give up another run for the rest of the season and people would still be talking about how bad they are. Todd Coffey should be sprinting away from the ballpark instead of to the mound when his name gets called and Mike Stanton is clearly just out there trying to break a major league record for games appeared in and leads blown. David Weathers, the closer by default, has actually been pretty solid in save situations but when you give up 41 runs in the eighth inning (worst in the Majors) the guy never has a chance to see the ball. Krivsky needs to blow up this mess and send some of these guys packing.

I never thought I'd be saying this, but Kyle Lohse is making me hope for a speedy recovery for Eric Milton. Between April and May he has been like two different pitchers. Tonight's seven run atrocity marks his 6th straight loss and third straight completely abysmal outing. He is clueless and totally ineffective out there. He could throw the ball underhanded and get more guys out than what he's doing currently. Since his first bad game against the Cards about a month ago he has been flying down an oil-covered Everest slope on jet-powered skis. I can't believe I actually rostered him on my fantasy team at one point.

Bottom line is that we need to start winning games quick before we are out of this thing and the Dunn trade rumors start circulating. Not to mention that Junior and Brandon have been red-hot and we are just wasting it. One way or another we are surely bound to see Homer make his debut sooner than later.

In other baseball news, how pathetic are the people who actually bother to show up to Braves games? Leave it to these people, some of the worst fans in baseball, to boo Tom Glavine. The guy is only a Hall of Famer and one of the marquee players who contributed to your 14 consecutive division titles and put your franchise on the map. Fucking morons.

GIMME A 3-WAY PARLAY ON THE FALCONS, THE REDSKINS, AND VICK'S PIT OVER PORTIS' ROTTWEILER
After years of rooting for Vick to lead Atlanta to a Super Bowl, now I'm rooting for him to go to jail. When the prosecution comes out and indicts Vick for connection to this dogfighting mess (which it looks like is a near certainty), I hope the Virginia State Attorney and Roger Goodell tag-team and come down hard on him. It's great that the Commissioner is taking a stand against the thugs and criminals that get the privilege to masquerade as role models and millionaires, but Chris Henry and Adam (don't know no Pacman, just a kid named Adam) Jones are small potatoes compared to Vick. What a chilling message to send to any future pro athletes/soldiers out there: it doesn't matter if you have the fattest contract or that you are one of the league's most marketable stars; if you fuck up majorly, you are out of here. I hope if/when that time comes that Vick doesn't get away with this and Goodell sticks to his guns.