Cincinnati Reds

Is the thrill of the Majors already gone for the Cincinnati Reds’ young phenomenon Mike Leake?  Coming up, I’ll discuss this question and the ramifications for the Reds rotation.

Yes, you read that headline right.

Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Mike Leake was arrested Monday by Cincinnati police after he walked out of a Macy's store with six shirts worth an outstanding sum of $59.88.

Let that sink in.

A professional athlete who is making four hundred twenty five thousand dollars this year shoplifted sixty bucks worth of clothes.

Cause that makes sense.

You gotta love early-season baseball statistics.

At Jonny Gomes' current pace, he will end the 2011 season with 58 home runs and 150 RBI. It would go down as one of the greatest seasons of all time, and Gomes would be celebrated as a hero around these parts.

I'll make a fearless prediction, and say he falls somewhat short of that.

However, at least in the early going, Gomes is displaying a different approach at the plate that reflects in his numbers.

CINCINNATI—The Reds scored a season high seven runs in the fifth inning, including Ramon Hernandez's sixth career grand slam, and Cincinnati obliterated the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-2 on Saturday.

July 14, 2008. A night for the history books.

A night for redemption.

Sparky Anderson was one of the managerial greats in baseball. In his storied career as a major league baseball manager, Sparky won two World Series with the Cincinnati Reds during the "Big Red Machine" era and won a third World Series with the Detroit Tigers.

If Nick Masset is doing nothing else, he is keeping writers and fans off the back of Coco Cordero.

Last season, I usually became sick in the ninth inning when I saw the wild bull come in from the bullpen. It seemed (although it really wasn’t) as though every time he entered the game he either blew a save or came so close I put a curse on him.

Tonight, Chris Heisey continued the trend of making the most of every opportunity.  Something he has done since getting called up last year.

Heisey pinched hit in the ninth inning, hit a ball that bounced just past second base into center field to get an RBI and expanded the Reds lead over the Diamondbacks.  Not to mention, that was only his 11th at bat and fifth RBI this season.

The Cincinnati Reds opened the 2011 regular season right on the border of familiar territory and unfamiliar territory.

The unfamiliar part is that they opened the season as the defending NL Central champions. The familiar part was that they weren't the favorites to win the division. In fact, the team that they opened the season against were the favorites to win with their power lineup and their revamped starting rotation.

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