a pretty big problem

After recovering from one beer too many last night, I decided to REALLY wake up and see how the Reds did last night. I do get "game texts" from ESPN (aka the LEADER), but last night I was texting way too many people to bother what the game was like.

I will say I listened to the radio last night for a second or two, and boy, Marty Brennamen sounded a little peeved, and it seemed the game was a little bit of a joke to him. HMM I wonder why?

(By the way, I am getting all these stats from the reds.com wrap, just in case anybody wants to see this atrocity.)

Brewers SLAUGHTERED the Reds for an inexplicable reason. Bronson Arroyo, within the first inning, JUST THE FIRST INNING, gave the Brewers NINE, COUNT 'EM NINE, runs. He completed only an official inning of work (three outs), and pitched to four batters in the second with completing an out.

Let's look at his ERA for the game.

(ERA is earned run average for those who don't know, it's basically a really funny system to measure a pitcher's worth. ERA=9xEarned Runs Allowed/Innings Pitched)

So, Bronson pitched one inning divided into 9, which equals nine, multiplied by nine.
So, this means that Bronson's ERA for this individual game was......81.00!
His ERA right now, is a whopping 7.15. That means 27 earned runs given in 34 innings. That also means that almost one for one, he is giving people a really great time....almost like in a man finding his g-spot kind of way.

It gets crazier, the Reds right now have the 8th best team ERA with 3.99. Their batting though is dismal. 27th in the league with batting average of .246. HUH WAIT WHAT? DO the Reds want to win games? Or switch back in forth in areas they are good at, just sucking one or the other year by year. It is grating to my baseball fan soul. It's killing me smalls.

I bet you guys are thinking "Srsly, this dude just posted about stats on meaningless game" LOLZ!!!

But this is what happens during my summer. I pretty much devote most of my time to the Reds, because really I definitely don't want to be a Cubs fan (A majority of whom I've met are bandwagoners, not saying anyone here, but definite bandwagoners), a St. Louis fan, or the dude-bros who always love the Red Sox. I'd rather stay with a team whose poor ownership skills, managerial skills (from the general manager to the club manager DUSTY FREAKING BAKER) for past 15 years has driven the team pretty much into the ground setting up for a very long road to recovery.

If anything, God help us all, and God bless America.
-bigdave

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Here I am...

Presentation everybody.

Here I am presenting myself as somebody who tries to know anything about something.

Sounds pretty boring, eh?

I kind of want to write this as statement of intent in accordance to what I plan to contribute to this collective. I kind of hope it goes beyond summer, because although I love the season, my past two have been pretty terrible.

(By the way I write this in the transition of ending my year at school and summer, so excuse me if I still sound all academic. Don't worry, that will change soon.)

Anyways, my summers in the past years have consisted of (other than this) video games, books, movies and most importantly BASEBALL.

(By the way Austin, suck it up, the Reds are a really decent team, plus on top of that their first road trip of the year they went 5 of 7, 2 of 3 being the Cubs/Reds series, where, OHMYGOD!!!!!!!, the Reds won the series. Compare this to last April and their first road trip which they lost 6 of 9 (heh 69) and lost the series to the Cubs./end rant)

Mainly I'd like to knock out the AFI Top 100 Movies list this summer, which I already have a majority finished. It does help that I do work for an flailing videostore.

Next is to finish a couple of video games: Grand Theft Auto IV, Mass Effect, Fable II and Fallout 3 for the XBOX 360, and Resident Evil 5, MLB 09 and Killzone 2 for Playstation 3. On top of that I have some Nintendo DS games I'd like to finally put away. Subsequent reviews will follow the completion of each, mainly to convince you that I am huge dork or that I look at video games in a different way (yearight)((by the way, it is pretty sad when I say a couple and really it was way more than 3. 3 is considered a couple right?))(((Plus, I think Erik and I are going to Goldeneye, mario kart, and contra it up this summer also)))

Scattered through those two main things and working, I'm going try to fit in some books I've started. Mainly Asimov science fiction, sports journalism, and Hemingway. Because who doesn't love some Hemingway?

On top of all that, my goal this year was to go to as many different sporting events possible. I am right now at one. Not looking good. Not looking good.

Lastly, it is to cook out and listen to baseball games at T-Rex, to which all of you are invited. Especially the ladies...single ones.

So good luck in trying to understand what I just wrote, or all the boring things I am going to write about my summer.

KLUVUBYE
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