From a Paul Daugherty article in the Cincinnati Enquirer. I'd link it but I believe it would just take you to an advertisement:
"Nothing beats Deadline Day for illuminating the Have/Have Not issues in MLB. New HOFer Bud Selig can talk all he likes about rev-sharing smoothing the playing field. He can’t explain away Deadline Day, aka Boston-New York-Chicago-LA Day.
The Cubs, Dodgers and Yankees added top-o-rotation starting pitchers. The Reds added a Class A catcher. MPWS picked up a 40-year-old reliever who 11 months ago hurt his calf running from the bullpen toward a bench-clearing scrum.
In Baseball, if you have no chance, you have no chance. The Reds, Pirates et al are like a 5-year-old dropping nickels in his piggy bank until he has enough money to buy a Happy Meal at McDonald’s. Then he has to start all over.
The Reds are in the throes of a laborious rebuild. My Pirates Who Suck are headed in that direction. Meantime, the big boys simply reload. They don’t win everything all the time. But they’re always in the photo.
True Cubs fans – not the arrivistes on the bus now – understand what it’s like to be a Reds fan. Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox fans have no idea.
(Actually, LA-Yankees have not been big deadline players recently. They’ve made their splashes in the offseason. But a splash is still a splash.)
CubsDodgersYankeesRedSox never head into spring the way RedsPiratesRaysBrewers do. The former understand that while they might not have the best team in March, if they’re reasonably close in July, the cavalry will come. The latter rarely have the funds to add a rental pitcher. Even if they did, they’re reluctant to give up controllable kids and/or prized bus riders to take on a rental. Go For It is a state of mind with which they’re not familiar.
Deadline Day is Dead Day. Tony Cingrani for Hendrik Clementina. (Gesundheit.)
Hey Doc, you forgot Scott Van Slyke.
Yes, I did.
If I didn’t so enjoy the ambiance of baseball, I’m not sure I could stay a big fan. I know for the Pirates that next year will be like this year, if not worse. Ditto the Reds, though at least they’ve razed the condemned building already.
Meantime the thickwallets will always be at the big table, holding enough cards to at least be in the game.
Makes a guy think about switching to soccer or something."
"Nothing beats Deadline Day for illuminating the Have/Have Not issues in MLB. New HOFer Bud Selig can talk all he likes about rev-sharing smoothing the playing field. He can’t explain away Deadline Day, aka Boston-New York-Chicago-LA Day.
The Cubs, Dodgers and Yankees added top-o-rotation starting pitchers. The Reds added a Class A catcher. MPWS picked up a 40-year-old reliever who 11 months ago hurt his calf running from the bullpen toward a bench-clearing scrum.
In Baseball, if you have no chance, you have no chance. The Reds, Pirates et al are like a 5-year-old dropping nickels in his piggy bank until he has enough money to buy a Happy Meal at McDonald’s. Then he has to start all over.
The Reds are in the throes of a laborious rebuild. My Pirates Who Suck are headed in that direction. Meantime, the big boys simply reload. They don’t win everything all the time. But they’re always in the photo.
True Cubs fans – not the arrivistes on the bus now – understand what it’s like to be a Reds fan. Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox fans have no idea.
(Actually, LA-Yankees have not been big deadline players recently. They’ve made their splashes in the offseason. But a splash is still a splash.)
CubsDodgersYankeesRedSox never head into spring the way RedsPiratesRaysBrewers do. The former understand that while they might not have the best team in March, if they’re reasonably close in July, the cavalry will come. The latter rarely have the funds to add a rental pitcher. Even if they did, they’re reluctant to give up controllable kids and/or prized bus riders to take on a rental. Go For It is a state of mind with which they’re not familiar.
Deadline Day is Dead Day. Tony Cingrani for Hendrik Clementina. (Gesundheit.)
Hey Doc, you forgot Scott Van Slyke.
Yes, I did.
If I didn’t so enjoy the ambiance of baseball, I’m not sure I could stay a big fan. I know for the Pirates that next year will be like this year, if not worse. Ditto the Reds, though at least they’ve razed the condemned building already.
Meantime the thickwallets will always be at the big table, holding enough cards to at least be in the game.
Makes a guy think about switching to soccer or something."
