FalconBlog--Triumphs and Trials in the BGSU Falcon Nation

In a way, its kind of depressing

But Lions football starts up again next week, July 25, for rookies at trainng camp. And the Falcon start up is about forty days away. Man, things move fast.

In the meantime, the Reds are 6-2 since the break, and continue to hit the snot out of the ball while the pitchers don't outright lose games. Ortiz pitched well last night, save a normal first inning infarction. Adam Dunn went yard twice, and once he went WAY yard. Having said that, I will say this. No--and I mean No--rebuilding plan can possibly not include a young player like him. What would that say---we have a plan to rebuild with youth, but if the youth are too good, we have to get rid of them.

There was a power outage at GABP that delayed the game for 25 minutes. But that didn't keep the Reds from moving out of last place after an ark-like 40 days and 40 nights in the cellar. We're 5.5 games behind Milwaukee, and I believe we could be that much better than them on the stretch home, which would be a fourth place finish. We are 7 behind the Cubs, who are exactly .500, and my guess is that is a stretch. Of course, we haven't seen the talent we might lose in the next week, although I predict none or not much.

It does appear that Randa could be moved. When Minnesota got out, it appeared like that was it, but now the Padres are in, and it looks relatively serious. This is a very logical move for the Reds, IMO, since Randa was only there to hold the spot for EE. EE is topped out at AAA. He may not be a great player in the ML, but he isn't going to accomplish anything else destroying AAA pitiching.

We've written ourselves about the tragedy of our horrible pitching, given our strong offensive attack. If our pitching was only BAD--just as bad as last year, this would be a different story. Here, Brian at Red Leg Nation writes a similar thing, with more facts.

Jason LaRue is pissed that no one told him he is sharing the C job with Valentin.

Now, watch today. Can the Reds win four in a row...for the first time this season.