Fuming over losses to Padres?

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LoudMouth	05/18/2009 03:40 pm What a dichotomy of a road trip... thoroughly dominating and schooling a bad Diamondbacks team, then looking hapless against a bad Padres team. If you were beside yourself over the way the Reds played in San Diego... GET USED TO IT. This year is not the Reds' year. They have to become good before they become great. Many of us wanted the Reds to go young, and they did. The talent potential is there, and it will be a beautiful thing to watch when it does (like the series against Arizona). But these kids have to learn how to deal with success. They have to learn how to keep their foot on the accelerator without overdoing it and blowing up the engine. I'll bet you some of the young guys went to San Diego thinking that with the way they owned AZ, all they had to do to beat the Padres was show up. And that cockiness lead them to a hard lesson. When you feel the blood pressure rising this year, remember this formula: YOUNG = IMMATURE = INCONSISTENT. Say it LOUD!!!
MaryinCA	05/20/2009 09:23 am Our mouths are similar but yet used for different things. Mine is for saying positive things about my Reds (what did you think). They are young and need some experience. It is a long season but they will finish somewhere over .500 None
LoudMouth	05/22/2009 01:50 pm Mary, I wasn't trying to bash the Reds, just to set a realistic expectation for what they are going to do this year. I expect them to spend most of the season hovering within about 3 games over or under .500. But after the way the Reds just abused the Diamondbacks, some fans on 1530 got excited and raised the expectation beyond where this year's team really is. Don't take my reality check as pessimism or bashing. We have plenty enough of that already in this town. This year's team will be respectable, and that's the first step after almost a decade of losing records. Next year's team will be good. And with the talent still in the pipeline -- whether they come up as Reds or get traded for quality veterans -- they should be very good for a while. Change comes slower in baseball than in most venues in life (which is one of the things I love about it), and I want people to remember that. Sweeping a team doesn't mean that everything has come together and will stay that way, and getting swept doesn't mean that the wheels have come off the wagon. Say it LOUD!!!

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LoudMouth

05/18/2009 03:40 pm

What a dichotomy of a road trip... thoroughly dominating and schooling a bad Diamondbacks team, then looking hapless against a bad Padres team. If you were beside yourself over the way the Reds played in San Diego... GET USED TO IT. This year is not the Reds' year. They have to become good before they become great.

Many of us wanted the Reds to go young, and they did. The talent potential is there, and it will be a beautiful thing to watch when it does (like the series against Arizona). But these kids have to learn how to deal with success. They have to learn how to keep their foot on the accelerator without overdoing it and blowing up the engine. I'll bet you some of the young guys went to San Diego thinking that with the way they owned AZ, all they had to do to beat the Padres was show up. And that cockiness lead them to a hard lesson.

When you feel the blood pressure rising this year, remember this formula: YOUNG = IMMATURE = INCONSISTENT.

Say it LOUD!!!

MaryinCA

05/20/2009 09:23 am

Our mouths are similar but yet used for different things. Mine is for saying positive things about my Reds (what did you think). They are young and need some experience. It is a long season but they will finish somewhere over .500

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LoudMouth

05/22/2009 01:50 pm

Mary, I wasn't trying to bash the Reds, just to set a realistic expectation for what they are going to do this year. I expect them to spend most of the season hovering within about 3 games over or under .500. But after the way the Reds just abused the Diamondbacks, some fans on 1530 got excited and raised the expectation beyond where this year's team really is.

Don't take my reality check as pessimism or bashing. We have plenty enough of that already in this town. This year's team will be respectable, and that's the first step after almost a decade of losing records. Next year's team will be good. And with the talent still in the pipeline -- whether they come up as Reds or get traded for quality veterans -- they should be very good for a while. Change comes slower in baseball than in most venues in life (which is one of the things I love about it), and I want people to remember that. Sweeping a team doesn't mean that everything has come together and will stay that way, and getting swept doesn't mean that the wheels have come off the wagon.

Say it LOUD!!!

WCKY-AM

Fuming over losses to Padres?