How Do the Reds Become Competitive Again

Practice the Cincinnati Reds want us anymore?

I got up out of bed on September 23, 2010 and got set up for work in Springfield, Illinois. That was the twenty-four hours that if the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Houston Astros, they would clinch the National League Central Segmentation.

I had a ton of fourth dimension off accumulated. Things were going well at work. Then I took the day off, got in my Chevy truck and took off for Cincinnati, which was about a 5 ½ hour bulldoze away from President Lincoln's Tomb, plus losing an hour due to the Eastern Time Zone.

No one went with me. No one else cared. I ordered ane ticket on the way to Cincy and got a front row seat down the 3rd base line for the good for you sum of $22. I was set.

I checked into my Northern Kentucky Hotel that afternoon and walked to the park. Had a couple of cold ones in the neighborhood of Groovy American Ball Park and talked baseball with guys I knew zippo of only they were Reds fans.

When the gates opened, I found my seat and and so walked around the park. I loved the atmosphere of the ballpark, got a coney and a beer and basked in the celebrity of watching my favorite team, my Reds, endeavor to clinch a division championship.

They did merely that, thanks to Bruce Almighty and his majestic home run in the bottom of the ix^thursday inning. The crowd went wild. And so did I. The Reds went on the field and did a victory lap. I did a fist crash-land with Bronson Approach.

This was my team, the team I loved since 1964. I had a connection with them.

Later on the game, I walked to Fountain Square with dozens of Reds fans to celebrate. That's where the 1961 Ragamuffins celebrated. That's where the Big Red Machine hoisted their trophies. That's where I went. I was with other Reds fans and nosotros celebrated.

I defenseless a cab after midnight and went back to the hotel. The Reds were champs.

And now, here we are in 2021.

David Bell is our manager. Nick Krall is our General Director. I have cypher confidence in both of them. I await zippo. I get nothing. At this point, I just hope they don't destroy what's left of the team merely that seems to be the mission that they are on.

The 2022 Reds collapsed down the stretch for the playoffs, a second wild card booth, but at least it was something. The Cardinals won 17 directly, breezed past the Reds and made it. They fired their director. We extended our manager for 2 years.

Honest to God — what does this say to us?

I'm old enough to remember the bad times as a Reds fan. The trade of Frank Robinson. The firing of Sparky Anderson. Dick Wagner equally the GM. Trading Tony Perez for a washed up left-handed pitcher who quit on the team in the middle of the adjacent flavour. The Bob Boone Era.  Trading Johnny Cueto for 3 left-handed pitchers. Trading Aroldis Chapman for cipher. Trading Jay Bruce for Dilson Herrera.

This off-season, lockout or no lockout, is the same as the last one. A signing of little known players and hoping to catch lightning in a bottle.

Jake Bauers, Kyle Dowdy and Ronnie Dawson? I'll bet the Reds front function season ticket salespeople are busy. The phones are probably ringing off the hook.

I went to 1 Reds game last season. It was a Father's Day present. The Reds actually won that night, defeating the Cardinals when they were mere mortals in August. Joey Votto hit a habitation run and Luis Castillo pitched a great game.

But a lot had inverse since 2010. $16 for a beer? And a cab couldn't be constitute after the game since Uber wiped out that industry in Cincinnati. Fortunately, a friend that went with me had their app on his phone but we nonetheless needed to give the driver a viable target and information technology's tough right after a game.

And so now what? Another rebuild? Another horrible bullpen? More mediocrity?

Information technology's not my nature to be negative merely the Reds demand to evidence me something.

Or does this Ownership even care almost their fan base?

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