The Audacity of Hope!

Rarely do I hear something on the radio that makes me almost wreck. Usually, it’s just crap from espn radio, or stupid commercials, and it goes in one ear, and out the other. Today, was different. They were interviewing baseball expert Tim Kurkijian, or whatever the hell his name is, one of the endless nerdy, scrawny, redsox fans employed by ESPN to talk about baseball. He said, “he wasn’t going to pick his “surprise” team to watch this year, until he had seen all the teams in Spring training” but, he said he was already leaning towards……The Cincinnati Reds! That was when I lost control. I know, I too often get carried away with the slightest bit of hope, but I am on cloud 9 today. He said, he wasn’t saying they are gonna win the division, (what’s he smoking?) but the feeling in the clubhouse is completely different. he said they have, speed, defense, and guys who will get on base, and a solid starting rotation. OH MY GOD! I’m not gonna get all carried away by what some middle aged douchebag said on the radio, but I am going to declare. This is the year. I’ve never said that before, well, o.k. I say that every year, but this is different, and Timmy explained why. He said, ‘the feeling in the locker room is completely different, because griffey and dunn aren’t around to run the clubhouse’. I.E. We got rid of the two laziest bastards on the team. Sure they hit dingers, sold jerseys, and had names people had heard of, but they also sucked at baseball. This years crop of Redlegs may not be the most famous, or the most talented, but we no longer have an over the hill, worn out superstar, and an out of shape, no-defense having, strikeout prone jackass as the role models for the young players. This is the ultimate case of addition by subtraction, and I am stoked. We could stick a high school kid in right field, and a kid in a wheelchair in left field, and have a better defense. Hope is slowly coming back to Queen city, and I am getting on board. Sure the Cubs are stacked, but they’ll find a way to screw that up. How many years in a row can the cubs have a winning record anyway? This is it people. Those tickets I’m selling for the Pirates series in September are starting to look pretty good right now huh?