Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Reds Truck Arrives in Goodyear
Do you all know what this is kids? This is the Reds equipment truck arriving in Goodyear, Arizona for Spring Training. This is a sign of good things to come. Oh and take notice of the arrow. We know that girl. We used to work with her at the Cincinnati Bengals ticket office. Her name is Stephanie.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Reds fans: we drew a bad bull for April 5th
Adam Wainwright ladies and gents. Get a good look at him. Unless something weird happens, he's going to get the ball on April 5th when the Cardinals open up their season in Cincinnati. We'll be there, and it will most likely be a long day in which we scratch across one run (on an error) with four hits.
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
It's Basically Baseball Season
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Friday, February 5, 2010
The Baseball Show Interviews Zizzy Mane
Tonight we were lucky enough to interview song writer and producer Zizzy Mane. Zizzy produced and wrote the song "The Deal" which will serve as our boy Jay Bruce's batter walk-up theme in 2010 at Great American Ball Park.
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The Baseball Show by Diamond Hoggers
And here we thought there was some technical difficulties with the show. Turns out it worked just fine, and it was a pretty good show on tap for you.
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Don't let the Cincinnati Reds surprise you. "Pretty much every year, there’s a team that the projection systems are optimistic about, relative to the general feel of baseball fans and analysts at large. This year, it looks like that team may be the Reds, who haven’t been seriously talked about as contenders by too many folks, but who look like they could be pretty good on paper." [FanGraphs]
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tonight's Show Topics

It's Thursday, which mean's it's time for another installment of The Baseball Show by Diamond Hoggers.
-We're going to talk Cincinnati Reds. Who is the most pivotal Red for 2010's success?
-We'll debate whether or not Major League Baseball should ban the consumption of alcohol in all MLB clubhouses.
-We'll preview tomorrow's show with Zizzy Mane (Zach Hall), who wrote "The Deal". This will be Jay Bruce's 2010 theme song played on the loud speakers at GABP.
-Other MLB odds & ends.
If you want to be part of the show, send us some topics you want to hear us talk about at Diamondhoggers_at_gmail_dot_com and we'll get to it.
You can also follow us on twitter, which is a great way to interact with us.
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Esteemed baseball writer Murray Chass details the New York Mets mess: "But more than one agent cited the Mets’ inability to deal with more than one free agent at a time as the primary reason they lost out on free agents. “We’re interested in your guy,” more than one agent recalled the Mets saying, “but we have to deal with this other guy first.” [Murray Chass on Baseball]
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The Cars: Drive. What is it about?
This is the greatest Rock and Roll song of all-time in my opinion. It's one of my favorites. Sweet ass video. When you watch it, and you listen to the lyrics; it's hard to say what it's really about. So anyone out there that comes across this post, what the hell is this classic about?
But being a baseball fan, and a huge fan of the Cars; I always imagined it could be talking about a star hitter driving in the runner from scoring position to win the game late in the bottom of the 9th frame.
"Who's gonna drive you home, tonight?"
Anyone watch Nip/Tuck last night? Cool ending. That's what got me thinking about this song.
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2010's Most Indispensible Cincinnati Red?
A good question was recently You get either one of these guys to have that type of performance in addition to the veterans doing what they've become paid commodities to do, and you're going to see the Reds making a run until late in the year.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
We'd be against banning booze in the clubhouses of MLB
We'll say this: drinking in the clubhouse, (and we don't mean pounding shots of Old Granddad or Jim Beam); but having a few cold beers after the game is as much of a part of this game's rich tradition as Cracker Jack's and the 7th inning stretch.
When I go to the ballgame, I smell the beer. It's the first thing that hits my nostrils that lets me know that I'm in a big league venue. I don't always partake, but there's nothing that creates the atmosphere like a cheap beer and being at a Major League Stadium.
Other's have very strict workout regimens and simply won't allow themselves to pound six to twenty beers after a game.
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Justin Upton's offseason workout
You can find some good stuff while floating around twitter these days. One of our favorite young players, Justin Upton is now twittering. Today, we found a clip of Justin's offseason workout.
The above workout he says was his "toughest one yet". It doesn't look all that tough, but we'll take his word for it because we know that baseball workouts often appear a lot easier then they really are.
So this is how you prepare for a 40-40 season at 22 years old?
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Day Late Thoughts on MLB suing Upper Deck Trading Cards
In Major League Baseball's suit against Upper Deck they accuse them of releasing two new baseball card products, 2010 Upper Deck Signature Stars and 2010 Ultimate Collection Baseball, which illegally make use of MLB trademarks. They go on to say that Upper Deck "is on the verge" of distributing a number of additional unauthorized baseball card sets.
Upper Deck got started in 1989. Doesn't everyone remember that 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. Rookie Card? I sure the hell do. It was the card. It put the Upper Deck company on the map and made them the trend setter in all-things cardboard for card collecting.
Fast forward to present day, where a lot of money has exchanged hands for these two giants. MLB and Upper Deck should find a way to make this work. There is a lot of money to be made (if kids are still like they were when I was a kid in the late 80's and early 90's) if these two sides don't ruin it all with greed.
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Friday's Show Guest: Zach Hall (Zizzy Mane)
This Friday we're going to hold a very special edition of The Baseball Show by Diamond Hoggers. Our guest this week is Zach Hall, aka Zizzy Mane; and if you don't know him now you will know him very soon.So tune in Friday as we kick around some questions for Zach Hall. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
AWESOME-NESS
Nuff said on this one. This is just perfection.
*Hat tip to that little turd who writes for Sabo's Goggles a few times each month.
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Thank God for Addition by Subtraction
Today, I sent a text to my friend telling him that the Reds had traded Willy Taveras and Adam Rosales to the Oakland A's. I didn't tell him who we got in return. That wasn't important. And Willy Taveras?
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
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ESPN's Neyer on the Reds chances to compete
1) The outfield is a cluttered mess at this point, and they need to decide who is going to be playing as the every day guys in left field and center and not waver on it should those guys that win the job out of Spring Training falter the first few weeks of the season. We also concur that giving Wily Taveras at-bats is a waste of time and the more he climbs in the box this year the more our chances of winning ballgames goes down statistically.
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