Fries Frame

Gather round everyone, let’s relive this nightmare of a season. I won’t lie. This was borderline impossible to compose. In the spirit of trying to look at things in a more “glass-half full” approach, I tried to come up with the moments/things (as few as there were) that I actually enjoyed. Hunter Greene’s First start…

“We will bring championship baseball back to Cincinnati.” Those words uttered by Reds owner Bob Castellini shortly after his group bought the team in 2006 will continue to go unfulfilled over the next couple of years after the Reds continued firesale at this deadline. It’s acceptable to hold an ownership group accountable for failing to…

As the Reds dropped another series Thursday to the vaunted Dodgers, it’s hard to think about anything other than the trade deadline at this point. The Reds are 23-46 and 15.5 games back of first place in the NL Central. The Reds have some assets to move at the deadline. Tyler Mahle comes to mind.…

In baseball, they say “hope springs eternal.” Each year, baseball fans of every team can squint hard enough and try to run through all the scenarios in which their hometown team can compete. That’s the beauty of baseball. It’s a long season and there will be ups and downs for every team. Usually, ownership and…

I’m going to be honest. I had two blog posts ready to be published last week before all hell broke loose. The first one described why I thought it made sense for the Reds to keep Tyler Mahle. The Reds then traded Sonny Gray. The second one was a reaction to the Reds trading Sonny…

I need to write more. I vow to write at least another one of these by April 28th. (Eh, we’ll see) Baseball is dead for now. I’m confident we’ll have some sort of season. However, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced the cancellation of the first two series of the 2022 season. I never thought it…