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@LanceMcAlister REDminiscing

Turning to you for help. I'm looking for a segment name: I'm trying a new segment on Extra Innings. It's a short segment that brings up a random #Reds player from the past. I put together notes, stats, trivia, moments, etc. The idea is to simply spark a memory, maybe a meeting, and discuss the player. I used Adam Dunn, Tracy Jones and Jay Bruce this week. I started with "Reds Remembered" That's not bad, but kind of makes it sound like the player is no longer with us. I kind of like Reds Retro. Ideas?

@LanceMcAlister Your tradition of the “first pack of the year” inspired me to carry it on with my boys every opening day for the last few years. This year the 5 year old booed every time we pulled a Red Sox player, and the 8 year old pulled 2 Chase Burns RCs!

My yearly ode to Easter and my box of baseball cards: When I was a kid, my grandma bought me a box of Topps baseball cards every Easter. Man, did I love opening those 25 packs in the box, one by one. I'd sort through those cards, declaring "got him, got him, need him.....got him." Over the years, I've created a tradition with Casey. I buy a pack for each of us and we open them at the same time. For three straight years, I've found the first packs at the Ace Hardware in Independence. $6.99 for 14 cards. Dang. I feel 10 years old when this time of year rolls around. The rush is still there. I still get excited opening a pack. We shout out names of players and compare packs as we thumb through our packs. The cards have changed so much over the years. Today's cards are slick, shiny and sharp looking. They now list WAR and OPS on the back of hitter's cards and WHIP on the back of pitcher's cards. The cards even list the Twitter handle for players. I'll admit it, I miss the baseball cards I grew up with in the 1970's and 80's. Those cards were plain and simple cardboard. I loved the cartoons on the back, with something like "Richie Hebner loves to restore old cars in the offseason," with a drawing of him and a car. I had several baseball card guidelines growing up: I never believed in buying a set of cards. I thought that was cheating. I bought pack after pack after pack, trying to complete the set on my own. I sorted the cards by teams, put rubber bands around them and put them in a shoe box. I never, ever put cards in my bike spokes and rode around the neighborhood. I would sit on the front porch with my friends and make trades. I spent my summer of 1975, as a nine-year old, searching for the elusive Topps Johnny Bench card. It was card number 260. I reached a point that summer where I had 659 of the 660 cards, with Bench being the only card I needed. I wound up trading my entire box of "doubles" to a friend for his Bench card. Doubles, the cards you had duplicates of, carried little value back then. I never considered the value of having multiple Pete Rose or Hank Aaron cards. I never owned a Beckett's price guide, because I never worried about the dollar value of my cards. I didn't collect the cards to sell them, I collected them because I loved baseball. Heck, I'd take a pen and put a check next to the player's name on the team checklist card when I got that card. I ruined a complete set of Topps 1976 cards when I was 10-years old. An adult neighbor told me I should preserve my cards in a photo album. So, one by one, I put all the cards in an album. A few months later I pulled the clear sheet back and tried to life the card off the page. The front of the card pulled off, the back of the card remained, stuck to the adhesive on the album. Stupid. Stupid. Me. That was a heck of a set in 1976. I'll admit that I eventually started chasing and purchasing multiple rookies cards for the likes of Jose Canseco, Dwight Gooden and Gregg Jefferies. All in hopes of selling them for big money down the road. Well, that never happened. In the truest sense of innocent lost, I sold a Mike Schmidt rookie card and used the money for a spring break trip to Panama City when I was in college. I hang my head in shame. I think my favorite card is the 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. Fleer rookie card. I still have many of my boxes of cards in the basement. Others have been lost in moves over the years. Most of the cards are now in albums, protected by insert sheets. Sometimes I sit and flip through those cards. They take me back to my childhood and certain moments in my life. I can still remember exactly where I was when I got some of those cards. I remember when Topps started making the triple pack of cards that would hang on the rack. We'd sit at the Convenient off Denallen Drive in Anderson and pick through those cards before we bought them. You could see the three cards you were getting on the front and the three cards on the back. We thought that was cool. Man, I miss those days. Did you collect baseball cards?

@jakebathman You saved my Wednesday night!! Thanks so much!!!!

Found it, if anyone else has this issue, on YouTube TV go to: Survivor > Episodes > Extras and it’s at the bottom (last on the list in my screenshot). Extras??? Insane.

@PBrennanENQ At the game. wasn’t that called a swing? That’s now ABS right?

Alex Cora arguing balls and strikes (but maybe a tip here?) with CB Bucknor and gets run in the process -- in the ABS era.

@LanceMcAlister Feels very minor leagues to me. Next thing you know you’ll want the manger in captain’s chair with a sailor hat on!

Imagine Elly clobbering one. He drops his bat. Turns to the crowd. Pauses. And does the arm tug to signify the horn to sound. Crowd stands and does the tug as he rounds the bases. Players on dugout railing doing it! Kids jumping up and down, tugging their arm! #SteamboatHorn

@DonHelbig @Reds If Steer is an outfielder now and Suarez a DH, isn’t Lowe our only bench bat that is an infielder?

@JwOrr @Reds I don’t see where Lowe gets at-bats unless they plan to play Suarez two to three times a week at third base.

The #Reds today announced the following transactions:

@DonHelbig @Reds You can never enough depth. They have enough positional flexibility, this round you just keep as many good ball players on the roster as possible. That meant keeping Lowe

@Reds Bleday gets optioned—because apparently you can never have too many first basemen if it means keeping Lowe.

@DonHelbig @LanceMcAlister Have they come out and said Steer won’t primarily be an outfielder this year?

@LanceMcAlister With Stewart, Steer, Suarez at first base/DH, hard to see where Lowe would get much playing time.

So......#Reds bench spots to Jose Trevino Will Benson (LHB) Can probably go ahead and use pen for Dane Meyers (RHB) as backup CF..... That means 3 for 1 spot. Nathaniel Lowe (LHB) J.J. Bleday (LHB) Rece Hinds (RHB)

@Steven_Wright_ Thanks for the updates!!

19-6 CJ midway through the second. SVSM shooting 2-17 overall and 1-10 from three and has gone 9+minutes without points.

@CharlieG__ Why would this not have been addressed in November? Bone spurs don’t just disappear with rest do they?

During the final week of the regular season last year, the Reds had the opportunity to take advantage of Monday’s off day, move the team’s top four starters a day up in the starting rotation and then give No. 1 starter Hunter Greene the chance to pitch twice instead of once during the final six games of the regular season. The Reds didn't do that and gave Greene an extra day's rest. Today, he shared that he was dealing with elbow discomfort down the stretch last season.

Hunter Greene spoke with the media about his elbow injury. The transcript here. charlieschalkboard.substack.com/p/hunter-green…

@MoEgger Pretty sure it’s the most words ever written about Miami that didn’t reference Wally Szczerbiak

Here's my tweet about Miami: 26-0. 23-0 as it relates to the NCAA Tournament after a really gutsy performance against UMass tonight. The Redhawks' schedule hasn't been good. Everyone knows this. Travis Steele (on our show) acknowledged this. If one wants to de-legitimize what they've done by pointing toward their schedule, my retort is... Look at their record against the spread: 17-6. Covering 73.9% of the time. Only four teams are covering more frequently. None are from Power conferences. They've had close calls - back-to-back OT games v. Buffalo and Kent State stand out - but it would be one thing if they were just eeking by on a regular basis. They aren't. They're 6-2 ATS when favored by ten points or more. When they're supposed to win big, they win big. They're 9-4 ATS in conference play, covering at a 69.2 percent clip. There is only one team from a power conference covering at a better clip in league games. (Washington, at 73.3 percent.) And FWIW, they've been underdogs in four games, and they've won them all. When they've not been expected to win, they've won. It's easy to point to Miami's schedule, and without question the schedule will be factored in when the committee decides what to do with the Redhawks. If they sail though the rest of the regular season as well as the MAC Tournament, their seed ceiling will be extraordinarily low relative to their record. That's because of the schedule. Same if they get in as an at-large, though likely with an even lower ceiling if are included in the field. The schedule will be the reason. The committee will not use teams' record against the spread as a metric (though it should, because point spreads are a common opponent and level the playing field as well as anything), but if what Miami has accomplished to this point must be contextualized by pointing to their schedule - and I'll admit that it would be ideal if there weren't three non-D1 teams on the slate - then it should at least be pointed out that the Redhawks are elite when going up against an opponent that's far more difficult to beat consistently than any basketball team. To win every game they've played so far AND beat the number more frequently than like 360 other teams is very, very impressive. You've just read the most amount of words I've ever written about Miami basketball.

@LanceMcAlister I know it’s not my money, but I still cannot believe that $500k was worth the bad blood of an arbitration hearing with one of your better young bullpen arms!

Ashcract had filed at $1.75M. The #Reds had filed at $1.25M. He earned $750K last season.

@JeffWallner @CharlieG__ Would they ever come out and say “we now need to shed payroll”? Wouldn’t that kill any trade leverage they have?

As @CharlieG__ reported, the Reds do not expect to shed payroll to absorb the cost of Suarez. This is an investment.

@kodygriff16 @Soly_Reds The reds have to say that, or they lose all leverage in trades shedding payroll. I think we still ship Ty Steve or Singer after this, but hope I’m wrong!

@Soly_Reds Would have thought so, but Charlie says otherwise.

Either Krall was misleading about payroll or Singer is getting dealt?

@LanceMcAlister Drastically depends on the amount of snow and if you have a snowblower. This was a 2-3 times snow storm, but usually I am team all at once

Still don't get the 37.1% 🤔

@CharlieG__ Wouldn’t a CES or Arroyo on the bench solve that with the position flexibility their current infield has?

Another ripple effect is the Reds lacking the ideal amount of infield depth. The Reds only have five infielders on the roster. Since an infielder can DH and Steer can play the outfield, there would be days with the current roster construction where they wouldn’t have an infielder on their bench. Ideally, you have that. Something to consider as the Reds look at next moves.

Gavin Lux isn’t a classic DH, and that was his role on the Reds. After trading Lux tonight, the Reds are going with what’s behind door No. 2. The deal makes the roster more flexible and sets the stage for the team to add another bat in the next month. charlieschalkboard.substack.com/p/as-the-reds-…

@GDubMLB Isn’t he left handed?

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