Suarez Delivers Big Bomb
By Hal McCoy It was inevitable and the inevitable transpired in a gargantuan way Sunday afternoon in sun-drenched and wind-swept Great American Ball Park. Eugenio Suarez did what Eugenio Suarez does best, a ultra-timely upper deck three-run home run. All it did was provide the Cincinnati Reds with a 3-2 win over the Boston Red […]
Reds Win One In Extras!!
By Hal McCoy Dane Myers neither knew nor cared that the Cincinnati Reds were 3-12 in extra-inning games in 2025. Dane Myers neither knew nor cared that the Cincinnati Reds were 22-22 in one-run games in 2025. He was playing for the woeful Miami Marlins in 2025 until two days after Christmas last year when […]
Not A Banner Day For Reds
By Hal McCoy The Findlay Market parade rolled perfectly down Race Street Thursday afternoon. Grand Marshal Jeff Brantley, fashionably attired in his old Reds numbefr 45 jersey, waved at the appropriate time and waved at the appropriate people. Great American Ball Park, with its new Joey Votto clock, was manicured to the specifications of Augusta […]
Some Early-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and it’s only two days until Happy New Year. Yep, the new year doesn’t start on January 1, it starts on Opening Day. —NO RESPECT: Rodney Dangerfield does not play for the Cincinnati Reds, but it looks as if he should. No respect. MLB’s web-site listed […]
Pre-season Reds Column
By Hal McCoy As winter sped closer and closer to spring training, Cincinnati Reds fans were frustrated and saying, “Same ol’ Reds, a wasted off-season, no improvements, no significant additions.” What the Reds seemed to be doing was setting a record for signing outfielders to minor league contracts with invitations to the big league camp. […]
McCoy: Where’s Baseball Going?
By Hal McCoy This is the time of year when optimism in Arizona and Florida fills the air like the inside of a hot air balloon. On the first day of spring training during their first meeting with the writers, all 30 major league managers prop their feet on top of their desks and say […]
McCoy: Suarez Returns ‘Home’
By Hal McCoy When the Cincinnati Reds hit at least one home run in a game last season, they were 58-36. When they hit no homers in a game, they were 25-44. Why bring that up? It was as obvious as the wishbone-C on their uniform chests that the Reds hungered for a consitent power […]
Some Sunday OBSERVATIONS
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave thinking about being a great grandfather several times over. People ask me if that makes me feel old and I say, “No, being a great grandfather doesn’t make me feel old. Knowing that my son is a grandfather. . .that makes me feel old.” —PUSHY PEDRO: […]
Some mid-week Observations…
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and as I sit in front of my laptop listening to Do Wah Diddy Diddy by Manfred Mann, it sounds like something baseball commissioner Rob Manfred would say at a rules meeting. —‘WE’RE NUMBER FOUR’: Jim Bowden was a general manager with the Cincinnati Reds during […]