Since U Been Gone

(AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Let’s see, while I was away Jay Bruce broke his hand (which, when you think about it, can only help his batting average), Edwin Encarnacion started hitting (huh?), Bronson Arroyo extended his scoreless-inning streak to 16 (this guy drives me insane), Aaron Harang, winless in his last nine starts, saw his record fall to 5-10 (…), and the Reds made no deals (yet).

Sounds like a typical, maddening, week in Reds Land.

More importantly, the Reds are three games under .500 and hoping praying to stay alive in the NL Central.  I don’t think this team has a chance of hanging around much longer, but stranger things have happened.

Like that time when the Reds put Steve Parris on the mound for the one-game playoff against the Mets in 1999.

And I would just like to state, for the record, that I would absolutely love it if the Reds, somehow, found a way to trade for — and more importantly, sign — Jason Bay.  It will never happen, but I would love to see it.