Reds March/April 2025 thread

[kevin]

(03-29-2025, 11:48 PM)samhain Wrote: Sam Lecure was either under the weather or shit-hammered drunk on the post game show.

I thought he made good comments on a different style of bullpen under Francona.  

After that, Sean Casey and Adam Dunn were on as Dunn talked his kids training camps.  He was very upset at Little League Managers talking Launch Angles because they hear it on TV.  Adam Dunn said that makes him so mad, you don't teach a kid anything talking Launch Angles.  Dunn said you work with them on the basics, stepping into the ball, bat speed, throwing to the cut off man.  I thought Adam Dunn made a lot of sense, and if he is correct Little League Managers are talking Launch Angles to kids, they aren't teaching kids anything. I can see why such a thing has Adam Dunn upset as a Kids Training Camp instructor.  Talking launch angles to a 9 year old kid is stupid, show them the basics.  Much like The Bad News Bears movie where the kid is trying to throw like Luis Tiant and is awful, and the Manager tells the kid to just stand on the mound and throw it, keep it basic.  You don't give a 3rd grade class trigonometry, you stat with basic math. Adam Dunn is right, talking launch angles to Little Leaguers isn't teaching them anything. 

I liked all the post game.  Francona is great.  I learned a lot from Sparky, and fans will learn a lot from Francona on pre game and post game.  

I'll add they showed Reds in batting practice before game, and Reds hitting coach right there on everything.  I can say that works. The best hitting year I had as a kid, was the year a coach was right there as I took batting practice.  On me to step into the ball and such, telling me when I did it the way he wanted.  The more I was taught, the better I was.  So I like the new Reds hitting coach watching every move in batting practice, as opposed to guys in there clowning around. Francona brings a whole new approach, as he did winning in Boston for first tme in 100 years.