6 hours ago
(6 hours ago)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: You are correct.
It's a long season, nobody cares about the champions of August of any season that I can recall.
I still have faith in Tito and his sheepherder style of managing that he's getting them ready for the later part of the season. As bad and almost comical as it's been, they're still learning. It's not realistic for the entire organization to suddenly know how to play basic fundamentally sound baseball just because Francona was hired. I'm not sure that he knew how little the players knew, but they are figuring it out. They answered eight runs with eight runs. They lost that game vs Atlanta, but they know that they can come back. They recently went toe to toe with Philadelphia, winning the series 2-1 and should have swept them. They should have swept the Brewers and they know it.
The amazing part of their streak of not being swept is that this team still hasn't gotten hot, yet. Almost every team has a good two weeks or so where they look almost unbeatable. If and when the Reds get on one of those runs, they'll be in the playoffs. It does happen in the late part of the season. It happened to Arizona a couple of years ago, it happened to the Mets last year.
Before the All-Star break(97 games for some stupid reason) the Reds had two 4 game winning streaks and three 5 game winning streaks. Since the All-Star break(28 games-37 to go)only one 4 game winning streak. They're due for a good run of playing solid baseball and maybe the error by the Brewers in the 9th will begin a stretch of some luck finally going their way.
We can only hope the steak comes sooner than later. I bet the Reds have given away 10 to 15 games they should have won. But they still, haven’t learned that lesson.
