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Hamilton’s defense, baseball’s popularity and the worst play of the season

09/09/2014

A bit of reading material on a Tuesday. Mike Petriello (FanGraphs) extols the virtue of Billy Hamilton's rangeÃ‚Â on the center fielder's 24th birthday. Craig Calcaterra (NBC Sports, Hardball Talk) pens a... Read More...

Tunage

Chad Dotson

01/16/2013

Apologies for the brief commercial interruption...but my brother -- a big Reds fan living in China, of all places -- has just released an app for iPhone. It's called Tunage Music Match, and it's aimed at, not s... Read More...

Ticket Giveaway Trivia Question

Chris Wilson

05/15/2011

It is trivia question time. Here is how this will work.Ã‚Â The first person to correctly answer the upcoming trivia question in the comments portion of this post will win the two tickets to tomorrow's game.Ã‚... Read More...

Who Wants Free Tickets!?

Chris Wilson

05/15/2011

A buddy of mine has partial season tickets which includes two tickets for tomorrow's matchup versus the Cubs.Ã‚Â He cannot go nor find anyone to take the tickets off of his hands.Ã‚Â Thus, in loyal Reds fashi... Read More...

The Newest Member of RN!

Chris Wilson

09/20/2010

I just wanted to announce that my wife gave birth to our third boy today. Ã‚Â Adam Joseph Wilson was born exactly at noon today. Adam Joseph (care to guess where that name came from?) weighs 7 pounds, 14 ounce... Read More...

PNC Advice

Chris Wilson

08/01/2010

I mentioned this earlier in the week in one of the other threads but I wanted to bring it back to attention so that I do not miss out on anything.Ã‚Â Tomorrow I am taking my 6-year old son to PNC Park to watch... Read More...

Sad News

Chris Wilson

07/19/2010

This isn't Reds related, though I will tie it in shortly. Ã‚Â James Gammon, who played manager Lou Brown in the movie Major League, passed away Friday at age 70. Gammon, who may be best known for his role as th... Read More...

A shameless plug

Bill Lack

07/15/2010

I just wanted to tell everyone that I went out to the Redleg Nation Shop (see link above) and bought a RN shirt... I did it for a couple of reasons. 1) I really like the logo and wanted to advertise RN. (The... Read More...

Not-So-Random Thoughts

Chad Dotson

07/13/2010

Catching up on some things.... * Good grief, that Home Run Derby was awful last night...or at least, the little bit that I watched was terrible. Can someone get rid of Chris Berman, please? What an interminabl... Read More...

What was he THINKING…

Bill Lack

04/16/2010

By "HE" I mean Chad...when he posted this.... This is like saying, "Boy, I'm having a great day" or "My car is running great" or "My wife and I are getting along really well"... Never challenge the wrath of t... Read More...

Happy Thanksgiving

Chad Dotson

11/26/2009

Happy Thanksgiving all, from your friends at Redleg Nation. http://www.hulu.com/embed/ARGH13THKHoYcvgLRNOP6Q (Tip of the cap to RR for reminding us of this classic Thanksgiving humor.)... Read More...

Breaking “news”

Chad Dotson

04/09/2009

This has nothing to do with baseball (actually, it's about college basketball and football), but it's so funny, I wanted to link it up. The headline is "Cheering Fans, Thrilling NCAA Tournament Disgust BCS Offi... Read More...