Cincinnati's fucking joke of a season rolls onward….

I’m a Reds fan and I was really looking forward to this season, until it started. It was a particularly bland Opening Day and it’s resulted in a last place underachieving club that is essentially playing out the string here in May.

Well it should be no surprise that the Reds continued to invent new ways to do stupid, unimaginable shit: they batted out of order. Though Corey Patterson was supposed to be at the plate, David Ross batted out of order in the ninth inning of an 8-3 loss to the Mets today.

Through my entire career of playing this game, which probably spans the course of thousands of games; I never saw it happen. Not in T-ball and not in little league. Seriously, fuck these guys. They’re just not even worth it right now.

You’ve also got to love Corey Patterson predictably riding his interstate tricycle down I-97 right now. You’ve got to love Ken Griffey’s excruciantly slow crawl towards 600 home runs. At this rate he’ll get there by August. You’ve got to respect that the organization won’t call up Jay Bruce (hitting .325 with 6 bombs and 7 stolen bases in AAA Louisville) because they don’t want his arbitration clock to start. You have to love that Matt Belisle and Johnny Cueto are holding down rotation spots while Homer Bailey rips it up in AAA.

This isn’t a team that is trying to get better. Their front office instability and bad decision making really shows up with their on-field product.

Note: In the same breath, I’m driving 2 hours in marginal weather to watch them play the Florida Marlins tomorrow night.