The Kearns Report
« 07/04/2005 | Main | 07/06/2005 »Since I'm pining for Austin Kearns, it seemed appropriate to go watch him play when he's visiting Indianapolis. During his first at-bat he fouled one at me, as if the Baseball Gods were sending me message. To make the message clearer, Kearns then hit a 400-foot homer to right-center off Mike Connolly. He came up in the second inning and homered off Connolly again, this one crushed down the LF line. Then he came up in the fourth inning, and for some variety, he homered off Brian Mallette. I got the message, so I went down to the right field foul pole in the bottom of the fourth to discuss a potential move to St. Louis. For some reason Kearns wasn't very chatty. Maybe he thought Ray King put me up to this. Whatever the case, I attended this game specifically to see Kearns play and he responded by hitting three home runs. You can imagine the irrational impression this has left on me.
As for stuff, you can't find in the boxscore, yes, Kearns looks heavy. No, he's not as fat as John Belushi and in fact I'd say he's fitter than Larry Walker, but if Kearns is going to play any center field, he'll need to lose a few pounds.
Posted by Rob at July 5, 2005 11:12 PMWhat was Izzy thinking? He wasn't I guess. Crazy.
Posted by: Brian Doolittle at July 6, 2005 01:09 AMSO WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO GET AUSTIN KEARNS???!!!
I WOULDN'T GIVE UP WAINWRIGHT, MAYBE NOT EVEN THOMPSON...
MARQUIS MAYBE??!!!
Posted by: TOLAXOR at July 6, 2005 06:14 AMInteresting proposal, TOLAXOR-man.
Let's say the Reds would take Marquis for Kearns -- who goes in the rotation next? Thompson? Anthony Reyes? Wainwright? TLR and Dunc wouldn't be particularly thrilled about that those possibilities, but of those I listed, I'd say they'd go with Thompson because they've used him out of the pen and have some degree of trust in him.
TSF
Posted by: TedSimmonsFan at July 6, 2005 10:00 AMANY ONE WILL DUE, HECK, GIVEN OUR POSITION AT THIS POINT, ANY OF THOSE OR GISSELL JOURNELL, PIERCE... WHOEVER...
JUST SOMEBODY WHO "NEEDS THE CHANCE"!!!
WE COULD EVEN TRY AND MAKE THEM THROW JARED FERNANDEZ IN THE DEAL JUST SO WE COULD HAVE A KNUCKLE BALL PITCHER FOR AMUSEMENT!!!! EINAR LOOKS LIKE HE COULD USE THE JOG TO THE BACKSTOP AND BACK EVERY FOURTH OR FIFTH PITCH....
Posted by: TOLAXOR at July 6, 2005 11:07 AMI SEE YOUR POINT ABOUT TONY AND DUNC..
MAYBE THE THING TO DO IS FOR WALT TO TAKE THEM OUT FOR SOME DRINKS, AND THEN WHEN EVERYBODY IS PRETTY HAPPY, SAY "YOU KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD DO? WE SHOULD JUST GIVE ONE OF THOSE GUYS A CHANCE.. JUST BRING THEM UP, LET THEM PITCH EVERY 5TH DAY, LET'S LET CARP, MULDER, MO, AND S(O)UP ALL SKIP A START IN AUGUST AND LET SOME FOLKS GET SOME INNINGS....
IT WON'T KILL US IN THE STANDINGS, AND IT SHOULDN'T HURT THE KIDS, LETS GO FOR IT!!!!
ALSO, IF ELDRED WASN'T COMING BACK FROM SUCH A DEVASTATING ILLNESS, HE COULD HAVE BEEN PENCILED IN TO SPOT START....
Posted by: TOLAXOR at July 6, 2005 11:35 AMTOLAXOR, man, I can't take it any longer -- I have to know something: why do you always write in all caps? You seem to be more intelligent than most who fall into that habit, but damnit, trying to read all caps nearly causes me to have a seizure. For the love of humanity, please...
Posted by: Jeff at July 6, 2005 12:50 PMIt's his thing. I'm used to it by now.
How can you complain about anyone whose name is TOLAXOR?
As far as trading Marquis goes, I wouldn't trade him in the division. I mean, who would want to PITCH to that guy?
Posted by: olabner at July 6, 2005 03:53 PM...read sarcasm in above post...
Posted by: olabner at July 6, 2005 03:54 PMWainwright for Kearns seems about right to me. Kearns is still pretty young and Wainwright looks like he has decent upside, but nothing fantastic.
A knuckler would be fun to have. So would a start or two in August for Reyes, Gissell and Wainwright, assuming they're all still here.
Posted by: Rob at July 6, 2005 04:17 PM