Holy cow

The Bucs head into Cincy for what is undoubtably one of the most important series' of the year for the Reds. They almost have to sweep the Pirates to stay within striking distance of the Cards in the division and there are several teams bearing down hard on them in the Wild Card race. Lucky for them, the worst team in baseball is rolling into GAB this weekend as we lug our 14-45 record into the most homer happy park in the league. I would say that I want to see Pittsburgh stifle Cincinnati again because they've been such sore losers after the whole football thing, but that's not true. In fact, Reds fans have been nothing but nice to me since I started this blog and a large part of me wants to see the Reds make the playoffs to show the Pirates how much of a difference a new front office can make. But if the Pirates want to win, I won't complain either. Ian Snell faces off against Chris Michalak in the first of three tonight and Snell has the benefit of possibly the most logical Bucco lineup Tracy has trotted out all year.
  1. Duffy
  2. Wilson
  3. Sanchez
  4. Bay
  5. Nady
  6. Paulino
  7. Bautista
  8. Castillo
Jack Wilson is still batting too high, but "most logical" and "best" are two different things when it comes to Tracy's lineup card, so I'll settle for "most logical"... for now.

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