If you happened to scour the media channels late yesterday evening, you may have stumbled across the first (and, to my eyes, only) attempt made by the ownership of the Cincinnati Reds to justify just what they’ve been up to for the last calendar year. Y’know, that whole rip the guts out of a once-decent baseball team stuff, slashing payroll and overhauling the entire roster while insisting they were neither ripping the guts out of a once-decent baseball team nor overhauling the entire roster.
In what appeared to be something of a pre-scripted PR piece, Bob Castellini spoke with voice of the Reds Tommy Thrall, at one point going on record to say “It is simply untrue that our resolve to win has waned in any way.