[This view from the old recliner was written by Warren Leeman, who comments here under the name Shchi Cossack.]
With the Reds in the midst of a successful month of June, coming off a split against the Rangers (arguably the best team in the AL) and heading into PeteRose-apalooza weekend, I found myself leaning back in the old recliner and contemplating the lineup from the past 2 games with Joey Votto OOC. There were holes in that lineup, but there were a lot of good players in that lineup too. Then I began to silently contemplate the unspeakable…(what if?