The bat flippin’, show boatin’, sons of guns last night pounded the 4-A Pittsburgh Pirates, who need to be declared a national disaster. That way they can get FEMA aid which hopefully they would use to buy a major-league team. Though, it’d be just as likely their owner – Bob Nutting, makes Mike Brown look like King Midas – would pocket the cash.
Amir Garrett says he wants the Reds to be loud and proud. He wants them to symbolize the “new’’ baseball, in which individualism is celebrated and “unwritten rules’’ become as dated as teams taking trains from New York to Chicago.