Look, we have written and written and written some more about frustration around the Cincinnati Reds over the years. We have covered the austerity, the frugality, and the downright cheapness. We’ve been through firesales aplenty, failed attempts in free agency, and feigned attempts at free agency.
We’ve seen devastating injuries, bad contracts, and shuffling of deck chairs. What we haven’t seen, obviously, is a single playoff series victory in our entire existence, and that’s a frustration all its own.
That said, it’s hard to envision a franchise like Cincinnati’s, with so many banners and pennants to its name, choosing to merely shrug off the last 30 years of general ineptitude in the name of patience and leave a first place team completely out to dry at the trade deadline.