http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy is in his 37th year of covering the Cincinnati Reds, the longest tenure for any active writer covering one team. Counting spring training and postseason games, McCoy has covered more than 7,000 major-league baseball games, written close to 18,000 baseball stories and eaten enough hot dogs to give Babe Ruth indigestion. Get more from Hal Hal's e-mail newsletter is the only place you can get his weekly commentary on the Reds. Sign up en-us bkollars@coxohio.com 2009-07-03T15:41:59-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/07/03/tonights_game_is_sold_out.html According to Reds media relations, tonight’s Reds-Cardinals game at Great American Ball Park is sold out. Homer Bailey starts on the mound for the 39-38 Reds, who are two games behind the second-place Cardinals. Earlier today, the Reds placed IF... 13680203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-07-03T15:41:59-04:00 bkollars@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/07/02/isnt_it_a_doggone_shame.html Isn’t it a doggone shame that Albert Pujols plays first base and plays in the National League and is Mark McGwire without the Andro? I don’t say this just because the St. Louis Cardinals are coming to town for the... 13672703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-07-02T17:49:26-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/07/01/lifes_little_aggravations_took.html RICK STOWE’S DILEMMA: The Cincinnati Reds equipment manager has to send uniform sizes to MLB for the player or players that will be on the All-Star team. Stowe isn’t sure whose name or names to send and asked several members... 13654303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-07-01T19:50:09-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/07/01/a_meeting_in_a_crowded_office.html Manager Dusty Baker’s office is a spacious place, about 20 by 20 - big enough to accommodate maybe a dozen people. But 25? That’s how many were in there early Wednesday afternoon - all 25 members of the Cincinnati Reds.... 13652203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-07-01T16:56:14-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/30/bronson_arroyo_the_man_who.html WASN’T CINCINNATI once a baseball town? I remember it clearly. Back in the 70s. What happened? On Tuesday night Joey Votto returned to Cincinnati in the lineup for the first time since his stress-related stint on the DL. I expected... 13633503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-30T19:41:43-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/30/edwin_encarnacion_was_schedule.html Edwin Encarnacion was scheduled to play today for the Louisville Bats, but he was not in the lineup and didn’t play at all. Adam Rosales played third base. A setback? Something wrong? Nobody really knows. The Reds made some quick... 13630703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-30T17:01:42-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/28/brandon_phillis_at_his_best_wo.html May I borrow a phrase? We have, “That’s Rickey being Rickey (Rickey Henderson).” And we have, “That’s Manny being Manny (Manny Ramirez).” And on Sunday in Cleveland we had, “That’s Brandon being Brandon.” Brandon, a cooperative and delightful interview for... 13594903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-28T17:33:12-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/27/pulling_for_homer_baileys_succ.html Former Chicago baseball writer Jerome Holtzman wrote a book, “No Cheering in the Pressbox” and, for the most part, that credo is followed. No cheering. The only time in my 37-year career when I saw everybody in a pressbox cheer... 13590303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-27T23:22:49-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/26/a_night_of_redfaced_embarrassm.html You can sugar coat it, say it was just one of those games, throw a blanket over it to make it go away. But it’s there and it stunk to high heaven. A genuine embarrassment. Cleveland Indians 9, Cincinnati Reds... 13585003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-26T23:02:32-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/26/i_almost_became_a_canadian.html I almost became a Canadian citizen today - but that’s getting ahead of the story. I went to bed after the game in Toronto at 1 a.m. and got up groggily at 4 a.m. for my 6:45 a.m. flight to... 13578203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-26T14:27:59-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/25/vottos_little_twin_brothers_me.html THERE WERE TWO little kids with dark hair, wearing miniature Reds uniforms, running around the Reds clubhouse Thursday. They were twin 9-year-olds, Ryan and Paul. Their last name is Votto. They are Joey’s youngest brothers and it snaps you to... 13567103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-25T22:53:11-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/25/as_if_everybody_didnt_already.html As if everybody didn’t already know, including Homer Bailey, the Cincinnati Reds made it official today: Bailey pitches Saturday in Cleveland. The wait to make it official is because general manager Walt Jocketty prefers to inform the player first, and... 13562703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-25T17:12:36-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/25/wayne_gretzkey_is_in_trouble.html MOST OF YOU aren’t going to like this: Willy Taveras is back in the lineup Thursday, back in center field, back in the leadoff spot. Leadoff? Why? Chris Dickerson is in the lineup, too, but he is in left field... 13558603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-25T14:47:24-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/24/a_setback_for_edinson_volquez.html WHAT IS it with Bronson Arroyo and Toronto? What is with with Bronson Arroyo with the first inning? What is it with Bronson Arroyo and June 24? On June 24, 2008, Arroyo gave up 10 runs and 11 hits in... 13542003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-24T17:05:50-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/06/24/for_those_excoriating_manager.html FOR THOSE excoriating manager Dusty Baker for his use of Willy Taveras in the leadoff spot and in center field, well, stand up and cheer. Taveras is NOT in tonight’s lineup against the Toronto Blue Jays after he was 0... 13538203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-06-24T14:47:33-04:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com