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 hmccoy@coxohio.com 2010-02-04T18:11:59-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/02/04/cincinnati_reds_manager_dusty_1.html CINCINNATI REDS MANAGER Dusty Baker was a big hit recently at the Wright State University First Pitch baseball dinner and was sincerely impressed with what he saw of the campus, particularly the Nutter Center. “I always wanted to be BMOC... 16575503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-02-04T18:11:59-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/02/01/when_the_cincinnati_reds_signe.html When the Cincinnati Reds signed Miguel Cairo to a minor-league contract last week, I thought to myself, “Omigosh, they’ve signed the wrong Latin infielder to play shortstop. It’s Orlando Cabrera whom they need, not Cairo.” Well, they rectified that little... 16534603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-02-01T17:47:50-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/28/talking_reds_with_baker_philli.html Some notes, utterings, opinions and absurdities obtained while talking this week with Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker, Reds assistant general manager Bob Miller and Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips: Baker was in Dayton this week as guest speak at Rob... 16500103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-28T15:09:15-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/25/gomes_ready_willing_and_able.html A telephone is never far from the reach of Jonny Gomes, be he at his Scottsdale, Ariz., home or be he working out at the North Scottsdale Athletes Performance Institute, where many major leaguers tone their muscles and retain their... 16466003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-25T22:26:21-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/20/give_me_the_quaint_old_spring.html THE NEW state-of-the-art spring training stadiums mushrooming in Florida and Arizona are nifty, miniaturized versions of their big daddy major-league stadiums with their fancy grandstands, private boxes and big-league prices for hot dogs and beer. Before they all die, permit... 16412103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-20T15:19:18-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/17/baseball_talk_portsmouth_style.html ONE NEVER KNOWS where or when one will hear a piece of baseball trivia one never knew, let alone sit at the same table with the subject. That was the case last Wednesday when I attended the annual Portsmouth Murals... 16380203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-17T21:18:38-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/13/mcgwire_didnt_come_clean_hes_d.html So Mark McGwire, and others, call his confession of steroids and HGH use “coming clean.” Sorry, Mark. It isn’t coming clean. You’ll never be clean. You’ll always be dirty. Anybody who has used steroids or HGH to gain an unfair... 16329803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-13T11:20:17-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/11/while_the_importation_of_cuban.html While the importation of Cuban cigars remains a no-no in the United States, the migration of Cuban baseball players continues - even though it is through defection - and that’s a good thing for the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds stepped... 16304703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-11T14:02:34-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/11/reds_snare_cuban_pitcher_arnol.html The Cincinnati Reds have called a press conference for noon today, ostensibly to announce that Cuban defector Arnoldis Chapman, a 22-year-old lefthanded pitcher, has agreed to sign with them. He reportedly will sign a five-year deal worth $30 million. Chapman,... 16297303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-11T00:25:55-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/06/only_one_makes_the_hall_andre.html Barry Larkin didn’t make it, which is a shame - and, yes, I’m prejudiced. I watched the guy his entire career and if shortstops PeeWee Reese, Phil Rizzuto and Ozzie Smith are Hall of Famers, so is Barry Larkin. Andre... 16257803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-06T14:10:05-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/04/dewine_family_buys_a_baseball.html Baseball and the DeWine family of Cedarville go together like cheese and (De)wine. The family patriarch, Dick DeWine, was a devout and fervent fan of the Cincinnati Reds up until his death last year. Every year, he had season tickets... 16232803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-04T18:53:00-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2010/01/03/my_eyes_are_bleary_and.html Baseball? Now? OK, we’ll get to that. But, first… My eyes are bleary and my posterior aches from watching nearly every bowl game presented, including a few in which both teams were 7-5 and were about as deserving of a... 16219103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2010-01-03T16:16:38-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/12/27/reds_shouldnt_trade_starting_p.html It has been a couple of weeks since the Los Angeles Times published a rumor that the Cincinnati Reds were talking with the Dodgers about trading Aaron Harang. And that’s the last peep we’ve heard about it and it appears... 16170703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-12-27T12:24:34-05:00 hmccoy@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/12/22/the_hall_of_fame_ballot_please.html Hal McCoy on the Hall of Fame: The Hall of Fame ballot is signed, sealed and hopefully (Please, Mr. Postman) delivered. Shortly after I mailed it, I picked up the Dayton Daily News and saw where esteemed colleague Sean McClelland... 16137403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-12-22T13:09:36-05:00 bkollars@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/entries/2009/12/17/chatting_with_robin_roberts_an.html A blog post Hal McCoy sent to me this morning: With all the news of pitchers changing teams - John Lackey to Boston, Roy Halladay to Philadelphia, Cliff Lee to Seattle - my thoughts turned to a couple of Hall... 16091403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/cincinnatireds/ 2009-12-17T11:22:13-05:00 bkollars@coxohio.com