@dotsonc

Author, The Big 50: Cincinnati Reds. I write words about the #Reds for @CincinnatiMag. Newsletter about Cincy sports: https://nitter.cf/t.co/DVO5XxkN3D.

221b Baker Street
Joined March 2009
Reasons to love the Cincinnati Reds. #1: The true Big Red Machine
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Baseball is better with starting pitchers like Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander going deep into games. This is just a fact. Analytics has made teams more efficient, while simultaneously making the game much less fun to watch.
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Or maybe the reason games are less fun to watch these days is because I’m a Reds fan. I’m open to that possibility.
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I watched the new Robert Pattinson movie today and it was good but I have some questions.
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Old friend alert
The Seattle Mariners make it official: manager Dan Wilson is out. ‘Collectively we failed to meet our own expectations this season,” Jerry Dipoto said. “Dan and I both care deeply about this organization, these players, and the future of the Mariners. After much discussion it was concluded that a new direction is best for 2027 and beyond.’
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I was at this game. It was fun.
12 years ago, today, Ramon Santiago hit a walkoff, grand slam in the bottom of the 10th. #Reds
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Remember: when no one gets fired for this debacle, it means one thing: The Reds think all of this is acceptable.
2026 ends the same way it began for the #Reds: with a loss
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Rick James
I Can't Find a Suitable Name For Him…
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If the Reds go with this uniform combo, I’ll stop complaining about how bad the baseball is.
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69 home and 95 road
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69 home and 95 road
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Reds need to go back to the 1969 home unis. Best they’ve ever looked. chaddotson.substack.com/p/th…
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I love the classic Tigers uniforms. So simple. Why can’t the Reds learn this lesson?
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I love the bit where at each airport it’s one of the 8 possible combinations, but you don’t know which, and they get exasperated when you ask
This would make airport security lines 20% more efficient overnight
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After today, no more Reds baseball until 2027. Or maybe 2028.
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This is the correct take. Also
MAD MEN is the #1 show of the century, probably all-time. Unparalleled depth, performances, themes, emotions; the best drama that is also somehow the best comedy. I know this; you know this; your mom knows this. We don't have to be babies who pretend otherwise.
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When I was a kid, the World’s Fair came to Knoxville and everyone I knew thought it was the greatest thing ever.
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Do they still have the World’s Fair?
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Look at all the books in that bookstore
This is easily the most insane college bookstore I’ve ever seen in my life
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Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer, the old grandmasters, care deeply about the future of pitching. They have plenty of thoughts -- and a set of five rules -- to bring back the starter as we once knew him. nytimes.com/athletic/7615860…
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Top ten movies I’ve seen this year: 1. The Odyssey 2. Resident Evil 3. Tony 4. How to Make a Killing 5. The Drama 6. Project Hail Mary 7. Disclosure Day 8. The Invite 9. Send Help 10. Jackass: Best and Last
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True story: In 1987, Willie Mays said he was honored to be compared with Eric Davis.
My grandfather used to say some players make the game look easy and a few make it look unfair. Eric Davis in 1987 was the second kind. He hit three grand slams in May alone, which tied the major league record for one month that Rudy York set back in 1938, and he was doing it in a Reds outfield where he also happened to be one of the best defenders alive. The number that stops me is 129. He gave back 33 games to hamstrings and shoulders and still finished at .293 with 100 RBI to go with the 37 and 50. Nobody had ever paired 30 homers with 50 steals before him. Somebody out there watched a player like this and has been waiting years for an excuse to bring him up.
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When @cgarber8 and I wrote the chapter on Eric Davis’s 1987 season, we kept finding quotes like this from everyone around baseball. People don’t realize what a preternatural talent ED was.
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