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When Geno Attacks: Week 3 & Wha???

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I’m worried about Geno Atkins. Last week we talked about how Geno was a superhero forced to tackle the inner demons that lie in the dark recesses of his being, the same being that powers through 350-pound men on the reg. I was prepared for his moment of glory, when he breaks away from the shackles of mortality and is once again able to savor the sweet taste of human domination.
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When Geno Attacks: Week 2 & Mortality

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When Geno Attacks: Week 1

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Thou Shalt Steal

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Billy Hamilton is waiting.
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Super Bengals? To the Experts: Pete Prisco

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It’s not a typo—a real, living, national football writer openly picked the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl with nary an ounce of facetiousness. Pete Prisco, NFL columnist for CBS Sports, has predicted every game of the season again this year, and the 2013 s

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Thoughts from Preseason: Game 1

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Preseason football is a sham. Starters play for a hot second and the players that take the majority of the snaps likely won’t even see the field in a regular season game this year. It’s an unquestionable and unapologetic money grab by Roger Goodell and his minions, charging full-price for a severely diminished quality of product.

And yet...

It’s still football, albeit a poor excuse for it. And there is some intrinsic val

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Pitch Imperfect

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For the ground rules of walk-up songs—or walk-out songs when it comes to pitchers—check out my previous post on hitters’ walk-up songs.
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The Righty Stuff

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The Reds have a unique lineup in that the three most talented hitters are all left-handed. Two of those lefties, Joey Votto and Shin-Soo Choo, also happen to be on-base machines, ranking second and third in the majors in OBP. In an effort to ‘protect’—for lack of a more analytical term—batters from facing specialists in later innings, Dusty Baker, like most managers, tends to stagger his lefty hitters. Choo generally bats leadoff, followed by [insert underwhelming, right-handed left fielder/shortstop], followed by the lefty Votto and so on. This diversification has its detractors, but it’s a commonly used and basic managerial tactic. But with a lineup that relies so heavily on the ability of a few left-handed hitters to get on base, there is more pressure on the right-handed hitters to perform. And perform, they have not. 
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Q&A: Dallas Latos

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When the Reds traded for Mat Latos before the 2012 season, it was a package deal. Along with the top-of-the-rotation starter came his wife, Dallas Latos. The northern-California native has morphed from a do-everything business woman to a busy housewife, a transformation that she says is not nearly as glamorous as it may seem. She is also a tweeting machine, responding regularly to her more than 18,000 followers with humor and a smattering of sarcasm. Dallas chatted by pho

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Tale of the Tape

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Tom Verducci knows more about baseball than I know about most things, save for perhaps the inner-workings of Dom Toretto’s gang and the varieties of Oreos available at your local grocer.
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