Reds better without Griffey

The guy is a liability in the field, he doesn't hit lefties well and he generally looks disinterested when he's in the game.

Tough break with Keppinger. He had become my favorite Red. Why Dusty had him batting 7th last week.... oh, yeah. I forgot, Dusty's a terrible manager. Now it's time for Gonzalez to play for a change and start earning that inflated contract Krivsky gave him.

Don Rey is way off. Griffey hits everybody when he's on. But he's getting up there and he's not on as often. Still, he's the guy teams pitch around.

Keppinger was hitting 7th as protection for Dunn, who was leading the league in walks with Encarnacion behind him. It was a good move. If you walk Dunn you have to pitch to the team's best contact hitter and hottest hitter. Dunn was starting to see more pitches.

Now ... well, everyone else will have to start hitting up to their capabilities. If they do that then they'll weather the time without Keppinger fine.

 I love Griffey and I loved having him here in Cincy.  He caught the injury bug and couldn't shake it.

you don't just catch the "injury bug".  He got injured usually at the beginning of the season, once or twice in spring training.  That's because he came into the season after not working out all off-season.  As he got older, his laziness was taking its toll on him.  I don't know what there is for you to love about Griffey being in Cincy unless you're not a Reds fan.  His best year in Cincinnati was in his first year, 2000, which was his worst year in 5 seasons.  Then he went 3 seasons in a row playing no more than 83 games.  He has brought absolutly nothing to Cincinnati.  And he can go get his 600th elsewhere as far as I'm concerned.  He came to Cincinnati a shell of the player he was from '93 - '99.  Griffey is the biggest aquisition bust in franchise history.

His best year in Cincinnati was in his first year, 2000, which was his worst year in 5 seasons.

just to clarify, I mean that was his best year since '95 at that point.