BASELINE ITEMS: FRIDAY THE 13TH!

I’d feel a lot more frightened by Friday the 13th if it were a Monday….

…and no, I don’t steal my material from Garfield.

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Reds Caravan Poster #3.  Collect them all right here on Better Off Red!

And if you have a Caravan poster you’d like to share, email it to me at jramsey@reds.com.  If it’s good and in good taste, I’ll post it right here on BOR.

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My favorite baseball writer, Meggie Zahneis, wrote a pretty cool piece on her experience covering her first press conference – the Barry Larkin presser at GABP.  CLICK HERE to read it. 

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As mentioned yesterday here on BOR, the Reds’ Rich Linville will be competing on the brand new MLB Network gameshow, Baseball IQ. 

Today the Enquirer’s John Kiesewetter wrote a nice story on Rich.  CLICK HERE to read it.

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THIS DATE IN REDS HISTORY (thanks to Redleg Journal by Rhodes & Snyder)

1988:  The Reds deal Nick Esasky and Rob Murphy to the Red Sox for Todd Benzinger, Jeff Sellars and Luis Vasquez.

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OPENING DAY IN….

• 2 months, 23 days and 3 hours
• 11 weeks, 6.096 days
• 83.1 days
• 119658 minutes
• 1994 hours

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Finally, I hope you got a chance to check out my guest blog post this morning for Paul Daugherty’s The Morning Line.  I had a good time with it.  Go HERE to read it.

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That’s all for now.  I’ll have more in a bit.

Expect good news,

Jamie