This is why I love sports.

Days like today remind me why I care. I didn't write at all this weekend because I was still completely ticked off at Jerry Narron for a bad managerial move, that I first guessed, predicting he would screw it up before it happened. By the time I got around to complaining about it, poof, FIRED!!! I like Narron. The couple times I've met him he seemed nice. Actually seemed to genuinely care about people. But I think he lost his mind somewhere during the 51 losses this season. Does this firing make the Reds better? I don't know. But it couldn't make them any worse could it? The press conference is going on right now, and I think Bob just told every executive that things better change or else they're gone. This could be interesting. Starting next year, I truly believe Walt Jocketty and Tony LaRusa will be running this team and Wayne Krivsky will be cleaning my car.

Seven Things the Weekend Left Me Wondering:
1) Will the manager change start a fire sale? Or will this McCanin dude help motivate our players. He looks like the kind of guy that could get a leaf to play well.
2) What the hell is wrong with Homer Bailey? Alright I'm just kidding. He's not pitching that bad, just missing the corners and walking people and then making a mistake pitch. That fastball is still really really good.
3) Can the US B squad rebound in Copa America and get into the knock out round and face Brazil? I think our B squad against the world's best team would draw some buzz. We'd lose 6-0, but even Michael Dennis might watch.
4) How did MLB do something as dumb as selling out to TBS. They are going to be awful next year with their Sunday Night Coverage. The way the held the all star rosters hostage during the rain delay yesterday, when every reporter had the roster and wasn't allowed to "divulge the embargoed information" was terrible. Awful. Get out of here. Braves suck. (Ha ha Derek.)
5) This is obviously the shout out version of the blog. Jeff and I had a good NASCAR day yesterday, but is this NASCAR season too long? It's longer than a baseball season. UGH. It's really hard to care during the middle of summer.
6) I'm watching baseballchannel.tv right now, and they are implying Narron lost his job because Homer has flopped in the major leagues. I personally think its because we suck. But they obviously know more than me, because they are on tv from California, while I'm online from the office.
7) Is Billy G. a reporters quoting dream? He was in the NKY last week, and the Cincy reporters asked him if he would play Cincinnati or Xavier. He said, and I quote here, "We'll play Cincinnati and Xavier any time they want to come to Rupp.We'll play them twice a year if they want to come over to Rupp." What a good guy.

Essential Reads:

• http://www.enquirer.com/sports has got it going on today.

Quite honestly, its a Jerry Narron kind of day, so I'm going to leave you with some of my favorite Jerry Narron lines.

1. “Sean Casey 's our fifth hitter, and we're already down six. That makes it tough to come back. "
2. “If I would have left him in there and Burnitz had hit a home run I'd have probably killed myself.”
3. “I'm not even speculating. I'm just going by what I hear from [reporters].”
4. “It's big-time - you have no clue, ... This (managing the Reds) is a piece of cake. If there was sports talk radio there, I would have been fired from that job a long time ago.”

Good Bye Jerry.