The Homer Bailey stuff is pretty good:

And we’d all better shut up (me included) for now about bringing up Homer Bailey. He got beat up for the second straight time Friday night, walking six in five innings.

Our man who covers the Dayton Dragons, Marc Katz, visited Louisville recently and he asked Homer one question: “Have you learned anything down here.”

Homer’s answer was, “No,” and he walked away. End of interview.
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Another story. I got this from two scouts and another impeccable source who saw it. On the day before a pitcher starts, he sits in the stands and charts the pitches of his team’s pitcher that night. It was Homer’s turn to chart that night, but he was reading a hunting magazine most of the time and paying little attention to what was going on on the field.

Another scout who has watched him said his fastball is down three to four miles an hour and he can’t throw it by anybody - in TRIPLE A! "I saw him two starts ago and he acted as if he didn’t care,” said the scout.

God, sounds like Homer's been visiting the Sidney Ponson school of pitching and conditioning.

(Well, except Sidney was rumored to spend his charting days scoping out babes in the Yard.)

“I never saw a ball go over his head and stay in the park and I never saw one fall in front of him and he caught everything in the gaps,” he said. “He’d be playing center field for my team right now and we have a good center fielder.”

So he caught every single ball that was hit to CF. Right.

#3. The scout is basically saying he got to every catchable ball. The scout isn't saying every last ball hit to CF was met by Bruce, but that Bruce is playing the position correctly.

Until he is a "proven veteran" and "earned" his MLB status, Bruce will either be on the bench or in the minors with the dustbag around. I keep waiting for a Neifi!! signing to bolster his bench. He was MVP for the Cubs three years running after all.

Joey Votto is playing regularly. As is Edwin Encarnacion. The young pitchers are holding their own and not overtaxed.

The Reds are THiS close to busting out on the NL.

Dunn wakes up and it gets interesting real fast.

Bruce should be called up, pronto. And you have to love how much Reds fans irrationally hate Adam Dunn. Check out the doofus in the comments section that says Dunn has "never been a good hitter." Idiot.

Bruce will be down until June 1 (at least) to avoid super-2 status.

But if he's there's June 2 something is wrong. Unless he goes 1-for-40 between now and then.