Andy Warhol's Pete Rose

The Cincinnati Art Museum is set to release a limited edition poster featuring a portrait of Pete Rose by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The poster will be unveiled to the public tonight, Wednesday, July 30 at the Cincinnati Art Museum; all proceeds from the sales benefit the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cincinnati Reds Community Fund. These posters will be a limited edition of 1000 costing $50 each. 114 of them will be signed by Pete Rose himself with those costing $500. You can read more at cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

Dayton Dragons vs Peoria Chiefs

In a closed-caged death match! Heres what happens after 3 hit batters and a hard slide into second. Be sure to watch Peoria's pitcher's attempt at throwing the ball into the Dragons dugout, missing, hitting a fan and sending them to the hospital. Sorry for no sound, best video I could find.

MLB Draft

I must say this is the first year I've really been paying any attention to baseball's draft. Out of all the drafts in professional sports, MLB has got to be the most anticlimactic. Unlike football or basketball where a first round pick has a chance to make an immediate impact on your favorite team, in baseball the players go into the farm systems to marinate for a few years.

With all the young talent playing on the Reds I started wondering who they'll take with the seventh overall pick in this years draft. After doing a little searching, I found this mock draft on Yahoo! Sports. They have the Reds taking RHP Aaron Crow with their seventh pick. I guess we'll find out in a couple of hours while another one of our young hopefuls is on the mound pitching against the best offense in the league. So get out your bbq saurce, sea salt, cracked pepper, olive oil or you any of your favorite rubs and let the marinating begin. You might wanna hold off on firing up the grill though.

Wondering who went in Jay Bruce's draft? He's certainly in some good company.

1 Justin Upton SS Arizona Diamondbacks
2 Alex Gordon 3B Kansas City Royals
3 Jeffrey Clement C Seattle Mariners
4 Ryan Zimmerman 3B Washington Nationals
5 Ryan Braun 3B Milwaukee Brewers
6 Ricardo Romero LHP Toronto Blue Jays
7 Troy Tulowitzki SS Colorado Rockies
8 Wade Townsend RHP Tampa Bay Devil Rays
9 Michael Pelfrey RHP New York Mets
10 Cameron Maybin CF Detroit Tigers
11 Andrew McCutchen CF Pittsburgh Pirates
12 Jay Bruce CF Cincinnati Reds

$1500 in Pennies

Just came across this gem of a story. Apparently Ken Griffey Jr owed Josh Fogg $1500 and paid him completely in pennies. Outstanding! Just another reason why Griffey is my favorite player. Hey Griff, if you have another 150,000 pennies lying around you're more than welcome to send them my way.

Jocketty Replaces Krivsky as GM

Reds named Walt Jocketty as their new GM replacing Wayne Krivsky. I guess the slow start and eating the salaries of Stanton and Castro among other things was too much for Mr. Castellini. Seriously though, who didn't see this coming once we hired Jocketty as "Special Advisor".

Marty 1 - Cubs Fans 0

As I was driving home Wednesday night, I tuned into what was an absolute beating of a Reds game, and was I ever so glad I did! After Adam Dunn delivers a homerun ball into the streets of Chicago, Cubs fans threw 15 or so baseballs back onto the field. This would lead to probably the best 2 minutes of radio I have heard in a long time. Thank you Marty!

Lohse

What about Kyle Lohse pitching 12 scoreless innings in two starts for St. Louis. Seriously don't you just love YouTube? I don't know which is more surprising, finding a video collage of Kyle Lohse, or someone spending the time to create such a video of Kyle Lohse. Outstanding.

ESPN's Top 100

ESPN has posted their 100 top prospects of 2008. Check it out and see where Jay Bruce and company are ranked.

Belisle Gets $1.25 Million Contract

Matt Belisle and the Reds agreed to a $1.25 million deal today avoiding arbitration. Brandon Phillips remains the last Reds player left in arbitration. It will be interesting to see what he'll make after last years 30-30 performance.

Walt Jocketty as Reds Special Advisor

Pretty exiting news from the Reds. Apparently Walt Jocketty "will advise and assist Castellini in every facet of baseball operations, including matters related to the front office, Major League field and support personnel, scouting and Minor League and international operations along with training and medical services."

For more check out Reds.com.