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Is the Castellini quote made in Hamilton haunting?
Despite winning last night, the Reds still have lost their most recent series to the Astros and the Rockies and have a sub-.500 record. As the team has continued its mediocre ways, I can’t help but think of when Reds owner Bob Castellini came to Hamilton in January.
Castellini, the keynote speaker at the Chamber of Commerce annual dinner, proclaimed before a crowd of 400 that the Reds would be a competitive ball club this year. Most notably, he said, “If we don’t win this year, we might all get fired and I’ll start by firing myself.”
Thoughts?
I couldn’t find the story online, but I’ve copied and pasted the Jan. 26 story from our in-house archives.
Baseball-themed chamber dinner honors Nuxhall By Joshua Rinaldi Staff Writer
HAMILTON - Cincinnati Reds President and CEO Bob Castellini stood in what he called “the heart of Reds’ country” and told a crowd of more than 400 the professional baseball team will be competitive in 2008.
“If we don’t win this year, we might all get fired and I’ll start by firing myself,” he said.
Castellini was the keynote speaker Friday night at the 98th annual Greater Hamilton Chamber of Commerce dinner held at Vora Technology Park.
Baseball was the theme of the event, which also honored Tim Nichting, who led the West Side All Stars to the Little League World Series, as citizen of the year. The lifetime achievement award was given posthumously to Joe Nuxhall.
Chamber President Kenny Craig, who donned a baseball tie, said event attendance of 443 set a record.
At the dinner, Castellini discussed off-season progress he believes the Reds have made by signing additional pitching.
In honor of Nuxhall, Castellini said the organization was trying to name a portion of Main Street Nuxhall Way in Cincinnati close to the Great American Ball Park, which also has a bronze statue of his likeness.
“I’m not promising anything yet, but I’m working on it hard,” he said.
Castellini also said he hoped to see the crowd again on June 10 at the ballpark for Hamilton Day, which also marks the 64th anniversary of Nuxhall’s history-making pitching debut at age 15 as the youngest player in the Major Leagues.
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By cincysucks
September 5, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this
Okay, Bob. Be a man of your word and fire yourself. You are going to dump the team anyway, sooner or later, to rake in the millions in gain just like old Carl did. Thanks for the memories, hillbillies and off you go; so go now, and leave the inbred Cincinnatians to their continuing misery with the next owner.