Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy is in his 36th year of covering the Cincinnati Reds, the longest tenure for any active writer covering one team. Counting spring training and postseason games, McCoy has covered more than 7,000 major-league baseball games, written close to 18,000 baseball stories and eaten enough hot dogs to give Babe Ruth indigestion.Home > Blogs > The Real McCoy | Cincinnati Reds baseball news > Archives > 2008 > May > 11 > Entry
Seattle looking at Griffey
If the Cincinnati Reds truly are interested in trading Ken Griffey Jr., well it appears the Seattle Mariners are more than interested.
Seattle’s Duane Schafer, a special consultant to the general manager, is in New York this weekend and his express assignment is to watch Griffey play.
“Don’t know him and never heard of him,” Griffey said with a shrug Sunday morning as he laced his pink-trimmed black shoes with pink shoe laces as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Day by players throughout the major leagues.
“As I’ve always said, I deal with the here and now and I’ve never been a what-if person,” said Griffey. “The problem is that by the time they come to the players (who have the right to say yes or no to a trade), it is at the point where they want a ‘yay’ or a ‘nay’ right away.”
One problem for Griffey. While they regard him as a deity in Seattle, Griffey said he wants to win a World Series ring and Seattle is no closer to doing that than Cincinnati is. And he left Seattle to be closer to his Orlando-area home and he couldn’t be any farther away from home than Seattle.
“Been the longest week of my life,” said Griffey, referring to last week’s death of his best friend, Frank King. “Every time I call home, my wife Melissa is still crying.”
On another front, Adam Dunn was in Sunday’s lineup, but he was in excruciating pain from an ingrown toe nail on his right big toe.
“Never ever had one of these in my life,” he said. “Man, it is on fire.”
And for those wondering, yes, my luggage showed up Saturday night, just in time to accompany me back home. I found it with the hotel bellman after I got off the subway, took a wrong turn and wandered in the Times Square area for about 20 blocks before finding my way home. Just another story from The Big City.
But I did find a vendor selling shish-ka-bob sandwiches with hot barbecue sauce. Yummy - and a night of heartburn.
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By HuberTucky
May 13, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this
Haven’t the Mariners suffered enough?By RB
May 12, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
Is it true that the Mendoza Line has been renamed the Dunn Line in honor of Adam’s batting average?By RB
May 12, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Is it true that the Mendoza Line has been renamed the Dunn Line in honor of Adam’s batting average?By Mike Cahill
May 12, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
I’ve been following the Reds for 51 years and never have I seen a player bat out of turn. These guys are going to get even more dusty if there isn’t a major shake-up. We need something catestrophic and soon.By Mike Cahill
May 12, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
I’ve been following the Reds for 51 years and never have I seen a player bat out of turn. These guys are going to get even more dusty if there isn’t a major shake-up. We need something catestrophic and soon.By donb51
May 12, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
If it were me and my only glory years were in Seattle, and they still love me there, and all my losing seasons were in Cincinatti, and I am a few homers from 600, and most of Cincinnati thinks I was a flop anyway, and I have the chance to relax on the bench and just concentrate on my hitting game for the rest of my life, then for me at least, I’m just sayin’, where do I sign???By ShockMonkey
May 11, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
The M’s are almost as bad as the Reds. I think he veto’s any trade to Seattle. I would. Call the Yankees, White Sox, Braves, Marlins or Rays! Don’t laugh, both FL teams are good this year.By Brian Briddell
May 11, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
Hope Seattle doesn’t look to close! Jr could contribute as a DH. Let him get 600 in Seattle where apparently he prefers to be.