Kirk Herbstreit is best known for his discussions around the world of college football and the NFL, but the longtime Cincinnati Reds fan can throw down about baseball as well.<\/p>\n
Herbie has been known to chop it up on social media about the state of<\/a> his beloved Major League Baseball team, once getting into it with Ken Rosenthal and C. Trent Rosecrans<\/a> over an article about the franchise\u2019s future.<\/p>\n As they tend to be, things are not going well for the Reds. At 39-44, they find themselves in the NL Central basement. Games like the one they played against the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night sum up how they got here.<\/p>\n After taking a 3-0 lead into the 6th inning, Cincinnati squandered all the goodwill they\u2019d built up as the Brewers chipped away and eventually rode a two-out home run from\u00a0Joey Ortiz in the eighth to a 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n After the game, Herbstreit responded to a fellow Red fan\u2019s screed, saying that no amount of changes would make them feel better.<\/p>\n \u201cBro,\u201d\u00a0Herbstreit posted<\/a>. \u201cAfter 13 STRAIGHT years of this bullsh*t you need to realize you\u2019re pissin into the wind. It will not change. The Reds baseball season is mid February to early to mid May. Thats it. This season was over weeks ago. I feel bad for you with all these tweets. Go watch some soccer. Get some preseason football magazines. Go on a summer trip. Anything but deal with this nonsense on a daily basis. It\u2019s over. Time to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Herbstreit\u2019s concerns go far beyond Cincinnati to the heart of baseball itself.<\/p>\n In response to an X post<\/a> aggregating former New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada\u2019s thoughts that modern baseball \u201cis garbage\u201d and \u201crobotic,\u201d Herbstreit launched into a screed of his own about the state of the game.<\/p>\n