When the Reds chose not to pick up Joey Votto’s option over the weekend - doing so with language that made it sound like any renegotiation to return on a new one in 2024 was thoroughly moot - they ended a relationship that spanned back some 21 years. Some 33 years later and the Reds are still wading through baseball purgatory, barely sniffing the playoffs since that ‘90 club and doing almost nothing in the few chances they’ve accrued. Those two championship clubs were not so far removed by today’s standards. And while that seems like a lifetime ago, the timing of it becomes even more relevant when you consider it was merely 14 years after the back to back titles taken home by the Big Red Machine. As a young pup down in Lexington, I first began to watch Cincinnati Reds baseball right around the time they slayed the giant that was the 1990 Oakland A’s to claim the fifth World Series title in franchise history.
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