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I was interested in this blog post from John Fay, Reds’ beat man for the Cincinnati Enquirer, on being frozen out by Brandon Phillips, and now a possible thaw.

Excerpt:

So today on my way to the ballpark, I stopped at the Cuban place around the corner from the hotel and had a bowl of soup. When I went to pay, the waiter said it had been taken care of. Phillips was the only other person in the place.

Be sure and read the rest of the story. It happens, on most every beat.

Videos from the Reds clubhouse after Cincinnati lost 6-1 to St. Louis, as the Cardinals completed a three-game sweep and took over first place in the National League Central.

Reds’ manager Dusty Baker:

Reds’ second baseman Brandon Phillips:

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Lunch break:

• Even George Mason coach Jim Larranaga is impressed by the new Kentucky coach. Here is a Larranaga tweet from this morning: “Cal is non-stop. Kentucky is #1 on ESPN Insider’s list of five teams on the rise next season in men’s basketball. http://bit.ly/QYbMJ”

• Brandon Phillips has drawn Dusty Baker’s ire for not hustling, this time on a first-inning single that should have been in a double in the fading Reds’ 7-5 loss at Los Angeles last night. Phillips’ fly ball to right surprisingly dropped in front of a confused Dodger outfield. Only Phillips didn’t see the play. He had his head down, moping, about not getting a hit, and by the time the Red realized what had happened he was late getting to second base and was thrown out. it was the first out of what turned out to be a three-run inning off the Dodgers’ Jason Schmidt. Only it should have been more than three runs. “That was a rally-killer for us,” said Baker. Phillips is a terrific player with an electric smile, but he sometimes allows his lesser instincts to get the best of him. (At Redleg Nation, they can’t believe that Dusty finally called Brandon out.)

• Kentucky Sports Network passes along a video interview it did with Joe Jackson, a 5-foot-10 guard out of Memphis that is being recruited by the Cats.

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