Like no other. Parade starts at noon - it's about 2 hours long and has been going on for over 100 years. Then there's the party outside the stadium, at The Banks.
Opening Day - Cincinnati style
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One of the oldest teams . I have seen old photos from back to I think 1869 of the Reds . Interesting history, of the Reds . Pete Rose is in my mind on a purely baseball on the field standpoint the best player ever . Ted Williams comes in at #2 when you take in to account the yrs he spent flying bombers in WWII and Korea.
For as tradition-rich as MLB wants to be, I think the Reds should always be THE home opener to kick off the season every year. In reality, they just want to be rich-rich, which is why whatever matchup ESPN wants to highlight is the first game.
In the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal, but it was cool when the Reds were the first MLB game of the year.
Hate baseball but love opening day as I always associate it with the end of winter!
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Hate baseball? How can you hate baseball? I am not glued to it and hate new rules but how can you hate it?
I admit regular season can get boring but post season where strategy kicks in?That is great or used to be at least. I guess I also like where a 5-7 guy can still be a great player.
I don't hate it but lost a lot of interest. As a Reds fan, it feels like we are a glorified farm club. Develop talent until it is time for the big contract. Rinse and repeat. Baseball needs to figure this out.
Granted they were cheating but didnt Houston have a 5-7-9 guy win MVP? My greatest athletic skil is hand eye coordination so to play baseball was my best . It can get boring and isn't what it was and guys making a million or more game to pitch start to weigh in. The old bleacher seats at a Cubs game were fun
I played when I was young. I could catch anything. Anything! Legendary hotbox player. Never made an error. We were the city champs. Won everything because of one pitcher. I forget where he went to college but his arm at that age was unbelievable. He was basically our whole team. One day it was raining so we had practice indoors in the gym. I had no shirt on and he hit me in the ribs with a fastball. Hurt like a bitch. From that day on I stepped in the bucket. I think that's what they called it. Was just horrible at the plate. Grounded out with dribblers every time because I was always bailing out. Then my dad bought me a new bat. It read: FENCE FINDER in big bold letters along the length of the bat. My friends LOVED that. They'd laugh and laugh and laugh every time i went to the plate. By 7th grade I was done.
Here's one for ya. Ozzie is 67 now
I could catch and pitchers hated me because I was a slap hitter right up the middle. I wasnt trying to hit them but I smacked it hard . Its amazing how many people can't catch. I remember working construction as we would toss stuff. Throw it at their face and they will catch it. I could just stick my hand out and catch the ball , no looking it in. I remember softball got talked in to when I was older and some friends that were excited they hit long flys, We had one ringer on the team and I was out of shape. These few friends were so proud of their long flys they were outs. Ringer says well he is your best hitter because he takes the pitcher out. That being said basketball you can at least shoot by yourself vs baseball
Youth sports have changed immensely. Today they want you to specialize early. Few multisport "serious" kids. I'm not a fan.
But you'll watch the living crap out of Honduras v. Guatemala in soccer...
Opening Day & Oktoberfest are the 2 best reasons that Cincy is a great town.
They're moving constantly. It's the breaks. Stepping out of the box repeatedly. Foul ball after foul ball. Standing in the outfield with nothing happening
So they should grab a body part and fall down screaming to stop play? I am not sure that is more entertaining.
I wonder what baseball will be like in 50 or even 25 years. It seems a sport that doesn't comport with the tech/instant gratification world. I remember being a kid in the summer playing in the street with my friends and my friend's mom next door would sit outside on the porch every night that there was a ball game and listen to it on the radio while keeping score on a score card. They rarely went to a game but every chance she got she'd listen to Harry Caray and then Mike Shannon on the radio. It was as much a part of her life as anything else; far more so than regular tv. And that was the case I suspect for millions all over America. I can't imagine young people doing that today
The change for the positive is girls participating in all kinds of sports.
At one time i had only one girl in the family who was my niece and a gymnast (circa 1972).
Now i have over a dozen great grand nieces in track, softball, soccer, bowling, golf, basketball, and lacrosse . The family for the most part now lives in climates where a sport can be played year round, so only a few play more than one sport.
i asked one of the girls if she ever considered playing football. She replied, "Football is for dumb boys who don't know any better".
Ownership sounding clueless:
www.cbssports.com
Reds president Phil Castellini scoffs at fan frustration, requests to sell: 'Where you gonna go?'
Cincinnati isn't likely to be competitive this season after the departures of Nick Castellanos, Sonny Gray, Eugenio Suárez and Jesse Winker
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next time I drink I will try to decipher this post for the rest of the board, wtf?
Ugh. On Opening Day no less.Ownership sounding clueless:
Reds president Phil Castellini scoffs at fan frustration, requests to sell: 'Where you gonna go?'
Cincinnati isn't likely to be competitive this season after the departures of Nick Castellanos, Sonny Gray, Eugenio Suárez and Jesse Winker
You are just a stupid idiot, drunk or sober if you indeed are. You are more amusing when drunk otherwise you are pretty much just a d*ck.
And he doubled downOwnership sounding clueless:
Reds president Phil Castellini scoffs at fan frustration, requests to sell: 'Where you gonna go?'
Cincinnati isn't likely to be competitive this season after the departures of Nick Castellanos, Sonny Gray, Eugenio Suárez and Jesse Winker
First pitch - Joe Burrow to Zac Taylor. The irony of this duo throwing the first pitch at the Reds' Opening Day is quite thick, especially given the comments earlier from Rob Castellini.
Owner's son. These people are doing what I thought was impossible, making the Brown family the intelligent ones.
Teams like the Reds all say they lose money, but note that all the family has good jobs in the Reds organization. Fans pay money to see the product on the field, he gets paid to see it. Someone pays me to attend games I could watch the Bad News Bears for all I care, or the Washington Generals. But if I'm paying I want to see a team that is competitive, win or lose, competitive.
You ratcheted things up to an unnecessary level. Yes, kurt's post was very snarky, but I know you can do better. Going to delete my post now.
I can think of several that are great.
Ozzie Albies - 5'8"
Mookie Betts - 5'9"
Jose Ramirez - 5'9"
Jose Altuve - 5'6"
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