Baseball Is Life: Buying The Farm
Changes in the neighborhood: On the West Side of Cincinnati, the Angel of Death comes not with a scythe, but an outdoor sign letter changing pole.
Baseball Is Life: Shut Up
We've got baseball again. Well, hopefully. But let's not try to make it something that it's not - let it be what it is. We're all aware of this.
Baseball is Life: The Defiance of Normal
With the Coronavius dominating headlines and upending our lives, we need sports the most--and we must go without for a while. Trevor Bauer tried to help.
Baseball is Life: What to Do
Knowing what to do with a kid you love and shares your admiration of baseball and the Reds is 95% of the battle.
Baseball Is Life: Folk Song
Get you someone who looks at you the way I look at air molecules in the middle distance while Joey Votto is talking to Jim Day for ninety minutes.
Baseball Is Life: The New Lawn
A baseball game called for rain is a disappointment; a baseball game called for snow is an affront to the order of nature.
Baseball Is Life: On the Front Porch
Ladies and gentlemen, no more bets. No more bets, ladies and gentlemen. We have now achieved peak West Side:
Your instinct might be to ask: "A set of four lawn chairs brought out into a driveway when the... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Developed Over Lifetimes
In Cincinnati baseball, the threshold of true acceptance can't be forced, bought, or won. It's earned.
Cincinnati Reds vs Chicago Cubs–September 18, 2019
The Cincinnati Reds, having won the season series against the Cubs, now try to take 2 of 3 in Chicago.
Cincinnati Reds vs Chicago Cubs– September 17, 2019
Last night sucked and it sucked in all ways at all times because even though the Cubs pitcher sucked the Reds sucked even worse at getting runners across and I don't want to talk about it anymore. Except maybe ... Read More...
Cincinnati Reds vs. Chicago Cubs–September 16, 2019
Remember how at the beginning of the season and then the midpoint of the season and right before everything went right in the toilet we thought this series would be pivotal and exciting and very necessary to pl... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Things That Don’t Happen at Reds Games That Do Happen at FC Cincinnati Games
Attentive Redleg Nation readers might remember my initial reservations about a professional soccer team in town—not that I feared it, but that I didn’t know what to do with it, exactly.
It's an odd position ... Read More...