ILL

Spent the weekend in Chicago, visiting the Midwestern Martins and their child prodigy (aka Evan), who is probably posting daily on Facebook.

It was a great all-inclusive trip...met up with DC friends and saw the Reds play the Cubs at Wrigley (and lose in dramatic fashion...nice work, Cordero, you fat bastard), celebrated annieB's birthday (29), visited family and ate like a champ.

The only downers were some crap weather the one day we had outdoor plans and these really weird, super-mega-short ties the wait staff wore at Carnivale, a Brazilian-Spanish fusion place (ednote: I'm repeating the waiter verbatim) that had some kickass plantains and meatstuffs. I ignored their poor choices in neckwear and plowed through a bigass steak.

While we were there, Evan had his first documented crawl and updated his status on Facebook (ILL, which works on so many levels). His weekend was easily 2x as productive as mine, but mine had more steak. I win.

Opening Day Heroics

Afraid of being upstaged by yesterday's blog post, the Reds decided they needed a walk-off home run on Opening Day (yesterday):



I love the random guy calling it right beforehand. Go Reds.

Opening Day

In honor of what amounts to a citywide Holiday in my hometown, here's a clip of Jay Bruce hitting the division-winning home run in dramatic fashion:



One pitch, bottom of the 9th, Playoffs.

I don't know about you, but I'm ready for a repeat. Go Reds.

Vote for Votto

Reds first baseman (and Canadian citizen) Joey Votto needs your help. See, for some reason, even though he's leading the NL in home runs, in the top 5 (total guess) in RBIs and batting average, and playing for the NL Central-leading Reds, he's not on the All-Star team.

You can help change this.

Instead of looking for amputee porn or video of fat people falling down the stairs, go to this link and sign up. you can put in a fake email or one you never use, then just put in the stupid code to prove you're not a bot. After that rigorous process, you can vote 2,000 times.

If you want to be nice and vote for someone from the AL, go for Kevin Youkilis. He might play for the assface Red Sox, but he's from Cincinnati and graduated from the same hallowed high school as the author of this blog.