Real first name?
Rick

Where do you live?
Louisville, KY

Where did you grow up?
New Albany, IN, just across the river

How many times have you been divorced?
Still looking for my first ex-wife

What’s your line?
Sports copy editor at The Courier-Journal

How did you find Red Reporter?
Google, apparently, but I don’t remember exactly.

Favorite players?
Adam Dunn, Edwin Encarnacion, Josh Hamilton, Edinson Volquez, Jay Bruce, Joey Votto, Johnny Cueto, Cherry Hudson Jr.

Anything else interesting about you?
I’ve recently started working in the extensive garden at the house I rent. If anyone has suggestions, throw em my way.

I guess I was actually working the last time we had a thread like this. Huh.

1) Gray

2) I commute between Greensboro, NC and Montreal, QC, Canadia. Sort of.

3) Moved around quite a bit…within central and eastern NC.

4) Like boobs, I am still looking for the lucky lady who will give me my first divorce.

5) I suspect my lines aren’t as good as boobs’s…though given how well he did the other night, they may be.

6) I believe I stumbled over from dailykos back when kos mentioned it once, years ago.

7) Oh, let’s see. Dunn, Volquez, EdE, Votto, Bruce. I grew up a Pete Rose fan for no particular reason, which is how I ended up a Reds fan despite having no connections to the greater Cincinnati area whatsoever. I was a huge Larkin fan back when he was playing, of course—Larkin and Rijo. Those were the days.

8) I could theoretically obtain a PhD in the next several years, if I can stop slacking off long enough to write the damn dissertation.

Real first name?
Brendan

Where do you live?
Fairfax, VA, on the fringes of the Washington, DC metro area.

Where did you grow up?
I was born in Rochester, NY, but I almost immediately moved to the Gem City, Dayton, OH.

How many times have you been divorced?
In some Indian cultures, a woman could divorce a man just by putting his belongings outside the door to their dwelling. Since I can’t even get women into my house in the first place, divorce thankfully doesn’t factor into anything.

What’s your line?
‘Nukkah (-3) at THE WORLD

How did you find Red Reporter?
A friend of mine pointed it out to me, although to my knowledge he’s never been a poster here. And then it turned out I had a lot of spare time at internships and jobs.

Favorite players?
Growing up, it was Barry Larkin. He’s the all-time favorite. Lots of love for Josh Hamilton. On the current team, I’d say Cherry Hudson, Jr.

Anything else interesting about you?
I think I have the third most posts on this site. That frightens me.

1) Ken

2) Philly

3) Cincy. For a while, anyways. Mostly in Mt. Lookout.

4) I’ve been told that I’m divorced from reality. I guess that counts as just one.

5) Bill S. Preston, Esq.

6) Google?

7) All the toolsy ones. Davis, Larkin, BP, among others. Hamilton still warms the cockles of my heart.

8) I like to hang out on the internet and root for a mediocre baseball team. Also, I run a lot.

Extra innings:

9) Other rooting interests: Blazers and Packers. Phillies are a distant second in baseball. I’ve grown into a quasi-fan of cycling since Lance started his run.

10) Best album I’ve heard this year: probably the new Portishead.

Real first name?
Brandon

Where do you live?
Lebanon, OH, the most boring place on earth.

Where did you grow up?
All over the tri-state area, but I’m the pride of Southeastern Indiana. (Lawrenceburg to be exact. We have casinos.)

How many times have you been divorced?
Zero, as with those above me (which I’m beginning to see a trend… yikes).

What’s your line?
cos (x). Seriously, Software engineer, fresh out of undergrad.

How did you find Red Reporter?
I think I saw it linked from Redleg Nation a few summers ago when I was busy not working at an internship I had. I started lurking here for a long time, and the rest is history.

Favorite players?
Dunn, Bruce, EdE, Griff, Hudson Jr., Volquez, Harang, Herrera, Cordero

Anything else interesting about you?
Fun BK Fact: Despite the handle, I actually worked at McDonalds for 3 years in HS through my first year of college.

Real first name?
Justin

Where do you live?
Norwood

Where did you grow up?
Loveland

How many times have you been divorced?
Zero so far, but only because i’ve never been married. Marriage is a fine institution, but who wants to be in an institution?

What’s your line?
You pregnant? You wanna be?

How did you find Red Reporter?
Google

Favorite players?
Joe Oliver, Joey Votto

Anything else interesting about you?
I chose the Sonics last year to follow as my NBA franchise because they took Durant and thought they’d be fun to watch. Until last year I had just rooted against the Cavs. Not sure if I should become and OKC fan since I have no ties to Seattle.

Real first name?

Kris

Where do you live?

Cap City, Columbus, Ohio

Where did you grow up?

near Marietta, Ohio

How many times have you been divorced?

just married for the first (and last) time 10 months ago

What’s your line?

textbook manager at DeVry University bookstore and adjunct faculty at Franklin University

How did you find Red Reporter?

SI used to do a weekly blog roundup for each team. Red Reporter was featured there a few times.

Favorite players?

Larkin is the one. Jr is also right up there. others on the current team are Votto, BP, EdE, Dunn, Bruce, Cueto, EV, Harang, and basically everyone who does well. Dusty Baker is not one of them. dudes who arent/werent Reds are Greg Maddux, Craig Biggio, and Edgar Martinez

Anything else interesting about you?

im the kinda guy that eats the same lunch everyday (peanut butter samich and a banana). so no.

1. Real first name?
- David

2. Where do you live?
- Oxford

3. Where did you grow up?
- Hamilton

4. How many times have you been divorced?
- 0

5. What’s your line?
- About 45 minutes long. I’m a Miami student who works at Kings Island.

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
- I stumbled across it at some point.

7. Favorite players?
- In my childhood it was Barry Larkin, Dante Bichette, Larry Walker, and the incomparable Andres Galarraga. These days I’m all about Dunner and Edwin, and my heart goes aflutter when I hear Josh Hamilton’s name.

8. Anything else interesting about you?
- I love lamp?

I am Justin

I live and grew up in Hamilton! OH and go to school in the bustling metropolis of Ada, OH.

I have yet to have a candidate for divorce

I am a history major at Ohio Northern University, hopefully one day I’ll be professor Justin.

I was starved for news on the Reds in spring of 2007 and kept googling the Reds, and came accrossed Redreporter wiki when I did a search on George Grande.

My favorite Red is Pete Shoureck. The first year I really followed baseball was 1995, and he was a BAMF that year. I am also a fan of Paul Wilson, I like the crafty pitchers who have no stuff, but sometimes don’t suck, but mostly do.

I have been to Havana Cuba, and I saw team USA, under Manager Davie Johnson, beat Team Cuba to win the Pan-American baseball tournament in fall 2006.

1. Real first name?
Jonathan

2. Where do you live?
Florence, KY

3. Where did you grow up?
Lexington, KY

4. How many times have you been divorced?
Zero actuals, countless threats

5. What’s your line?
I don’t get it

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
John Clay’s (Sportswriter for Lexington Heral Leader) blog

7. Favorite players?
Used to be Larkin, then he had that boring HoF induction speech. I like Dunn, Harang, and Hamilton. Also, I’ll always like Sean Casey.

8. Anything else interesting about you?
Not really. Ask anyone who knows me. Although I am undefeated in bets with JCH.

1. Pete.
2 & 3. Carey, OH (though I did spend 12 years in Detroit).
4. Oddly, women aren’t attracted to fat, bald, ugly 45 year olds. Of course, I wasn’t always this way – I used to only be 44.
5. Car sales. New Hondas. No, you don’t get a discount – I charge my friends extra because they’re always a bigger pain in the ass.
6. From John Sickles’ site.
7. I’m old. Rose was my first favorite (wore his number in LL) along with Concepcion, then Larkin until he became a whiny bitch. Bruce and EdE are now, only because they traded away Hamilton.
8, See #2, 4, and 5 above. No.

1. Real first name?

Seth

2. Where do you live?

Chapel Hill, NoC

3. Where did you grow up?

Minden, Louisiana

4. How many times have you been divorced?

Cero

5. What’s your line?

English lit TF, perpetually working toward my playa hatin’ degree

6. How did you find Red Reporter?

In the Fall of ‘05, I think I literally googled “Reds blog.” I didn’t become a full-time lurker until the Spring of ‘06. Made my first few comments in the summer of 06, then started annoying you in earnest last ST.

7. Favorite players?

Like most Reds fans my age, Barry Larkin is the sauce for me. I have fond spots for most of that team, though, like Sabo, Rijo, Charlton, Dibbs, Morris, Benzinger. My small sample size love is probably for Joe Oliver and Glenn Braggs. On the current team, my favs are easily Dunn and Edwin; misplaced love for the Love Machine.

8. Anything else interesting about you?

I decided to go to UNC for grad school because it was in Chapel Hill. Not the other way around. Some guys I played music with in college were in Asheville, and I thought it would be a great way for me to pursue music while telling my parents that I was preparing for a real career. Well, about, 4 months after I got to North Carolina, one of my friends got engaged and moved back to take up his family business (slum lording) and the other decided he wanted to travel the Earf. So I became a serious grad student reluctantly.

I’ve recently been trying to reboot the music thing by myself, however. I recorded an album in the Fall of ‘06 that’s still lost on a “friend’s” mixing board. I play out in Chapel Hill semi-regularly by myself (not fun). Out of nowhere, 3 months ago, I was approached by a women who’d heard a demo I’d done a few years ago and asked to play a 90 minute set with a friend on the main stage at the Kentuck Festival in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

To get myself back into practice, I’ve spent the last few weeks writing and recording a rough-shod 16-track demo in my apartment. You can listen to some of the results at my myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/sinfulsavagetigers. I warn you, though, that the tracks are only barely mixed and not mastered, so myspace’s primitive data compression engine has played merry hell with the dynamics, especially on the high end of the “knee” like vocals and harmonica. The result is quite sibilant.

I agreed to a promotion contract, so that’s why I’m inundating yall with this thing in sig lines and the like. Sorry, old horse!

But if you find yourself in Tuscaloosa, AL October 18th, you can listen to me caterwaul for unsuspecting families on blankets.

1. Real first name?
Nathan

2. Where do you live?
Columbus. Dublin, more specifically

3. Where did you grow up?
A booming metropolis of 1,000 people in Rockford, OH, near Celina and Van Wert. Nothing still? 30 miles west of Lima

4. How many times have you been divorced?
I’m a divorce court virgin

5. What’s your line?
Finance at Cardinal Health, Monofilament

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
Googs, not Tom Gugliotta, but rather Google in an attempt to procrastinate at work

7. Favorite players?
Jay Hova, Thomas Alva Volquez (close enough), Dunn, Eric the Red, Bip Roberts (seriously, I had a button as a kid, yeah, like a “Vote for X” button with his face on it. I think I’ve grown out of that phase though)

8. Anything else interesting about you?
I lived in Wrigleyville for two years and grew to hate the Cubs even more. I didn’t think it was possible.
One time I walked past Joe Rogan on Clark Street in Chicago and I was going to say “hey, you’re Joe Rogan” but I didn’t because he’s not really a star and I would have been embarrassed for recognizing him

1. Real first name?
Zack

2. Where do you live?
New York City, home of David Wright!

3. Where did you grow up?
Anderson Township / Mt. Washington

4. How many times have you been divorced?
Well, I’ve been with the same chick for 5+ years, so it seems likely that we’ll be married and divorced sometime in the forseeable future.

5. What’s your line?
Recording engineer for Sony BMG… working hard to make lots of the music you hate!

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
Perhaps the most fateful Googling of my life

7. Favorite players?
Baby Mike Tyson

8. Anything else interesting about you?
Can rip a telephone book in half with my bare hands (Youtube that shit! Be the life of the party!)

1. Mike
2. Cincinnati (Madeira)
3. Cincinnati (Milford – ‘91)
4. None and will probably stay that way. 2 kids and don’t ever want to split time with them.
5. Sys. Admin. Some weeks have ha 30 hours free and some weeks I work 60 hours.
6. I don’t remember. Either Google or Redleg Nation. Here’s the first comment.
7. Reds: Lark, Casey, LaRue, Davis, D. Sanders.
Royals: Saberhagen, Brett, Jackson
8. Not particularly. Love the family, both mine and the RR family. See YOU at the picnic.

1. Real first name? Doug Gray
2. Where do you live?Cincinnati (Colerain)
3. Where did you grow up?Cincinnati (Colerain)
4. How many times have you been divorced?Never been Married
5. What’s your line? I work from home, doing baseball related stuff most of the time
6. How did you find Red Reporter?I think through Google, but it may have been through Redszone
7. Favorite players?Griffey, Bruce, Harang, Cueto, Volquez, Bailey, Encarnacion and Votto as far as Reds players go. Greg Maddux, Pedro Martinez, Ted Kluszewski, Dave Parker, Barry Larkin, Wily Mo, ED, Edgar Martinez for guys in the all time category. Griffey will always be on top of the list
8. Anything else interesting about you? I ride a BMX bike even though I am 24, but I really enjoy it and thats what matters in life, right? Below is one of my favorite pictures of me pretty much ever on a bike (no one else posted pictures of anyting, slackers)

1. Real first name?
Matt

2. Where do you live?
Huntington, WV

3. Where did you grow up?
Charleston, WV

4. How many times have you been divorced?
My 1st wife is still putting up with me. ;)

5. What’s your line?
Media/Arts (video editing/ website design/ graphic layout) for LMBC

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
...probably from a random link from a poster at reds.com (couldn’t be happier to be out of that place!)

7. Favorite players?
Larkin for all-time. Currently, Griffey, Hamilton, Volquez and Bruce

8. Anything else interesting about you?
As of yesterday, the Reds are 15-0 lifetime when I’m there. (even at other ball parks) :D

1. Mike
2. Madisonville (The Ghetto) Cincinnati
3. On a farm near St. Paris, Ohio
4. Although I’ve been married to the same woman for 32 years, she has mentally divorced me 42,319 times.
5. When I was single – “Christ on a Hubcap nice tits, bitch…worked everytime!
6. I was looking to find out about blogging. I tried political blogs, social blogs and music blogs, however none of the ones I looked at were remotely interesting. So I tried sports and found the RR blog. It was full of witty, intelligent and interesting persons. I was thrown off countless times (As a side gig, when I was a musician, I played in a blues band called Virgil Willis and The Nighthawks hence my 1st handle Virgil Nighthawk). until I eventually figured out the terrain Now I’m mostly tolerated.
7. Frank Robinson, Jerry Lynch, Jim Merrit, Jack Billingham, George Foster, Pete. Joe Morgan, Tony, Eric the Red, and Adam Dunn – Dunn’s appearance on the Reds scene actually pulled me back into being a Red’s fan…I also lik e Hobbs and Bailey.
8. I have 3 grown daughters (28, 25, and 20, and a son 24) 3 Grandkids ( 10 yr. old grandson, 1 and 1/3 yr. old grandaughter, and a 3 month old grandson).
I spent 6-7 years on the road playing in rock n’ roll bands from 1968 to 1974, retired for 10 months then continued playing semi professionally until 1988 ( Guitar and electric Bassoon ). I owned a music store for years, worked in the Interior Design and upper end Antiques and furniture industry for over 20 years. (RR’s can still get their furniture through me at cost plus shipping and 20%!) I am known for my incisive and carefully crafted responses at RR and as a bowler who is only mediocre because of heavy alcohol abuse. I enjoy reading,floral arranging, barely legal porn, long walks in the woods and I have become a fan of sabremetrics. My life’s dream is to be the Red’s next manager and hire all RRs as the coaching staff (except Danica gets the 3rd base job)
Nest January , if I make it, I’ll turn 60…so I think I’m the oldest RR posting.

1. Real first name? – Jeremy

2. Where do you live? – Bridgetown/Cheviot area, west side of Cincinnati

3. Where did you grow up? Mason, KY (Grant County, middle of nowhere)

4. How many times have you been divorced? Once, went final last December. I don’t recommend it, it’s bad on the wallet.

5. What’s your line? – Systems/Network Admin at some rather well-known radio stations.

6. How did you find Red Reporter? chandrathan, obc, and slyde visited me in a vision one night. Actually I think I stumbled across it via Google while living in my friend’s basement last June.

7. Favorite players? Nolan Ryan, Darryl Strawberry and Junior growing up. Now I still love Junior in his Willie-Mays-with-the-Mets phase, and I’m big on Edwin, Dunn, & Volquez.

8. Anything else interesting about you? I’m a diamond in the rough. No really. With a little polish and a lot of love, I think I would really shine. There are pics here.

1. Tim. I couldn’t run fast as a kid - still can’t - so kids nicknamed me Timmy the Turtle. I went to Marshall, home of the Thundering Herd, thus the handle Thundering Turtle.
2. Proctorville, Ohio. 3 hours up river from Cincinnati, right across from Huntington, W.Va.
3. Proctorville. Fairland High. Turtles don’t wander far from home.
4. No divorces. One wife. 15 years in September. The charity of women never ceases to amaze me.
5. Area director with Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
6. Stumbled across it poking around the Internet.
7. Starting eight of the Big Red Machine. Josh Hamilton. Eddie Taubensee.
8. We adopted five kids 12 years ago. I used to be a sports writer who covered the Reds, Marshall, a Cubs rookie league affiliate and a number of other things. I was a Heisman Trophy voter.

1. Real first name?
Chuck

2. Where do you live?
Sparta, Michigan

3. Where did you grow up?
Ravenna, Michigan

4. How many times have you been divorced?
Once, a very long time ago, now happily married with lots of kids and collies.

5. What’s your line?
Your beautiful when your angry. My wife replies, shaddup, go away and listen to some baseball.

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
Looking for information about the Cincinnati Reds and after visiting the site I was happy to see a lot of nice ppl here unlike some blogs that are like a war zone.

7. Favorite players? In no particular order.
Hideki Matsui, Jimmy Edmonds, Ken Griffey, Jr., Albert Pujols, Jay Bruce, The first player that impressed me was when I was 6 years old, his name was Mickey Mantle. My uncles all followed the Yankees. Willie Mays was another early favorite.

8. Anything else interesting about you? I have 8 collies and love baseball. Even though I live in Michigan I hate the Detroit Tigers for many reasons. Am searching to finally find a favorite NL team. I’ve watched on Tv and listened on the radio to the Reds, the Cards and the Cubs for years. I’ve decided to choose one as a favorite this year as I finally have time to follow one instead of changing diapers and babysit. My kids are all teens now, they don’t hang around with dad anymore. So, its me and my collies listening to the games. The picture is of me with the collie who was my best friend for years. Now she is just a memory.

anyone know?

Ash
Daedulus
Red Menace
Paul householder
Blue
Crolfer
AND MANY MORE….

1. Real first name?
Kenny

2. Where do you live?
Clifton ! Go Bearcats

3. Where did you grow up?
Mt. Washington/Anderson Twsp area.

4. How many times have you been divorced?
Not divorced yet

5. What’s your line?
Full time party-er aka student and high school basketball coach

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
Google seaching while being bored.

7. Favorite players?
KEN GRIFFEY JR. Barry Larkin Sean Casey Johnny Cueto

8. Anything else interesting about you?
St. Xavier grad in ‘05, go Bombers.
Basketball is my first love but I fancy myself as a baseball enthusiast. I will one day be a head basketball coach at the college level, I promise.

I hate Ohio State

1. Real first name? Kyle
2. Where do you live? Terre Haute, IN
3. Where did you grow up? Terre Haute, IN
4. How many times have you been divorced? 0
5. What’s your line? General Manager of Vending Company thru the day, Full Time Night Disc Jockey at Night. Yeah, I work too damn much.
6. How did you find Red Reporter? Thru Stampede Blue, The Colt’s Blog on SB Nation
7. Favorite players? Adam Dunn.
8. Anything else interesting about you? I own a Reds weekend season ticket package, I make a 3 hour drive to Cincy about 10 times a year. I am also our radio station’s version of a radio beat writer for the Colts. I cover all the home games in Indy and training camp in Terre Haute. I got to cover the team and attend Superbowl 41 in the pressbox.

I’m in Ann Arbor today checking on the housing market and spending an enormous amount of time in meetings, but rather than do other work, I’ll do this…

1. Real first name?
Slyde M. Slyde (aka Joel)

2. Where do you live?
Cincinnati, but I’m moving to somewhere else in Cincinnati.

3. Where did you grow up?
Loveland

4. How many times have you been divorced?
My mom won’t let me leave the house.

5. What’s your line?
Basement repair, mom’s house. Cheese sandwich eater. Data manager.

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
I started it, didn’t I? Sure seems like I did. Actually I was blogging at The Great American Reds Blog when JD started RR. I didn’t really join in on the fun until after I started writing at Reds & Blues while it was still part of MVN. When I quit there I started spending all of my time here and now look at how happy and well-balanced I am.

7. Favorite players?
I celebrate the entire organization. Except for Brandon Phillips. I’m currently trying to find out if I can be inseminated with EdE’s seed.

8. Anything else interesting about you?
There hasn’t been anything interesting about me yet. Why start now?

1. Real first name? Joshua

2. Where do you live? Greensburg, Indiana

3. Where did you grow up? Greensburg, Indiana

4. How many times have you been divorced? none

5. What’s your line? General Manager for Papa John’s Pizza

6. How did you find Red Reporter? Was looking for a better alternative for the cincinnati.com reds forum, so i googled and came here.

7. Favorite players? Kepp, Orel Hershiser

8. Anything else interesting about you? just had a boy 3 months ago for our first child. i grew up and live in the same place, but have lived in Tucson, AZ (mom), Columbia, MO (dad and crofer), and Hamilton, OH. Huge IU Hossiers fan and also enjoy Nascar.

1. Real first name? Andrew

2. Where do you live? Columbia, Missouri

3. Where did you grow up? CoMo

4. How many times have you been divorced? Not a lot of 17 year olds get divorces…

5. What’s your line? ...

6. How did you find Red Reporter? I honestly can’t remember

7. Favorite players? Bruce, Hamilton, Volquez, All-time= Larkin

8. Anything else interesting about you?

Planning to study entomology. I do a lot of entomological photography. Play some baseball. Basic nerdy 17-year old.

1. Real first name? Jeremy

2. Where do you live? Bowling Green, Ohio for at least another month.

3. Where did you grow up? Born and raised in Lima, Ohio where by the age of 12 I developed an overwhelming desire to leave and never return to that retched hellhole. From there I spent five and some change of my rather formative undergraduate years at Miami University, regularly blowing off genuinely terrific opportunities for intellectual development and long-lasting fulfillment to drink on my roof, chain smoke cowboy killers, and pull ridiculously juvenile stunts on other pretentious upper middle class fratards. These are really just places I grew older at, growing up is overrated anyways.

4. How many times have you been divorced? Divorce is an archaic counting stat, the batting average or rbi of relationship statistics if you will. I’ve long felt DVPB (domestic violence charges plus bastard children sired) or the committed relationship index (CRI calculated by total months of committed relationships status minus total of one night stands) were much more accurate measures of a relationship success and predictor of future relationship prowess. By any measure I’m still Corey Patterson…

5. What’s your line? "By any measure I’m still Corey Patterson…" is pretty hard for me to top right now.

6. How did you find Red Reporter? A lurking Dunner fanboy

7. Favorite players? Larkin, Davis, Sabo, Chris Stynes (aka Keppinger 1.0), and all of Old Leatherpants reclamation pitcher’s of the month (particularly Harnisch and Schourek). Today I love the entire team, warts and all. From Dunn’s strikeouts and rally killing tendencies, BP’s DP’s, Keppinger playing SS like he has been nailed to the ground, or Junior aging worse than that case of Icehouse I left in my trunk for two weeks, I enjoy them all. I’m sick like that. I find watching something like Stormy working up the courage to try to fool Derek Lee one more time with his 85 mph 2-seamer enthralling.

8. Anything else interesting about you? I’m a burgeoning member of academia in multiple (although admittedly related) fields. So I contribute nothing to society twice over. I’m also ashamed to say I actually like Fistbands. Wow, that was cathartic!

1. Real first name? Matthew
2. Where do you live? Newport (1.7 miles from GABP)
3. Where did you grow up? Among Cincinnati’s intellectual elite on the Westside, Chicago, and Atlanta.
4. How many times have you been divorced? Zero, although my wife could change her mind at any time.
5. What’s your line? I’m sorry for whatever you are mad about, honey.
6. How did you find Red Reporter? BBTF
7. Favorite players? Wayne Krenchicki, Rolando Roomes, Alex Trevino, and all others who were the mediocre core of my youth.
8. Anything else interesting about you? I’m a stay-at-home dad and fiction writer. Nothing pisses me off like answering the question: “so what do you write about?” My wife is 6’3” and blonde and way out of my league, and my kids are both boys (Jasper and Gus). Pictures of family here.

Real first name: Chris
Where do you live: West Hartford, CT (I know… you’re all jealous, aren’t you?)
Where did you grow up: Several places around the country, but lived in Montgomery for 8 years
How many times divorced: Zero… which is amazing really
What’s your line: Run a cancer research lab at UConn
How did you find RR: Thru DailyKos a couple years ago
Favorite players: Growing up it was Gary Redus and Eric the Red and Mario Soto. Now its Griffey and Johnny Cueto.
Anything else: Though I’ve already thrilled you all with my heroic story of striking out Griffey Jr. in high school, I had one more brush with fame when I got to take a leak next to John Cusack at a bar in Chicago during my Northwestern days.

is there any way to delete on of your own comments?

1. Real first name?
Eric

2. Where do you live?
Shorewood, Wisconsin. Rich northern suburb of Milwaukee where only white people are allowed to live. There is some talk afoot to allow the Japanese, but no one has developed a workable system to tell them apart from the Hmong.

3. Where did you grow up?
Whitefish Bay, which is two miles further north and affectionately known as “White Folks’ Bay”. I’ve also lived in Minneapolis and DC.

4. How many times have you been divorced?
Once. She left me for Jesus (I suspect Johnnypronto may have been behind it).

5. What’s your line?
“If I were an enzyme, I’d be DNA helicase so I could unzip your jeans.”

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
The Great 2006 Brew Crew Ball Invasion

7. Favorite players?
Whoever Carlos Zambrano is currently fighting.

8. Anything else interesting about you?
I’m nerd about anything beginning with the letter “B”. Baseball, beer, and biology are my three queens.

Age?

I am an extremely immature 31 years old myself.

1. Real first name? Not Cy, I’ll tell you that much.
2. Where do you live? Currently in the DC burbs where I go to school (History major at Univ. of Maryland)
3. Where did you grow up? Born in Indiana, moved to Chicago, then my folks moved to Cleveland after I went to college. So I have an Ohio lisence that I don’t even know the address to.
4. How many times have you been divorced? You mean, how many times did I have to disappear in order to avoid alimony? Too many…too many…
5. What’s your line? History major looking at either doing the Law School Shuffle or dicking around all over the globe for the next few years. Anyone know any ins to do the latter (preferably in West/Central Asia), let me know.
6. How did you find Red Reporter? Deadspin used to have this “best blogs of various teams” feature that RR made. I’ve been lurking for a while before standing up and speaking up this summer.
7. Favorite players? Reggie Sanders was my first baseball jersey. I always loved 2nd basement, from Bret Boone to Pokey Reese. Even had a Quilvio Veras crush for a bit, between the whole New Team + 2nd Baseman thing. Currently, it would be Adam Dunn. I think he’s one of the most fascinating athletes of his generation for so many reasons. Not to drag on, but Jacob Brumfield was my favorite player for a while, and I have more respect for Aaron Harang than anyone else in the game.
8. Anything else interesting about you? I have never met another Reds fan and everyone I have met is always disappointed that I come from Indiana.

1. Real first name?- Its Jack

2. Where do you live?- I live In NYC
3. Where did you grow up?- I grew up in Boston and New Jersey
4. How many times have you been divorced?- Not yet, but i look forward to getting my complimentary Bachelor TV and Telephone wire spool to put my beers on.
5. What’s your line?- I work(ed) at a rehersal studio, where I also “live”(they let me sleep on the couch and work for pizza and smokes when Im in town) in Manhattan and I am currently on tour playin music
6. How did you find Red Reporter?- googled it
7. Favorite players?- Jeff Keppinger, I am a fairly new reds fan
8. Anything else interesting about you- Although being born in Boston and living in spitting distance from NY I am a reds fan, My CD player broke during that push a couple years ago before the all star break while I was delivering pizza in Cinci, I got hooked to Bases bags for the first time in about a decade.

I’m two beers in, with no game coming.

So I guess I better get myself on record here.

1. Real first name?
Brian

2. Where do you live?
Charlottesville, VA

3. Where did you grow up?
In the suburbs of Dayton (I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m OK!). Went to college at the University of Toledo, moved back to Dayton for a year, then out to D.C. for 2.5 years before moving to C-ville last November.

4. How many times have you been divorced?
0.5. I got the married part.

5. What’s your line?
I’m a construction engineer. My go-to pickup line is: “Was your dad a thief? My TV’s gone.”

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
Reds’ board on ESPN.com

7. Favorite players?
The numbers at the back of my name are an homage to Jim Abbott, my favorite athlete all-time in any sport. As far as the Reds, I was a big Kal Daniels fan back in they day because 1) Everybody was a Barry Larkin fan, and 2) Eric Davis was out, because my brother’s name was Eric. Currently, Adam Dunn is my boy.

8. Anything else interesting about you?
I’ve been told 8 separate times by people I’d never met that I look like Stiffler.
I met Screech once. He was an asshole.
I was in a terrible high school band called Afterbirth. We did not play death metal.
My avatar is my fat bulldog. His name is Chester, after former Rocket and current Minnesota Viking Chester Taylor. He weighs 70 pounds.

Real first name?
Bill

Where do you live?
Independence, KY (think Florence Freedom area)

Where did you grow up?
Loveland, OH (think Kings Island area)

How many times have you been divorced?
Happily divorced earlier this year.

What’s your line?
Big time Banker Guy at a large regional financial institution

How did you find Red Reporter?
no idea. probably an intoxicated Reds google.

Favorite players?
Tim Raines, Eric Davis, Rolando Roomes, Bronson Arroyo, JOE NUXHALL #1.

Anything else interesting about you?
Two words. Family restroom.
Four words. Blue Man Church Group.

Plus I was Goofy at Walt Disney World for summers and winters during college.

1. Name – Craig

2. Where do you live? Lima, Ohio

3. Where did you grow up?Same as above Lost In Middle America!!

4. How many times have you been divorced? no wifey yet

5. What’s your line?just graduated from BGSU and now looking into this fantastic job market

6. How did you find Red Reporter? when i was going through Reds withdrawl earlier this year cant remember how though

7. Favorite players? Chris Sabo, Pokey Reese, Brandon Phililps, Harangatang, Johnny C, Edinson, Griffey Jr, EEE, ok i like about everyone on the team except for dusty’s boys and i dont consider cherry hudson one of his boys.

8. Anything else interesting about you? um I hate Ohio State, love golf and basketball and i am addicted to the farm reports! love the youngsters

Name
Chet or Chester

Grew up in
Columbus, Ohio (campus of OSU)

Currently live in
Depends on the day right now. My family lives in Asheville, NC, I got to school at Davidson College, and I’m in a different county every day with my job right now

Divorces
well… I’ve only been in one really long ongoing relationship in my entire life. If it ends, I’m fucked

Line
“Are you registered to vote at your current address?”

Found redreporter through?
Boy, I dunno. That SI thing Scrabbles mentioned mighta been it

Favorite Reds
I have a terrible habit of having Reds-laden fantasy baseball teams. As Slyde can attest, I drafted Keff Keppinger with the 3rd or 4th pick in my keeper league. I guess I have shortstopaphilia. Barry’s my alltime favorite. I liked Pokey Reese too (got to see him have a memorable opening day with 3 errors as I recall, about 10 yearsago against the Rockies)

Fun Facts

I’m an Islamic history major at Davidson who used to be a runner before inciting a riot by throwing a punch in my final race. Actually, I remember Slyde referring to Davidson at some point as “Davidson University, that school that always makes it to the tournament only to be crushed by insert BCS school here.” Well know, after that basketball season I don’t think we’ll be a punchline like that anymore.

As I’ve alluded to before, I work as a campaign staffer for an unnamed Presidential Candidate (wouldn’t want to have half the state hating me) down here in NC and am taking off the semester. RR is my crack cocaine to get me through the long nights of politicking.

Finally, the Reds are far and away my passion as a fan. This site does wonders to help me get through the long, arduous journey of Reds fandom.

1. Real first name?
Taylor

2. Where do you live?
Louisville, KY

3. Where did you grow up?
Louisville, KY

4. How many times have you been divorced?
Zero.

5. What’s your line?
.312/.388/.478 OPS+ 112

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
Google Search or other Reds blogs

7. Favorite players?
Brandon Phillips. Ever since I met the guy two years ago at the Reds Caravan stop at the Louisville Slugger Museum, I’ve loved the guy. Also, just about any Red that has played for the Louisville Bats which would include Votto, Dunn, EdE, Bruce, Homer, etc. Gotta love Voltron as well. Favorite player of all-time would have to be Eric Davis and probably Larkin. I want to do some sort of study of Frank Robinson’s career with the Reds since he doesn’t seem to get much love (as a Red). Seems like he gets forgotten since he wasn’t on any of the Big Red Machine teams.

8. Anything else interesting about you?
Die hard University of Louisville fan, graduated from Indiana (Started in Bloomington, finished in New Albany (IU-Southeast)), became a SABR member last year and trying to figure the whole statistics thing out. My favorite part of baseball is watching a pitcher dominate a game. Watching one person shut down and dominate 9 other guys is awesome.

1. Real first name?
Waldo, which isn’t my given name but what everyone’s called me since high school. That and “Newbomb Turk”, which dates me.

2. Where do you live?
Lovely, exotic Hamilton! Ohio

3. Where did you grow up?
Fairfield, when it was barely a frontier outpost north of Cin’ti. St. X, UC, UK, Lexington, KY.

4. How many times have you been divorced?
Do restraining orders count?

5. What’s your line?
One neverending little dissertation away from a Ph.D in Philosophy, so… landscaping/carpentry. Did 15 years in various bands in and around Lexington and, via a not-so-trusty Econoline, all around the southeastern US, sleeping on floors, living on free tap beer, questionable tail, and room temperature Taco Bell.

6. How did you find Red Reporter?
John Clay’s “Sidelines”

7. Favorite players?
I’m still bent out of shape over Howsam trading Doggie to the freaking Expos and that Tony Perez isn’t in the Hall.

8. Anything else interesting about you?
I’ve gigged as a Johnny Cash impersonator. As a bassist/singer, I’ve opened for the Flaming Lips, Afghan Whigs, Clutch, Southern Culture On the Skids, Love Tractor, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Tad, Skin Yard, and Nirvana before “Nevermind” but never got much love as a headliner.

- Seriously, once, but only if the break-up of a common-law arrangement counts.

1) Kurt….Pudge…Tank…Big Daddy
2) Indianapolis suburbs
3) Findlay, Ohio
4) Zero…and counting
5) Web nerd for a variety of web sites
6) Google or Deadspin…been lurking for a couple of years
7) My 1982 baseball card says Mario Soto, but always like Paul O’Neill, Eric Davis, Adam Dunn, among others
8) Enjoy import and micro brews…have made the pilgrimage to Cinci fewer times each season because 4th place or worse annually gets kinda old when you need to drive from Indy…think trading Adam Dunn would be dumb (loved the guy since I saw him knock two out of the AAA All Star game—including completely out of Victory Field in Indianapolis)