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.