Off Day SIS - What are your playoff plans

I haven’t found any other Reds fans here. I’m secretly hoping Milwaukee makes a crazy run to the wildcard and the Reds play them in the NLCS so I can see games.

I remember watching the Braves series with a guy from Atlanta who’s still a good friend. The sweep wasn’t particularly painful because I was all OMG COLLEGE!!!!! at the time.

Hoping for a Reds-Phillies matchup so I can go to at least one game.

just starting 6th grade. i was far more interested in the girls and their new boobs so i didnt really notice.

this year i hope to catch a few games with my brothers. whether we get lucky enough to actually go to the game or not doesnt really matter.

I remember missing the series against the Dodgers because I was out of town, but getting to catch the highlighs on the local news at the hotel room. (MARK LEWIS PH GRAND SLAM!) I remember those playoffs fondly because that’s the last season I got to share with my grandfather, who died in April of ’96.

I fucking hate the Braves.

2010: I’m going to some playoff games, bitches! :) I have PTO stored up and ready to go!

Shit, I’m a baby. I was… 7?

Neck deep in collectable card games and being generally nerdy. The baseball infatuation didn’t really begin until college and ’99. So, I have almost zero memories of the last foyer into the playoffs.
Presently, I’m out in Iowa, so I plan on gluing myself to my computer monitor for all but one game and watching that way. For the other game, reason, cost and PTO be damned, the wife and I are making it there.

sitting on my couch watchin’ TV, JUST LIKE THE CARDINALS!!!

amirite?

And will probably be watching on TV.

Thinking about entering the lottery anyway, just in case. There are actually cheap seats in Cincinnati. Even for the WS.

I was born about 20 miles from there. Have been back since Katrina though

I had just moved into an apartment on King Ave, in Columbus, Sophomore year at OSU.
I am hoping for a little luck getting to a game, but I am going to try.

I did not buy a single regular season ticket in 1995 as a protest…until the playoffs! I was there for NLDS game 3 (clincher). When the next round came, I couldn’t get tickets, so I watched sadly at home. During the Braves’ clinching victory in game 4, I was at UD Arena in Dayton, listening with an earbud from my Sony Walkman as I sat in the cheap seats watching an exhibition between the Indian Pacers and the Chicago Bulls. It was the first time Dennis Rodman had put on a Chicago uniform, and Jordan did a giant, flying dunk…as did Greg Maddux.

It will be a tough sell with the wife, but I hope to come into town for a playoff series, both this year and next. :)

I will take this opportunity to invite all NYC area RRers to a viewing party. Don’t know when or where yet, but if you live in the area and would be interested in watching 1 or more of the games in a bar with other crazy displaced Reds fans, email me. I’d love to get as big a group as possible together.

and rooted against the Reds for the only time in my life— Game 3 of the first round. I had a ticket to game 4, and those fuckers swept the Dodgers.

I will make one playoff game this year, but I doubt any more than that. Unless I am pulled out of the lottery and can buy them at face value.

This year, I’m going to prepare by watching the 1975 series DVDs, and hopefully use the school’s computers to watch mlb.tv.

I was about to make it as a professional cricket player in India then decide to come to America to try out for baseball, but was not permitted to compete on any professional team because I used the wrong type bat. Pssh MLB and its rules.

This season hopefully I will be one of the proud few to win the lottery and see a playoff Chuck D.

I must have turned 12 during the playoffs.

Nothing. Nada. Zilch. I have no idea what playoff baseball is like.

So I plan to enjoy this year. I’m in the middle of a nightmarish month and a half of workaholic-ness, but the end of the tunnel is the first week of October, and, blessedly, I work for an organization that honors comp time. So by the time the playoffs start, I should have several days to do with as I like. At minimum, I’ll plant my behind in front of a television for every game. But I registered for the GABP lottery, just in case. Or the Phillies could make a late push for the Wild Card, right? And that’s just a quick bus or train ride away from DC! (traaaaaains!)

She had been drifting away from baseball…especially after she realized that Joe Morgan was no longer a Red. I tried to lure her back with engaging descriptions of Barry Larkin, but to no avail she had been smitten by Little Joe and none other would do. But we did have fun and I believe that the Reds lost that game, and that it was pretty nippy out that night. Mostly I remember the beer, and I remember the beer, and I remember the flask of Wild Turkey too and the beer…it was a good game…I think.

My parents let me stay up for all the playoff games. I remember the Reds sweeping through LA. I also remember my hero, Pete Shoureck pitching the Reds into the 9th inning against Atlanta, before allowing the Braves to tie the game, which they went on to win.

1995 was the first season I remember following, I was upset when Ron Gant left, and it sucked when it was announced that Shoureck would have season ending surgery in 1996.

I will be watching the games around my classes this year. If the Reds make it to the World Series I need the Reds to sweep, game 5 is scheduled for November 1, the day I leave for Turkey. I would hate to wait this long and miss the Reds winning the World Series. Although I suppose I could watch most of game 5 in a bar at O’Hare, my flight leaves quite late.

During the Braves series I bet a kid down the street $5 a game. Not one of my smarter moments.

I really had no sense of how special a winning season was. The Reds had been pretty good most of my life, albeit only a playoff team twice. I definitely appreciate this year far more.

I don’t remember it…

I was a sophomore in college. Watching baseball and drinking beer without a care in the world, except for the fact that Reggie Sanders couldn’t hit his way out of a paper bag. That piece of shit.

I will be at one or more games. Any of them.
I was going to buy tickets to a bengal game, but I am prioritizing. I can “tell” the mrs after playoffs that I’m going to a Bengal game… It’s easier than trying to buy a playoff ticket after buying a Bengal ticket.

so my only playoff memory is Al Leiter mowing our asses down in ‘99 while I sat in a Damon’s Sports Bar.

As for this year, come hell or high water I’m going to those games.