The Past Is Gone, But Something Might Be Found To Take Its Place. Hey Willis-y! Reds win, 4-3.

How about 3 in a row for a Encore.
       GO REDS !!

For his walkoff homer, and that catch at the fence. (Why the heck didn’t Heisey give way on that play? Stubbs was calling it.)

- Dumped the extra tickets off on a scalper on the way in for $20. Better than a total loss and I didn’t even get shooed away so that’s a plus.

- We had to wait around on my brother-in-law and his gf so we weren’t able to get there early enough for the BBTN broadcast. My idea was to have a sign with pictures of a giraffe and Jim Day on it and “NEVER FORGET” and @LilGiraffeGhost underneath. Alas.

- Sat in LF for the first time, not sure I’ll do it again. We were under the overhang and there wasn’t much of a breeze, and I couldn’t see the Stubbs/Heisey play at the wall.

- There were a LOT of Braves fans there. I even saw some start to do the tomahawk chop thing when the Braves were threatening. The Braves fans to our right took off like a bat out of hell when Stubby went yard. Good times.

- DTrain looked pretty doggone good and was efficient. Wish he could have gotten the win. Beachy looked like he was gonna get run early on but settled down nicely.

- Brian McCann hit one of the longest home runs I’ve seen in person at GABP. That ball was absolutely destroyed.

- Martin Prado should probably not be playing 3B. He made one error and would have gotten a second if it had been anyone but Hernandez running.

- If you’re buying a margarita, go with the souvenir hurrican glass for $10.50 versus the $7.75 cup. Airplane drink cups are bigger that that thing, yeesh.

- Was Masset Hound really used as a ROOGY? Dusty’s use of CoCo in the 9th also confused me a bit. If the Reds don’t win it in the bottom of the inning, who pitches the 10th?

- I finally got to see Chappie in person and loved it. Just watching him go 96/97/98/98 while warming up was fun, especially when he uncorked one to the backstop. Also, the whole kicking ass thing was pretty awesome as well.

- Jay didn’t look comfortable in RF to me. I’m not sure if he still didn’t feel well or what, it was weird.

- Some jackass in our section was dead set on getting the wave started in the 7th/8th inning. Mind you it was a close/tied ballgame with plenty of its own drama. Thankfully security came down and asked the young man to go back to his seat.

- Some guy proposed on the Kiss Cam. Turrible. Just turrible.

I mean, even Sen. Ev Dirksen had a record.
But 5 outs in 9 pitches … anybody know possibly what could be the most outs ever recorded in the least number of pitches? I would assume the baseline is 27 gets 27, and working backward from that.

I also think this particular series, and the Tampa Bay series, point out that the “strength of schedule” meme that I so often hear is useless during the regular season. What is more important, if we insist on analyzing upcoming games, is matchups.

We will probably never beat Charlie Morton, no matter what.
But there is a 67 percent chance that we can beat anybody the Braves throw at us.

I turned to Mrs. Scrabbles and said, “Forget it, homer! It’s Cairo-town!” She didn’t get it though.