After the World Cup final, we were planning on walking across the river to check out the
Queen City Sausage Fest. But instead we stumbled across the International Association
of Fire Fighters Local 48 Welcome Reception for the 52nd IAFF Convention on Freedom
Way down in The Banks…














What a fun end to Sunday. 🙂

The Reds game resumed play after a 56 minute rain delay right as the second half of
the World Cup final was about to kick-off. So we ducked across the street to Crave to
get a bite to eat and watch the second half of the World Cup final between Germany and
Argentina. Genifer started with a seaweed salad…

And followed with their delicious Kobe beef tacos…

I got the western burger. I love my burgers…

As it turns out, we could have stayed to watch the end of the Reds-Pirates game before
Germany scored the only goal of the final in extra time to beat Argentina 1-0. Hindsight
is a funny thing, or not so funny thing sometimes…


Germany was definitely the best team in the entire tournament. And all I have to say at
the end of the World Cup is this… Germany 7 Brazil 1 and Germany 1 #USMNT 0. USA!
#IBelieve! It was another great World Cup. 🙂

I really respect Argentina’s Lionel Messi. But did you see the many faces of sad Messi
after the match. You gotta feel for him. But it’s still kinda funny. 🙂

Time for the last Sunday church at GABP before the All-Star break. Reds and Pirates…

It was going to be a steamy one…

They got new beer cups at GABP…

We just had $5 cheapy seats. So instead of wandering off to find where our seats were,
we decided just to watch the game from The Gap…

Johnny Cueto…

The Big Pasta, Alfredo Simon was named to the All-Star team…


Kristopher Negron hit his first career home run as we were walking in to GABP…


Looking up Sycamore Street, it was pouring…

And then it stopped…

I still think that it’s pretty incredible that you can see our building from The Gap at GABP.
It’s that red building over on the righthand side. But then we noticed dark storm clouds
were definitely starting to roll in with vengeance…

We knew we in trouble when the grounds crew started to uncover the tarp…

And then the sky opened up…







As the rain started to let up, we noticed they had the World Cup final on the big screen…










But then the tarp went back on the field…

As the skies started to clear…






In a word, that was SO AWESOME! To be able to watch the World Cup final at GABP?
Get out of here. Awesome. The Reds would go on to win 6-3. And record 11 K’s on the
day for our fifth free pizza! We’re now 11-8 at Reds games we’ve been to this season! 🙂