The big day is finally here! The 2015 MLB All-Star Game at Great American Ball Park in downtown Cincinnati. We’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time. It was almost ten long months ago to the day that we picked out our season tickets for this season of Reds baseball with an eye on today. all circled and starred on the calendar. Now the big day is finally here! Welcome to the 86th All-Star Game!

























Aroldis Chapman!

And last’s night’s Home Run hero, Todd Frazier!







Todd Frazier got a standing ovation during his first at bat…







Our selfie made the jumbotron during the ALL-Star Game!


Later in the game, we decided to get up and wander around GABP a bit…






Chapman striking out the side…

Watching the All-Star Game like a sir!






It was a great game in an incredible atmosphere. A spectacular evening where the stars shined bright. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for us to be at GABP to watch the All-Star Game and the Home Run Derby right in our backyard. And words can’t describe how happy I am that we got to be right there in the middle f all this. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. These are memories that will last a lifetime. And when people ask, we’ll be able to say, “We were there!” 🙂

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The sky was looking like something straight out of Ghostbusters leading up to this evening’s 86th All-Star Game…

YIKES! 🙂

The 2015 Gillette Home Run Derby presented by Head & Shoulders. There aren’t even words to describe that night. Epic and spectacular only begin to come close. Hands-down, THE event of the entire All-Star Week celebration…


I thought the Home Run Derby jumbrotron animation was pretty sweet…

As was the introduction of every mascot from all the MLB teams…

Orbit, the mascot of the Houston Astros has quickly become one of my new favorite mascots after seeing this clip, all these Twister gifs and this clip from the All-Star Parade.





We noticed the Toyota tundra had been removed from left-center field…











As expected, the atmosphere was electric every time Todd Frazier came to the plate…









The final round…














Unbelievable. 🙂

























Without a doubt in my mind, tonight was one of the best times I’ve ever had in a ballpark. 🙂
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We swung back through MLB FanFest Monday to pick up a few souvenirs…

On our way from MLB FanFest down to the ballpark, we stumbled across another All-Star Week party at the corner of Race and 3rd Streets…

And they we serving up free Nathan’s Hot Dogs…

Thanks for the delicious dogs, guys!



And back through the MLB All-Star Summer Block Party in The Banks…




BRING ON THE HOME RUN DERBY! 🙂

After checking out the MLB All-Star Summer Block Party, we swung through Fountain Square to check out their All-Star festivities…







This has already been one of the funnest weekends in downtown Cincinnati. And we still have the Home Run Derby and the actual All-Star Game to go! 🙂

After the All-Star Future’s Game, we broke camp and left GABP before the “celebrity” softball game got under to check out the MLB All-Star Summer Block Party in The Banks…


Those Budweiser Clydesdales were there…



So was their Dalmatian…

But the most amazing thing was the massive zip-line tower…

The zip-line extended down Freedom Way for about a block and a half. We stood there for the longest time just watching people hurtling through space overhead…

The whole Block Party was quite something. 🙂

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The thing about going to a Futures Game is that you don’t really know who anyone is right now. It’s only later when these guys break into the big leagues and start tearing it up that you’ll suddenly recognize the names. This evening we watched the USA team roll over the World team 10-1 in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. Still, it was a great time with a lot of runs scored in an amazing atmosphere…











After the game, we checked out the MLB All-Star Game pop-up shop at GABP…


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We’ll you on August 9 for the next Second Sunday on Main. 🙂

This evening we had free tickets to the Budweiser MLB All-Star Concert part of the Pepsi Music Series at Paul Brown Stadium…

Demi Lovato was performing in place of the incredibly ridiculous Ariana Grande…













We were really pretty surprised at just how many of Demi Lovato’s songs we actually recognized. Of course, she did this one. And she put on a surprisingly good show. 🙂


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This morning we spotted the DirecTV Blimp floating above downtown Cincinnati…



I sort of have a thing for dirigibles. 🙂