All posts for the month June, 2016

Reds baseball game #9.

Tonight, we walked down to GABP to watch our Reds take on those whiny bird Cardinals from St. Louis…

Because one our favorite ex-Reds pitchers was on the hill tonight, Mike Leake!

BARGE!

These guy were either giving the $1 hot dog stand a work-out, or doing the All-You-Can-Eat-Seats the right way…

Adam Duvall hit a dinger for the Reds…

The Cardinals tied the game at 6 in the top of the ninth…

In the bottom of ninth, Joey Votto hit a walk-off home run for the Reds win! Walk-off, Mr. Votto! Walk-off!

The Reds game are always fun, especially when they win! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on June 7, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2015, 2016, Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, GABP, Great American BallPark, June, MLB, Ohio, Reds baseball, St. Louis Cardinals

Posted by Thadd F. on June 7, 2016

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The Rook Board Game Parlor.

This evening we walked up Vine Street into Over-the-Rhine to check out the brand new board game parlor called The Rook…

The Rook is Cincinnati’s first Board Game Parlor, and features nearly 1000 board games along with a full service bar and restaurant serving game night classics!

Growing up, we used to play Rack-O a lot…

I remember playing Hi-Ho Cherry-O…

And classics like Chutes and Ladders and Candy Land…

They had all sorts of drinks with nostalgic touchs like adding a candy necklace garnish, or a pop rock or pixie stick cover rim…

Genifer started with a Tequila Sunny D Rise…

We ordered everything from the “Straight from the Game Table” section of the menu. We tried the traditional classic rolls, bacon & sharp cheddar dogs and the cheesy buffalo chicken tots…

Everything was really good. But hands down the winner was the traditional classic rolls…

Then we got into some games. We started Chutes & Ladders and Candy Land…

And then we dove into some Sorry!

Genifer also tried the Capri Against Humanity drink…

How fun is that? We also played a few rounds of Exploding Kittens and multiple hands of Uno! It was a really fun trip down memory lane. And definitely one that we look forward to taking again very soon! Such a few evening! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on June 6, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Central Business District, Over-the-Rhine

Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Downtown, June, Ohio, OtR, Over-the-Rhine, Shaken not stirred, The Rook Board Game Parlor, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on June 6, 2016

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Downtown details.

Lytle Park. One of my favorite places in all of downtown Cincinnati. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on June 6, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Central Business District

Tagged 2016, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, June, Lytle Park

Posted by Thadd F. on June 6, 2016

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FC Cincinnati versus Richmond Kickers.

This evening we hopped an Uber up to UC’s Nippert Stadium to watch our FC Cincinnati take on the Richmond Kickers…

Just before the match, the skies started to look pretty ominous…

It started pouring as the teams came out onto the pitch…

A little disappointing… no tifo from The Bailey for tonight’s match.

Oops. Richmond kick-off guys…

And 30 seconds into the match, it was delayed for lightning…

There was a rainbow over Nippert…

Finally, the teams made their way back to the pitch to warm up for the restart…

And after about an hour, we were back underway…

GOOOOOAL! FC Cincinnati!

My man, Sprinkles was waiting in the wings for halftime…

And at halftime, it was still 1-0 to FC Cincinnati…

SPRINKLES!

The second half gets underway…

We must have missed the attendance when it was announced at the match. But tonight’s titanic struggle was played before a crowd of 11,278! Another really great crowd!

The Kickers keeper came up for the last minute corner in the dying moments of regulation…

And Mitch said no! Amazing save by Mitch Hildebrandt! There were three minutes of time to be added on…

And wouldn’t you know it in the fourth minute of three minutes of time added on, the Kickers netted the equalizer. And that was the ballgame. It ended 1-1. FC|C snatched a draw out of the jaws of victory…

FC Cincy is still on a SEVEN match undefeated run in USL competition. And the boys will be back at home next weekend as they host FC Montreal at Nippert Stadium. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on June 4, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Sports

Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, FC Cincinnati, June, Nippert Stadium, Ohio, Richmond Kickers, Soccer, University of CIncinnati, USL

Posted by Thadd F. on June 4, 2016

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Bunbury Music Festival.

I got us one-day passes to the Bunbury Music Festival down at Sawyer Point for Genifer’s birthday back in April so we could see The Killers. Genifer loves The Killers. They played at the casino a couple years back. We missed out on getting tickets but we got to listen their show. We said when they come back that we’ll definitely be getting tickets. And that day is finally here. It seemed liked such a long time away when I bought the tickets. But it’s finally Bunbury Friday, and we couldn’t be more excited…