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FC Cincinnati’s 2017 Home Opener.

IT’S FC CINCINNATI MATCH DAY ONE! Today was the home opener of FC Cincinnati’s 2017 USL season…

FC Cincinnati started their season with three matches on the road. Out of those three matches, they picked up three points for a win but unfortunately picked up two losses. This evening FC|C looked to right the ship as they played host to first-place St. Louis FC. St. Louis had given up five goals in their first four matches of the season. On paper, it looked like a very tough matchup. But first things first, check out this sweet FC Cincy MG we saw on our way into Nippert…

Okay, onto Nippert…

The Bailey started to unfurl their tifo for today’s match…

We couldn’t quite make out what the bottom part said…

But the power stack was smoking and that was a really nice touch…

HERE WE GO…

In the 35th minute, Djiby Fall scored the first goal of the year at Nippert Stadium…

Two minutes of time added on…

Just seconds before halftime, Djiby netted his second in the 45th+2 minute…

And at halftime, it was 2-0 FC Cincinnati…

SPRINKLES!

And in the 47th minute, Djiby completed his hat-trick…

St. Louis FC’s coach was all bent out of shape and all riled up about something and had to be restrained by the fourth official…

FC Cincy’s coach, Alan Kock didn’t take kindly to whatever was said and had to be held back as well…

Djiby, the man of the hour…

He wasn’t done, as he netted his fourth! DJIBY! Have yourself a game, young man!

23, 144! Not only was today’s attendance a new USL home opener record, it was also the 10 largest North American soccer attendance of the weekend…

And it was over 10,000 more people than the Columbus Crew drew for their Saturday MLS match against Toronto FC up the road at Mapfre Stadium up in Columbus.

All eye were on the man in the middle for the full-time whistle…

AND THERE IT IS, FULL-TIME! 4-0 FC CINCINNATI!

WOW! Now that’s how you do a home opener. What an incredible match! Just a little bit of perspective… last season, Sean Okoli was only FC Cincy player with multiple goal games. He scored a brace (2), three times. Djiby Fall had 4 this evening! And he’s now reigning USL player of the week and the leading scorer in all of USL. FC Cincy’s next match is this Wednesday, April 19th as they welcome the Tampa Bay Rowdies to Nippert Stadium. See you there! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 15, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Sports

Tagged 2017, April, Cincinnati, FC Cincinnati, Home Opener, Nippert Stadium, Ohio, Soccer, St. Louis FC, University of CIncinnati, Uptown, USL

Posted by Thadd F. on April 15, 2017

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Reds baseball game #2.

Tonight, we went down to Great American Ball Park to celebrate Genifer’s birthday at our second Reds baseball game of the season…

We had tickets in the Cincinnati Bell Fioptics District…

GABP welcomed Bronson Arroyo back to the mound for the first time since 2014 after he had Tommy John surgery. And it was Bronson’s first start for the Reds after he elected to test the free agency market and left for the D-Backs back in 2013…

Bronson Arroyo was always one of our favorite Reds pitchers…

How does he still get his leg that high?

BARGE!

Despite the Reds being in first place, there weren’t many people at tonight’s game…

Unfortunately, the Reds lost 1-5 to the Brewers.

It was just a beautiful night for a baseball game. And win or lose, the Reds games are always so much fun. It’s just amazing to be back at the ballpark. It’s my happy place. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 13, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Central Business District, Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged April, Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Downtown, Great American BallPark, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, Ohio, Reds baseball

Posted by Thadd F. on April 13, 2017

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Free LaRosa’s pizza!

This afternoon we drove to LaRosa’s in St. Bernard to redeem our first free LaRosa’s pizzas of the 2017 Reds baseball season from their 13 strikeouts on Opening Night…

Free pizza is delicious! A big thanks to LaRosa’s and the Reds for continuing #Ks4Slices for another season of Reds baseball! 🍕👍❤⚾🍕

We brought our pizzas home and ate them while watched FC Cincinnati lose 2-0 on the road to Bethlehem Steel. Other than the FC Cincy lost, it was a very relaxing Sunday. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 9, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Northside, Sports

Tagged #Ks4Slices, #SPRINGinCINCY, 2017, April, Cincinnati, Free pizza, LaRosa's Pizza, Northside, Ohio, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on April 9, 2017

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Reds Opening Night 2017.

Today is National Walking Day! Even though the forecast called for lotsa rain, I really couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than taking a walk down to Great American Ball Park for Reds Opening Night 2017! We parked by Lytle Park and walked down to the game…

I’ve been to every single Opening Night since 2010, and Genifer and I have been to every Opening Night together since 2012…

One of GABP’s new fatures this year is the Teppanyaki Grill featuring a $15 Bahn Mi sammich and a $20 Lobster Tail. Lobster Tail is baseball food right?

Also new is a Cheetos Popcorn stand. You can have Cheetos right in your popcorn…

The Fox Sports Ohio condominium was packed…

Another new food offering is Keystone mac & cheese…

A rainbow started to appear on the other side of the river…

Votto went yard to give the Reds a 1-0 lead…

Then Adam Duvall doubled. And Zack Cozart singled in DuvAll-Star to give the Reds a 2-0 lead. The Reds Brandon Finnegan tossed 7 innings of 1 hit ball with 9 Ks…

Michael Lorenzen came into the game to get us strikeout number 10…

And NUMBER 11!

AND THAT MEANS…

Raisel Iglesias came in to pitch the ninth and try to seal the deal for the Reds…

And this one belongs to the…

The final out of the game was a Philly getting caught stealing at second. But then the play was reviewed and the runner was called safe at second…

But it just gave Rasiel Igelsias the chance to notch another strikeout instead. BOOM!
AND THIS ONE BELONGS TO THE REDS!

What an incredible Reds Opening Night! The Reds won, Brandon Finnegan tossed seven fierce innings giving up just 1 hit with 9 Ks, Votto went yard, we get free Larosas pizza from the Reds 13 Ks, we got a free Reds 2017-18 calendar, the rain stayed away from the most part and we saw a rainbow! That’s what I call a great Opening Night!
⛈⚾❤🍕🍕🌧🌈👍💯 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 5, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Central Business District, Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged #SPRINGinCINCY, 2017, April, Baseball, Baseball is back, CBD, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, Look up in the sky, MLB, Ohio, Opening Night, Philadelphia Philles, Rainbow

Posted by Thadd F. on April 5, 2017

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Free Donatos pizza!

Whenever the Cincinnati Cyclones score five goals and win, you have ~~five~~ three days to exchange your ticket for a free Donatos one topping pizza. After work this evening,
I picked up our free Donatos pizzas from Saturday’s 5-3 Cyclones win over the Toledo Walleye. I also picked up a large pepperoni pizza because the more the merrier, and every piece is important. I managed to get all three of them home on the bus without eating any of them…

And then it was finally time to eat free pizza…

Free pizza sure is delicious! A super big thanks to Donatos and our Cyclones for our free pizza pies! It was a terrific way to end a great regular season of Cyclones hockey! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 3, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged 2017, April, Cincinnati, Free pizza, Northside, Ohio, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on April 3, 2017

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HAPPY OPENING DAY!

I designed this Opening Day graphic to hang in our front windows at work…

And I had my #CapsOn for Opening Day…

I wore one of my favorite Reds ballcaps for #CapsOn Opening Day. I won this hat in a giveaway from Skyline. It’s one of my favorite caps because it has two of my favorite Cincinnati things embroidered on it, Reds and Skyline…

Baseball is back! We can’t wait for Opening Night! ❤⚾❤

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by Thadd F. on April 3, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Central Business District, Odd & Ends, Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2017, April, Baseball is back, Cincinnati, Downtown, Ffffound, Holidays, Ohio, Opening Day, Reds baseball, Taken with Instagram

Posted by Thadd F. on April 3, 2017

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Cyclones hockey game #11.

No foolin’ around. Today was our 11th Cyclones hockey game of the season. And it was also the final home game for the Cyclones 2016-17 regular season…

It was fan appreciation weekend and that meant there was a really big crowd on hand for today’s game, almost 8,600. Even the upper bowl of US Bank Arena was open…

LET’S PLAY HOCKEY!

At the end of the first period, the Cyclones were leading 2-0 over the Toledo Walleye…

❤❤❤During today’s hockey game, we were on Kiss Cam at US Bank Arena!❤❤❤

And the end of the second period, the game was all knotted at two…

In between the second and third periods, there was Full Throttle go-kart racing on the ice of US Bank Arena…

The Cyclones jumped out to a 4-2 lead in the third period…

Make that 5-2!

Now they just had to hang in there for a little over three minutes…

Because with the win, their five goals tonight would mean free pizza for everybody!

AND THE CYCLONES WON 5-3!!! FREE PIZZA!!!

We stuck around for a post-game warmup jersey auction but the prices were insane…

What a great note to end the Cyclones regular season on at US Bank Arena; getting the big 5-3 win, and getting everyone free pizza to boot. It was our second game of the season where the Cyclones were able to get us free pizzas. And that’s two more free pizzas than we got from the 15 Reds games we went to all of last baseball season.

The Cyclones still have a pretty good chance of making the ECHL playoffs. Who knows? Maybe we’ll get to see our Cyclones a couple more times yet this season. But if not, it was another great season of Cyclones hockey, and we definitely look forward to seeing them play again in October.

GO CYCLONES! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 1, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged 2017, April, CBD, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Cyclones, Cyclones hockey, Downtown, Free pizza, Ohio, Toledo Walleye, US Bank Arena

Posted by Thadd F. on April 1, 2017

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Look what arrived in the mail today!

Our FC Cincinnati 2017 season tickets arrived in the mail today!

And they showed up with a new 2017 FC|C scarf! We’re so excited and can’t wait for the first home game on April 15th at Nippert Stadium! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 30, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, FC Cincinnati, March, Northside, Ohio, Season Tickets

Posted by Thadd F. on March 30, 2017

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Cyclones hockey game #10.

Tonight, we went to our 10th Cyclones hockey game of the season. It seemed like it had been forever since we’d been to a hockey game…

They were giving away Cyclones socks tonight…

LET’S PLAY HOCKEY!

The Cyclones were taking on the Brampton Beast from Ontario. And the Beast opened the scoring just 50 seconds into the game…

And they added another one just over a minute later…

Oops… Make that 3-0…

The Best jumped out to a 4-0 lead near the end of the first period…

GOAL! Cyclones finally got on the board…

4-2!

And at the end of the second period, it was still 4-2…

And the Beast ended up winning 5-2…

We have tickets to this Saturday’s final home Cyclones game of the regular season. Hopefully, the ‘Clones can end the home regular season on a high note. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 29, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged 2017, Brampton Beast, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Cyclones, Cyclones hockey, Downtown, March, Ohio, US Bank Arena

Posted by Thadd F. on March 29, 2017

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It wasn’t Cincinnati’s day.

This evening we walked down to Second Place to watch the March Madness Elite Eight game between Xavier and Gonzaga. It didn’t end so well for Xavier. But just like Michigan, Xavier had a great run that far surpassed expectations. At halftime of the Xavier game, the second season of FC Cincinnati officially kicked off away to the Charleston Battery…