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Reds baseball game #7.

Where has the summer gone? As the baseball starts to wind down and thoughts begin to turn to the postseason almost mercifully, today was the final home game of the Reds baseball season. It would be our seventh Reds game of this baseball season, and the Reds were ending with a homestand against my favorite American League team, Boston Red Sox…

These Ballpark Express self-serve, automated pick-up stations are the first of their kind at any major league stadium. They are supposed to allow fans to skip all the really long concession lines to be able to spend more time enjoying the game by ordering and paying for food and beverages using the official MLB.com Ballpark app…

I don’t know… Pretty really weird, right? BARGE!

We got to see Xander Bogaerts…

And Dustin Pedoria…

And Madeira Ohio native, Andrew Benintendi…

And Mookie Betts…

According to my Swarm, I’ve been to 257 Reds games…

Billy Hamilton had the play of the game, hands down. Billy got caught leaning the wrong way off of first and turned a bad throw during the ensuing rundown into a run for the Reds as he raced all the way home from first. It left the Red Sox scratching their collective heads as to what just happened…

The Reds lead most of the game but ended up losing to the Sox 5-4, and getting swept in the weekend series. The last time the Reds won was at the game we were at last Sunday against the Pirates…

It was another great season of Reds baseball. 😀⚾️❤️

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by Thadd F. on September 24, 2017 • Permalink

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

Tagged 2017, Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, Great American BallPark, MLB, Ohio, Reds, Reds baseball, September, The Banks

Posted by Thadd F. on September 24, 2017

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Constructing Cincinnati.

I’ve been crazy busy at work lately, and haven’t had much of a chance to get out and wander around downtown for a bit. But I was walking to get my hair cut this afternoon and I couldn’t help but notice that there’s a lot of construction going on in downtown Cincinnati again.

They’re still trying to demolish the last little bit of The Dennison Hotel. Apparently, there was some sort of shared common wall issue with the building next door. And now this eyesore has taken the place of a historic building…

The only reminder The Dennison Hotel beside the hole in the ground is this sticker on what remains of the red brick facade…

Across the parking lot, it looks like the new apartment building that was being built across the street from our old apartment is finally reaching completion. And it has a fancy name, Encore.

Seeking of facades, it looks like they’re doing some pretty extensive work on the facade of this building on Main Street judging by the scaffolding…

Right next door, Bay Horse Cafe is open for business…

There’s a Wahlburger’s coming to Sixth Street where Pi Pizzeria used to be…

That will bring the downtown burger joint count to five with Americano, Bobby’s Burger Palace, Bru, Burger-fi and now Walburgers. Also on Sixth Street is all this mess…

The old Trattoria Roma is becoming an Irish pub & restaurant, O’Reilly’s…

And there’s also a new pizza place on Sixth Street called Zablong…

There’s this mess on Eighth Street…

And finally, Deskey has a new front window display…

The more things change, the things stay the same. There’s always something new popping up or being constructed in downtown Cincinnati. 😀❤️

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by Thadd F. on September 20, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Central Business District, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2017, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Constructing Cincinnati, Downtown, Downtown details, Ohio, September

Posted by Thadd F. on September 20, 2017

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V’s Cafe Wednesday Grillout.

I was walking back to work from getting my hair cut, and I stumbled across V’s Cafe Wednesday Grillout on the little plaza at the corner of Walnut and Seventh Streets just outside of the Aronoff Center for the Arts…

It came down to the Rib Eye Sandwich or the Mushroom & Swiss Burger…

I made a good decision. It was a great burger for just $6. I can’t wait to check out the next V’s Grillout Wednesday! 😀🍔❤️

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by Thadd F. on September 20, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Central Business District, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2017, Aronoff Center, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, It's what's for lunch, Mushroom & Swiss Burger, Ohio, September, V's Cafe on Seventh, V's Cafe Wednesday Grillout

Posted by Thadd F. on September 20, 2017

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Oktoberfest Zinzinnati 2017.

After the Reds game, we walked through Oktoberfest Zinzinnati 2017…

Samuel Adams and Urban Artifact collaborated on a beer for Oktoberfest…

And it was outstanding…

The Klaberheads were getting ready to perform as we were walking through…

We’ve been to every Oktoberfest since we began dating back in 2011. 😀🥨🇩🇪❤️

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by Thadd F. on September 17, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Central Business District, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2017, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, Festival, Ohio, Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, September, Shaken not stirred, The Banks, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on September 17, 2017

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Reds baseball game #6.

By our standards, it’s been forever since we’ve been to a Reds game. Our last Reds game was all the way back at the beginning of July. This summer it seemed like FC|C and the Reds were always on the same schedule all season. They would both be in town for the same weekend and then they’d both leave for road trips. On the same weekend. It was very rare to find a weekend when FC|C was playing away with the Reds at home.

Earlier in the week, it suddenly dawned on us that the baseball season was winding down. So this morning, we made ourselves get up and get down to the ballpark for a little Sunday baseball church…

We got a Michael Lorenzen Fathead…

It’s good to be back. We missed you old friend…

The Reds were playing the Pirates this afternoon. And our favorite Pirate was playing John Jaso. Or as we like to call him Jason Jaso…

I wonder how many pizzas LaRosa’s has given away this season…

We had seats up in the Fioptics District…

And we had the place pretty much to ourselves…

Redzilla?! Some sort of new motorized promotional item Gatling gun…

The Reds were really racking up the Ks today…

BARGE!

The live Sunday Mascot Race…

Mr. Red jumped the gun a little early…

And all the other mascot just went down the stairs into the Reds dugout…

BARGE!!

The game was deadlocked at zero until the sixth inning. Eugenio Suarez blasted a two-run shot to left…

And then Scotter Gennett went yard with another two-run blast…

The Reds hung 5 on the Pirates in the inning afterTucker Barnhart’s RBI triple…

We were one strikeout away from free pizza…

AND THIS ONE BELONGS TO THE REDS! They won 5-2…

The Reds ended the game with 10 strikeouts, just one away from free pizza.

It was great to be back at the ballpark. We still have tickets for one more Reds game. Our seventh game of this season will be watching our Reds taking on my favorite American League team, the Boston Red Sox in the final home game of this 2017 Reds baseball season. Talk about a good to finish off the season…

😀🌭⚾️❤️

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by Thadd F. on September 17, 2017 • Permalink

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

Tagged 2017, Baseball, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, Great American BallPark, MLB, Ohio, Pittsburgh Pirates, Reds, Reds baseball, September, The Banks

Posted by Thadd F. on September 17, 2017

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Fusian Friday.

Work was crazy busy today and I didn’t get a chance to get any lunch. As soon as work was over and all the day’s fires were put out, I used Fusian’s handy app to place a to-go order so I could bring home some delicious Fusian sushi for dinner tonight…