Reds NL Central Champs

What a week! The Reds, my hometown team, clinched the NL Central.

And they did it in SUCH STYLE.

Jay Bruce swatted a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth in Cincinnati.

St. Louis, you can SUCK it.

I just wish Marty and Joe had been there to call it, and for the old left-hander to say he was, "rounding third and headed for home."

Our first title since 1995--since the days of Hal Morris, Bary Larkin, and Chris Sabo. My dad was at the game tonight. He use to take us to almost 20 games every summer; field-level seats as often as we could afford it. We'd get there early--like 5:30 so we could be there for batting practice, watch 'This Week in Baseball' on the jumbotron, and chase the players for autographs.