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Broadway Commons
Tuesday 07-08-2008 10:04am ET
The BC folks are gathering 7/12 for a 10-year reunion of what should have been. I'll have their ringleader, Jim Tarbell, on before the Reds-Cubs game tonight, Tuesday. I harp on this, b/c to me it speaks to part of what's wrong with our city. We don't dare, greatly or otherwise. We're satisfied with the present, revere the past and fear the future. The ballpark at BC would have been something entirely different and offered the chance for us to have our own Wrigleyville. We chose the safe and familiar. We revered the past... now, we have no development around the ballpark, nowhere to go either before or after the game...
also tonight, Reds med. director Tim Kremcheck disputes those who suggest Alex Gonzalez's career is done... Josh Hamilton's saga is meaningful, but getting overkilled... Milwaukee's acquiring CC is a very good sign for Small Market Nation...
all that between 6 and 730 tonight...
A Fan or a Job? Or both?
Thursday 07-03-2008 10:24am ET
Heard Mo Egger on 1530 this AM, talking about Joe Buck's preferences for spending his free time. Buck said he'd rather watch The Bachelor than a ballgame when he's not on the clock. Apparently, outrage ensued.
I'm with Buck. (Not with watching the Bachelor, though; that's a little extreme.) I think people assume that if you cover sports for a living, that sports is your life. Big difference. Carpenters don't spend their off time, I'm guessing, building decks all over the neighborhood. Surgeons don't feel the need to cut open friends and family when they're not in the OR.
Same with this. If you work in the field, you don't want to live it. Getting away from the games doesnt make you negligent. It makes you well-rounded, to the extent that maybe you do your job better, because you escape the tunnel vision.
When I'm off the clock, the last thing I want to do is watch ESPN. Sorry.
That's a topic tonight, on the Reds postgame... so is a recent story about the St. Louis Cardinals, who win when they're not supposed to, unlike the Reds. The Cards are who the Reds want to be when they grow up. And finally, I'm going to try to get to discussing the battleground that is 7-8 year-old coaches pitch baseball.
I'd really like to get away from dissecting every bad Reds ballgame... it's starting to bore me. You, too?
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