Reds Opening Day

Cold...

That's a good way to start this post about the Cincinnati Red's Opening Day.

My boss invited me to go along with him and a couple of his friends to the Reds Opening Day game against the Chicago Cubs. I'm not a huge baseball fan, but the idea of sitting outside on a nice day watching your hometown team win a great game sounded appealing. Unfortunately none of that happened yesterday.

As we learned from the jumbotron, the record for the coldest opening day was set in 1901 (35°F), but we came pretty close yesterday. I would say that it felt around the low to mid 40s. I wore an undershirt, long-sleeve shirt, and my winter jacket to this game. And I wished I had my gloves and a hat. At least it didn't rain. Thank God for small favors.

We managed to score the first run, but from there it went pretty badly. Both pitchers were terrible, but somehow we weren't able to capitalize on their mistakes. They, unfortunately, exploited our every weakness. The final score was an embarrassingg 16 to 7. I stayed, and froze, till the very end. Because you just never know when an amazing comeback will happen.

I guess I lost that finger to frostbite for nothing...