If they play games in empty stadiums...

[Nicomo Cosca]

(04-18-2020, 06:26 PM)NorthernIrishBengal Wrote: Interesting. I didn't know it was a big baseball city. Saying that, my knowledge of baseball goes as far as Babe Ruth and watching Moneyball about twenty times. So why is that? Are the Reds quite a successful franchise in MLB? 

We had the first major league team here all the way back in 1865. Our opening day in pretty much a holiday (parade and all), and we had absolutely phenomenal teams in the 70’s that were dubbed the “Big Red Machine” that had some of the best players to ever play the game (Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan). We haven’t won a championship since 1990, but it’ll always be a baseball town. Personally I’m more into football nowadays, but I was crazy about the Reds when I was a kid.