Dysfunction at it's finest

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(06-13-2025, 11:20 AM)TJ528 Wrote: At the end of the day, I've been a Reds fan and a Bengals fan since 1980 at least.  Yet I'm still a Bengals fan after a 10 year decade of sucking in the 90's.  

I have season tickets to the Bengals and drive 2 1/2 hours each game day to watch them because I love football.  

The Reds on the other hand I havent been to Great American Ballpark since 2012.  Really dont care to go.  Experience is sub par.  Team has sucked.  Owners don't care about the product.  It's not easy to watch the product on TV.  

I grew up and played baseball through HS, but could careless about the Reds.  If you want to say the Bengals ownership is bad, we might want to take look at the team next door who never get flack even though they havent won a post season game since 1995. 

So while are there challenges with this organization, yes, are there challenges with EVERY organization? Yes....Are the Steelers struggling to find a QB, yes, but there the Steelers they should get any QB they want...blah blah blah....Watt is sitting out mini camp because he wants a new contract...yet no other team has drama or disfunction.  

Sorry i'll get off my soapbox now lol

I would actually disagree with your take on the Reds, personally.
Reds haven't been consistently far away from .500 since Bryan Price was the Manager.
In the 7 years since Price, Reds have had 75+ wins all but one season and on pace to do it again this year.

I would argue the lack of salary floor has forced the Bengals into putting a little bit more money into the team than the Reds ownership does, plus the cap helps keep parity in the league.

I would guess personally though that you may find more enjoyment going to Bengals games and watching football than you do baseball.
For me, I'm more than happy to drive 4.5 hours to go watch a baseball game on a Saturday once or twice in a season even if the Reds aren't overly contenders compared to trying to go watch a game on a Sunday and get back home by EOD Sunday to go to work Monday for a Bengals game.
Not to mention watching baseball in person is far more enjoyable than watching on TV whereas watching football on TV is much closer to watching in person (for me), so I would choose to watch football from home and would rather be at GABP for baseball games.
And the final aspect of going to games between both sports is obviously price.

I've never been a season ticket holder for any sport, as when I lived in greater Cincy area I was either a kid or poor college student and then moved away once leaving college, not wanting to spend all that time commuting to games while also paying the prices. If I lived in greater Cincy area though, I would have likely at least tried doing season tickets one season for Bengals and probably would go to 10+ Reds games a year.