Category: Game Results

On a sun-splashed Sunday morning Team Solomon took on Team Brafman on Field 2 for a chance to face Ken Groh in the finals.

Unfortunately for me, Captain Stu for the winners:

Team Solomon made JCC Softball history Sunday on Field 2 when we defeated Team Brafman 18-8, advancing to our second championship game of the season.

The winning recipe has been simple for us this year: score early and often. We led off the top of the first inning with five straight hits and runs, capped by an inside the park homer from Dan “Marino” McGrath. Team Brafman returned the favor with 3 runs in the bottom half and 1 in the second before we jumped on Jimmy “Garoppolo” Lefton again with 4 runs to open the third. Stu “King” Solomon showed off his speed around the basepaths on a fourth inning JCC home run, and Will “Keon” Coleman brought in 2 insurance runs on a big fifth inning triple. Matt “Stafford” Brodof, Jeremy “Duck Duck” Dock and Alex “Sauer” Kraus added three hits each in the wire-to-wire win.

Shoutout to Brafman’s Corey “Flying Squirrel” Myers for going full extension in foul territory beyond the left field fence line to come down with an unbelievable diving catch despite being ruled out of play. Captain Brafman would add “this was the single best catch I have seen in my 8+ years in the league, even if it didn’t count.” 

Team Solomon returns to Field 2 on Wednesday at 6pm to meet Groh in the postseason title game.

I’d like to thank my team for a great season. Coming off an 0-16 regular season last year it was great to play and win a lot of games this year. Kudos to Jimmy Lefton for coming back strong from surgery last year to both pitch and finally hit like we know he can. Also good luck to Stu and Kenny this Wednesday.

So there you have it guys. It’s down to Capt. Groh vs. Capt. Solomon for the Youk award on Wednesday night. If you want to come out and watch, please remember it starts at 6:00.

Brief league notes

Happy birthday to:

JCC legend Jeff Cohen

Super-mom Barb Fogel

David “Slim Shady” Wertheim did some research on my claim that OSU had not been #1 in the country in a long time. They have been ranked #1 in the CFP rankings BUT not #1 in the AP poll until last week. So we were both right. Also it’s a shame that colleges charge all of us money to watch OSU play Grambling and Bama play La-Monroe. 

A crazy thing happened yesterday (Sunday) at about 3:45. I was at the Reds game while listening to the Bengals game. When Elly made his 25 E in the top of the 9th and the Bengals went 3 and out again with 2+ minutes to go. I thought I was going to A) see the Reds blow it in the 9th and B) the Bengals lose on a last second FG. Instead you guys know what happened and both teams pulled out the W in a very non-Cincy-Sports-fan way. Do I care that the Bengals played terribly or were “lucky” to win? Nope, not for one second. No such thing as style points in the NFL. And while the Reds are hanging on by a thread, at least we know that Hunter Green is an ace.

Hope to see everyone on Wednesday night at 6PM. 

A picture perfect Wednesday night at TCP last night saw three games being played and the action was hot. But first, a little house cleaning. 

Let’s go back a couple of weeks as Team AJ won the regular season title two weeks ago. Here’s AJ’s recap:

An amazing night at Triple Creek created a great atmosphere for the Goons to walk off Team Solomon 11-10 to win the Regular Season Championship Game.

We jumped on them early with 5 runs in the first off the back of a Griffin Harris triple and a Super Sub Pat Feldman inside-the-parker. We stretched our lead to 8-3 in the 2^nd after a Griffin inside-the-park homer. From there Team Solomon chipped away and got good performances from Camden Kirzner, Dan McGrath, Alex Kraus and many others to come back and take the lead against us 10-8 in the top of the 7^th. In the bottom half of the 7^th I got on, Adam Cronstein brought me in, Jamey Drennan brought him in and we went to the 8^th.

After a couple hits, we got quite a scare when Brandon Lindsay hit an absolute rocket to left center, but Griffin was able to track it and made an incredible catch in order to end the inning with no blood. In the bottom half, Ryan Small got on and the wiley veteran Dee Harris hit one out to right field and Ryan De La Cruz came all the way around to score and end it.

Just another incredible team effort with everyone finding a way to contribute as they have all season.

 Way to go team Goldhoff on winning the regular season title

Now onto last night:

First on Field 1 it was Team Groh taking on Team Simons for a trip to the title game for the Youk Award:

Ken with a recap of both last week and last night:

Groh 8 Grefer 4

Grefer scored 4 in the top of the 1st but Tyler Stansbury led off the bottom of the inning with a home run over the center field fence. Bryce Anslinger drove in 2 with the bases loaded to cut the lead to 4-3 after 1. Jon Ruben, Mathew Kraus, Tyler, Sam Castellini, Jack Cohen, Pete Soltesz and Ken Groh all hit singles and Chris Von Holle had a SF to plate 5 runs in the 2nd to take a 8-4 lead. Mike Gray scattered 2 hits over the final 4 innings but Grefer also didn’t score so Groh advanced.

Groh 25 – Simons 23

Groh thought he was a good pitcher this season until Team Simons was just ripping the ball in this semifinal game. Mike Askin and Mr. GOLD himself, Jeff Weisbrot, I believe each went 5-5. I believe Marc Simons, Scott Friend and Mark Weisser all had 3 hits as well. They batted around in the 1st inning going up 6-0. In the bottom of the 1st, Tyler Stansbury singled, Jack Cohen tripled and Pete Soltesz launched a 2-run homer over the RCF wall to cut the lead to 6-3. Simons went up 9-3 but Bryce Anslingervhomered over the fence and Danny Meisterman hit a 3-run homerun with his line drive down the left field line to cut the lead to 2. In the 3rd, Groh scored 5 with a Soltesz double, Anslinger single, Ruben double and David Solomon single. After Simons went up 16-14 team Groh scored 9 runs in the bottom of the 5th. Simons made it interesting getting the tying batter to the plate who hit it to the DPOY Jack Cohen to end the game.

On Field 3 it was Team Solomon vs. Team Wolf for a trip to the semifinals of the post season:

Stu for the winners:

After nearly two hours of action on Field 3, Team Solomon continued its second half surge with a 15-8 win over Team Wolf to advance to the semifinals.

Stu’s Blues took an early 4-0 lead as the visitors before Weston’s Washed Denims tied it up in the bottom of the second inning. We responded with 3 runs in the third and 6 in the fourth to really put the game out of reach.

Big hits from Matt “Bloody Hell” Brodof, Dan “Tim” McGrath and “Buffalo Ben” Charlton jumpstarted the offense, but nobody had a bigger day than Cam “Mr Boombastic” Kirzner. He was 4-4 with a walk, three runs and his first career homer over the fence. Award-winning reggae musician Shaggy had this to say on Cam’s performance: “Fantastic.”

Team Solomon looks to keep its momentum rolling against Team Brafman to clinch its second championship berth of the season.

And finally on Field sun it was Team Fogel vs. Team Brafman for a trip to the semi finals 

Marc for the winners

In a back and forth game Team Brafman scored 8 runs in the bottom of the 6th to pull ahead and win 19-11. For the first time all year Team Brafman had all 12 guys and everyone contributed in one way shape or form. Mike “The Special One” Rothstein, Jimmy and Ricky Lefton, Zach Mayer, Gary “The Coach” Fisher, Corey Meyers, Mike Margolis and Capt Brafman all had multiple hits. The big blow of the game was a 3-run homer by Rabbi Yitz that really broke the game open. Jeff “Oscar Meyer” Wiener, Harry “Hood” Meisner and Zach “The Wild Horse” Zackem also played well in the field to help Team Brafman advance.

“I love team softball and tonight was a perfect example of that,” Brafman said post game. “All 12 guys came to play and each of us continued for the W.”

For team Fogel Jeremy crushed a two-run homer while Landon Kranz, Ryan “The Hebrew Hammer” Braun and Jamey Kurtzer all had multiple hits in a losing effort. A great game by both teams.

Team Brafman looks to continue their hot streak vs Team Stu on Sunday with the winner playing Team Groh next week

League notes

Believe it or not, I didn’t see a single birthday for this week but if I missed you happy birthday, BUT…

Roger did celebrate his wedding anniversary over the last couple of weeks. Shockingly he didn’t have his XU hat on in any pictures

After the game I was talking to Howie and Mark Weisser and they both commented on how lucky they felt to still be in good enough shape to play and that no matter how sore they are it’s still fun. Considering how sore I am, and I play RF and got on base twice last night, the fact that they pitch and do it well is a testament to them. 

Once again the Oy Vey 5K is coming up the first week of November. Please sign up and support the JCC, the Blue Jays and all of the sports programs.

This week in the Reds is pretty much summed up this way. Last night they scored nine runs for the second game in a row at home and lost. That is the first time that has happened since the early days of the Big Red Machine. Until this team actually wants to win, I don’t know why I care so much. But I do and will continue to. “Playing for the future that never comes.” That should be the Reds slogan moving forward

A number of you asked how my trip to KC was last week. First, if you have never been to the Negro League museum, I would suggest you go. An amazing amount of history and somehow Getty Lee (from the band Rush) has autograph balls signed by hundreds of former players. It really is hard to believe that the Reds didn’t have a black player until 1954! Special bonus points if you can name him. Arrowhead is as big and loud as you would expect. With 72,000 Nebraska fans cheering, it was the loudest stadium I have ever been to. I can see why the Chiefs are so good at home.

As David “Slim Shady” Wertheim pointed out to me last night, it is tough to root for the #22 team in the country in Alabama when OSU is #1. God that makes me sick to my stomach to type, but it’s the fact as of now. But this is an amazing stat. This week is the first time that OSU has been ranked #1 in the country in the regular season since 2015! Crazy! Who would have thought that?

Finally, Roger is posting XU bobbleheads. How much would XU fans pay for a Sean Miller bobblehead? $2-3 bucks? 

Just a reminder Team Stu Vs. Team Marc B on Sunday for a chance to play Team Groh next Wednesday for the Youk Award

Marc

With all the rain on Wednesdays this second half of the season (and dubious rainouts), it was nice we finally got the second half of the season over with. Thanks everyone once again for making this another great regular season and to the Commish for getting all of the games in. It’s not easy, we all know that. 

Now onto the action. 

In the early games Team Simons shocked the softball world by taking down mighty Team AJ.

Marc for the winners:

Team Simons beat team Goldhoff in a bit of a head scratcher on a hot Sunday morning. The game was tight until Griff broke it open with a Grand Slam putting team Goldhoff firmly ahead with a 12-7 lead late. Team Simons had some choices to make so they slowly started grinding its gears because hey, lets face it, we aren’t exactly demons on the basepaths. It wasn’t the 4th of July, but a hit parade began and did not stop until 10 runs crossed the plate. Team Simons did not let another run score, winning the game 17-12. 

Team Simons plays Team Wagner in the Play-in game while Team AJ plays the winner of the play in game as the #1 seed

On the Field 2 it was Team Wagner vs. Team Fogel

Keith Kombrinck here reporting on Team Fogel win #7 with a 9 – 7 win over Team Wagner.
Team Fogel had to play with its regular players while Team Wagner was missing their pitcher Corey Norris, Matt Leader, and Eric Zied.
My recall of the game is very shaky, but Jamey helped with an email. I think Brad Gallop began the scoring in the first with a solid single. Jeremy Fogel followed with a line-drive double. Ryan Baum followed with a hit, and we scored 3 in the first.

Team Wagner came back with hits by Steve Zawatsky, Anton Loon, and sub Marc Brafman, to score two in the top of the second.

The middle innings were a back-and-forth affair that included some fine defense. The lefty
playing 3rd for Team Wagner made some nice catches and throws, and he included a ricochet off his glove right to Joel Buckley at shortstop who then threw the runner out at 1st. The Team Fogel fielding highlight came when Brad Gallop playing 2nd base chased down a bloop hit down the 1st base line and threw a strike to 2nd base to cut down the runner going to 2nd . Nice catch and tag, Nick O’Brien. Jeremy Fogel and Josh Rosen were chasing down balls in the outfield, and Joel Fogel was making the plays at 3rd base.

The big inning for Team Fogel came in the bottom of the 6th when trailing 7-6. Brad Gallop
tomahawked a triple into left-center, Joel singled, and Josh Rosen clubbed one over the left fielder. Three scored in the inning.

In the top of the 7th , Fogel’s infield managed 3 force-outs at 2nd base – game over. But your observant reporter trotted into the bench to prepare for another inning until he saw teams shaking hands in the infield. Again, it was hot!!

Team Fogel takes on Team Brafman in the first round of the Battle for the Youk award while Team Wagner is in the play-in game vs. Team Simons.

In the 11:30 games it was Team Groh vs. Team Wolf.

Kenny for the winners:

Wolf jumped on Groh early batting thru the entire order and producing 6 runs. Howie was vintage early 2000’s for 4 innings only allowing 3 hits and 1 run. Wolf added a few more to lead 9-1 heading into the bottom of the 5th. Coach Groh started it with a bloop double to left then Bryce Anslinger, David Solomon and Jon Ruben each had 2 hits in the inning as Bryce doubled and Jon capped it off with his 1st triple of the year. Tyler Stansbury had a 2-run double, Sam Castellini and Jack Cohen had back-to-back triples and everyone else got a hit or an RBI. Wolf scored 2 more but couldn’t overcome the big inning. Thanks to Jack for playing all 16 games, to Todd Wasserman for coming and coaching and for my team for only needing 3 subs for the entire season. We have 3 MVP candidates in Tyler, Jack and Pete Soltesz and two great rookie years from Chris Von Holle and Mathew Kraus.

Team Groh will play Grefer while Team Wolf will battle Team Solomon in Round 1 of the Tournament.

And it was Team Brafman vs. Team Solomon.

Stu for the winners:

In what was ultimately just another regular season softball game, Team Solomon got the best of Team Brafman 14-2 after locking up the second half title by default earlier Sunday. Special shout out to Team Simons for the win!

Stuart “Little” Solomon conceded a pair of leadoff triples and 2 runs to start the game, then settled in for one of his best pitching performances all year – finding the zone late in at bats when he needed to the most and forcing soft contact. The hardest hit ball all day came right back to Stu for a line drive out off the bat of Yitzi “Golden Boy” Creeger. Tom “Back to Back to Back” Emanski and Fred  “Crime Dog” McGriff would have been very pleased at the defensive fundamentals displayed. 

The bats were hot early and often on this fine Sunday. Cam “Mr. P&G” Kirzner went 3-3 and Jeremy “Dr” Dock was on base 3 times, both scoring 3 times. The Two Lefty Sensations Dan “Coconut Water” Mcgrath and Ben Charlton”Athletic FC” used their speed and tenacity to create mayhem on the basepaths. Lastly, Old Man David Snyder was 2-2 with a double and two runs scored. 

Shoutout to Benny “The Jet” Charlton and Matt “LeBlanc” Brodof for traveling leaps and bounds from Portland, Oregon and New Buffalo, Michigan, respectively, to make it back in time for the game despite the lack of postseason implications. Just for the love of the game. 

Brandon Lindsay had this to say after the game. “It was all about the Melon Electrolytes we all drank before the game. It allowed us to have clear eyes and full hearts.”

So to recap

AJ and Stu will battle it out this Wednesday for the Regular Season Championship 

Wagner and Simons will play in the play-in game.

The post season battle for the Youk award will begin next Wednesday.

Team Goldhoff vs. Winner of play-in game

Wolf vs. Solomon

Brafman vs Fogel

Groh vs. Grefer

League notes:

Happy birthday to:

Griff Harris

Ken Groh

Ryan Baum

The Oy Vey 5K is on November 9th. Please sign up to help support the JCC and all the athletic programing including the softball league.

I saw that the JCC launched a non-kids swim team. I have no clue who else they swim against but I want to see Howie out there living his Maccabiah games memories.

This past weekend was the 56th anniversary of Woodstock. Ryan Silverman and I might be the only guys who care, but since I write the blog I thought I’d share that with you all. And I will continue to say that this footage of Sly and the Family Stone (who were playing at 4:00 AM) is still the single greatest music performance ever captured on film. Here is a snippet Sly and the Family Stone – Final of “I Want To Take You Higher” Woodstock again this was at 4:00 AM!! 

I am not the biggest fan of Reds GM Nick Krall but I do have to give him credit for the three moves he made at the trade deadline. All have paid off. But since he is the same guy that signed both Moose and The Candy Man and did nothing at the 2023 deadline, I only give him some credit. 

I don’t know who the slowest guy in the league is currently but I bet that if they played the Bengals defense last night they would have run for a first down. 

Finally, since Roger is the resident NHL expert in the league he will be giving a detailed power point on Wednesday of all of these guys: All the Jewish NHL players to watch in the 2024-2025 season – Jewish Telegraphic Agency (I know it’s a little old but still) 

Good luck to Team Simons and Wagner in the Play-in game and to Team AJ and Team Stu for the Regular season title this week.

It was HOT out there this Sunday but that didn’t stop the action on the field. Let’s start with the early games. 

AJ kicks things off with his recap of their come-from-behind win of Team Stu.

An amazing win for the Goons this week as we came back to walk off Team Solomon 13-12.

The game started big for Team Solomon as they jumped on us in the first couple innings with a 7-0 lead. Big hits came from Jeremy Dock with a triple, Matt Brodof and Alex Kraus.

After that super-sub, Jeff Finkelstein locked down on the mound and we started chipping away. Two in the second, 2 more in the 3rd off a 2-run homer from super-sub, Harry Meisner, 2 in the 4th to make it 8-6, and then 3 in the 5th to make it 9-8. Team Solomon came back on us in the 6th and scored 4 runs off hits from Steven Shapiro, Matt Brodof and Dan McGrath.

After scoring 3 in the bottom of the 6th, and getting through the top of the 7th, the stage was set. Down 12-11 in the bottom of the 7th, Ryan Small led off with a double, Dee Harris moved him over with a single, Ian Conwell knocked Ryan in with a single, and Big Sam Klinkowitz came to the plate. He hit a Klinko Bomb to the warning track scoring Dee and the game was over.

This was a true team effort with everyone making an impact as they have all year.

We hope to finish the season strong against Team Simons on Wednesday.

Keith K files this report for Team Fogel.

Keith Kombrinck here reporting on Team Fogel win #6 with an 18 – 6 win over Team Simons.

Team Fogel had subs Brad Wagner, Steve Zawatsky, James Swan, Eric Zied, and Kade Carlyle. Maybe Team Fogel should play subs every week?

Team Simons super sub was their 3rd baseman, Dylan Smith, who hit 3 home runs. Lucky for us, two were solo shots.

Our super sub was Kade, who tracked fly balls in left-center like Jeremy and had 4 hits. I had 3 hits, but my exit velocity averaged 60 mph whereas Kade’s was around 100.

Team Fogel scored 5 in the 1st with hits from Swan, Carlyle, Rosen, Zawatsky, Kurtzer, and Wagner. Team Simons came back with 2 in the bottom of the 1st including a home run by Mike Askin. In the 2nd , singles by Nick O’Brien, Zied, Kombrinck, and that man Carlyle again plated 2 more.

The middle innings were a blur for me. It was hot!! I recall Weisser throwing all those bottom-of-the-zone pitches, causing me to ground out and others to pop up. Nick O’Brien ran left, ran right, and speared two line-drives at shortstop, and Brad Wagner made several fine plays at 3rd base. Our other outfielders, Rosen, Swan, and Zied made running catches.

Team Simons threatened to score each inning, but Jamey Kurtzer kept them in check by refusing to issue walks. He capped his performance in the bottom of the 6th by nabbing a line-drive just above his head and firing to 1st to double-up an overconfident runner.

Thanks to Brad Wagner for serving as our replacement coach. It looks like Team Fogel has avoided the play-in game. In a be-nice-to the old guy gesture, Brad gave me the game ball for my 3 hits and catching all the throws to 1st base. I appreciate it.

In the 11:30 games 

Kyle for the winners over Team Wagner.

We beat team Wagner 19-18 in a back and forth battle. Ken Groh pitched a solid game on the mound subbing for Mike Gray, and Landon Hawkins played a great game defensively making all the plays in the infield.

Offensively Billy Bernstein had a great game at the plate hitting liners all over the field and an inside the park homer. I had a good game with multiple hits, and the rest of our order chipped in well with big hits from Brian Goldberg, Gary Grefer, and Oren Shmoel to come back in the top of 7 and hold a one-run lead to end the game.

Finally there was the “Game” between Team Wolf vs. Team Brafman

I’ll write the recap for Team Wolf. Let’s just say that Team Brafman didn’t have their best game while Team Wolf hit the ball all over the yard. the final score was something like 27-12. It was so bad for Team Brafman that Jimmy Lefton waved the white flag and asked to be taken out of the game and we used two position players to pitch. When that didn’t work Jimmy came back in and might have given up another 10 runs. Hitting leaders for Team Wolf were the entire team. Wes, Tyler, James Swan, Pat Feldman, Andy Beck  all had at least 3 hits. You know it’s a long day for Team Brafman when Shorty Adams goes 3-4 with a double. And while there were no home runs, somehow most of the hits were bullets all over the field to all fields. “We’d like to thank Commish Adam for lending us his bat,” Captain Wes Wolf said post game. “We hear he got it from Chris Sabo which might explain our extra pop.”  When you give “The Living Legend” Howie Schwartz 11 runs in the first inning, unlike the Reds bullpen, he is going to let that stand up. The only bright spot for team Brafman was Mike “The Bagel Man” Margolis going 3-3.

“I wish I had Trevino to pitch for me in the 5th inning,” Brafman said post game. Maybe his 30 MPH eephus pitch would have prevented the other 13 runs from scoring. 

Team Wolf looks to stay hot vs. Team Groh while Team Brafman looks to get back on the winning track vs. Team Stu.

League notes will return on Wednesday.

On a muggy night the action on the field was almost as hot. Let’s get right to it.

On Field 1 it was Team Grefer vs. Team Wolf. Our third shift stringer called in from the Bananas game in Baton Rouge last night to let us know that Team Wolf won.

On Field 2 we had Team Solomon vs. Team Simons.

Stu for the HOT winners:

Team Solomon walked off Team Simons 9-8 to extend its winning streak to six straight games since the start of the second half.

Stu’s squad plated its first five hitters to jump out to a 5-2 lead June 18 before the game was suspended in the top of the second. Seven weeks later, it was more of a back-and-forth affair on Field 2.

We added two runs thanks to aggressive base running from Will “.i.am” Coleman and Alex “Sauer” Kraus, then Michael Askin and Jeff Weisbrot hit two inside the park homers to bring it back within one at 7-6. Stu later returned the favor to get Askin looking on strike three, and his defense rallied behind him with a clutch double play and some running catches in the outfield.

Sub Joel “Sparky” Fogel provided the spark we needed with a sixth inning triple that ricocheted into right field, and Eli “Gemstone” Gould scored the game-winning run in the seventh. The rookie led off with a single, got moved over to second on a fielder’s choice and came around to score on an error at first base that bounced out of play.

Dan “The Man With the City Plan” McGrath had a timely catch of a hard hit liner from Mark “Poker Face” Weisser that could have been the doom of Team Solomon. Two big hits by Brandon Lindsey “Lohan”. 

Solomon will return to Field 2 on Sunday looking to avenge its first half loss to Team Goldhoff while Simons meets Fogel on Field 1.

On Field 3 we had Team Wagner vs. Team Groh

Kenny for the winners:

All-Stars Tyler Stansbury and Jack Cohen led the way going a combined 7-7 with Tyler scoring 4 times and Jack driving in 5. After scoring one in the 1st, Team Wagner scored 5 in the 2nd and led 5-3 after 3 when the games were called on June 18. After a Ken Groh walk and Bryce Anslinger double, the hobbling Groh took home on a wild pitch and Danny Meisterman drove in Bryce with a single to tie the game at 5. Sam Castellini and Chris Von Holle helped Groh take a 7-5 lead only for Team Wagner to pull ahead 8-7 after 5. At 8-8 with 2 outs, Mathew Kraus singled and Jack Cohen hit a 3-run triple to give Team Groh them the lead as they went on to win 11-9. 

And finally on field 4 Team Brafman vs. Team Goldhoff

AJ for the winners:

Another really good win for the Goons as we took out Team Brafman 7-2 in the First Place battle. This was another team effort with everyone really getting a chance to have their moment.

The story of the game really was the first inning where we jumped on them early and scored 5 runs thanks to hits from Adam Cronstein, Griffin Harris, Me, Ian Segall, super sub Landon Krantz (triple), and Ian Conwell. 

From there our defense shined, with big plays from Michael Heldman, Sam Klinkowitz and Segall we were able to hold their offense in check for the most part.

We will hope to keep it going in another big game on Sunday against Team Solomon.

For Team Brafman the only offensive star was Gary “The Coach” Fisher who went 3-3. As usual the fielding for Team Brafman was great. 

League notes:

Only James “Lynn” Swan celebrated a birthday this week. Also let’s wish James good luck as he is taking over (on a short term basis) the JCC Pre-School. This is a BIG BIG job and we all know James will crush it

Happy anniversary to Dee Harris. 

I bitch about the Reds a lot (more on them soon) but did you guys see that the Blue Jays outscored the Rockies 45-6 over the weekend? They had 63 hits, the most in a three-game series in over 100 years. 

If last night wasn’t the most Cincinnati sports night of all time I don’t know what was. The Reds, Bengals and FCC all played. All three lost..

I’m sure Roger has been following the ongoing saga of people throwing green dildos onto the court at WNBA games (Roger will be re-selling them on his blog), but today I read that somehow cryptocurrency might be behind it. I have no idea what one thing has to do with the other (even after reading the story), but I just know it’s dumb.

For all of us that root for real college football teams, I can’t wait to see Texas Tech finish 3-4 in the Big 12 this year. They spent 25 MILLION on NIL this off season. Let me say that again, 25 Million!! on a team that I don’t think will win the Big 12. Good luck with that.

Reminder that the JCC night at FCC is this Sunday. I think tickets are still available. 

And the Oy Vey 5K is coming up this fall. It’s a fun event with all the money raised going back to the league and the Blue Jays program. Please sign up. 

As for the Reds, they continue to be who we thought they would be (now a better fielding team), a team that for the most part can really pitch and can’t hit a lick. Maybe one day ownership will care about winning now and not down the road to a future that is 30 years and counting in the making.

See everyone on  Sunday.