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The population boom, football, a wonderful football facility, along with a winning football program have all contributed to both the popularity of football at Brossart, and our enrollment. Last year's football team had 37 members. 11 of them graduated leaving us with 26 and today we have 50 - an increase of 24 football players this year. 14 of the newcomers are freshmen. We are fielding Freshman, JV, and Varsity soccer teams, so I'm assuming our soccer numbers are still good. Total enrolment 9-12 is just over 300 co-ed.

I'm guessing that Diaz was only capable of pitching to three batters today. Strickland is living a charmed live. He has dodged bullets in the last three or four outings. We have few effective, dependable pitchers. Most are ticking time bombs. Is this the core upon which we are "re-building"???

Just being honest here. Calvary Christian has bigger issues than needing a head coach. They need to establish that they are capable of having a viable team and some plan in place for the future, or don't have a team at all. Last season, following two years of not fielding a team at all, they fielded a 10 member team, that basically disbanded mid-season and forfeited their district engagement with Scott, finishing 1-17 including forfeits. Four of those players a year ago were seniors. Obviously, if basketball is a priority with girls considering Calvary Christian, they go elsewhere. High School basketball is not a club sport or social event, you have an obligation to be good citizens of the district/conference/region in which you plan to compete. Your having a team affects other legitimate programs' ability to schedule other teams, and forfeiting the majority of your games has farther reaching implications than simply making a phone call at 2pm on game day. As an example, Team A would like to schedule Team B home and away, however Team B has conference obligations to schedule Calvary twice and does. Team B defeats Calvary by 65 points in the third game of the season, then Calvary forfeits the second game. Team A and Team B could have played two competitive contests. Orlando Donaldson has been a godsend to the boys basketball program at Calvary. He has built a basketball program which has been competitive at the Class A level. On paper the Cougar boys will be down this year, but Coach Donaldson and his team will do the best that they can, and can be counted on to show up on the night they are scheduled.

I've always been a "Bird in the Hand" kind of guy, so knowing what we had in Castillo, and witnessing the endless string of "prospects" washing through this program over the years, I'd have preferred to have kept Castillo right here in Cincinnati. I also profess to know nothing about all of these contract implications. I always felt that Castillo was a Cincinnati Reds kinda guy, whose record was always underlaid because of the bullpen that failed to protect his leads. I wish Luis the best of luck and hope that he is in a place where he will be happy, and get to show what he is truly capable of. Mr. Consistency.

I'd like to see us keep Castillo so that we have one bona fide reason to go to the ballpark to watch this team play. No way we get anybody as good as he is, so it is another step backwards that we can't afford to take

I used this one tonight as my base in making a hot bacon dressing over fresh spinach, served heated with bacon pieces, some bacon grease, chopped egg, and blue cheese crumbles - delicious!!!

Am guessing you are going to tell me how unhealthy it is. At 75 I eat what I enjoy. This dressing over 1/2 head of Iceberg lettuce with some chopped egg, bacon bits, and croutons works for me.

A lot of generic answers on this thread (Thousand, Ranch, etc). Here are two that I really like: Marzetti - Sweet Vidalia Onion, and Ken's Steak House - Honey Mustard. If I'm getting Ranch, I make it Kraft's Ranch/Cucumber.

Castillo pitches another gem, but doesn't get the win. Another bogus walk-off win. Doubt this guy (umpire) makes that call in game seven of the world series.

Says something about how we perceive "Major League.". The bar has dropped so low that we are forced to use guys named Moreta, Cessa, Hoffman, Strickland, and others. While there are still many "Major League" players, and pitchers, the Major Leagues stopped being a championship caliber product back when expansion ran rampart, and the Major League product became diluted to the sad state the game is in today.

In the bottom of the ninth, whatever the Reds have, the Braves caught it.

Another being the key word. Stenzel did the same thing earlier in the series, failing to score when a teammate got caught in a run-down. Two major letdowns on that play. Stenzel fails to hustle and fails to score. Runner gives himself up before Stenzel crosses the plate. Thursday night's game was beyond embarrassing. A total travesty. I kept waiting for the theme from the "Bad News Bears" to break out. These guys have mailed it in. The Cubs and Reds (combined over 40 games under .500) deserve each other.

So far as Castillo goes, with me it's - If it ain't broke, don't fix it. He is our most consistent, effective pitcher.

Seems totally counterproductive. With the logistics of GABP you are more than a few steps away from rest rooms/concession stands, as they were at Riverfront. It is actually quite a hike. Picture Riverfront with the blue and green seats combined with the only concession options at the top of the green section and that is what you have at GABP. As a result of no vendors, I spent zero dollars on concessions. On the way in, I would have grabbed a pizza slice and a Coke, but the game had started and the LaRosa's lines were 10-12 deep. Had a vendor come by offering coke or lemonade, I would have made a purchase. Had I asked, I'm sure one of our players would have been happy to get me something, but, planning on dinner after the game, I simply waited until then. Another case of customer service suffering in the name of corporate profit, greed, and board room philosophy.

Made only my second trip ever to GABP Thursday afternoon, as we took our basketball players who worked this week’s Summer Youth Camp to the game. I was lucky to have a parking pass, but arriving just at game time caused a lot of delay, waiting to get in line to get into the garage, (Central Bridge/Pete Rose Entrance) and then finally getting into the garage and then finding the ball park. The major culprit was that we no longer use a paper ticket, but have bar codes on our phones, which obviously aren’t very efficient, as it seemed each car took 2 or 3 minutes, including my own, to scan. Ditto for entrance to the ballpark as for paperless ticketing, BUT was much more efficient since the game had already started. Our seats were in the sun (132-W) but there was a breeze. We have no vendors working the crowd, and this 75 year old wasn’t about to get up and fight the crowd to get a hot dog or a beverage. I had mapped it out to attend the game, have dinner at the Hofbrauhaus in Newport, and tour the Levy before heading home, so it was no big deal. Is this another cost-saving maneuver, or a workforce shortage issue??? I notice on TV that other stadiums have vendors. Being only the second time I’ve been there, I was overwhelmed by the size of the place. In my mind I was thinking Crosley Field on steroids, but it is huge compared to old Crosley. Who do they think are going to ever sit in all of those seats??? Inside and surrounding the stadium is really first class. I enjoyed seeing the sculptures of our former greats, and took interest in an area loaded with kids who were playing their own game. Plenty of concessions, once you get out of your seat and climb up to the plaza level, about three times the distance of our old “blue seats” at Riverfront that had concessions on each of the four levels. I was surprised to see that we still tolerate pan handlers and others beating on pickle buckets, playing musical instruments, or just plain sticking their hands out. These may be higher class bums, BUT it is one of the things that really detracted from your trip to Riverfront. The bottom line is that we have a major league facility and a bunch of incompetents playing there, masquerading as Cincinnati Reds. Unfortunately, there was little interaction between the crowd of 21,000 and the teams playing the game on the field. Watching our basketball players watching this poor excuse of a baseball team, I really feel awful that they are being so short-changed and the overall crowd cheated by this inferior product who was 23 games under .500 at the time. The crowd seemed to be much more engaged in their own social interaction than they were immersed in the game being played. Most of the crowd had departed the sun-bathed field seats by the 7th inning. Sadly, my early season assessment of Hunter Green is coming to fruition – another wasted first round draft choice. Depending on a 100mph fast ball is not going to cut it for him long-term. Too bad! He’s an articulate, clean cut, well groomed young man who checks all of the high class people qualifications. He gave up three home runs in six innings to a good team. Maybe he can beat the Cubs or Pirates, but becoming the Don Gullett, that I had hoped for him isn’t going to happen. In the seventh inning somebody named Hoffman was serving up batting practice for the Dodgers and quickly it was 8-1. My fear was that being 8-1 Bell would just leave him out there for the duration as I stewed in my own juices. I was wrong, he sent someone else out there – Cessa – who was equally futile. There were 29 hits in this game that saw 15 runs score, another lousy exhibition of major league baseball. Our bullpen is atrocious. It is no wonder that our few capable starters want to be from Cincinnati. Castillo should insist that Mahle be his reliever and Mahle should do the same insisting on Castillo, maybe then those two guys would get a win or two. Why do you/we tolerate this charade of a baseball team in this once proud city??? We are suckers. By attending in person, I realize how much more I actually get out of watching the Reds games on TV, albeit having to listen to John Sadek. Not following the ball off of the bat well, and the distance between myself and home plate is not conducive to my enjoyment of the game. This was my first time ever sitting behind “the screen.” It is way overdone, too high and too far extended. In this powder puff era, I’m not surprised that we now sit behind a screen, but, run it from home to 1st and 3rd base and cut the height down about 50%. While it doesn’t seem to detract from your viewing the game, I'll bet that if they would show you the view with or without it, there would be a distinct difference. I got up and toured the facility after the 7th inning and then eventually found my vehicle and had no problem exiting the garage and being on the Central Bridge heading to the Hofbrauhaus in short order where my dinner bill was $40, and I then drug myself over to the levy to purchase some Carmel Corn and take in a view of the river. I was SHOCKED at how deserted (people and venues) the levy is. Not good. That used to be a happening place, but it is seemingly dying a slow death. In a day that started with our final day of camp at 8:30am, I returned home at 7pm to strip to my shorts and dive spread-eagle on the bed for a two hour nap, before creating a Camps Champs page on our website that I knew our campers would be anxiously anticipating in the morning. Overall, I thank our head coach for making this trip possible. It was an exhausting day, but I’m glad that I had the chance to experience it. The Cincinnati Reds have some major issues, but we all know that. Maybe with our being the 38th largest media market in the country has finally caught up with us, and that we are incapable of fielding a competitive baseball team. Too bad! I’ll count my blessings that I lived through and witnessed a golden era of Cincinnati Reds and Major League baseball. Right now a night/day at the Reds game is nothing more than a gathering spot for your social see and be seen outing, that has nothing at all to do with the game of baseball.

If his future is in a different position, why did we trade Barnhart, who I considered to be a really good catcher.

CORRECTION - I misunderstood. The opening night game at Dayton remains as scheduled on Friday, August 19th. It is the following games vs Newport and Bellevue at Brossart that have been moved to Thursdays.

I've been informed that our first three games - At Dayton, Home versus Newport and Bellevue, have been changed from Friday night to Thursday.

We traveled in two vehicles, one pulling a boat and the other not. We rented one boat up there. The going rate for a rental ranges from $650 to $950 Canadian ($1.35 exchange) per week. Our total costs for gas for the truck pulling the boat was $750 round trip. Boat gas was $2.45 a litre, or about $9.1 a gallon. We used 56 litres of gas. IF you can arrange it a two week trip is more cost-effective than a single week, since the cost of going up and back i8s the same. Cost off the cabin was $475 each and splitting the cost of the renal boat was $475 each, plus food, license etc. We also split the trip into two days, staying overnight at Saulte Ste. Marie the night before going into camp. All prices quoted are Canadian. They did have a warm/hot early spring, which, as you stated must have killed off the bugs.

Our group was able to return to the North Channel of Lake Huron on the Canadian Side for the first time since spring of 2019, prior to the onset of the Covid Pandemic. Submitting your vaccination information as directed within 72 hours prior to entering Canada makes entry seamless.We were fortunate in that minus an all-day rain on Monday we had near-perfect weather, and incredible fishing. The four of us literally caught hundreds of a combination of Northern Pike, Muskie, Walleye, and Smallmouth Bass. The pike were consistent at 22 to 28 inches with no "trophy" 40 inch class wall-hangers boated. We caught and landed two Muskie - a 45 incher and a 50 incher, and had two other major muskie encounters. Walleye were small but plentiful allowing us enough to catch enough to feed six of us, and the smallies were amazing running from 16 to 20 inches, with a large number of 20 inchers - all caught and released. The only fish that went in the box were the walleye.In addition to good weather and great fishing there were absolutely no bugs evident on this trip. That is a first. Normally, I return home with my legs resembling a checkerboard, but no Black Flies, Deer Flies nor mosquitos on this trip. We will count our blessings.You can read my complete fishing trip report complete with pictures by clicking the link below: https://bmustangs.com/schabs-annual-canadian-fishing-trip-one-to-remember-good-friends-good-food-and-great-fishing/

Tommy Thrall seems be doing a great job without all of the Sadak kindergarten rhetoric.

Both Larkin and Sadak are unbearable. Phoney laugh track, and his Question and Answer show really gets old quick. If the word "Sensational" come out of his mouth describing mediocre players and performers one more time, I'm going to throw something through my TV. No objectivity whatsoever. Everything seen through his Reds colored glasses to the point of his coming off as considering us all to be ignorant. Someone tell John that our hitters are not robbed every time a fielder makes a major league play. That's what major leaguers are supposed to do.

Campbell County knocks off Harrison County and then Montgomery County to advance to Thursday finals. GRC takes out Mason County and Nicholas County to earn their finals berth. Championship Game set for 6:30pm Thursday at Harrison County High School weather permitting.

Nicholas County limits Brossart to two Adam Bezold singles. Brayson Ring and Brason Sosby combine to shut out the Mustangs 7-0, leaving the Blue Jackets with Johnson the left-hander, and Dalton Davenport eligible to pitch the next two games. It appears to me as if Nicholas County is a major player in this tournament.