Saturday, July 5, 2008

What Happened???


              
Hey All Three of You Who Read This...
We have been out of commission for the past four days, but boy, have we done a bunch o' stuff! This post is about July 1st.
Okay...
July 1st was Tuesday.  Most of this day was spent just resting in Mayberry.  We didn't much, just watched TV, did sudoku, read, and blogged a little.  Lou got a lot of rest, which was good.  That afternoon, we visited two universities: Xavier and the University of Cincinnati.  
They were both in parts of town that were a bit undesirable.  However, we wanted to see Xavier.  This is a small Catholic university.  The campus was nice, abd the buildings looked a little bit like a castle.  That was cool.
The University of Cincinnati had some beautiful buildings on it.  We were surprised because we entered the campus from a side that was not picturesque.  After leaving U of C, we headed to the Cincinnati Reds game following the directions of the young man at the campus bookstore.  Well, those directions were not the best.  We ended driving through skid row of Cincy.  It was oppressive.  The area was the worst place we had driven though since we drove through the projects on the south side of Chicago two years ago.  Anyway, we made it to the game safely, with a pit in my stomach from the drive (felt a lot of guilt).
The game was good until the ninth inning. 
 
The Reds were down three to two.  Griffey wasn't playing that night.  The manager put Griffey in to play right field.  He would be due up second in the bottom of the ninth.  You can see what is coming, I'm sure.  The reds held the Pirates to no runs in the top of the ninth.  Then in the bottom of the ninth, the first batter came up and hit a double.  Griffey came up, and promptly hit a two run homer.  The place went nuts, and I got a photo of the hit.  If you look carefully, you can see the ball.  It is near the third base foul line.
 Awesome.

-Dave 

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