Finally, a Win

So as you all know by now I'm a pretty avid sports fan, with my favorite sports being basketball, football and baseball in that order. My favorite professional teams for each vary a little be geographically, but for the most part I'm a home-state type of fan. I cheer for the Cavaliers, Celtics and am quickly becoming more and more of a fan of the Mavericks simply because they beat LeBron and the Heat and Dirk Nowitzki is simply the man. I like the Celtics because I love Ray Allen, because he possesses one of the sweetest strokes I've ever seen. As I'm sure you also know-and if you don't you've got some serious issues with noticing your surroundings-I live and die with the Green Bay Packers, and it has forever been my dream to witness a game at Lambeau Field. Or any Packer game for that matter. As far as baseball goes, it's nice to see the Cleveland Indians do well this year (you know, Ohio love) but I'm a die-hard fan of the Cincinnati Reds. This is of course a direct result of my beloved father growing up and living and dying with the Redlegs. He's been to 30+ consecutive Opening Days, which is of course astounding. My streak was again halted at two this year, because I had class I could not afford to miss.

You may be wondering where I'm going with this, and to be honest I don't really know. I started this blog just to write about what was on my mind and to continue to hone my skills to hopefully become a better writer someday. That is the ultimate goal: graduate with a Journalism degree and hopefully get into TV and/or radio and someday work my way up to ESPN status. It's always been my dream to someday be a part of ESPN or any kind of network that covers sports, because they are my passion.

Anyways, the Reds and New York Yankees closed the book on their three game series tonight, after the nightcap of a day-night doubleheader. This was of course a result of the heavy rains yesterday in Cincy. The Yanks made the Reds hitters look like Single A players the first two games of the series, but tonight finally provided a breath of fresh air in the form of utility outfielder Chris Heisey.

Now, I myself am an ardent supporter that this guy should get more playing time. Cincinnati has a gaping-and when I say gaping I mean absolutely enormous-hole in left field when it comes to offensive production. This is of course because my man Jonny Gomes hasn't hit for squat all year compared to last season and went through one of the worst stretches I've ever seen any one player endure last month where his average plummeted all the way to .171. I have made references to how frustrating it was watching him in some of my past posts, but I thought I would just reiterate a bit.

Reds manager Dusty Baker started Heisey tonight, and although he is extremely productive as a pinch-hitter, I was happy to see him in the leadoff spot. Of course it helps when Johnny Cueto is on the mound throwing darts all night as well. Heisey exploded tonight, turning on three pitches that he saw and dispatching them into the left field seats at Great American Ball Park, earning him a curtain call in the 8th inning after he launched his third.

He was in the leadoff spot because Drew Stubbs did not start, which I thought was nice to see because Stubbs also hasn't been hitting for squat the past month or so. Heisey took his place in center and Gomes got a chance to play in left. He also had a good game, homering and gathering another hit.

But the Reds would not have gotten anything done at all if it weren't for Heisey, because his first home run came in his first at bat and seemed to light a fire under his teammates butts. I've always been a firm believer in the idea that success is contagious, and when you get off to a fast start as Heisey helped them do tonight, it made the rest of the Reds more confident in themselves and resulted in the team pounding out fourteen hits. Granted, the Yankees ran out to the mound a dude I'd never heard of/seen before so I'm sure that helped but still. I'm taking anything I can get at this point.

It's just been a shame that Cincinnati can't get anything going right now because the Cardinals have lost 8 of their last 10 and the Brewers 7 of their last 10, respectively. You would think that Cincinnati would be jumping all over those slumps to move up in the standings and get back to first place. But they have been dilly dallying around and are only two games above .500 and sit two games back in the standings.

Oh well. It is a long season after all, and hopefully tonight's offensive outburst can continue a bit and we can get Edinson Volquez to grow up and start pitching like he did two years ago when Cincinnati traded Josh Hamilton in order to get him. I swear, sometimes I think that I can pitch/play better than that guy. He's got so much talent and is just letting it go down the drain because he struggles to focus.

Enough ranting, Batman Begins is on and because of how much I enjoy Christian Bale movies I'm going to go enjoy it. Cheers, and go Reds.

Proud Buckeye and Sports Enthusiast,

Eric Seger

Daily Segs

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