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Other than for my fourth graders class field trip, I have't been to a top level sports game in ten plus years. Both professional teams in Cincinnati are pathetic. Reds set an MLB record for the most home runs this past season and no one from the managerial/coaching staff were canned. Bengals.....missed the playoffs again and they keep the 0-7 in the playoffs head coach. No comment needed with the revolving door of players in trouble with the law. Give me the minor league....Single A Dayton Dragons (affiliate of the Reds) or the ECHL Cincinnati Cyclones (affiliate of the Nashville Predators). Guys that put forth the effort to get to move up instead of the $$$. Players meet the fans and sign autographs. Here is the reason for the rant....An excerpt from the Cincinnati Reds.... It took Billy Hamilton until his fourth big-league season to crack the millionaires' club. The Reds are paying him less than they'll pay Ken Griffey Jr. this year - and Griffey hasn't played here since 2008. If you count Griffey Jr., Hamilton is ninth on the Reds payroll for 2017. That's because the Reds are still paying the 47-year-old Hall of Famer $3,593,750 in annual deferred payments - and will until 2025. (In fairness to Griffey, that's because he willingly took less up-front money when he signed a nine-year, $116.5 million contract to come here in 2000. And he signed for less than market value at that.

Fudge...The owner of the Cincinnati Bengals threatened to move the team to LA if the taxpayers didn't pay for the new stadium. They caved (I can say they as I didn't vote for it). The owner said they needed it to be competitive. Another losing season and still haven't canned the coach after going 0-7 in the playoffs.

We've all seen their commercials advertising how they are not the big bank. I paid off my car loan this morning and because I added a little bit every month its a couple month early and the final payment was about a third of the usual amount. The payment date was on the seventh of the month (today). I walked in, handed the teller the paper and the exact amount of $124.22 in cash. She called it up and i needed to cough up another penny as they were already on Monday business (not quite 11a).....and the payment was now $124.23. Seriously? A penny!! I didn't have anything smaller than a $5. So much for getting rid of $0.22, I came home with $0.99 in change. Even if the teller made minimum wage, it cost Huntington more than that to collect the penny rather than hitting the delete key....even explaining it to me was more than $0.01 of her time. It's not the point of the penny....just the stupidity of big business truly squeezing the last penny out of a borrower.

What's left is on sale 40% off. The local stores only have the Chevy SSR and surprisingly, only a few Lindberg cop cars. Lots of dinosaurs, airplanes, eagle and the Shuttle.

You may recall I adopted our fourth dog back in April from a rural shelter in which the poor guy had two chips (neither with current info) and over a pound and a half of fur removed by the groomer. Feeling adventurous, I took him to Petsmart for his pic with Santa. I had a greyhound who was notorious for leaving 'clean up in aisle 3' every time we went so i wasn't sure what to expect. He was an absolute angel! I could not have asked for a better dog. 70 pounds of 2-3 year old overgrown puppy that is spoiled rotten.....and I wouldn't have it any other way.

With a proven track record of NOT getting me things on the list made when my family asks :what do you want for Christmas', I bought myself these. Both are factory sealed

Bernard Fox also Col. Crittenden from Hogan's Heroes

My father was deployed to Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall (but the VA doesn't consider that a hostile deployment). He moved into a nursing home about a year and a half ago due to his dementia. He doesn't qualify for assistance as he enlisted too late qualify under Korea (he hadn't graduated high school yet) and after 7.5 years, he got out and started a family (a few months too early to qualify under Vietnam). Thank you Dad and all the other vets out there who never got their due!

I recently bought a couple JoHan promos, all mid to lates 60's (I think the 70 Cadillac is the newest one....all the rest are AMC's). They are solid 9-10's down to the chrome. I dont wanna bury them in a box never to be seen again. Besides out of direct sunlight and temperature extremes, any suggestions on how to preserve them? Carney case?

Sledsel......PM Sent

Ollie's is getting models. So far, the three local ones have the Lindberg Ford police cars, Lindberg Ford F150, Chevy SSR and Dodge L700 with the flatbed or the box trailer.

Cincinnati Gardens - Modeled after the Toronto Maple Leafs Gardens in 1949, it was built on the outskirts of northern Cincinnati. It's been the home to concerts, rodeos, minor league hockey, UC and Xavier basketball and the Cincinnati Royals (now the Sacramento Kings). A two local auction houses....one auctioned off the center ice scoreboard and practice rink boards, while today the other one auctioned off the Legends Museum memorabilia. Operation of the building stopped Wednesday. Port Authority bought it for the land to be redeveloped. Dayton Hara Arena - today was the last die cast show. There was a toy show scheduled for November, but due to a family dispute having drained the funds over the past TWENTY YEARS, it was decided to close the building. Built in 1964 north of Dayton, it's last tenant was a FHL ("A" level minor league hockey team). There is a comic book show next weekend but then that is it. Reportedly it may be raised for a new fairgrounds.

My irk today is the emission test/tax. I am the original owner of a 2004 Dodge diesel that has tested zero or next to zero emissions. I was just told they won't test it because it has no catalytic converter. It never had one from the factory and still put out next to nothing emissions. I had unkind words with the technician and plan to find someone knowledgeable with 2003/04 Cummins that run so clean catalytic converters were not necessary. By the way, they were only required on newer models because of regulations not need. I hate government! Ohio had a great idea of emissions testing years ago (and since been abandoned). I had a Dodge Rampage that had to get tested as it wasn't old enough for the exemption. First, it took a while to find THAT GUY who knew how to drive a manual transmission to pull it onto the rollers. Almost always they put the back wheels on the rollers before I told them it wasn't rear wheel drive. They typed in the VIN into the computer and it always came up as a V8. Really? It says 2.2 on the hood! Where would I put the other four cylinders??? The states "logic" doesn't end there! It was considered a truck so I had to buy truck tags or non-commercial plates (an additional $20 money grab by the State). We currently have a 2003 V-8 Durango. A beast of a vehicle, but the State calls it a wagon so it gets car plates?

Ironically his cell mate will be calling him by that very name!

At least one in my area has the Beetle Bus, Volare, Bonneville convertible and the Hurst Olds. It looked fairly recently stocked

Hardee's. I'd be happy if they put one local as the closest one is 30 miles away. They have a mexican concept in some as well with The Red Burrrito but the closest ones are about 100 miles away.

My personal wish is the Ertl International Scout SS II

Tim's Trains and Hobbies, Covington KY. He bought out the last Johnnys Toys Latonia location.

Taxpayers built new stadiums 16 years ago for the Bengals and 13 years ago for the Reds. Home owners got a token tax reduction on property taxes. The Bengals lease is the worse of the two where they control what events can be at the stadium and the county is on the hook for latest, greatest upgrade other NFL stadiums get. The Reds had a fire sale in the off season so they are fielding mostly AAA players but the ticket prices haven't dropped. Norm is right...roads are full of potholes and the main bridge over the Ohio River is functionally obsolete (per the Feds) but no $$ to fund it.

Cincinnati Reds.............They are on pace to lose the most games in franchise history, (136 years!!!!) Reds pitchers have a Major League Baseball-worse 5.51 ERA and are on pace to give up 281 home runs this season. That would shatter the Major League record of 241. Cincinnati Bengals........0-7 playoffs, yet the head coach still has a job.

Car/truck builder but sometimes you see that one odd one that just HAS to come home with you!

It's also my wife's birthday.....she gets parades, fireworks, special sales, cookouts, etc. Not much I can do to top that kinda thing. She's an ER nurse so she doesn't get the day off work Me.....I hear HIroshima was nuked on my birthday.

Witness Relocation Program....I'd be off the gird

The police have decided not to pursue charges against the 'mom' (in quotes as clearly she is one in name only) who let her child climb through the barrier into the gorilla cage. Our society of no accountability continues!

Due to half a$$ parenting, a four year old boy was able to get into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. The male gorilla dragged the little boy through the shallow water of the moat to get away from the adults screaming on the overlook. The zoo was concerned for the boys well being and figuring tranquilizers would take too long to act, they shot and killed the endangered gorilla. The mom admitted the boy kept saying he was going to go in there but she apparently didn't take him seriously and either got distracted or was watching something else. One of the local news stations said there is an on line petition to have the parents charged for neglect. As of this morning, they had 13,000 plus signers (less than 24 hours the gorilla was shot). I have two boys...one adult and one pre-teen. Until he turned eighteen, we knew where the older one was at all times. Thanks to technology advances (short of tagging him like a deer), we know where the younger one is as well.