Shorts:
- Walked to Oktoberfest Saturday afternoon with the wife and baby. It was stupid gross outside but still nice to grab a brat, have a couple brewskis and introduce the little one to her heritage with a potato pancake. Easily my favorite annual Cincinnati area festival.
- I’d put the german almond stand smell up against any. Enchanting aroma.
- Hit up Losanti in OTR Saturday night for my mother-in-law’s birthday. Just a gorgeous evening with Washington Park filled with people, the shops restaurants and bars hopping, and an FC Cincinnati game (match

) going on. Lively night.
- Losanti is outstanding- filet every bit as good as Ruby’s imo. Great atmosphere. Huzzahs all around. Hope to get back soon.
- Was really cool seeing so many dads and children headed to the soccer game. Guessing this is the new baseball.
- Speaking of, hats off to the Reds’ epic pants shitting this month. Who knows with these F’ers, though. They could inexplicably get hot again and streak down the stretch. My father is NOT pleased with “Dusty” Bell.
- Meh there are like 5 football teams in the country who haven’t had a game where they’ve looked like dogshit. Survive and move along.
- Don’t like Florida figuring **** out tho.
- Why is Oklahoma steady in the Top 5? These sportswriters get on their knees for Riley.
- Give me Bona (hold your lame jokes). This isn’t a new take. I believe in one year of ball, there’s not a huge gap in what they’ll bring to a ball team- especially one as loaded as ours. Lively is good but his modern 5 upside is why he’s rated so highly.
- There’s a certain pretentiousness that comes with buying what Duke sells that causes me to lose respect for their players. As much as I hate UNC and Louisville, I don’t have that disdain for their players. So, Lively can GGP.
- Get rid of the ejection unless the targeting is egregious head-hunting or spearing. Take offensive players’ actions into account as well.
- Favorite Succession Characters:
1. Tom
2. Logan
3. Kendall - so well-acted
- This ain’t Wodie Sloot’s Nashville - good article on what our old fave has become:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/us/nashville-party-vehicles.html?referringSource=articleShare