During the summer of 2009, I was in a Kentucky sports bar across the Ohio River and was gazing at Great American Ballpark. The new Cincinnati Reds park had been open for six years and shortly after ordering a cold one, it occurred to me that GABP had no special baseball memories for me after seeing games there for that period of time.
Nothing. No playoff games. Losing teams. Poor pitching. It was a nice ballpark and the Reds Hall of Fame was awesome but inside GABP?
Nothing. Six years of under .500 records. The best was 80-82 in 2006.