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Doc's Morning Line: Being a Cincinnati sports fan is like always wearing a 'kick me' sign

-- Albert King

Oh, sorry. I didn’t know you were here. Let me get out from underneath this black cloud, and we can talk.

Schleprock’s the name. Good to meet you. . .

Albert King was a Reds fan. I don’t know that, yet I know it like a fact. The vintage bluesman wrote the above lyrics after spending a year as a fan of Cincinnati sports.

Honestly, I don’t know how you do it. Day after week after soul-sapping year. The patron saint of sports here is the son of Job, by way of Sisyphus.