14 Ways To Tell You’re A Reds Fan

RFB is going to war with Buzzfeed. Actually we aren’t, they’re a media juggernaut, we are a sports blog in Cincinnati either way though here are 14 ways to tell you’re a Cincinnati Reds fan. 14 ways, get it? 14 is synonymous with the Cincinnati Reds. If you don’t know why stop reading immediately.

1) You just assume Opening Day is an actual holiday considering you’ve skipped work and class since you were a child. You’re surprised when people don’t share the same passion for the beginning of baseball season as you.

2) You’ve been saying “this is our year” every year since 1990, or every year you’ve been alive. 

3) You own a Big Red Machine shirt even though you weren’t alive during those World Series wins. You just hear your dad say that was the best baseball team he’s ever seen play. 

4) Seeing old pictures of St. Bernards on a baseball field is completely normal to you. 

5) You know the team has 4 mascots and you know the names of each one, and you have your personal favorite. You also root for your favorite during the video race at GABP. 

6) You see GABP, BP, ATOBTTR and your brain automatically knows what that means.

7) The number 4192 means something to you. 

8) Watching your closer pitch 101mph+ isn’t anything new to you. You sit back and admire out of town fans who are still shocked by Aroldis Chapman.

9) You eat $5 Skyline cheese coneys at GABP knowing they only cost $2 at the actual restaurant. But hey, it’s at the ballpark so it’s ok. 

10) Wooing at the game is a common occurrence. You have taken a side, you either participate in the woo or you despise those around you that are doing the wooing. 

11) You’ve grown up hating Bud Selig for Pete Rose having a lifetime ban even though Selig didn’t suspend Rose. 

12) A Ken Griffey Jr. player t-shirt is still somewhere in your close or dresser. You were wrapped up in the excitement, don’t worry we all were. 

13) You know Carl Linder drives a Rolls Royce and he picked up Griffey in it. While he was a showman you know he had no intentions of fielding a World Series winning team.

14) You talk to Marty Brennaman like he is sitting next to you. Constantly berating him for being out of touch, then laughing for his absurdity. It’s a love hate relationship.

Honorable mention, “Rounding third and heading for home” is a saying forever burned into your mind.

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