9/28- Reds vs. Astros- "Let's clinch this thing"

[Unassisted]

Originally Posted by vaticanplum

For those of you with mlb audio, they've kept the feed going. Which is a cruel thing to do to those of us with papers due tomorrow. :

The free WLW stream (iheartradio, 700WLW.com, etc.) became available about 5 minutes after the game ended.

[guttle11]

Just got home. Overpaid for the celebratory shirt and hat but I don't care. Got the special edition Enquirer cover outside the stadium.

Perfection. Couldn't ask for more out of a clinch. What a moment.

[Matt700wlw]

An appropriate way for this team to do it.

[vaticanplum]

Originally Posted by vaticanplum

Oh Jay Bruce, you owe us. Maybe around the ninth inning or so.

OMG guys Jay Bruce listened to me!!!111!!!!

[Ron Madden]

Division Champs!

This has been a wonderful season.

[redsmetz]

Great read in the Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/7222440.html

Bruce’s drive to center on the first pitch of the ninth from Tim Byrdak, what a release. The 30,151 fans, already standing, exploded into cheers. Bruce, a Beaumont West Brook graduate and member of the Chronicle’s 2005 All-Greater Houston team, shot up his arms in jubilation as players poured from the dugout.

Note that piece about 2005 All-Greater Houston team - just 5 years removed from high school - this is such a young team.

[Degenerate39]

I had to re-read this game thread again to make sure last night wasn't a dream. It was too perfect to be true

[nate]

That was a pretty freaking awesome way to clinch a division.

Not a cheap HR by Bruce either!

[Matt700wlw]

Originally Posted by vaticanplum

OMG guys Jay Bruce listened to me!!!111!!!!

He wants your phone number.

[redsmetz]

Originally Posted by Degenerate39

I had to re-read this game thread again to make sure last night wasn't a dream. It was too perfect to be true

My wife told that when she woke up this morning, she had one of those "what day is it" sort of notion and then it came back to her, "wait a minute, the Reds won the division!" Sadly no one in her family has called to offer their congratulations to us for our team winning, vanquishing their beloved Cardinals.

[_Sir_Charles_]

Originally Posted by _Sir_Charles_

Jay's going yard tonight. I can just feel it.

Does this count as a called shot? Fourth inning. :O)

Originally Posted by Degenerate39

It'll be a dramatic win

Originally Posted by vaticanplum

Oh Jay Bruce, you owe us. Maybe around the ninth inning or so.

Originally Posted by MikeS21

Relax, Bruce will end it in the bottom of the 9th for some dramatic flair!

Gotta give Degenerate, VP & MikeS some props too.

[cumberlandreds]

Great game thread!

Kudos to the one's that predicted a dramatic finish and especially the one's that predicted a Bruce walk off HR. :notworthy

[WVRedsFan]

Originally Posted by redsmetz

My wife told that when she woke up this morning, she had one of those "what day is it" sort of notion and then it came back to her, "wait a minute, the Reds won the division!" Sadly no one in her family has called to offer their congratulations to us for our team winning, vanquishing their beloved Cardinals.

Interestingly enough, Kenny Wallace, the race car driver who runs in the Nationwide series and is a brother to the famous Rusty Wallace, went out of his way to congratulate me a couple of weeks ago (the family is from St. Louis). He twitters abaout it all the time saying he feels great for Cincinnatians that they won. Of course, that's the excpetion to the rule.

[medford]

Originally Posted by TheNext44

This sure beats the celebration in 1990 when Teetotaller Marge had them use milk instead of champagne.

I'm pretty sure that's the first, and only time Marge was ever called a teetotaller