Unless under extreme circumstances such as attaining the occasional Super Bowl, we don’t welcome New Things very well here in Cincinnati. The tinsel Christmas decorations in downtown Cheviot are exactly the same ones from my childhood and for all I know date back to the first actual Christmas.
This is why, when the Reds rocketed to a first-place start despite expectations of –well, exactly the nightmare we saw on Opening Day—we didn’t trust it at all. We still don’t. “I’m frightened,” I typed on Facebook over a screenshotted tweet celebrating the fact that the Reds had the best record in all of baseball.