Sorry this is so late, everyone. I had to register myself before I could feel good about posting it here 😛

Register now for your chance to purchase tickets for potential Cincinnati Reds Postseason games to be held at Great American Ball Park! Registration ends on September 9, 2010 at noon ET for the Division Series and will remain open for the National League Championship Series and World Series.

As part of a continuing effort to make tickets available to as many Reds fans as possible, the online drawing gives fans additional chances to experience October baseball in Cincinnati. Since there are a limited number of Postseason tickets available through this opportunity, applicants must fill out and submit a registration form to participate in this opportunity to purchase. In order to be eligible for this opportunity, you must be eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of entry.

Fans will be randomly selected from the registration and sent directions on how to purchase tickets for each round. A random drawing will be held on or about September 10, 2010 to determine Division Series winners. Winners will be notified via e-mail and will have from Tuesday, September 14 at 9:00 a.m. ET to Wednesday, September 15 at 11:59 p.m. ET to purchase tickets.

Only fans that have completed the Ticket Opportunity form and have been selected to participate will have the ability to purchase tickets. Notification of selection and receipt of email does not guarantee tickets for any of the games. Tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability.

See the lovely email that Reds.com sent, in all it’s marketing-message glory.

The RHM crew were there in Spring Training for one of Aroldis Chapman’s appearances. And we caught one of his performances with the Bats when they stopped by Indianapolis. We weren’t in Cincinnati for his Major League debut last night, but we were glued to the television. Dusty Baker said it best, “We weren’t disappointed.”

No, no we were not.

Aroldis Chapman came on in the 8th with the Reds holding a comfortable 8-3 lead. It was the perfect opportunity for him to get his feet wet, and if he wasn’t sharp, the damage could be controlled. There was no need for damage control. Chapman’s first pitch was a 98 mile-per-hour fastball strike to Jonathan Lucroy. Next was an 86 mph slider that Lucroy swung and missed at, followed by fouling off a 102 mph fastball, before striking out on another 86 mph slider. Lucroy just became Chapman’s first big league strikeout.

Chapman’s pitch count ended up being 8 for his inning of work. 7 of them were strikes. After the initial strikeout, he got groundouts from Craig Counsell and Carlos Gomez, all while continuously throwing 100 mph or above.

What a debut. The crowd was on their feet for the 8th inning, to see the marvelous Cuban pitching phenom. And I sat at home, visions of Chapman mowing down postseason opposition in my head. A long time ago I worried about Chapman getting some terrible injury before he ever made it to Cincinnati and how hard I thought it would be to be the people in charge of deciding when Chapman was called up. Kudos to them. They’ve done a perfect job.