Your Cincinnati Reds, just four games back on the Brewers (?) are on the field even as I write this trying to improve their record against the LA Dodgers. It’s going OK so far. It was looking like we had Bad-royo on the mound for a minute there, but in the top of the fifth the Dodgers have only scored two. That shortstop of theirs has kept the Reds to just one, but seeing as its the top of the inning and, for some reason, I am still awake, I’m hopeful that this is going to be the time to see that number grow.

Johnny Cueto goes tomorrow, which is always a good show. I surely won’t mind when it’s a good show in my own timezone, though. The weather has even been nice ’round these parts the last few days.

This post won’t be exclusively exhausted late-night babbling: in the continuing effort of being aware of what’s going on in the Reds blogging community, tonight I bring to you Baseball on Twitter. It’s sort of like a Twitter app but for your desktop, and it saves you the effort of running your own Reds Twitter search when you’re following the game. It’s worth checking out to see the up-to-the-minute Reds conversation. Give it a look and let me know what you think.

Taking part in the Blog Jog and spending time with my fellow bloggers, like Brian from Chris Sabo’s Goggles, Dan from OMGreds, and Jamie from Better Off Red, I realized several important things, including:

• I am a slow-ass runner.
• I don’t give nearly as much attention to uniforms as some of these guys do.
• None of the guys I talked to were the same guys I used to talk to back when RHM started up in 2005.

And maybe most importantly:

• I have neglected my responsibility to participate in the blogging community for long enough.

So, effective immediately, we here at RHM are making a concerted effort to be a better blogging citizen. Maybe, if I keep it up, I’ll finally even review that book I received in 2009.

With that in mind, here’s a link to a Reds mash-up site you might be interested in: check out Chat Reds and let me know what you think.

Official time 40:30. Not great, but not bad either considering I could barely run a minute straight when we started training a month ago. Next year I think we can get down to 35.

Now of to the Holy Grail. Here are some snapshots of the Blog Joggers. Let me know if you see yourself and I’ll add a caption.

Checked in, number on, and ready for the wet t-shirt contest. Just 45 minutes till the pain, baby!

It always feels weird going Cincinnati for non-baseball things.

The Reds are in the radio as we make our late-night trip to Cincy. Marty was talking about Travis Wood before the game, saying he’s either very good or very bad in his starts. But isn’t that the story on all the Reds pitchers? Unfortunately, none is always very good; thankfully none is always terrible.

So far so good for the team, though they failed to score in the top of the first, but the Cards/Brewers game is further along. Both teams are ahead of the Reds in the division, so ideally both would lose, but since this isn’t the All-Star game, I’ll be pleased with the Cards getting blanked.

Just one hour left on the road. Tomorrow we run!

Go Reds!