Opening Night is tonight, but there’s still a little bit of time left to relive some of that Opening Day magic. Here are some pictures from the game.

After a year-long hiatus, the Red Hot Broadcast returns with a recording from the eighth inning of the Reds’ Opening Day win over the Marlins. We discuss our first ever Opening Day experience, including the parade, the new features at Great American Ball Park, and the capacity crowd, as well as a little bit about Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips.

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Here are some pictures from the 93rd Annual Findlay Market Parade.

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“Game 1.” Boy, that feels good to type.

And even better, that game felt good to watch. The Reds took a cue from the Cardinals yesterday and started the season by beating up on Miami to the tune of a quick 0-4 win.

Johnny Cueto shut out the Marlins through seven innings of 3 hit work. He also walked two and struck out four. Then Aroldis Chapman came on in the eighth and struck out two-of-three for his scoreless inning. Finally, Sean Marshall also struck out two-of-three for a scoreless ninth. Just beautiful.

On the offensive side, the Reds got the scoring going early when Jay Bruce brought in the first run on a sacrifice fly. He ended up with two RBI, in fact, and a run scored. Ryan Ludwick and Chris Heisey had the other two RBI; Zach Cozart and Scott Rolen the other two runs.

To be fair to the Marlins, no only did they have two opening days in a row, but they also had to travel for a day game after a night game. What kind of sadist scheduler does a thing like that to a team? But Miami should be better than they’ve looked the last two days, and after a day of rest tomorrow, they’ll get a chance to prove it on Saturday.

Saturday is “Opening Night,” the pomp and circumstance around which is wholly invented, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a damn fine event nonetheless. The RHM family will be in attendance–even though it will mean two inter-state drives in three days–because it’s just so darn fun.

First pitch is at 7:10 p.m. The Marlins will send out Ricky Nolasco against our new right-hander, Mat Latos.

Despite having maintained a Reds blog for 7 years (happy Blog Day, RHM!) the Red Hot family has never made it out to Cincinnati for Opening Day. But tomorrow isn’t just Opening Day. It’s not even just day two of the Joey Votto quarter of a billion dollar contract extension. Tomorrow is that glorious astrological event known as The-First-Day-of-Baseball-Happening-During-Spring-Break.

It won’t happen again for another 86 years, so make sure to get out and see it while you can.

Our agenda tomorrow includes: parade, game, and a trip to Kroger to buy Vott-Os. We’ll be trying new ballpark food and resurrecting the Red Hot BroadCast. We’ll be hoping the Marlins perform as poorly tomorrow as they did tonight (I mean, no-hit through six by Kyle Lohse?) and crying when they don’t. Basically we’ll be living the dream.

Be sure to tune in for a recount of the day, and turn out if you can. Not only would I love to say hi in person, but the team is going to need everyone to be hitting the Food Network Hot Dog Bar a few times per game if they’re going to raise enough money to pay for that contract.