Tag Archives: Cincinnati

We Are All Mets Now

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Sweet win for the New York Mets in last night’s NLDS Game 5 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Full disclosure: Before the hardworking staff was a Made Yankee Fan in Boston (check out our excellent new header photo!), we were … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1927 Yankees, 1961 Yankees, 2000 Subway Series, Big Red Machine, Bronx Bummers, Brooklyn Bridge, Bud Harrelson, Bud Selig, Cincinnati, Craig Calcaterra, David McCullough, Hardball Talk, Herodotus of Hydraulics, history.com, John Roebling, Jon Heyman, Los Angeles Dodgers, Made Mets Fan in Cincinnati, Made Yankee Fan, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, NBCSports, NLDS Game 5, P.T. Barnum, Pete Rose, Rob Manfred, Singing Bridge, The Great Bridge | 3 Comments

Don’t Free the Pete Rose One!

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Full disclosure: In another life, the hardworking staff did seven years in Ohio. Specifically, we were in Cincinnati from 1967 to 1974, and the one thing that kept us sane was this miniature Brooklyn Bridge across the Ohio River to Kentucky. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1927 Yankees, 1961 Yankees, Big Red Machine, Brooklyn Bridge, Bud Selig, Cincinnati, Craig Calcaterra, David McCullough, Hardball Talk, Herodotus of Hydraulics, history.com, John Roebling, Jon Heyman, Made Yankee Fan, NBCSports, P.T. Barnum, Pete Rose, Rob Manfred, Singing Bridge, The Great Bridge | 8 Comments

The Kick-Ash ’70s Concert We DID Catch in Cincinnati

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

The hardmewling staff has lately been lamenting the Allman Brothers concert we missed at Cincinnati’s Ludlow Garage in 1970. Which got us to thinking about a concert we did catch in either April, 1973 or November, 1973 at Cincinnati’s Music … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1973, Allman Brothers, Andy Powell, Blowin' Free, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Music Hall, Handy, Ludlow Garage, rockocco-guitar riffs, Ted Turner, The Allman Brothers Band Live at Ludlow Garage 1970, Wishbone Ash | 2 Comments

The Allman Brothers’ Knee-Buckling ‘Mountain Jam’ at Cincinnati’s Ludlow Garage

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardpining staff recently noted, we missed out – for reasons we’d rather not revisit – on the Allman Brothers’ 1970 performance at Cincinnati’s Ludlow Garage. Regardless, we’ve been obsessively listening to the tracks that – Thank Duane! – were recorded that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1970, Allman Brothers, At Fillmore East, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Cameron Crowe, Cincinnati, Dickey Betts, Donovan, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Jaimoe, Longform, Ludlow Garage, Mountain Jam, Rolling Stone, The Allman Brothers Band Live at Ludlow Garage 1970, The Basement Rug, There Is a Mountain | 1 Comment

The Night I Blew Off the Allman Brothers Band

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the hardclicking staff came across this Cameron Crowe classic about the Allman Brothers on the terrific Longform site yesterday and it got us to thinking about the time in 1970 when Jim and Rae and Margaret and I queued up … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1970, Allman Brothers, At Fillmore East, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Cameron Crowe, Cincinnati, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Jaimoe, Longform, Ludlow Garage, Rolling Stone, The Allman Brothers Band Live at Ludlow Garage 1970, The Basement Rug | 4 Comments

M M M My Cicada

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From Saturday’s New York Times: An Invasion of 17-Year-Olds, Loud, Lusty and Six-Legged There are a few acts of nature, such as the passage of Halley’s comet or the transit of Venus, that are so rare and so dramatic as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 17-year locusts, cicadas, Cincinnati, Joyce Lieb, New York Times | 1 Comment

Remembering The 1979 Cincinnati Who Concert

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From our Small (Media) World desk: In the wake of the hardworking staff’s Classic Cincinnati Concerts walk down Memory Lane comes this Wall Street Journal feature: The Taming of the Fans Tired of taking hits to their reputations and bottom … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1979, Cincinnati, Steve Stein, Wall Street Journal, Who | 4 Comments