City Blights

Then the Bengals might have scored, but would still have been down in need of either a defensive stand or an onside kick. Sheldon Brown's pick-6 was much more of a game changer if you look at one play. On more of a macro level, it was that the Browns offensive line, as the game went on, started to wear down the Bengals d-line. The game started out with the Bengals D-line pretty much dominating, but they seemed to fatigue after a few series and were getting blown off the ball by the end of the game. If Trent would've stayed healthy, he most likely would have taken over in the 4th I agree with most of that except Richardson coming in to run the clock out if healthy. The Bengals were getting exposed at the safety and corner positions, specifically Reggie Nelson, Terrence Newman and Chris Crocker. Until Dre Kirkpatrick plays, positioning Adam Jones as the nickel (though Zimmer will play his guy Newman anyway), throwing on Cincinnati is how you win the game. Newman proved he was incapable of covering Josh Gordon yet Zimmer made no adjustment. Anytime a quarterback knows he's got a Get-out-of-Jail-free card in his back pocket with the face of an outmatched corner on it, that figures heavily into the gameplan and the defense's ability to get back to the Gatorade.

^The Browns beat the Bengals because the quarterback threw three interceptions including a pick six and the left tackle forgot (was inable) to block the Browns end, causing Dalton to fumble to end the game. If LT Andrew Whitworth blocks his man... Having played sports for a long time, Schlereth is dead on. As a player, you never know how a game is going to go until it starts. There's a ton of anxiety that goes along with that. Teams that have appreciable experience in winning games and playing in the postseason almost always respond by executing those rare opportunities for game-changing events. The other team is mostly clock-watching instead of attacking. Just as in everyday life, when attacked, most humans flee. Same thing in football, the pads don't change that. In life, there is no substitute for experience. None.

Did you bother to read this post? The big argument going on throughout this thread is in regard to the casino's surroundings and how important it is for maximizing an investment. Having so many amenities so close is an out-of-towner's dream.

Yes, but it was called Caesar's when I went. Aside from local biases, I don't think so. They are casinos after all. They offer live entertainment, buffets, and roulette wheels. Cincinnati's would offer a bit more but overall it's a wash. I don't know about all that. I agree that Louisville certainly contributes to Cincinnati's tourism but I don't think the casino would be the selling point as they already have one. Cincinnati offers unique neighborhoods for Louisvillians to enjoy; the casino does not offer something unique to them. I'm sure some will check it out since they'd already be in town anyway but I don't buy they'd come to Cincinnati for a greater casino experience. It's a simple proposition - if you're in Louisville and you're considering gambling, going to a different town, or both, Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino may affect the decision of not only a Darlene, who is content with putting her money at risk and heading home, but Alice, who may be looking to see what edge she can gain at a new casino. Maybe she already likes Cincinnati and she's happy that she can gamble and be in a city she likes partying in, killing two birds with one stone. So instead of gambling across the river in Indiana this weekend, she saves her money for next weekend when she'll ride up to Cincinnati. Just because Darlene likes her local casino doesn't mean she'll never patronize Cincinnati's one time. All those Louisville gamblers that'll patronize Reading Road will add up to big dollars, and also people spreading the gospel about Cincinnati's downtown.

^ Tim "Where's the camera" Kremchek has not evaluated pitchers well for some time, see Edinson Volquez and Aaron Harang. I see why one would wonder if Votto is coming down with Griffey Syndrome given the snakebitten sports history of Cincinnati, I just think this 2012 edition was more unlucky than previously accepted. The unanimous MVP goes down with a knee and his timetable is continuously being pushed back. That's a bad sign on any team. This one has trouble scoring without him. That equals disaster vs. top pitching. What we seen after Votto went down was a mirage created by the deep rotation the team has. Its offense, outside of Ludwick, is the same as the one that got no-hit by Cole Hamels. Why should we have expected different vs. the Giants? Cueto is the Reds' hammer, not the guy who was terrible in most of the first half, Mat Latos. 2013 with Chapman in therotation sounds promising. The Reds with that kind of pitching go from being an inferior version of the Giants to a superior one.

Have you ever been out there? The excitement Horseshoe Cincinnati will offer runs laps around the New Albany locale. What I said in my previous post still stands. Mt. Adams, downtown, OTR and the riverfront makes weekend planning an easy choice if you're someone from Louisville and you really want to gamble and have a good time doing other things. The locals that still just want to gamble and go home will mozy on down to New Albany. Louisville contributes greatly to Cincinnati tourism, and the casino will be a big selling point, guaranteed.

Because Dusty should be embarrassed by the way he managed this series. Yes, the players didn't come through. But if that argument holds water than let's just get rid of managers. It's a managers job to put the players in the best position to succeed. I've never been a huge Dusty fan as he has me scratching my head nearly every game but I figured he was doing something right by getting the Reds to the playoffs two out of three years. However, this series showed me all I need to know..... Pulling Bailey in game 3 when he was on a roll and hadn't pitched a lot of pitches...Not pitching Chapman the following inning in game 3 to face Posey...Not walking Arias to get to the pitcher and let him get the last out or forcing Boche to pull his best reliever in place of a PH...Letting Leake give up 5 runs before being pulled...Letting Arrendondo get shelled in game 4 even though it was obvious he didn't have his stuff...Not pitch hitting for Stubbs or having players bunt to get a run in in the 6th and 7th inning of todays game...But the far worst was letting Latos pitch to Posey. Absolutely no reason to let him pitch to Posey in that situation.....Those are off the top of my head in only one series. He managed the series like it was just a typical series in the regular season. If I'm Dusty Baker, I seriously consider leaving Cincinnati. The fans have never embraced me in the least, and the front office outside of ownership does not support me the way they should considering what I've done in 5 years with three of those being awful teams. The job he did during this regular season was incredible. Players respond to him. It wasn't cholesterol, it was managing in Cincinnati, a feeble media market where the reporters ask no questions, leave the stadium and say nasty things about you on twitter and on blogs. The fans are different. Cincinnati is one of the most vicious fan markets around, a la Chicago or Boston. We are constantly firing managers 5 seconds into their career in the 'Nati, get rid of this guy, that guy, etc. As Jmecklenborg said, Dusty was a genius after Game 1. His decision to run out Arroyo for Game 2 was lambasted when he made it, and how did that end up looking? Pinch hit with what? The Reds haven't had a bench since 2010. The GM deserves blame for this spotty offense that has been hanging around like a smoker's cough since summer 2010. Dusty managed around it during the regular season, but when the pressure is on and you're facing great pitching, great hitters get hits and good hitters look average. That's exactly what the Reds looked like in those three home games, a lineup of average hitters with Ludwick, Phillips and Votto. If only three of your hitters are clutch, then you're giving away outs all over the board with guys like Ryan Hanigan, the guy everybody blasted Dusty for not playing the other day, took a called third strike with men running! You can't have that in professional baseball. Hanigan knew men were running. Don't blame Dusty for a good managerial decision. He had a contact hitter with a high OBP at the plate. Why not hit and run? The offense went silent in 2010 when the Phils embarrassed the Reds. It wasn't a sweep complete with a no-hitter, but it was even more shamefully historic, giving the media the ammo to drag you through the mud the rest of the postseason and all offseason. I can't even fathom how many times I'll have to hear, "The 2012 Reds were the first team to lose a NLDS after leading 2-0". This offense needed Carlos Beltran in the offseason, not Ryan Madson. They could have gotten Beltran, named Chapman closer, and they would be in the NLCS right now. St. Louis would have missed the playoffs with a lesser replacement for Pujols. Votto needs help, and with him not being fully healthy, that exposed pretenders like Jay Bruce for the millionth time. He was up at the plate twice in the final 3 innings and didn't get on base once. I don't care about 11 pitch ABs, if you're gonna ridicule fans for booing a poor product that they paid to see, you had better produce when it's time. He didn't and they need to be looking at ways to improve that lineup because Jay Bruce surely isn't gonna carry anybody's team. They need an elite hitter, not a good one, to take this team to the next level. Hopefully GM Walt Jocketty realized that his team went to its grave with one of its top three pitchers tossing relief innings down three runs.

The fact that Kentucky has no casinos is going to benefit Horseshoe Cincinnati unlike no other casino in Ohio. What Southern Indiana gaming doesn't have is an exciting community to call home. The energy and myriad of options downtown Cincinnati offers will pull in gamblers and patrons from Louisville.

Gentrification is sometimes seen as the opposite of blockbusting. Sadly, it almost is because the economic classes of the United States in its metropolitan areas are disproportionate one way or another along the lines of racial makeup.

During the second quarter of the Bengals broadcast, Marv Albert said "all is well in the state of Ohio" after a Browns-Giants update. Boy was that short-lived... Sunday, October 14, Cleveland Browns Stadium. The Futility Bowl, Cleveland, Ohio.

At least one team in Cincinnati is taking care of business.

While I agree, I don't equate Philadelphia gentrification and downtown revitalization with Cincinnati. Philly has been at this for far longer than Hamilton County has. That city has one of North America's best examples of a self-sufficient core. The Banks is a starter project.

The Bengals won more games last year (9) than Cleveland won in 2010 and 2011 combined. Schedule has to be the last thing concerning Browns fans about what is determining the outcome of their games. The team is bereft of talent required to compete for four quarters. The Browns' best game was against Baltimore, and they only played two quarters of decent, NFL football.

^Former Bengals Offensive Coordinator Bob Bratkowski has something to do with that putrid Jacksonville offense. Andy Dalton's footwork was horrible in the first half. He has to play better to start the game next week or the Bengals will be in trouble vs. Miami. They will struggle to contain Reggie Bush and Tannehill hasn't been too bad thus far. Fortunately, the other team in Florida has a terrible receiving core like the Jags.

^ That's unlikely unless Chabot's amendment to the House Transportation Bill is rejected by the Senate or, in lieu of that, the big institutions in Uptown pony-up some money to complete the Alternatives Analysis. I think the city has some money for this, but is far short of what is needed. I have no inside information, but here is some of the positive news I expect to see: * Vehicles are ordered within a week or two. That will put a public face on the project. * Rail is ordered -- a sort of "iron-clad guarantee" that the project will be built. * A contractor is selected. I believe that competition to get the Cincinnati job will be very intense. And so the pricing ought to be good. Be great if they can bring it in under budget, as has been the case with other rail projects lately. Planning another trip to Portland in November. If you want to go, send me a note. Thanks for all that info as well as your invite! Unfortunately I'll be in Europe working. An opportunity missed, but who knows what the future may bring.

It certainly is founded, and you just provided some evidence. You first stated that the Blitzkrieg had everything to do with Churhill's defeat, but quickly contradicted, saying that his prewar popularity carried through the conflict. George Bush attempted to avoid looking soft on acts of domestic warfare in 2001. He didn't handle the war well and it was bloodier and carried on longer than his people were willing to tolerate. George also got his party ousted in 2008 in record numbers. If Washington was bombed for 57 days, Obama would be looking for another job after November, and not because of the economy.

Read the "Defeat" section of the article. This is key: "The notion that the Conservatives were defeated by 'the (armed) forces vote' is mistaken - as the opinion polls showed, the civilian vote was strongly pro-Labour - but war weariness was probably a factor against Churchill among civilians and servicemen alike. " The Labour party got almost 12 million votes. The Conservatives tallied 8.7. Did you comb your source?

^ The great man that let his capitol be bombed for 57 consecutive nights and was subsequently fired for his sins? :wink: COAST has certainly overplayed their hand, five times over. Putting the Streetcar on the ballot a second time was their last reprieve with citizenry. There's nowhere legal to go from there, that's why they turned to backroom deals with a United States Representative. Some positive news I'd love to hear is that there could be $ for the Uptown Connector.

Had this on the wrong thread... The beautiful part about the obsessive, ill-motivated opposition to the Streetcar is, it's probably the only series of events emotional enough to convince Cincinnatians that they need a subway. Thank you COAST, ODOT, asphalt and energy concerns, John Kasich and Steve Chabot for providing my hometown with a light-rail network.

^ We all know the Mahoghany's financing fiasco will never die because it's minority owned. People making the comparison is more frustrating than this over-publicized hiccup. When will Cincinnati start to spend time discussing important things, like how much a municipal light-rail network would cost if placed on the ballot for November 2013?

Those linebackers haven't been good since Odell Thurman and David Pollack in 2005. The secondary will improve with Dre Kirkpatrick seeing the field in late October. Terrence Newman has played well, one measure of that is, we haven't seen the back of his jersey as often as we've seen Nate Clements'. Their top corner is coming off of an Achilles tear and didn't play in Washington. Someone finally threw the ice water on Zimmer and made him realize that Adam Jones needs to be out there at corner at all times and I don't mean nickel. Leon Hall, Jones and Kirkpatrick with Newman as your 4th corner with Jason Allen on the bench...all of a sudden that's a pretty good unit. Now the safety position... They need Kyle Cook back. They cannot run the ball inside of the guards (who are playing well) because Jeff Faine is getting beat to the punch 50% of the time. Marvin must have crawled in Jay Gruden's ear and camped out, because that's the most creative I've seen a Bengals playcaller since 2006. I've said since last season that Gruden is far too conservative and it's been hampering the offense, and apparently Marvin agreed with me. That was the most encouraging part of the game by far. The Bengals future is win-in-the-playoffs bright if Gruden keeps building on what he started on Sunday. Tackling and defense as a whole has been disgraceful all over the league. Is it because of less practice time and less physical practice due to the new CBA, or what? I'm waiting to see if defenses tighten up come week 7 or 8. Hopefully the Bengals' comes around much sooner than that.

That's true big-city life you're detailing. People wake up in London and other European major cities and see/smell the same things. Difference is, they walk outside and stroll to the subway while Cincinnatians catch a bus to a town hall forum to argue about a 3 mile streetcar.

Cops circling the block in low-income communities further creases the divide from middle-class, Constitutionally protected America and the underbelly. Poor people spend 50% or more of their monthly income just to survive and are the fuel for the American prison industrial complex, a multibillion dollar industry that employs hundreds of thousands in a variety of capacities. Circling the block doesn't deter crime, casework and jobs accessible to members of low income communities does. When people in the area see guys go down in big numbers due to cases made by the Organized Crime unit, it puts everyone doing petty crimes on notice to chill out. What it doesn't do is stem any future upticks in crime because there is still nothing in the community to fill the void that economic vitality provides. Policing is 60% of any city's budget because it isn't executed efficiently. Many burglaries and other robberies occur in middle class areas, the same areas that cry about public safety at council meetings and will turn a city upside down in the interest of their agendas. Partitioning more police to these areas and focusing on casework and the day-to-day livability of main arteries such as Reading Road or California Avenue is getting more for your buck as a municipality, but police agencies really don't answer to anyone except judges. Can't forget about the awful response times in poor communities. How is it that police are always there, yet rarely ever respond to calls for service in an acceptably timely fashion, if at all? These Hyde Parkers might be surprised how many times Avondalers call the cops to report serious incidents and Cincinnati police never show up.

If Cleveland can't make something happen in Indianapolis on the 21st of October, look out for December 9th. The Chiefs won, but they're as bad a team as I've seen this year. I know the Saints are mad about 0-3, but I hate to tell them, they're a bad football team. That defense can't stop the run or the pass, and it wasn't good last year, so no reason to expect them to revert to the norm. The norm is a shaky pass defense with a moderate pass rush that does just enough on most weeks. With Sean Payton not calling plays and doing everything else any head coach does only better, this season has gotten away from them and they're already cashed out. They already lost to two mediocre NFC teams in Carolina and Washington, and just lost to the worst team in the NFL. The conference is stronger than it's been in 10 years and they're buried in their own division. New Orleans will have a top 5 pick in 2013, guaranteed.

Ohio has more state border covered in water than any other inland state outside of Michigan. Reputation or lack thereof might be Ohio's biggest hurdle on the path to relevance.