...And This One Belongs To The Reds!

So here was my dilemma; some of my friends and I had just moved out of our house to a place down the road, and we were without cable with baseball season about three days out. No, I didn't panick. I didn't start hyperventilating into a brown paper bag. Well... okay, I came close, but a very simple idea soon came to me that pacified my very warranted anxiety.

I delivered pizza for about five years from high school through college, and my favorite thing in the world was, and still is, listening to Marty Brennaman call Reds games on the radio. Even when I have the game on television I usually mute Chris Welsch and turn on the radio to hear Marty and Jeff both praise and criticize my team; however, at this time in my life I was without a radio except in my car. I literally sat in my car for three hours outside my place listening to a spring training game. This; however, couldn't continue. I could talk my roomies into splitting the cost of cable with me, but none of us watch TV, so we would be paying for cable just for baseball, which is a pretty damn good reason in my opinion, but not gonna happen. or, I COULD BUY A RADIO!

I remember listening to Reds games on old analog radios when I was a kid, so I didn't want some digital cd/mp3/mp4/blue ray/xm/retinal scanner that happens to pick up am stations. No, I wanted an old fashioned analog radio with turn dials and everything. No heat sensing on/off switch, no digital channel memory, just a warm-sounding, vintage radio.

So I got on craigslist and found just that; a 1978 Sony AM/FM with a simulated wood finish about fifteen minutes drive from where I live. So I got in my car, drove there, and bought it for ten bucks. That very night I listened to Marty and the Reds beat the Brewers 7-6. By the way, what was with simulated wood in the 70s? Fake wooden paneling, fake wooden radios, fake wooden dashboards in cars; what's the deal?



...and this one belongs to the Reds!