Dear Cincinnati Bengals,

Today I changed my diet and I will no longer be consuming orange and black kool-aid.I have just completed my witness of what you would have me believe was a professional football game vs the Baltimore Ravens.  Since the fall of 1968 there have been very few games that you have played that I have not seen or heard.  I didn't think it was possible but you have finally convinced me to turn off the NFL.  Like many fans, I look forward to and make preparations every Sunday to be entertained by outstanding athletes.  But no more, I refuse to invest my time and sanity in an organization that only takes and rarely gives.  The ownership of your team is just as arrogant as the few players that make a bad name for the game.  You put a lousy product out there for consumers and I for one refuse to accept it any longer.  I am leaving the NFL because I cannot bring myself to cheer for any other city but my home city.  I am willing to take the risk that this is an impulse decision and your successful season will prove me wrong.  I'm sure you will not miss me and yet I will be the greater for having broken this habit.  I have reclaimed my weekends and in doing so I have ensured myself of quality time with my family, better health and additional savings because I can cancel that anger management course.  Thank you for giving me my life back. 

Graduate of the Fool me 18 Seasons 12 step Program.

It got a little carried away with the projections of Jay Bruce batting 1.000 for the season, we all knew that was not going to happen.  But does anybody else see the pattern of one stolen base per game?  I'm pulling for 111 stolen bases.

Thank you for the rainout now bring on Cleveland.

It's true you have to beat the best to win a championship but why mess with the odds by sending Belisle up against a frustrated Marlins team that has already dropped three to the Reds.  The Reds sans Keppinger made good with Arroyo on the mound but history doesn't speak as highly for Belisle.  It is better to make this game up when the rotation is in our favor, let it rain.

It is said that our time here on terra firma is but a moment.   Whether it is by chance or intentional, your moment in time and mine have crossed paths. The uncommon portions of our moments will escape us both but the common areas will forever be etched in the cosmos.