So could the 24,719 fans who have watched the Reds blow one game after another all season at Cinergy Field.
The Reds blew a 5-1 lead when shortstop Felipe Lopez threw away a grounder, allowing the Phillies to tie it with a four-run rally in the eighth.
The Reds blew a five-run lead for the first time all season, helping the Tigers pull off their biggest comeback.
REDS HOLD OFF DODGERS Paul Janish singled home the tie-breaking run in the bottom of the eighth, and the host Cincinnati Reds blew a six-run lead before rallying to an 11-9 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
REDS OUTLAST GIANTS The Cincinnati Reds blew a nine-run lead, then regrouped and rallied past the host San Francisco Giants, 12-11, on Joey Votto's tie-breaking single in the 12th inning.
The Reds blew a 3-0 leat at Selhurst Park and now top the table by a point from Manchester City, who have a game in hand and a superior goal difference.
However, in a game against the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds on July 31, the Reds blew a 4 1 late-game lead and lost the game 5 4.
I firmly believe it was that paragraph that drew me, by some deep-buried motivational drive, to find a job, in 1983 (another austere year) in southern California, in the lee of the San Gabriel mountains where the red winds blow.
In the regions marked with red pentacle, blow lozenge, black circ, and green box, RwNw, RwNo, RoNw, and RoNo achieve the lowest delay among the four methods, respectively.
Read = red, and blew = blue.
