Extra Terrestrial Baseball Hero Lands in Cincinnati

Near the beginning of this year’s baseball season, Joey Votto, Canadian-born, longtime first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, made an unusual prediction on MLB’s official webpage. He wrote that on April 15, 14 games into the 2023 baseball season, extra terrestrials would arrive on Earth. He said it would take five months for us to learn to communicate and befriend them. He went on to say that play would resume in October and that the Reds would sweep the playoffs to become World Series Champs.

When I text a friend of mine who was

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struggling with the torture of knee replacement surgery in Cincinnati this fanciful tale she replied, “Well, looking forward to friendly extra terrestrials will give me something to live for. Actually, the Red’s winning the World Series seems more far fetched!”

The Reds haven’t been good for a very long time! The last time they ended the season with a winning record was 2013. But you know, maybe Votto knew something that the rest of us didn’t know. His dates were a little off, but for the first time in a very long time, the Red’s seem to be playing with skill,