1st Place!?!? Feels...

.... oddly unsettling.

I better get this post up quickly because you never know how long it will last, but after back to back wins over the hated Cardinals your Cincinnati Reds find themselves atop the NL Central for the first time in... well I'm not going to take the time to look it up, but it's been f*cking forever. What I can tell you is that this is the latest in the season the Reds have led the division since 2006. Wow.

That's a long time. A lot of stuff has happened since then.

Like what exactly? Well I'm glad you asked.

Since the last time the Reds led the division this late in a season:
- The IPhone is released and makes rich college kids feel extra cool.
- Dexter premiers on Showtime and becomes the best show on TV.
- Rachael Ray becomes a household name and a leading candidate for the "Would you.." game between guys. Yes, I would.
- Monday Night Football moves to ESPN.
- The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean movies make more money than 20% of the countries in the world.
- Kevin Garnett finally wins an NBA title (before he became the role player he is today).
- The Departed wins an Academy Award for Best Movie Ever.
- Mel Gibson is arrested for DUI. To improve his image after this embarrassment he blasts Jewish people, goes insane, tries to come back, fails.
- Chris Hanson catches predators and develops an uncanny ability to get people to "have a seat right there."
- The Nintendo Wii is released. Idiots launch controllers into TV's. The Nintendo Wii Controller Wrist Safety Strap is released.
- MLB produces the Mitchell Report naming all players that have used or are using steroids.
- The United States suffers through its worst economic recession since the Great Depression.
- Hollywood writers go on strike producing more reality TV including 10 seasons of Survivor, 5 Real World/Road Rules challenges, 1 Howie Mandell, and 7 guido's STDing it up in Jersey.
- UK basketball fires Tubby Smith, hires Billy Clyde, fires Billy Clyde, hires John Calipari.
- Tiger Woods becomes #1 on the "Men Women Hate the Most" chart.
- Michael Jackson moonwalks one last time.
- The Hills on MTV becomes insanely popular sends Lauren Conrad straight into the bedrooms of horny teens everywhere.
- Twilight makes vampires seem cool. They really aren't though.
- Kanye West makes Taylor Swift cry.
- The United States of America elects its first African American president, Barack Obama.


Needless to say, us Reds fans have waited awhile to be relevant again.

Brian "oh and 'Megan Fox' became the number 1 google 2 years in a row" Reinhart