\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMuch like the Reds, bars and restaurants at The Banks have their Opening Day rosters ready.It’s the biggest business day of the year, where a single bar can do six figures in sales.There’s a forecasted high of 80 degrees Thursday and enough drinks stocked in bars to last a lifetime. But at The Banks, all those drinks won’t even last the whole day. Bars like Holy Grail will restock, buying beer from cooler trucks out back. It’s Manager Nick Ramsey’s 16th Opening Day. He knows it’ll be standing room only by 10 a.m.”There’s not a better party in Cincinnati than Opening Day. And there’s not a better Opening Day in the country than Cincinnati’s,” Ramsey said. Payton and Emma are UC students, buying new Reds caps Tuesday. They’re planning to watch the parade in person and the game on TV at The Banks.”We’re from like the Lawrenceburg, Indiana area, so like getting down here to Opening Day, getting through the traffic and stuff is just not something I want to do, but now that we live up here, it’s easier to just grab an Uber and come down here,” Payton Beard said.There’s other final touches, too. It may be plastic turf, but even The Banks’ grass gets a gardener.And at the ballpark, Tom Tsuchiya is focusing on his Marty Brennaman statue.”Well, he’s stronger than before, he’s a lot more durable to all sorts of the elements out there in the world,” Tsuchiya said.A new microphone is the same bronze, but “beefier” after it was ripped off last year by a 13-year-old vandal.”That was important. We knew that Marty had to be back here on Opening Day,” Tsuchiya said. “Well, I hope they do tremendous. It’s great to see Suarez back.”Tsuchiya was at Opening Day 2025. This year, he’ll be busy in his studio, working on plaques for the Reds Hall of Fame.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Much like the Reds, bars and restaurants at The Banks have their Opening Day rosters ready.<\/p>\n
It’s the biggest business day of the year, where a single bar can do six figures in sales.<\/p>\n
There’s a forecasted high of 80 degrees Thursday and enough drinks stocked in bars to last a lifetime. But at The Banks, all those drinks won’t even last the whole day. <\/p>\n
Bars like Holy Grail will restock, buying beer from cooler trucks out back. It’s Manager Nick Ramsey’s 16th Opening Day. He knows it’ll be standing room only by 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
“There’s not a better party in Cincinnati than Opening Day. And there’s not a better Opening Day in the country than Cincinnati’s,” Ramsey said. <\/p>\n
Payton and Emma are UC students, buying new Reds caps Tuesday. They’re planning to watch the parade in person and the game on TV at The Banks.<\/p>\n
“We’re from like the Lawrenceburg, Indiana area, so like getting down here to Opening Day, getting through the traffic and stuff is just not something I want to do, but now that we live up here, it’s easier to just grab an Uber and come down here,” Payton Beard said.<\/p>\n
There’s other final touches, too. It may be plastic turf, but even The Banks’ grass gets a gardener.<\/p>\n
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And at the ballpark, Tom Tsuchiya is focusing on his Marty Brennaman statue.<\/p>\n
“Well, he’s stronger than before, he’s a lot more durable to all sorts of the elements out there in the world,” Tsuchiya said.<\/p>\n
A new microphone is the same bronze, but “beefier” after it was ripped off last year by a 13-year-old vandal.<\/p>\n
“That was important. We knew that Marty had to be back here on Opening Day,” Tsuchiya said. “Well, I hope they do tremendous. It’s great to see Suarez back.”<\/p>\n
Tsuchiya was at Opening Day 2025. This year, he’ll be busy in his studio, working on plaques for the Reds Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much like the Reds, bars and restaurants at The Banks have their Opening Day rosters ready.It’s the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[18158,7563,26394,5,535,50,4259,82138,82137,2138,14,9719,4,1406,16565,25529,11061,536,42954,27499,22801,82136,82139,82140,1319],"class_list":["post-642126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-banks","tag-bar","tag-bars","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-emma","tag-enough-drink","tag-fan","tag-game","tag-marty-brennaman","tag-mlb","tag-opening-day","tag-payton","tag-person","tag-plan","tag-reds","tag-reds-opening-day","tag-statue","tag-the-banks","tag-tom-tsuchiya","tag-uc-student","tag-well-party","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116288288557239542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}