Opening Day led to Every Day

While Opening Day is as good as a holiday in Cincinnati, it has an even more special meaning for Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune.

Portune will attend today’s game with his wife, Angie, and their children -- a tradition that started before there was a family.

“Our first date in 1985 was at a Reds game,” said Portune, who has vivid memories of that day.

“They were playing the Montreal Expos and there were three snow delays. In the 8th inning, the Reds were up by four runs and the third snow delay began and I asked Angie if she wanted to leave, whereupon she says incredulously, ‘What?! You want to leave before the last out!?’

"I knew then this was a match made in heaven.”