Great, we’ll be out of our top goal scorer for six league games… But after our 1-0 extra time win against Cleveland in our opening game of our miraculous Open Cup run, guess who we draw. That’s right, Loisville. And guess who gets to play, that’s right Djiby. While the game itself was rather sparsely attended and the match was not the most eventful, we did pull out the 1-0 victory with the goal coming from the man himself, Djiby. If that’s not justice I don’t know what is.

Then we have our two away matches. While the first game down at the farm club was a victory on the field, it was filled with a little bit of craziness off the field. This is where the now infamous steamers began. Some of us in the traveling Bailey brought a few, harmless rolls of streamers to throw out at the beginning of the match. No harm, right? It’s not like they didn’t stick way out in left field, oh wait they did. For some reason there was quite a bit of hate following upstream on Twitter because of these streamers. So we do what we do best, and we bring in a bunch of streamers to the next game. While I don’t want to steal the thunder of Mike Madanat’s story, the gist is that we had the entire first row of our fans thrown out of Louisville Slugger Field because of these streamers.

These past two years have been filled with a lot of craziness both on the field and off between these two teams and fans. Saturday begins the third year of the Dirty River Derby; Saturday we get to see who is the more dominant team. If I was you, I’d keep my eyes on the Bailey before the game; this year’s tifo is going to be sweet.

- Peter Wietmarschen