I knew for the past two days there was something different about Great American Ball Park, and I finally figured out what it is. They built this gigantic party deck on top of the batter’s eye in center field, a two-level structure designed to look exactly like a riverboat, but it’s a bit of an eyesore, to be frank. And, it obscures the big courthouse across the river in Newport, Ky., a beautiful domed building which used to be the centerpiece of this ballpark’s backdrop. Now, all you see is a hillside with a big water tower on top of it. This was never a great ballpark to begin with, but it sure beats the you-know-what out of that monstrosity they used to play in next door. What an awful place. I saw more different species of spiders in three years of working in that dump than I ever knew existed. … Haven’t seen the lineup yet, but I know Delwyn Young and Olmedo Saenz are in it. Hey, anything to shake things up, right?