We recently checked game No. 17 off our BaseCrawl list. We spent a cool, calm Wednesday evening in Cincinnati, watching the home team lose yet again and enjoying the view from "Club Red" in center field at the Great American Ball Park.

Pictured above is Troy holding a sign at Club Red that says "from." In case you're wondering, the BaseCrawl crew has been writing one word on a dry-erase board at every game. When this journey is over there will be two complete, 30-word phrases that will play like sticky-note animation. Each word will appear with a different ball park as the backdrop. If you're really bored, you might even be able to figure out most of the phrases right now by checking out Nolan's flickr photo gallery, Troy's Webshots gallery, Daren's Smugmug gallery or our combined Picasa photo album.

Troy has published a new blog that he was reluctant to write, but promised several people. It explains why we were quiet for many days and covers some of the weird things that are happening to our bodies. But this truly is the final word about how hard it is to be us.

If you want to know how much harder it can be to attend one game in every ball park, check out the new link we've posted titled "Thirty on One." We met Cary Freels and his crew earlier on this journey. Cary has been riding a motorcycle to every Major League ball park this summer, raising money for the Livestrong Foundation. But unlike us, he's doing it in 40 days, not 75. And he doesn't have anyone to help him take the wheel.

We're off to the Louisville Slugger Museum, then it's a game between the Phillies and Daren's Mets on Independence Day.

We recently passed the halfway point on this baseball road trip, and to mark the occasion Daren has written a new blog ranking all the ballparks we've visited so far. Who's No. 1? Is it McAfee Coliseum or the Metrodome? Find out in "There's still 15 stadiums to go?!" And don't get upset if your favorite stadium didn't make the list, we haven't seen them all yet.

Our BaseCrawl has taken us to our first foreign land, but likely not our last (we intend to hit a minor league game in Mexico). We spent 24 hours in Toronto, visiting the cavernous Rogers Centre and wondering where did all the people go? We spent the night in a college dorm room before hitting the CN Tower the next day. You can see Troy's pictures from the Toronto game here, and Daren's here.

The trip back to the States took us by one of the coolest sites we've seen so far: Niagara Falls. We still haven't found out the cost of Daren's scalping citation, but the Verizon Wireless fraud department did call to inform us of a $730 bill for nominal use of our wireless Internet card while we were in a foreign country. We refuse to pay it, and if they come after us we're going back to Canada.

We are in Columbus, Ohio, staying with a close personal friend: Melanie.

On deck: Cincinnati.

Game 15 of our BaseCrawl marked the halfway point of this journey. We dragged our feet getting into Cleveland's Progressive Field, and spotted a man watching the game from the most unusual vantage point. He invited us to join him, and our experience watcing the game from a rooftop (shown above) is the subject of Troy's latest blog: The best seats come to those who wait

Troy cleared the cobwebs and also wrote a second blog after an 11-day absence. He adds his perspective to the incident where Daren was nearly cuffed and hauled off to jail for ticket scalping. The blog is titled: Is this guy really the problem? Don't forget to read Daren's original take on getting busted by the Chicago police in An Idiot's Guide to ticket scalping.

For our forthcoming video pod, we spent the day exploring the topic of fireworks and the unfortunate controversy surrounding Chief Wahoo that tempers Cleveland's place in America's pastime.

In other updates, Troy has posted a few new pictures from Cleveland that accompany his latest blog.

We've also spent some time over the past few days correcting and restoring our archives section. You can cycle through the history of this project any time by clicking on the archives tab. But for now you can also catch up on all our BaseCrawl ups and downs here:

5.27 Welcome to Big League BaseCrawl
5.29 Oakland lays an egg for the Blue Jays
5.31 Now that's baseball in the bay
6.1 Angels win with a rally (monkey)
6.2 Ballpark food for thought
6.5 Goodbye Nolan and goodbye West Coast
6.9 Many, many miles later ... only two remain
6.12 What a Royal mess
6.15 Is there a baseball game in Omaha?
6.17 St. Louis and the perils of traveling
6.18 Now that's music to our ears
6.21 Nolan returns to see the Minnesota Twins
6.22 It's Miller Time with Brewers fans
6.24 Detroit and a bad case of fatigue
6.26 Father knows best (about the Cubbies)
6.27 Cops bust Daren in scalping sting

6.27 Cops bust Daren in scalping sting

This is not a joke.

Our BaseCrawl's very own Daren Many (pictured above with citation) was apprehended by undercover cops Friday outside of U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago and nearly hauled off to jail (or so they threatened).

The game featured the White Sox vs. the Cubs -- storied crosstown rivals who created a hot ticket. We've been to 14 Major League Baseball stadiums so far, and everywhere we've gone we've noticed scores of so-called "scalpers" day-trading tickets and reaping the margins.

So we decided the subject of our storytelling here should be ticket scalping. We decided to partake in emersion journalism to accomplish this task, and when Daren attempted to sell extra tickets we had been gouged on through StubHub, he was accosted by four cops who were none to happy.

Daren was wearing a wireless mic, and the whole confrontation was caught on tape, including all the F-bombs and foul language the cops felt necessary to spew upon Daren. You can read Daren's detailed account of the confrontation in his latest blog: An Idiot's Guide to Scalping Tickets.

In the end, Daren was just fined and released, but the officers took his two tickets and replaced them with another kind of ticket -- one that might cost several hundred dollars.

We'd love to mention more about the actual game, but right now we're too busy trying to figure out how to pay for this mess ...