As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Thursday, August 31, 2017

August 29, 2017 – Nats 8, Marlins 3 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 25,924
Game Time: 3:11
Weather: 66 degrees, rain
Wind: 14 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Greg Gibson, First Base - Sam Holbrook, Second Base - D.J. Reyburn, Third Base - Jim Wolf
Seventh-inning stretch song: Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5
 
Game notes – Edwin Jackson had a tough and lengthy first inning, giving up a long tater to Giancarlo Stanton and subsequently walking the bases loaded … managed to escape that jam and only gave up one more run through the 6th … Nats finally got to nemesis Vance Worley (who had beaten them twice earlier in the month while allowing only one run), scoring in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th to take a 5-2 lead into the 7th … biggest blow in the rally was a clutch two-out, two-run single by Murph in the bottom of the 3rd … Jackson lasted 4 batters into the 7th, leaving with one run in and the bases loaded, but Perez and Albers combined to retire Yelich, Ozuna, and Realmuto without allowing any further damage … Nats took full advantage of their similar opportunity in the bottom of the inning on a 2-out, 3-run double by Rendon
 
Other – it was raining both when we got on Metro (around 4:00) and when we arrived several minutes before the gates opened just after 5 … the new Skittles tarp was on, and it kept raining while we waited for a seat at the facility formerly known as the Red Porch Restaurant, as well as when we were dining … they announced a delayed start (7:30) while we were eating, and it had pretty much stopped raining when we went back outside shortly before 7 … did get some light-to-moderate rain in the first inning, but nothing after that … actual attendance was significantly under the number of tickets sold, given the weather, so plenty of Harper Starting Lineup Action Figures remain available

Monday, August 28, 2017

Serendipity #71


Save It For A Rainy Day – The Jayhawks


Heard 8/28/2017 around 11:35 at Cava Grill (Montgomery Mall)

August 27, 2017 – Mets 6, Nats 5 (Game 1 of split double-header) – Nationals Park



Attendance: 31,904
Game Time: 3:34
Weather: 75 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 6 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Andy Fletcher, First Base - Ramon DeJesus, Second Base - Nic Lentz, Third Base - Bill Welke
Seventh-inning stretch song:  The Twist – Chubby Checker 

Game notes – Nats fell into an early hole when emergency starter Erick Fedde yielded an infield single, hit batter and 3-run homer (by Asdrubal Cabrera) before retiring a batter in the first … a 2-run shot by Wilmer Flores made it 5-0 in the third … Nats fought back in the middle innings and finally tied the game in the bottom of the seventh, but Amed Rosario homered off Joe Blanton in the 8th for what turned out to be the winning run … Nats provided some excitement with two outs in the 9th, when Lind got a pinch single and Murphy doubled, but pinch-runner Edwin Jackson was thrown out at the plate to end the game … Fedde did manage to get through 6 innings for Washington … Terry Collins managed like it was Game 7 of the World Series, lifting starter Tommy Milone in the 5th after 82 pitches, then using 5 relievers to get through the 7th before turning to closer A.J. Ramos for a 6-out save