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.)

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

April 17, 2019 – Cubs 6, Marlins 0 – Marlins Park


 
Weather: 80 degrees, Partly Cloudy.
Wind: 10 mph, L To R.
Umpires: HP--Ripperger, 1B--Kellogg, 2B--O'Nora, 3B--Hoye.
Time: 2:25
Attendance: 10,247
 
Section 15, Row 12, Seat 14 – 8 rows farther back than last night, just to the left of home plate
 
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was …
 
Cubs take an early lead, check. Scoreless drought for both teams in the middle innings, got it. Another Javy Baez homer in the top of the 8th, you bet. And I go oh-for-Miami in terms of the home team scoring a run.
 
There were a few differences. For one, this time the Cubs more or less broke the game wide open with a 4-spot in the 3rd off Sandy Alcantara, which started innocently enough with 2 outs and Kris Bryant on second.
 
Meanwhile, the Marlins went down 1-2-3 in six of their nine at-bats. Jorge Alfaro’s second-inning single was the home team’s only runner in the first 6 innings off Cole Hamels; he was promptly erased on a double play. They did mount a one-out rally in the 7th, with singles by Martin Prado and Alfaro sandwiched around a Bryant error. Things got more interesting when Hamels fell behind 3-0 to Starlin Castro, but he recovered to fan Castro and then retire Miguel Rojas.
 
I’d certainly recommend the pulled pork sandwich at La Pepa (one of two stands curated by José Andrés), a reasonable ballpark buy at $12. Having 25% more people Cubs fans meant that the in-game lines were longer than Tuesday, so I went to the La Familia stand out in the right field (shorter lines) to get my $3 Nathan’s hot dog after the fifth inning.

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