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.)

Monday, March 17, 2014

March 16, 2014 – Pirates 5, Phillies 0 – Clearwater FL



Weather: 79 degrees, sunny.
Wind: 24 mph, R to L.
T: 2:40.
Att: 10,544 [another sellout at Bright House Field]
Umpires: HP: Tom Hallion. 1B: Phil Cuzzi. 3B: Vic Carapazza.

Section 102, Row 10, Seat 2 (further down the RF line than Thursday) 

Question – why in Clearwater do they drag the infield after the second and fifth innings, rather than the typical third and sixth?

My request for better seventh-inning stretch music was not exactly honored – they did “Y.M.C.A.” instead of “Cotton-Eyed Joe”. They did redeem themselves by putting on Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” at the end of the seventh.

A flock of seagulls (15 or so – the real thing rather than the musical variety) landed in shallow center field just before the seventh inning, and basically hung around for most of the game. Presumably all of the sitting room on the berm was occupied by humans.   ;-)

Given the impotence of the Phils offense, the gulls ranked as one of the highlights of the afternoon. There were also 5 hit batters, leading to a warning to both benches in the top of the seventh. Will be interesting to see whether any ill feelings carry over – the teams still play each other once more in Florida, plus two more exhibition games in Philly right before the start of the regular season.

Meanwhile, the Bucs scored runs of each of the 3 Phils pitchers who will or might make the team (O’Sullivan, Papelbon, Bastardo), with a Neil Walker homer in the seventh finishing off the scoring. Two pitchers from the minor league camp, Mike Nesseth and Kyle Simon, did retire the last 7 Pittsburgh batters of the afternoon.

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