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.)

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

May 23, 2016 – Mets 7, Nationals 1 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 31,264
Game Time: 2:33 (start was delayed 1 hour and 10 minutes due to rain)
Weather: 61 degrees, cloudy
Wind: 1 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Bill Welke, First Base - Vic Carapazza, Second Base - D.J. Reyburn, Third Base - John Hirschbeck
 
Section 409, Row F, Seats 3-4 – upper level, looking down the right field line (sort of the mirror image of our old section 416, but just to the third base side of the press box)
 
Highlights – smooth trip down on Metro … arrived in plenty of time to snag the “Max Scherzer No-Hitter Bobblehead (piece #1 of 2)” … weather wasn’t bad once the game started, with none of the predicted thunderstorms … Nats jumped out to a quick lead on first-inning singles by Werth, Murphy, and Zimmerman
 
Other – tarp was on when we arrived, with rain starting shortly thereafter (our seats were under the overhang, but wind managed to blow the rain in anyway) … Mets struck for 5 in the third, on a 3-run David Wright homer followed by 3 straight singles and a sac fly … added 2 more in the fifth on back-to-back homers by Cespedes and Walker … headed out in the top of the 7th to have plenty of time for Metro trip back … missed Red Line train by about 30 seconds, so had to wait 22 minutes for the next one … almost didn’t get out of the Shady Grove parking lot since the machine didn’t want to react to either of our Smart Trip cards (fortunately my Visa card worked)

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