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, April 4, 2017

April 3, 2017 – Nationals 4, Marlins 2 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 42,744
Game Time: 2:47
Weather: 66 degrees, cloudy
Wind: 5 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Jerry Meals, First Base - Ron Kulpa, Second Base - Ed Hickox, Third Base - Chris Conroy
Seventh-inning stretch song: Can’t Stop The Feeling – Justin Timberlake
Section 133, Row UU, Seats 14-19 – lower level, about a third of the way down the right field line, top row, on the aisle, good view (did suffer a mid-game “beerfall” due to a spill in section above us)
 
Highlights – Strasburg tossed 7 efficient innings (63 strikes in 85 pitches) to get the win, allowing just 2 runs (both in the fourth inning) and 6 hits (2 of which were by Miami starting pitcher Edinson Volquez, a lifetime .082 hitter), with no walks and 3 Ks … Harper put the Nats on the board in the sixth with his fifth opening-day homer, and Adam Lind made his first Nats’ appearance count an inning later, with a pinch-hit two-run blast to give Washington the lead for good … Solis and newly-anointed closer Blake Treinen set the Marlins down 1-2-3 in the 8th and 9th to nail down the win … perfect weather for baseball, and the drives down and back were not nearly as bad as they could have been … food was good at the “Budweiser Brew House” sit-down restaurant in center field (still the Red Porch Restaurant to me), although getting and settling the charges took an excruciatingly long time
 
Other – Nats didn’t take advantage of early opportunities, failing to score in the first and fourth after getting their first two men on base … ballpark operations lagged far behind the baseball side (getting an F- from one frustrated fan on Twitter), as they were having “technical problems” with both their eCard and credit card processing … fans wanting to use cash found that the ATMs were down as well … it took one member of our party 55 minutes to get a pretzel and two sodas … to top off the frustration, the “Magic 8-Ball” giveaway  items were not distributed until fans exited (with vouchers distributed on the way in), causing lines to get out of the park … so far, more than 24 hours later, no apology to fans that I’ve been able to find, via either Twitter, email, or press release

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