Comic of the Day #7 – July 5, 2017

A little blogger humor

 

http://shermanslagoon.com/comics/july-5-2017/

July 4, 2017 – Nats 11, Mets 4 – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/240394836/daniel-murphy-nationals-beat-mets/?topicId=27118414

 

Attendance: 37,120

Game Time: 3:17

Weather: 84 degrees, cloudy

Wind: 3 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Carlos Torres, First Base - John Libka, Second Base - Dana DeMuth, Third Base - Paul Nauert

Seventh-inning stretch song: Living In America – James Brown

 

Section 220, Row H, Seat 17 – club level (a long story) behind first base, in the shade

 

Highlights – after giving up a homer to the first batter he faced and allowing multiple baserunners in each of the first 4 innings, Joe Ross completed 7 innings, allowing only 2 runs … Nats started scoring in the third on 2-out RBI singles by Harper and Murphy … also put up curly numbers in the 5^th, 6^th, and 8^th, notching double-digit runs for the 14^th time this season … Met-killer Murphy wound up with 4 hits and 5 RBI … Rockettes put on a short performance before the game, and another one between innings

 

Other – “be sure to drive over the white box on the way out of the parking lot”

Everyone is mad at everyone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/everyone-is-mad-at-everyone/2017/07/02/59a66bd4-5db0-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html?utm_term=.379a03b11611

 

Robert Samuelson, on declining confidence in government, soaring political polarization, and the “messy middle”.