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, July 10, 2017

July 9, 2017 – Nats 10, Braves 5 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 35,030
Game Time: 3:32
Weather: 80 degrees, sunny
Wind: 9 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Bruce Dreckman, First Base - Mike Everitt, Second Base - Chad Whitson, Third Base - Jordan Baker
Seventh-inning stretch song: Build Me Up Buttercup – The Foundations
 
Highlights – Nats jumped out in front with 3 in the first, keyed by a 2-out, 2-run double by should-have-been-All-Star Anthony Rendon, who reached base 4 times … after the Braves tied it in the third, Washington outscored them 7-2 the rest of the way … top of the order (Goodwin/Difo/Harper) reached base 8 times and scored 6 of the 10 runs … Murphy put things out of reach with a 2-out, 2-run double in the bottom of the 8th
 
Other – Nats starter Joe Ross gave up a 3-run homer to Nats-killer Freddie Freeman in the 3rd, then left an inning later with triceps tenderness (and sub-par fastball velocity)

Rain? We don’t have no stinkin’ rain!


 
At this point, I’m sure that thousands of words have been written and tweeted about the Nationals’ 3-hour “no rain” delay this past Thursday night. Chelsea Janes provided a nice summary here, hitting on the biggest failure with the following: “The rain delay was one thing. The lack of updates was another. With no explanation about why they were not playing despite the lack of precipitation, those inside the clubhouses and out were left to wonder about the Nationals’ motives.”

Serendipity #68


Feel It All – KT Tunstall


Heard 7/8/2017 around noon at Roti (Pike & Rose)