Commentary from
Washington Post columnist Allan Sloan on the (now official) Republican
Presidential nominee
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
July 16, 2016 – Harrisburg Senators 4, Altoona Curve 2 (12 innings) – PNG Field
http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20160716&content_id=190049704&fext=.jsp&vkey=recap&sid=t452
(story)
Umpires: HP: Derek Gonzales. 1B: Mike
Wiseman. 3B: Richard Riley.
Weather: 86 degrees, clear.
Wind: 9 mph, Varies.
Time: 3:54.
Attendance: 6,096.
Section 212, Row 11, Seats 7-9 (first row in
second level, great view down third base line)
Highlights – Senators took an early lead on
a third-inning homer by light-hitting infielder Stephen Perez … each team
notched a single tally in the fourth … Altoona finally tied it with a run in
the bottom of the seventh … Senators won it in the 12th with RBI
hits by Wilmer Difo and Andrew Stevenson … Curve outfielder Barrett Barnes was
a HR short of hitting for the cycle
Other – No DH, since two National League
teams were playing … Harrisburg starter Phillips Valdez walked 6 and didn’t
make it through the fourth inning … a couple of light showers in the late
innings … post-game fireworks went off as planned despite the long game
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
July 11, 2016 – Frederick Keys 11, Winston-Salem Dash 7 – Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium
Umpires: HP: Chris Scott. 1B: Chris Marco.
Weather: 82 degrees, partly cloudy.
Wind: 1 mph, Varies.
First pitch: 2:03 PM.
Time: 2:56.
Attendance: 3,228.
Section 203, Row J, Seat 1 – third row in
front of the concourse (in the shade), not too far down the first base line
Highlights – in the three Keys games I’ve
seen this year (all victories), they’ve scored 8, 12, and 11 runs … this was a
game Earl Weaver would have loved, as most of the Frederick runs came via a
third-inning grand slam by Cameron Kneeland and a three-run shot in the sixth
by D.J. Stewart … relievers Jeff Beliveau and Ryan Meisinger blanked the
visitors over the last 4 innings, fanning 7 … weather was wonderful, as was the
traffic both ways
Other – Winston-Salem had a 7-5 lead after
4, as Frederick starter Franderlin Romero was battered for 10 hits and 6 runs
in 3⅔ innings … didn’t seem as if there were close to 3,000 actual bodies in
the stands
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Shuffle #90 (July 9, 2016)
Not Where It’s
At – Del Amitri
Johnny B.
Goode – Chuck Berry
Enter Sandman
– Metallica
You Can’t
Win – James Hunter
Whole Lotta
Love – Led Zeppelin
The Work
Song – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Love Is A
Tangle – The Radiators
Saturday
Night At The Movies – The Drifters
Rainy Days
And Mondays – The Carpenters
Sad Sad Girl
And Boy – The Impressions
Friday, July 8, 2016
Shuffle #89 (July 8, 2016)
No Future In
Your Eyes – Ace
Rockit –
Herbie Hancock
Lovely Day –
Bill Withers
Dedicated To
The One I Love – The Shirelles
It’s
Different For Girls – Joe Jackson
Can’t Hold
Us – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Carmelita –
Warren Zevon
Gypsy Queen
(Part One) – Gypsy
Like The
Weather – 10,000 Maniacs
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Email, Email, Email …
Comey’s
extraordinary remarks (usual excellent take from Post columnist Ruth Marcus)
The email
lesson for Ms. Clinton (Post editorial)
Question to ponder: if FBI Director James Comey decided to
run for President and somehow managed to get on the ballot in all 50 states,
how well would he do?
July 5, 2016 – Brewers 5, Nationals 2 – Nationals Park
Attendance: 25,138
Game Time: 2:52
Weather: 89 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 7 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Jeff Nelson, First
Base - Greg Gibson, Second Base - Nic Lentz, Third Base - Cory Blaser
Highlights – it didn’t rain … Nats did get
12 hits … traffic both down and back was better than usual … had a good time
despite the quality of baseball (see below)
Other – shoddy fielding, questionable
base-running, gopher-prone pitching, very little clutch hitting (Brewers lefty
Will Smith came in to fan Harper with 2 out and the bases loaded in the
seventh) … only 25,000 folks were interested in the Bryce Harper Chia Pet
giveaway … humidity increased steadily as the game went on
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Monday, July 4, 2016
July 3, 2016 – Nationals 12, Reds 1 – Nationals Park
Attendance: 37,328
Game Time: 3:08
Weather: 75 degrees, cloudy
Wind: 1 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Adrian Johnson, First
Base - Ramon DeJesus, Second Base - Gary Cederstrom, Third Base - Eric Cooper
Seventh-inning stretch song: Can’t Stop The
Feeling – Justin Timberlake
Highlights – in his return from the DL,
Strasburg pitched 6 ⅔ hitless innings … Nats tied team record with 6 homers in
the game, starting with a Wilson Ramos solo shot in the second … for the second
time in 4 games, Danny Espinosa hit homers from each side of the plate,
including a grand slam each time, totaling 15 RBI for the series (2 short of
the major league record)
Other – was hot in the sun initially despite
the mild temp, overcast and muggy later, with some light rain the last couple
innings and on the way home … we arrived prior to the gates opening, beating
most of the traffic and in time to get autograph vouchers (Rivero and Solis) …
cheesesteak was better than I expected
Mary Chapin Carpenter w/ The Milk Carton Kids – Wolf Trap, 7/2/2016
Row J, Seat
33 (almost dead center)
It was
encouraging to see Mary Chapin Carpenter come on to the stage Saturday evening
with four bandmates, including longtime mainstays Jon Carroll and Don Dixon.
She quickly confirmed that the energetic Chapin of yesteryear was back,
starting with the two most upbeat songs from her latest album (“Map Of My Heart”
and “Something Tamed Something Wild”) and following those with “Passionate
Kisses” and “Shut Up And Kiss Me”. My personal favorite “Stones In The Road”
followed. The stretch of more contemplative material that came next was a little
long and might have been better broken into two pieces, but she picked things
up again with “I Feel Lucky” and “The Bug” (which I don’t recall her performing
in quite a while), before concluding the main set with “The Hard Way”.
The crowd
seemed to fill most of the lower level at least of the house, although its energy
level didn’t match that of the headliner; almost no one rose for the initial
encore (“He Thinks He’ll Keep Her”), and she had to coax everyone to stand for “Down
At The Twist And Shout”. Perhaps getting the message, she decided to do a solo
acoustic version of the title track from her 2016 CD The Things That We Are Made Of to send everyone home.
The Milk
Carton Kids, a new personal favorite of mine, contributed an equally fine
45-minute opening set. With two guys, two acoustic guitars, and one microphone,
the comparisons to early (pre-electric) Simon & Garfunkel are quite apt,
with some great between-songs banter (particularly prior to “Charlie”) that does
bring to mind the Smothers Brothers. I especially enjoyed “Monterey”, “The Ash
& Clay”, and “The City Of Our Lady”, but there really wasn’t a weak spot in
the entire 9-song set, and the vast majority of the crowd was both attentive
and appreciative throughout.
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