Is that awesome or what?! Thanks Bob and silent Rob! I want to thank everyone for coming out last night and sweltering through record-breaking heat to watch another barn loss. I really thought the Nats were going to win through the first four innings. Michael Morse - two homeruns and a 5-1 lead! Who knew it would all fade away? You'd think I'd know by know no lead is ever completely safe. And please don't say the shout-out was the jinx, ... Continue Reading

I wrote a few items over at CSNwashington.com over the past few days, so here's a big catch-up! I'm still not sure how to balance posting here and over there, but I'm gradually getting the hang of things. Review of Cleveland and Throwback Night at Progressive Field Strasburg's 2nd MLB start Baseball for the Ladies BTW, the RSS feed for Nationals items over at CSN is here. Not all of my entries end up in it - it looks like some go in ... Continue Reading

We're only into the 2nd week of the season, but sources tell me I haven't been posting enough game stories. Sorry, I've been under a 24x7 assimilation process since the beginning of the year and discovering resistance is futile. My office has moved me (and ~400 others) to the mother ship downtown and my team has been responsible for moving all of the systems to a new data center (geek speak) and we're not quite finished yet (today?). Not an ... Continue Reading

The last Everclear photo I took last night Well, now that I've written it all out, it sounds kinda petty. Just dance, enjoy the show, and don't expect anything like courteous staff I guess. Like going to baseball games - buy the fan gear, sit in your seats, clap and cheer, but don't expect concessions to work smoothly, any effort on the part of the players, a win, or any appreciation of your efforts supporting the team for years? Nah, doesn't ... Continue Reading

We attended the Face2Face concert Saturday night, went to bed at 12:30 AM, got up at 3 AM to catch a flight out of BWI to Portland, OR Sunday morning. Once in Oregon, we then drove another 4 hours to get to our rental house and meet up with my family where we had a fire and chatted before crashing. We also discovered wifi in the house wasn't working and my iPhone could barely maintain an Edge connection -- same ... Continue Reading