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Well, That Hurt

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There are times when I am not sure I am in sync with Tennyson’s “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”, at least to the extent one applies it to rooting for a sports team.

For most of my life I either was a fan of a really lousy baseball team or had no team at all to support, having grown up in or just outside of Washington DC. While painful, it was sort of a calm, comforting painful. Low intensity, though at the time I did not recognize it as such at the time.

However, this has now all changed. Over the last three years, the Nationals twice had the best record in the National League (once the best in baseball) sandwiched around a season where they were favored, and failed, to do that still a third time. In the two years they made the playoffs, they lost in the 5th game of the initial five-game playoff series, after leading 6-0, a game I attended in 2012, and lost in four, last night, by giving up one run on a bases-loaded walk and another on a wild pitch. At least this year, the loss was out-of-town and I merely watched it on TV in tense agony until it ended after midnight.

By the way am I the only person who seems to wake-up around the same time no matter when I go to sleep?

Well, That Hurt

There is No Place Like Gnome

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So Friday morning when I woke up early, something I unfortunately seem to have inherited from my father who also was an early rising, when I went to my home/office and looked at my computer keyboard I found a gnome hat, made by my wonderful wife Ellen.

So naturally the first thing I did was take a selfie.

Gnome-atude

 

There is No Place Like Gnome

Walk(ing) Off Wins

So for the last three days (and evenings) Ellen and I have walked to Nationals Park from the Gallery Place Metro, a slightly more than two mile walk. And each day (and evening) the Nationals… Walk(ing) Off Wins

Our June 2014 Visit to Hilton Head, Baseball Are Us – Part I

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We have been trying to visit Ellen’s parents every three to four months.

When we used to visit them when our kids were younger, we would generally drive. When the kids left the house, we tended to fly (to Savannah, where Ellen’s parents would pick us up). Now we have returned to driving there, however we try and see things and places each time.

For example, during a previous trip we stopped by Asheville, NC to see the Biltmore, the largest private home in the US, built by a Vanderbilt at the end of the 19th century. This trip our non-Hilton Head focus was baseball.

Our June 2014 Visit to Hilton Head, Baseball Are Us – Part I

We Are Cornhole

Ellen and I try to visit Ellen’s parents in Hilton Head on a regular basis. They are really wonderful people, I am lucky to know them, and they are fun to be with (and visiting Hilton Head even if one does not play golf is pretty good also).

Lately we have switched back to driving from flying down taking the opportunity to see sights on the way that in the past we either drove by or flew over.

When we go next in June, we plan to see minor league baseball games both going there and coming home.

We Are Cornhole

The Beginning of the Nationals 2014 Season

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So yesterday, Saturday, March 29th, we were able to experience two aspects of the Nationals preceding the Monday opening day game against the New York Mets in New York.

We first attended the rainy ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Southeast Washington, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/wp/2014/03/29/ribbon-cut-on-nationals-youth-baseball-academy-in-southeast/.

The Beginning of the Nationals 2014 Season

My Second Mention in the Washington Post

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One of my now favorite sports writers for the Washington Post, Tracee Hamilton, wrote a column today, Olympic hockey rules for overtime and shootouts, 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/olympics/wp/2014/02/15/olympic-hockey-rules-for-overtime-and-shootouts/.

This followed the dramatic eight round shoot-out, technically in International Hockey referred to as Game Winning Shots (GWS), where the U.S. beat Russia in a preliminary round game in hockey 3-2.

My Second Mention in the Washington Post