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seanchai via phone, I went to the Nationals vs. Cubs game at the new Nationals Stadium. Fittingly, since I was wearing my 67th fighter squadron "Fighting Cocks" t-shirt, (it being my only red shirt and the Nationals colors being red and blue), it was Armed Forces Appreciation Night. Steve would have approved. (aslo, they played the "armed forces medley" arrangement, familiar to me from every single middle school and high school band concert of my childhood).
They had a Navy musician singing the national anthem, a guy with a really deep, resonant baritone (the first time I'd ever heard a guy sing it at a sporting event instead of a soprano), and he did an awesome job, up to and including resisting the impulse to add a second, higher "look at me I'm a show-off" note to the end of "land of the free."
It's been something like 15 years since I'd been to a baseball game - compared to basketball, they're both endless and a lot more relaxed. The ball doesn't change hands, players don't get pulled out the the game for accidentally-on-purpose shoving each other, and the scores are much lower and less frequent (final score was Nats 5 - Cubs 3, whereas basketball games regularly have scores in the 30s by the end of the first half).
On the other hand, the food is better.
seanchai via phone, I went to the Nationals vs. Cubs game at the new Nationals Stadium. Fittingly, since I was wearing my 67th fighter squadron "Fighting Cocks" t-shirt, (it being my only red shirt and the Nationals colors being red and blue), it was Armed Forces Appreciation Night. Steve would have approved. (aslo, they played the "armed forces medley" arrangement, familiar to me from every single middle school and high school band concert of my childhood).They had a Navy musician singing the national anthem, a guy with a really deep, resonant baritone (the first time I'd ever heard a guy sing it at a sporting event instead of a soprano), and he did an awesome job, up to and including resisting the impulse to add a second, higher "look at me I'm a show-off" note to the end of "land of the free."
It's been something like 15 years since I'd been to a baseball game - compared to basketball, they're both endless and a lot more relaxed. The ball doesn't change hands, players don't get pulled out the the game for accidentally-on-purpose shoving each other, and the scores are much lower and less frequent (final score was Nats 5 - Cubs 3, whereas basketball games regularly have scores in the 30s by the end of the first half).
On the other hand, the food is better.