Baseball and dating

I feel as though complimenting Howie Kendrick and Mike Rizzo again today might border on gloating (two home runs for the former last night and solid bullpen work set up by the latter), so let me shift a bit on Washington business.

One of my favorite features in my hometown rag (that’sĀ The Washington Post) is “Date Lab,” the paper’s matchmaking service usually good for a laugh. This week my friends have launched “Date Lab 2.0,” with new writers and apparently some greater focus on something. It isn’t exactly clear what.

This week we were treated to descriptions of four such dates, rather than the usualĀ one, and the difference in style was noticeable. The writers this week, all four of them, spent half their pieces writing about themselves, as though they were on the dates as well. Were they? I’m not sure.

One bit of good old-fashioned Date Lab remains. On one encounter, when complimenting his date’s sense of humor, “Alex tried to convince her that he had voted for [Donald Trump] and that he was a good president. ‘I think she knows I was joking and she was game,’ he said.”

Because anyone in Washington indicating he or she had voted for Trump is obviously joking, right? Trump! What a ridiculous notion. Might as well say you preferred the Nats’ old bullpen!

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My name is Mike O'Connell. I am 41 years old and live in Northern Virginia. I am a teacher, a musician, and an enthusiast of all things American.

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