First, read previous blog post.
Then, note score of Nationals game mere hours after post appeared.
That would be 15-2 Nats.
Fifteen!
Shamed ’em into it.
You’re welcome.
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Would someone please inform the Nationals that this is now a city in which our teams win games in April? Thanks.
My, my, how fortunes can change…
Was that the Caps and Wizards I saw this weekend, playing like winners well into April? Let this be a sign of things to come.
Yes, this was a good weekend for D.C. sports.
Good thing I went to bed at 10 last night knowing the Nats had a safe lead.
Much as folks around here love the Caps, Nats, and Wizards, there are really only two seasons in the D.C. area: football season and waiting for football season. “Waiting” got a little more real yesterday with the release of the Redskins’ schedule for 2018.
Just two primetime games for the ‘Skins this year, both Mondays and neither one at home. Columbus Day in New Orleans (that’s going to be a long wait that day), and December 3 in Philadelphia against the defending Super Bowl champions (wow, that’s weird to say).
Their playing the Eagles on the last day of the season, too, December 30 at FedEx Field.
Let’s hope that game actually means something.
Third overtime’s the charm for the Caps, Caps, Caps! But is this the real deal?
Or is it like the teasing breath of spring before the coldness of winter returns?
Temperature in Northern Virginia this morning… 35 degrees.
Never mind my local sports teams and their pathetic playoff woes. The teams to watch right now are in Philadelphia.
While I find it unlikely that the Flyers will beat the Penguins in their first-round matchup, the 76ers have a very real chance of making the NBA Finals. They’re the hottest team in basketball right now, and they’re playing like their looking to complete a Philly triple.
Philly triple?
You remember the Super Bowl, no? Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots.
College basketball? Villanova wins it all. (Villanova University is in Philly, by the way.)
Could the Sixers make for the improbable (and I believe unprecedented) Philly Triple?
If it happens, you heard it here first.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is leaving Congress so he can “spend more time with his family.” Oh give me a break. You’ve got a team of speechwriters and this is the best you can come up with? “Spending more time with my family” is the oldest line in the book. It’s more like how one would “retire” from Congress on Saturday Night Live, or perhaps a Mel Brooks movie.
Many years ago the late Joe Sullivan said he wanted to do a study of the real reason every time a politician said he was leaving office to “spend more time with his family.” He and I discussed this in about 2005. I said 100% of the time the real answer is… I thought I was going to lose.
I stand by my answer.
(By the way, this whole exchange is included in the “monologue” track on Live ‘n On Q.)
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go spend some time with my family.
Breaking news this week… cereal companies are returning to their traditional sugary recipes following several years of slumping sales of “healthy” option cereals with “natural” ingredients and all that jazz.
Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes (love writing that) from General Mills and Chocolate Frosted Flakes from Kellogg are among those in this new wave of good taste. That drab-colored Trix unveiled a few years ago? Bye.
Oh, there are still healthy cereals out there. That’s what a free market does. But food makers, please… don’t replace the good stuff with things the government wants us to buy.
This is America, dang it, and we won’t stand for it!
Shohei Ohtani is the biggest story in sports this week, this month, and if things continue, it would not be a stretch to say this century.
Shohei Ohtani? The Japanese Babe Ruth.
If Ruth could run like Carl Lewis.
A week does not make a career, but good Lord. Ohtani made his second major league start yesterday, and took a perfect game into the 7th inning. In seven complete he had 12 strikeouts with one walk and one hit. This was his second win of the young season, his first coming last Sunday when he yielded a pedestrian three hits and three runs over six innings.
Did I mention he hit three home runs this week moonlighting as a designated hitter?
This is not real.
Pitching I could see. New guy in a new league could fool batters a couple times around. But hitting .389 with three home runs? That’s no fluke. That’s no gimmick.
Hitting a baseball, in addition to being the most difficult thing in sports, is also one of the most honest.
It’s a week; I get it. Cooperstown is still a ways off. But Ohtani’s achievements can be described only as Ruthian.
“Like finding out Beethoven and Cezanne were the same person,” Daniel Okrent once said to describe Ruth’s hitting and pitching skills.
And was Emperor.
It’s that time of year again. Delete the March Madness app off my phone to make room for The Masters app.