Three years after a Metro train breakdown and a horde of Phillies fans prevented my brother and I from getting an Ian Desmond bobblehead, our lives are now complete.

In August 2011, we were on our way to Nationals Park when a train in front of us broke down and kept us sitting on the tracks for what seemed like an eternity.  By the time we got moving and made it to the stadium, all we saw were other people — many of them Phillies fans — carrying around bobble boxes.

I wondered back then why opposing fans would even want them, especially since at the time Desmond wasn’t exactly a star player.

Thankfully this year’s Desmond bobblehead day was on a Thursday instead of a Saturday, and there were 25,000 of them instead of 15,000.  Plus it was a 4:05 game so it was easy for us to get there before most normal folks.

Now my Nats bobble collection includes Ryan Zimmerman, Stephen Strasburg, Wilson Ramos and Mr. Desmond:

Oh and the Nats won their 10th consecutive game.  It was their fifth walk-off win in six games.  Life is good.