The long-running winning combination of me attending Washington Nationals victories before post-game concerts has come to an end.

After wins preceding concerts by Lifehouse and The Wallflowers, the Nats dropped their game before last night’s Third Eye Blind show.  Thankfully, there’s nothing like an immediate concert to wash away the disappointment of defeat.

This was by far the biggest crowd for one of these concerts, all of which could have been held 10 years ago.  Not surprisingly, it was also the loudest.  The lead singer certainly seemed to be enjoying things:

Here’s a taste of the show:

The only letdown — which I never thought of before hearing this idea — is that the bands don’t hang out on the side of the field somewhere during the game and play the intro music for all of the batters.  Credit for that, when baseball decides to be cool and make it happen, goes to former roommate Jon, who went to the game with me.

Third Eye Blind could have taunted a Mets hitter with “How’s it gonna be, when you gooo 0-for-4.”  I would pay massive amounts of to attend a game like that.