The 2018 Washington Nationals season ended with some big questions, such as what happened and where will Bryce Harper be next season? It also brought the re-balancing of an eight-year trend in my game attendance.
The 2018 Washington Nationals season ended with some big questions, such as what happened and where will Bryce Harper be next season? It also brought the re-balancing of an eight-year trend in my game attendance.
My advice to all you people out there in internetland is to pick something weird to follow over time. My entry in this field was working to answer the question of who would be the last active MLB player who appeared in the Nintendo 64 game Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr.
There’s a guy at Yahoo Sports named Mike Oz who does a fun, occasional feature where he and (usually) a baseball player or manager open a pack of 25-year-old baseball cards. Most of the guys are retired, so the cards feature teammates or people they either played or coached against.
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series, which is pretty cool for them and baseball, but the end of game seven also meant the end to another season.
For me, there was the usual disappointment that the Nationals got knocked out of the playoffs in the first round, but all in all it was a really fun year at the ballpark. I also continued my streak of seeing the Nats go essentially .500 in games I attended.
It’s never a bad idea to step back and re-examine conventional wisdom. After all, just because things have been done the same way doesn’t mean that’s the best way to do them, right?
The Yankees and Alex Rodriguez announced Sunday his final game will be on Friday, a vastly shorter timeline than when he said earlier this year he would play through the end of his contract in 2017.
While watching baseball, this appeared in my Twitter feed:
This is how hot it will feel during the afternoon hours over the next few days… pic.twitter.com/7sNeOtyuTl— Amelia Draper (@amelia_draper) July 23, 2016
Video game coders have to focus on a lot of details, but it’s the small, random ones that can make players laugh. Or maybe we give them credit anyway when a coincidence happens.
It doesn’t happen all that often, but occasionally the Washington sports calendar features a Nationals game during the day and a Capitals game at night. My family has talked many times about doing the doubleheader, but never made it happen.
With a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Wild Friday night, the Washington Capitals tied one of the most prestigious records in all of sports. That, of course, would be matching my longest ever streak of attending games with my chosen team winning.
