SOMEBODY HAS TO HAVE A COOL SPORTS BLOG-WELCOME TO THE MACHINE.

It has been a lousy few months [decades] of political discourse, and it is only going to get worse through Veterans day, so we wont get into any of that. However, when you get to the point in the season where the NCAA is deciding it's basketball business, the NHL initiates the quest for the grail/Stanley Cup, baseball;s Opening Day, AND an under-looked treasure; the pending Summer Olympics in London, The Masters and the Kentucky Derby,well, welcome to the 'front row.' Keep in mind we usually buy general admission tickets and work our way down to the fronty row, but that will be a lesson for another day.

We will try to get you up to speed on the Capitals play-off pursuit, which is dubious at best. They really may not make it. Otherwise we will contemplate if the Orioles are actually a legit 100 loss team, and why you should purchase a Bryce Harper [pictured above patrolling center field at Hagerstown just before a call up to higher-level Norfolk in preparation for 'the show' this year]Nationals Jersey before the price goes up in August.

The picture at bottom is approximately 5 innings later when a micro-burst/mini-tornado abruptly ended the game until all of us got a free mini-double header the next day. Note how the wind completely bent the metal poles holding the umbrellas at the table at which our party was sitting. Also note a couple tables umbrellas broke lose, tumbling tarp over spiked pole bottom down the line, eventually ending up over the fence next to the left field foul pole.