Open Playlist 8.24.23

Top Gun Anthem

Big River

Groovin' (Marvin Gaye) *

Into The Mystic (Van Morrison) *

Life in Technicolor ii

No Ordinary Love

I Wish It Would Rain (Marvin Gaye) *

Little Bit Sweet

Ballad of John and Yoko

Oh, Susannah (James Taylor) *

Dance on a Volcano

If It Feels Good

Notes:

Groovin' is the first song from the 1970 project to hit playlists. Currently, I'm going through 1970 chronologically and listening to selected albums.

*1970 songs

8.23.23- Matt's Collection

Oxygene Part IV
The Book I Write
>>Do You*
This Old Man

Everybody Wants You to Emerge

Keep Talking

Orinoco Flow

Is There Something I Should Know?

No Reply At All

Flame Twin
Swing Guitars

You Can Call Me Al (partial)

Lies

Notes:

*first time for combo

Oxygene- from Pure Moods

This Old Man- from Kidzup CD that we got when Levi was little!

Everybody Wants You- from Queer Eye soundtrack

Is There Something...- debut, Duran Duran

Have to re-do the Call Me Al partial

All Over The Map

Two weeks out

From both kids being in school

It both can't get here soon enough

And it'll get here too soon

More changes and new routines

Hopefully it'll all settle

Two months out

I'll run 13 miles

I don't feel at all in shape

Five days post positive COVID test

And four days out 

From my daughter turning four

She's a little sassamuffin

She gets under my skin

In both senses

"I've been scattered/I've been shattered/I've been knocked out of the race but I'll get better"

Lithium Sunset/Sting

'91 Angels- breakdown, go ahead and give it to me

The '91 Angels fantasy team never had it. They had a hot streak to begin the season, and then it all unraveled. They finished 73-89, good for fifth place in the division. Juan Marichal and Satchel Paige pitched often like aces. They finished a combined 26-19. The rest of the rotation was 20-41.

Dennis Eckersley was drafted to be the closer, but more often resembled the last five letters of the word. He didn't even lead the team in saves and finished with an ERA around 5. 

The offense could not get consistent all year. The #1 guy, Kevin Mitchell, wound up hitting .239. David Justice hit .235. Frank Thomas (the '50s guy, not the '90s slugger) wound up around .250. It was just not enough to make a winning team. Season is over very quickly.

Next up: The '16 Nationals.

8.3.23- Matt's Collection

Overall thoughts on the set:

A little bit of everything in this one. The only thing I'd change is ending set two with Winter Winds, as that song hasn't aged well for me. In Your Own Sweet Way is a song debut from Miles Davis.

7.31.23- Matt's Collection Sessions

Exodus*
Sticks & Stones
Mellow Yellow
The Metro
The Sign of Fire
Long As I Can See The Light

*Quincy Jones

Exodus hasn't been played in a long time, and the version of See The Light features My Morning Jacket, which is not available in streaming format.

91 Angels Update- oh, how the worm turns

Last week's record: 13-6

This week's record: 20-20

7-14 this week. Not good, Bob. The Angels were flying high, but May struck and struck hard. The offense couldn't get on track at all.

Let's look at the starters:

Sax: started .305/.805 OPS

now (through May 22): .310/.745

Van Slyke:

.260/.837

.238/.802

Mattingly:

.186/.507

.257/.639

He improved, but he had nowhere to go but up.

Mitchell:

.268/.894

.264/.867

Thomas:

.256/.807

.221/.657

Startling downturn from Thomas.

Justice:

.311/.859

.233/.665

Pronounced slump from Justice as well.

Those are the main offensive guys. Sax and Mitchell stayed pretty consistent, but a nosedive from Thomas and Justice and still not enough production from Mattingly have sunk the Angels.

Pitching:

Marichal's slumped in three starts in May. His April starts were very dominant, though. Paige lost three in a row before a no-decision. 

The bullpen has suffered as well. Eck's not yet on track and Carl Willis has been hit hard.