Results tagged “mendozaline”

high school, and continue to love the songs of theirs that I knew back then, but, well, years later, they're still making music, and it's music that I, unfortunately, wasn't familiar with until last night. Sure, they didn't play a single song that I knew from back in the day, but it didn't really matter: it was still a solid, and solidly entertaining, set (punctuated by interludes that went: "Married on MySpace, but single on Friendster") that provided an excellent soundtrack to our meals. Plus, there was a lap steel on stage. And that's more or less all it takes to win me over.

Phillyist loves giant bands with interchangeable members. Bands like The Polyphonic Spree, Belle and Sebastian, and The Hidden Cameras, to name a few. Well, there's another one you may not have heard of: Willard Grant Conspiracy, who will be performing Upstairs at the World Cafe Live tonight. The band has one consistent member and a lot of rotating musicians, and a harder, almost bluesy folk-rock sound than their other megagroup counterparts.

The Texas Leaguer. The Mendoza Line. The Can of Corn. All of these time-tested baseball-isms have their own charm, but the one that has stood as my favorite is: the golden sombrero (sometimes also referred to as the silver sombrero). 4 strike outs in one game. If Ryan Howard hadn’t homered to centerfield, above the Lukoil sign, and instead swung and missed at three straight strikes, the Phillies could have easily followed up with a David Bell pop-up, a Mike Lieberthal fly-out, inning over, game over, and I would have been talking about Ryan Howard’s failure to produce in the clutch, his shiny golden sombrero. That’s a lot of pressure that Ryan Howard was going up against but he handled it with cool assurance. After Howard smacked Yhency Brazoban’s second pitch to the seats, Howard walked slower to first base than if he had struck out. He knew it was gone, as did the Philly faithful, who exploded at the park, but also in front of their TV’s, satellite radios, in their cars or on their headphones.