Twas a Blue Night, and a Green Day

I too, along with ROB founder Brandon, did not watch a single pitch of last night's heartbreaking loss to the Rockies. He was kind enough to float me a ticket to Green Day's final show of their tour that ended at The Forum in Inglewood. As mentioned in his post earlier, we were both checking the score on our phones during the first few songs. Once we saw the loss unfold on our mobile devices, our attention was then focused on the blaring PA system that was pumping out hit after hit of 4-chord rock.

At one point, i looked at Brandon across the crowd and saw an expression on his face of pure joy. He was in the moment. As you may or may not know, he's a huge follower of Green Day and can recite each and every song in their library word for word. If you don't believe me...try him. It was obvious that he had quickly forgotten about the extra-inning loss and the fact that the Rockies had just shrunk the Dodgers lead in the West to 2 games.

Being the die hard Dodger fans that we are, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that our team is leading the division. Like Brandon, i'm choosing to focus on the positive. It's August 26th, and our team is in first place. That's a good thing. Last night's loss stings, but this team will bounce back like they have all year.

For me, music has always been the healing power that helped me get through life's day to day trials and tribulations. For one night, in the heart of Inglewood, our Dodger blues were cured by the healing sounds of one Green Day.