The Orioles game tonight was the MLB.tv Free Game of the Day, so I watched it. The Orioles left 15 men on base — including leaving the bases loaded three times — and lost 4-3 to a terrible Nationals team when Felix Bautista forgot there was a runner on second. It was not, in fact, the free game of the day. It came at a great emotional cost.I have been traveling a lot the last few weeks. I was wondering: if sitting in the exit row means you’re asserting your availability to help the crew in case of an emergency, why are they allowed to serve alcohol to exit row passengers?I only just realized that “Going Down to Liverpool” (the Katrina and the Waves song made famous, or at least a little more famous, when the Bangles covered it) is a wholesome response song to the very unwholesome “Hey Joe.” “Hey Joe” is a song about a man killing his wife. “Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? // I’m goin’ down to shoot my old lady.” “Going Down to Liverpool” is a song about a chill guy who’s unemployed. “I said hey, where you goin’ with that UB40 in your hand? // I’m going down to LIverpool to do nothing, all the days of my life.”I actually have lots of interesting math to talk about but somehow have not felt lately — maybe because I’ve been traveling a lot, teetotaling in the exit row — that I had the spare minutes to write a substantial math post. But I will!