My Favorite Albums of the Decade, 2010-2019

And these are by year, but that MBDTF kicked off 2010 and it did not get much better!

Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

The Black Keys, Brothers (2010)

Mumford & Songs, Sigh No More (2010)

Drake, Thank Me Later (2010)

Usher, Raymond v. Raymond (2010)

Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown (2010)

Vampire Weekend, Contra (2010)

Jay-Z & Kanye West, Watch the Throne (2011)

Beyonce, 4 (2011)

The Black Keys, El Camino (2011)

Lady Gaga, Born This Way (2011)

Drake, Take Care (2011)

Foo Fighters, Wasting Light (2011)

Frank Ocean, channel Orange (2012)

Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV (2011)

The Avett Brothers, The Carpenter (2012)

Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Here (2012)

Miguel, Kaleidoscope Dream (2012)

Old Crow Medicine Show, Carry Me Back (2012)

Drake, Nothing Was the Same (2013)

The Avett Brothers, Magpie and the Dandelion (2013)

Lil Wayne, I Am Not a Human Being II (2013)

HAIM, Days Are Gone (2013)

Arctic Monkeys, AM (2013)

Childish Gambino, Because the Internet (2013)

Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)

Lorde, Pure Heroine (2013)

Old Crow Medicine Show, Remedy (2014)

Jack White, Lazaretto (2014)

Future, DS2 (2015)

Chris Stapleton, Traveller (2015)

The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness (2015)

Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late (2015)

Yelawolf, Love Story (2015)

The Avett Brothers, True Sadness (2016)

Drake, Views (2016)

Kanye West, The Life of Pablo (2016)

The 1975, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (2016)

Kendrick Lamar, DAMN. (2017)

H.E.R., H.E.R. (2017)

Drake, More Life (2017)

Khalid, American Teen (2017)

Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour (2018)

Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V (2018)

Drake, Scorpion (2018)

Travis Scott, Astroworld (2018)

Billie Eilish, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)

Megan Thee Stallion, Fever (2019)

Yelawolf, Ghetto Cowboy (2019)

DaBaby, Baby on Baby (2019)

The Highwomen, The Highwomen (2019)

My favorite Sporting Events that I attended in the Decade of 2010-2019

All the games my kids, Rigby and Lucy, participated in.

Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field

• June 28, 2010
• Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
• Rigby and Lucy’s first game at Wrigley

Atlanta, GA – Turner Field

• October 2, 2010
• Retirement ceremony for Bobby Cox, attended by more than 70 former players and coaches in front of an Atlanta-record crowd of 54,296. 
• Atlanta Braves 0, Philadelphia Phillies 7

Boise, ID - Albertsons Stadium

• November 19, 2010
• Boise State 51, Fresno State 0
• Steve Swayne and I saw QB Kellen Moore and a dominant Broncos defense win on a cold, freezing-rain Friday night.

Blacksburg, VA – Lane Stadium

• September 17, 2011
• Virginia Tech football
• “Enter Sandman” with family and friends

Atlanta, GA - Georgia Dome

• March 23, 2012
• NCAA Elite Eight
• 10-seed Xavier vs. 3-seed Baylor
• 4-seed Indiana vs. 1-seed Kentucky
• An awesome night watching my alma mater, Xavier, and the eventual National Champion Kentucky team

Atlanta, GA – Turner Field

• September 28, 2012
• Chipper Jones Retirement Ceremony
• New York Mets 3, Atlanta Braves 1

Boston, MA – Fenway Park

• April 21, 2013
• Boston Red Sox 2, Kansas City Royals 4
• This game was postponed from Friday until Sunday, following the horrific events of the Boston Marathon bombing. Incredible atmosphere – “B Strong”
• Rigby was featured on the Fenway Park video board in between the last innings.

Denver, CO – Coors Field

• July 4, 2013
• Colorado Rockies 9, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
• Watched the sunset into the Rocky Mountains from our first base seats and enjoyed July 4th fireworks at the stadium

Dublin, Ireland Croke Park

• August 9, 2014
• All-Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Championship Semi-Final
• Dublin defeats Monaghan with 72,440 in attendance
• I drank 10+ pints of Guinness that day

Dublin, Ireland Croke Park

• August 10, 2014
• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final
• Kilkenny defeats Limerick

Durham, NC – Duke University, Cameron Indoor Stadium

• New Year’s Day 2015
• Empty building, except for Rigby shooting basketball on the court

Chattanooga, TN – Finley Stadium

• August 8, 2015
• US amateur soccer record crowd of 18,227 sees National Premier Soccer League club Chattanooga FC fall to New York Cosmos B in overtime in championship

Chattanooga, TN – Finley Stadium

• December 5, 2015
• NCAA Football Playoff game
• Chattanooga Mocs 35, Indiana State 14
• First playoff game since 1984
• Mocs went on to win three playoff games in 2014, 2015, 2016

Cooperstown, NY

• July 22-24, 2016
• National Baseball Hall of Fame
• Ken Griffey, Jr. inducted into the Hall
• Front row watching the parade of most of the living inductees
• Meeting Pete Rose
• Walking through the Museum alongside HOF pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, who was telling his family and those around him about pitching to Hank Aaron, while standing in front of the Hank exhibit.

Toronto, Canada - Rogers Centre (SkyDome)

• July 26, 2016
• The roof was open with a view of the CN Tower
• Toronto Blue Jays 7, San Diego Padres 6 in 12 innings

Jacksonville, AL - Jacksonville State Stadium

• December 5, 2015
• Chattanooga Mocs 35, Jacksonville State 41 in overtime
• One of the most exciting football games I’ve ever been to.
• Jacob Huesman solidified his legendary status with 2 passing TDs, 2 rushing TDs and a receiving TD.

Asheville, NC - U.S. Cellular Center

• March 5, 2017
• Southern Conference Basketball Championship
• Chattanooga Lady Mocs 61, Mercer 59
• The ladies stormed back from a 13-point deficit to claim their fifth-straight SoCon title.

Chattanooga, TN - UTC Arena

• August 4, 2018
• Terrell Owens' Pro Football Hall of Fame induction
• The first of 317 members to not hold his induction in Canton, Ohio since the Hall opened in 1963.

San Francisco, CA – Levi’s Stadium

• November 1, 2018
• Terrell Owens Pro Football Hall of Fame ring and bust presentation
• I was on the field for the halftime presentation!
• The last ‘Battle of The Bay’
• San Francisco 34, Oakland Raiders 3

Atlanta , GA - Mercedes-Benz Stadium

• October 30, 2019
• MLS semi-final game: Atlanta United 1, Toronto FC 2
• My first MLS game; Atlanta is soccer crazy!

Knoxville, TN - Neyland Stadium

• November 30, 2019
• Rigby and I watched the Tennessee Vols defeat Vanderbilt 28-10 in the rain
• Eric Gray (not me; the other one) rushed for 246 yards with 3 touchdowns